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cr4ckshot
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States291 Posts
August 04 2010 19:33 GMT
#21
On August 05 2010 04:21 peachsncream wrote:
lol @ all the terran players getting upset over this


I'm a zerg player and I'm upset with these stupid threads.
Grimjim
Profile Joined May 2010
United States395 Posts
August 04 2010 19:34 GMT
#22
On August 05 2010 04:32 tipakee wrote:
Edit


Been fixed. Contribute or troll somewhere else.
I am serious. And my name is Shirley.
JinNJuice
Profile Joined June 2010
United States255 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-04 19:36:19
August 04 2010 19:35 GMT
#23
On August 05 2010 04:31 MangoTango wrote:
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On August 05 2010 04:28 JinNJuice wrote:
On August 05 2010 04:19 Philip2110 wrote:

Pretty sure lack of bonus damage has nothing to do with balance of the game


This, whats your point OP


I think OP's point is that if you take an equal supply of some zerg unit, you can find some equal supply of terran units that will rape its face off.


So you play rock-paper-scissors and get the unit that counters the terran's unit. :|


What zerg unit counters a terran unit. Sure, blings can blow up marines if they get close enough but you need to be either burrowed and pray that terran doesnt scan, or have speed upgrade. There's nothing for Zerg that says, oh he went marauders, let me go *This* to counter him hard. It's the other way around, "oh he went roaches, let me go heavy marauders," or "he went hydra/ling, let me get lots of hellions with preigniter upgrade" Zerg's strength is in numbers/macro but its hard to do that early game when you're trying to defend against early hellion harass with lings who melt to them.
Grimjim
Profile Joined May 2010
United States395 Posts
August 04 2010 19:35 GMT
#24
On August 05 2010 04:33 cr4ckshot wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 05 2010 04:21 peachsncream wrote:
lol @ all the terran players getting upset over this


I'm a zerg player and I'm upset with these stupid threads.


Then ignore them and post elsewhere.
I am serious. And my name is Shirley.
Egnarts
Profile Joined April 2010
Denmark33 Posts
August 04 2010 19:37 GMT
#25
On August 05 2010 04:32 Grimjim wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 05 2010 04:19 Philip2110 wrote:

Pretty sure lack of bonus damage has nothing to do with balance of the game


This, whats your point OP


Oh, lack of bonus damage has nothing to do with the balance?

Then let's take it all out then. Let's see how that changes things.


I think you missed the point, since Zerg does fine without these specific bonus damage versus x, and terran does fine with bonus damage, it's balanced, ergo it would be unbalanced without bonus damageVsX.
oxxo
Profile Joined February 2010
988 Posts
August 04 2010 19:37 GMT
#26
On August 05 2010 04:21 peachsncream wrote:
lol @ all the terran players getting upset over this


Why do you assume every here is a terran player?

As others have noted they are Z players and getting sick of these threads.
Sure there's P players in here getting sick of these threads.
I'm a random player and I'm getting sick of these threads.

Personally I've stopped visiting TL as much because of all the 'Z is SOOOO UP and T is SOOOOO OP' threads.
leeznon
Profile Joined April 2010
United States255 Posts
August 04 2010 19:41 GMT
#27
On August 05 2010 03:52 Grimjim wrote:
Let's get the nasty stuff out of the way first: ZvT sucks.


Agreed.
Zerg=Skill
tipakee
Profile Joined April 2010
United States127 Posts
August 04 2010 19:45 GMT
#28
On August 05 2010 04:34 Grimjim wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 05 2010 04:32 tipakee wrote:
Edit


Been fixed. Contribute or troll somewhere else.

sorry my original post was just out of frustration of all the TvZ drama latley, i edited after rereading it
Grimjim
Profile Joined May 2010
United States395 Posts
August 04 2010 19:48 GMT
#29
On August 05 2010 04:37 Egnarts wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 05 2010 04:32 Grimjim wrote:
On August 05 2010 04:19 Philip2110 wrote:

Pretty sure lack of bonus damage has nothing to do with balance of the game


This, whats your point OP


Oh, lack of bonus damage has nothing to do with the balance?

Then let's take it all out then. Let's see how that changes things.


I think you missed the point, since Zerg does fine without these specific bonus damage versus x, and terran does fine with bonus damage, it's balanced, ergo it would be unbalanced without bonus damageVsX.


And I think you missed the fact that ZvT is far from fine.
I am serious. And my name is Shirley.
Ksi
Profile Joined May 2010
357 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-04 20:01:22
August 04 2010 19:55 GMT
#30
On August 05 2010 04:31 MangoTango wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 05 2010 04:28 JinNJuice wrote:
On August 05 2010 04:19 Philip2110 wrote:

Pretty sure lack of bonus damage has nothing to do with balance of the game


This, whats your point OP


I think OP's point is that if you take an equal supply of some zerg unit, you can find some equal supply of terran units that will rape its face off.


So you play rock-paper-scissors and get the unit that counters the terran's unit. :|


The OP's point was that Zerg doesn't really have any rock-paper scissors units. They have some sort of strange rock that's made out of paper-mache that also has a broken pair of scissors stabbed into it.

Really the biggest problem with this is that when a Zerg is behind, he can't exactly just make the "counter" unit and hope that it's enough to put the game back in his favor, he just has to hope that some miracle of unit positioning or army micro can make his less-cost effective army come out victorious.
Craton
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States17235 Posts
August 04 2010 19:59 GMT
#31
That terran can then set on fire?

I don't really think the lack of bonus damage is the crux of balance problems for Z or for P, but I do think terran have too much bonus damage on their units. (Read: Z/P don't need more, Terran need less). It's quite frustrating having your armies so readily countered by standard T compositions.
twitch.tv/cratonz
TheDrill
Profile Joined February 2010
Russian Federation145 Posts
August 04 2010 20:06 GMT
#32
Please, if you remove all of the bonus damage modifiers and balance the units to not suck I'm all for it. Many times have I been stuck with a bunch of marauders against chargelotsentry/speedlings and wished they weren't entirely worthless against them.
TERRAN MAROIDER RAGE
Mowe
Profile Joined August 2010
Sweden16 Posts
August 04 2010 20:14 GMT
#33
I thought banshees dealt bonus to armoured .__. I was wrong
N00b trying to learn to play good <---- ME
Voyager I
Profile Joined July 2010
United States260 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-04 20:15:36
August 04 2010 20:14 GMT
#34
This doesn't seem terribly valid. Pure damage is the best type of damage because it always applies, and units that do bonus damage do less pure damage to compensate. It's not like they're just handing it out for free.

An example: the new Siege Tank does a full twenty damage less than its BW counterpart despite costing significantly more, but it's still an amazing unit because it hits everything for full power. Obviously there are other factors like unit clumping and the loss of overkill, but the 50 damage Tank is still incredibly dangerous when 50 really means 50.


Even if you don't get to counter people with bonus damage, you still have armor types to use against them. You may not have an obvious +armored unit to throw at Marauders until Hive tech (although most +armored units are also armored themselves, so it's still largely a mirror matchup), but you've got light units against which the 100/25/2 guy does worse damage than a single Marine...and don't forget Banelings and Queens, which straight up have no armor type.
OPSavioR
Profile Joined March 2010
Sweden1465 Posts
August 04 2010 20:19 GMT
#35
Good point but i dont find Z that UP tbh
i dunno lol
Ksyper
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Bulgaria665 Posts
August 04 2010 20:20 GMT
#36
Zerg is fine stop whining, either go learn how to play or just switch to a different race.
Who won the KOTB hmmmm?
HubertFelix
Profile Joined April 2010
France631 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-04 20:22:37
August 04 2010 20:22 GMT
#37
I think the +dmg is just a way for blizzard to balance the game easier.
Look at the ultralisk, they changed his damages with a bonus to give them a role.
RoarMan
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Canada745 Posts
August 04 2010 20:25 GMT
#38
On August 05 2010 05:20 Ksyper wrote:
Zerg is fine stop whining, either go learn how to play or just switch to a different race.
Who won the KOTB hmmmm?

Lol. Whining about whining is even funnier. It's a bit sad the "time and effort" you'll put into putting people down instead of actually contributing anything positive.

I don't see many people here crying about balances/imbalances except the people who come in here crying about people-who-are-crying. Lol?

But on topic, Sc2 does feel balance, but really this:

On August 05 2010 04:59 Craton wrote:
It's quite frustrating having your armies so readily countered by standard T compositions.

All the pros got dat Ichie.
PaterSin
Profile Joined April 2010
Germany301 Posts
August 04 2010 20:26 GMT
#39
might not be the lack of bonus for zerg but the bonus Terran gets
as you stated Protoss only has 4 so Protoss players migh as well start complaining about it
En Taro Tassadar
KillerPlague
Profile Joined June 2010
United States1386 Posts
August 04 2010 20:28 GMT
#40
i totally agree with this post. nerf the hydralisk so it does 6 damage then + 4 to light. and roach can be 8 damage + 4 to armored. or w/e it original damage is now but nerfed to regular units. trust me not having + damage is better and more well rounded then having + unless you're an immortal. than you want the bonus damage.stalkers are terribad vs hydralisks as hellions are against everything that is not light.
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