EPTOn August 05 2010 07:08 HowardRoark wrote:
You are wrong IMO. What you are saying are true at the highest level of skill most foreigners will never be able to reach. What is bugging me so much about the poor design of Starcraft 2 is that at any level but top diamond the Zerg are not skilled enough to beat a similar skilled terran, or protoss.
The issue is not as big as if there were imbalances at the pro level, but it will water down the game if at any level below top diamond there are glaring imbalances that skew up the player statistics. Any noob that start playing Zerg in Starcraft 2 will instead of just quit hopefully play protoss instead, but they could quit aswell.
In Starcraft 1 there were these imbalances at D level for Terran players versus Protoss. Protoss was so much easier to play than Terran that at that level we had total roflstomping. In SC2 this has been taken to the extreme, but instead of Terran being the hard race compared to Protoss at lower levels, Zerg are now ridiculously hard compared to the Protoss (that is even easier than in SC1) that it almost feels like two different games playing Z instead of P.
EDIT: Again as I am reading through your post, I must make it plain why this is a problem:
In SC1 the small imbalances Terran had a lower levels were just a spice to the game, but in SC2 it has gone too far. The Zerg shouldn't need to be at triple the APM and always walking the thin line between dying, scouting, flanking, and expanding vs the other two races that at that level doesn't even have to scout, but just build a wall, make 2 collossi with some stalkers, control group on "1" and then just sit by and watch. Actually, IMO Terran are not as bad as Protoss, since some of the harder mechanics of SC1 Terran are still in this game.
You are wrong IMO. What you are saying are true at the highest level of skill most foreigners will never be able to reach. What is bugging me so much about the poor design of Starcraft 2 is that at any level but top diamond the Zerg are not skilled enough to beat a similar skilled terran, or protoss.
The issue is not as big as if there were imbalances at the pro level, but it will water down the game if at any level below top diamond there are glaring imbalances that skew up the player statistics. Any noob that start playing Zerg in Starcraft 2 will instead of just quit hopefully play protoss instead, but they could quit aswell.
In Starcraft 1 there were these imbalances at D level for Terran players versus Protoss. Protoss was so much easier to play than Terran that at that level we had total roflstomping. In SC2 this has been taken to the extreme, but instead of Terran being the hard race compared to Protoss at lower levels, Zerg are now ridiculously hard compared to the Protoss (that is even easier than in SC1) that it almost feels like two different games playing Z instead of P.
EDIT: Again as I am reading through your post, I must make it plain why this is a problem:
In SC1 the small imbalances Terran had a lower levels were just a spice to the game, but in SC2 it has gone too far. The Zerg shouldn't need to be at triple the APM and always walking the thin line between dying, scouting, flanking, and expanding vs the other two races that at that level doesn't even have to scout, but just build a wall, make 2 collossi with some stalkers, control group on "1" and then just sit by and watch. Actually, IMO Terran are not as bad as Protoss, since some of the harder mechanics of SC1 Terran are still in this game.
amen brother! preach it!!! in the mean time toss here i come!
) with the ultras and banelings. Playing Z just feels right for me vs what I've experienced from playing terran and protoss. The fact that you have to work hard against terran(my worst matchup) and that against P it's somewhat balanced(would say that Z is at an advantage once you get infestors) is just icing on the cake since I like a challenge. 
