Patch 7 Notes - Page 17

On March 31 2010 06:14 Rucky wrote:
storms were just too powerful in scbw which made mnm not usable at all. they're trying to make mnm viable so the ht nerf is reasonable. It's too crazy to lose 250+ minerals of marines to 1 storm. This is terrible for game changing wow moments but better for balance.

On March 31 2010 06:27 Martinni wrote:
I'm sorry but I have to ask this noob question I have... What does 0.5 radius looks like ingame?

On March 31 2010 06:21 zeks wrote:
perhaps terran should look towards a mech build vs P now if they're getting their mm stormed to hell

On March 31 2010 06:25 danl9rm wrote:


actually, i think it's about 44% as much area before the nerf

but i see what you were trying to say.
what you meant was, "before the nerf, storm hit 56% more area."

On March 31 2010 06:21 zeks wrote:
perhaps terran should look towards a mech build vs P now if they're getting their mm stormed to hell

On March 31 2010 06:30 Karas wrote:


I mean, this is why heavy metal terran was invented in SCI in the first place.

On March 31 2010 05:28 randomKo_Orean wrote:

You should take high school geometry.

25%? Math ftl mate.

How do you calculate area of a circle?

On March 31 2010 06:17 TerranUp16 wrote:


Vikings alone were never a viable push-out counter to Mutas- Zerg could out-produce Terran easily in this respect and this then requires Terran to support Vikings in open-field with some serious ground to air. My main observation was that good Zergs were able to leverage the weakness of Turrets in general and the slow nature of Thors (and remember that even Vikings are relatively slow) to keep Terran contained to 2-3 bases at most until building a critical amount of ground to air and Turrets was built-up and/or Ravens came out with Point Defense and/or Seeker to support the Vikings.

Basically what we have now is that a respectable Turret defense is relatively cheaper now (because of increased DPS Terrans don't need to get quite so many Turrets, particularly if they complement the new damage with Hi-Sec and Building Armor) and Thors enforce more of a timing window on the Muta harass like Vessels did (except Thors are more like an extremely expensive Goliath/Vessel hybrid that is extremely slow- but they should allow you to push out with your main force and lighten the burden of Vikings to defend that and everything else).



Thanks for catching that- for some reason I keep thinking of Hellions as having 80hp (ala Vultures) instead of 90hp.

@Skyze

You've got plenty of tools to deal with mass Marauders. The Baneling buff last patch made those really viable against them (I've first-hand observed as many a Marauder-massing Terran has had his attack force consistently whittled down every single time he tried to move out by Banelings) and of course Hydralisks have always been great against Marauders. Not to mention smart incorporation of Mutalisks into your main forces (not as an A-move unit but rather as an in-battle harass unit ala Dark Templar used in the midst of major battles).

On March 31 2010 06:28 Koffiegast wrote:



So what about HSM against 10+ muta? Just saying.

On March 31 2010 06:32 hugman wrote:


No that's not right

56% of the area it hit before the patch was removed!
Before the patch it actually hit an 81% larger area than now

On March 31 2010 06:35 -orb- wrote:
So let me get this straight... terran now has splash anti-air to deal with mutas.

Protoss, on the other hand, still doesn't have splash anti-air, and the only AoE we had (storm) has now been nerfed making it even harder to deal with mutas.

What the fuck blizzard?