Official State of the Game Podcast Thread - Page 80

On October 16 2010 05:36 happyness wrote:
Thanks for the minicast!

BTW, JP you need to work on your math. The reduction of the medivac speed from 2.75 to 2.5 is a reduction by 1/11, not 1/4. The acceleration reduction of 2.315 to 2.25 is give or take a reduction by 1/33, not 1/5.

On October 16 2010 06:17 Mothxal wrote:
What Artosis said about Idra was so funny. So after he got knocked out he was so depressed and hated himself so much he locked himself in a room and played Terran for a few days. I guess those were his darkest days.

On October 15 2010 23:29 battarro wrote:
After listening to the latest State of the game. I disagree a lot with the current format.

Given the nature of starcraft and how every race see maps different. You really need a good terran player as part of the commentators.

Listening to everyone commenting about how the new map (Shakuras Plateau) was good for Zerg and that made it good map overall made me puke.

How can they be so blind by the race they are playing?

Every reason Artosis gave for the map, was the equivalent of Why Steppes of war/ Incineration zone is good for terran and bad for other races. I remember when everyone was crying foul when terran armies were just sieging up everywhere on incineration zone, an obviously bad map for balance purposes, but the "best map for terran". And now when Zerg has a favored map, it is somehow accepted and lauded as the best ever by the panel??

A map has to strike a balance for all races. Not just one. If a Artosis can claim that this map is the Best map for zerg, then this makes it automatically the worst map of the pool. A Map can not have a favored race.

This kind of blind analysis is what I would expect from a 5 year old arguing why chocolate is better than vanilla, but not from a high end starcraft player.

Incontrol tried to make the point using the War example, but he was not articulate enough at it.

Also... How can Artosis insult HUK that way and go unchecked / unchallenged. The comment about how roaches were good/bad vs colosus, and Artosis basically called HUK an idiot for thinking that. Seriously WTF has artosis done on the professional SC2 scene( besides qualifying to GSL 1 where we saw a bunch of low caliber players(artosis) getting weed out on the first round).

Give HUK some respect, he won at least a good tournament and is ranked on top of the ladder. He EARNED some respect for the commentators/community.