Official State of the Game Podcast Thread - Page 2638

On March 29 2013 23:41 Holy_AT wrote:


Meh I think its always balanced around some kind of skill level, lets just say pro players could split marines and lings or blink stalkers and what not like an AI with 1000 APM, the game would look completely different then what you are used to see now. Units that once seemed strong would be completely useless and other units would seem very powerful.
So you see it is always based on some kind of skill level. Tactics and the strength of units do not only evolve out of the game but of the synergy of player and the game.
And I am not talking about some one base void ray kind of play, that belongs to the wol release were players were figuring out stuff, I haven't seen this level of play you describe for month or even a year.
The main reason is because the experience throughout the game has risen and most players have quit trying to do multiplayer.

I really would like to see a statistic that shows how many of the players that bought hots are playing 10-20 games per week of ranked/unkranked games (not counting custom games) and how many of the players that bought WOL have already transitioned to HOTS.
I also didnt say that it was easy or that it should be only balanced on the lower levels, all I said was that it would have been nice to also loose a few words on the situation that most players are experiencing.

On March 30 2013 01:20 Spektor wrote:
I like the consensus of the game's balance from them. Seems sort of close to balance, but they all agree to see things out. The best balance talke this show has ever had.

On March 30 2013 01:51 macncheezeplz wrote:
JP said this thread was dead. It is not dead. Ummm.

I have one opinion to speak: Instead of nerfing Voidrays give a slight buff to Corruptors. Remove extra damage to Massive(-6) and buff base damage slightly(+4). Corruptors would deal less damage to colossus, yet with vipers I don't see this becoming a problem. It might also help the still non-existent Carrier.

On March 30 2013 02:03 UltiBahamut wrote:
I am a zerg player and I kind of wish that they wouldn't say nerf this nerf that. But i would rather prefer they buff zerg AA so that they can stand up to the skytoss/templar. This way it doesn't break the other match ups for Protoss, maybe allow a bit more variety in ZvZ and depending on the buff might round out zerg in ZvT as well against raven/bcs as well maybe.

On March 30 2013 01:35 MrCash wrote:
An idea for Void Ray balance.
Have the Corruption ability also make the unit afflicted by corruption unable to cast spells AND de-activate any existing spell, without reseting the cooldown.

Thus void ray charge, turns off and cannot be activated for the duration of corruption.
Same goes for medivac boost.

I'm saying this as a Terran. Seems like a cool way to add skill to the game and provide an answer to some of the balance.
Had this thought during the conversation they had about zerg not being able to efficiently deal with void rays and Artosis thinking the corruptors should be able to deal with void rays somehow.

This might screw up other things like ghosts, sentries, hts, infestors, queens, tanks, oracles, etc.
But it seemed like an interesting idea.

On March 30 2013 01:35 MrCash wrote:
An idea for Void Ray balance.
Have the Corruption ability also make the unit afflicted by corruption unable to cast spells AND de-activate any existing spell, without reseting the cooldown.

Thus void ray charge, turns off and cannot be activated for the duration of corruption.
Same goes for medivac boost.

I'm saying this as a Terran. Seems like a cool way to add skill to the game and provide an answer to some of the balance.
Had this thought during the conversation they had about zerg not being able to efficiently deal with void rays and Artosis thinking the corruptors should be able to deal with void rays somehow.

This might screw up other things like ghosts, sentries, hts, infestors, queens, tanks, oracles, etc.
But it seemed like an interesting idea.

On March 30 2013 02:56 gustoffen wrote:
Is it not fair to suggest they simply change the ability of void rays to affect only *mechanical* armored units? Tempests are there to deal with brood lords, and this wouldn't change any of the meta shifts that Artosis was mentioning in regards to PvP, but would stop the void rays from completely dominating corrupters, while still making them effective overall (as they always were).

On March 30 2013 07:09 Schelim wrote:
great show yet again

Moonglade has really warmed up to the show and is both hilarious and well-spoken, backing it up with good arguments. he also is handsome. before the last few SotG episodes, i never knew anything about theognis aside from reading results in MLG open brackets, but he seems really cool. he already seemed a lot more comfortable than in the first episode. Artosis is the best human being in the world, not much to say there.

it was kinda awesome when Artosis just took over the hosting and nothing was heard from JP aside from the occasional chuckle lol. he's a great host, don't get me wrong, just thought that was funny and kinda cool to see the crew get along so well they don't even need a host to keep the discussion going.