EPTThanks for the interview Artosis and IdrA, but I wished the video was a little longer. Still, it was a cool watch. I also love the compilation of Idra quotes in the official fan club thread lol.
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zoLo
United States5896 Posts
Thanks for the interview Artosis and IdrA, but I wished the video was a little longer. Still, it was a cool watch. I also love the compilation of Idra quotes in the official fan club thread lol. | ||
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UbiNax
Denmark381 Posts
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zak
Korea (South)1009 Posts
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fiskrens
Sweden196 Posts
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Kage
India788 Posts
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dranko
Sweden378 Posts
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biskit
Australia355 Posts
I hope you go far in the tourney, IdrA. Gogo Zerg. | ||
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Tonyoh
France218 Posts
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xtfftc
United Kingdom2343 Posts
On September 12 2010 02:01 DarkspearTribe wrote: your channel has too much Idra Might be but it has to be noted that Artosis conducted this interview after we requested it. Quite a few people from the fanclub contacted me about it and it's nice to see that Artosis didn't change the questions or anything (even though some of them were already outdated). | ||
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hdkhang
Australia183 Posts
On September 12 2010 04:50 SichuanPanda wrote: We haven't seen Nydus worms used properly - this is why people don't use them. The proper method is to not pop one in the back of the opponent base to try and back-door them as that as you noted is easy to stop. While the Nydus is expensive to lay down I think the strength we will see from it is the same use it saw in BW - providing fast ground reinforcements in the late game. Also you CAN use them to harass the opponent, but the trick I've found is to have more than one tunnel system so you can build more than one worm at once. Build one somewhere the enemy will easily see, wait for him to come to stop then cancel that one. Meanwhile build a second one at the spot they just left to defend the first one. The goal I think with worms should be to control your opponent, keep him in his base and on his toes - not to do much physical damage. Currently 90% of games don't last long enough for it to reach a point to see Nydus worms go up. But I feel its very safe to say we will see a resurgence of their use over the course of the next year as the overall skill and knowledge base on the game increases. I always use them late game to connect my bases together, it makes taking out one Zerg's outlying expansions next to impossible when you have two worms to pump troops out of. A tip for all - be careful about leaving troops idle inside the worms - people can come kill your Network in your main and kill all your troops. Force fields CAN stop units from exiting the worms too so be weary. A few points. * Units take time to pop out of a nydus - longer than they take to get back in the worm. * I don't believe you can cancel a worm once you've placed it. * Worms are pretty fragile despite the cost 200HP is nothing. As for why people don't use them, it's a lot simpler than the whole "people don't know how to use them properly". The reason they don't use them is because they are finnicky things to get right, and they rely on your opponent to be more of a bad player than you are good. A single nydus network + worm costs as much as upgrading overlord speed + transportation. * Drone 50/0 * Network 150/200 * Worm 100/100 = Total of 300/300 --> same as overlord upgrades which can be upgraded both at the same time since chances are you will have a hatch and lair by then. Anywhere you can sneak a worm in, you can sneak a drop in. Due to the time it takes to unload units, Worms are more useful as a retreat mechanism than anything else. There are also smarter ways to gain map control than to rely on excessive worm usage. (I say excessive since chances are a good opponent will take out the worm first thus requiring you to rebuild it) | ||
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Whole
United States6046 Posts
On September 12 2010 02:01 DarkspearTribe wrote: your channel has too much Idra This is pretty much true though. Personally, I can't get enough, but for the common fan, I think we might need to hold off on IdrA interviews until he wins something or loses something big. | ||
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Fa1nT
United States3423 Posts
On September 12 2010 08:46 omnigol wrote: I'm blinded by my love of a nerd who made a seriously bad career choice. Although I can't forgive idra when he uses naughty words. Did you really just say that IdrA, a 20 year old, experiencing a foreign country, making upwards of hundreds of thousands of dollars a year (if he wins), playing a video game, made a bad career choice? | ||
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corpsepose
1678 Posts
On September 12 2010 12:48 dranko wrote: Even though I love IdrA'a plays and think he is a great player, to me, he just comes across as an arrogant bastard IRL. i wouldnt necessarily go that far - he may seem a little too self-assured but he's obviously pretty smart and opinionated. definitely a confident, effective speaker | ||
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cucumber
United States116 Posts
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Sensator
Australia377 Posts
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Rabiator
Germany3948 Posts
On September 12 2010 15:50 hdkhang wrote: Anywhere you can sneak a worm in, you can sneak a drop in. Well if you park an Overlord in a corner of the map you only need one of them to hide there to give vision for a Nydus in an obscure position behind the enemy lines. If you do the same with Overlord drops you need too much time and that makes you vulnerable when your army is loaded up in a bunch of them and flying around somewhere it might be spotted. A single Overlord (or a burrowed Zergling) is less likely to be found. | ||
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hdkhang
Australia183 Posts
On September 12 2010 21:04 Rabiator wrote: Well if you park an Overlord in a corner of the map you only need one of them to hide there to give vision for a Nydus in an obscure position behind the enemy lines. If you do the same with Overlord drops you need too much time and that makes you vulnerable when your army is loaded up in a bunch of them and flying around somewhere it might be spotted. A single Overlord (or a burrowed Zergling) is less likely to be found. That's not the point though is it? The point is * they both rely on your opponent having gaps in his defense/offense * they both work better if their army is a long way away from base, but not too close to yours * they both need setup time That doesn't mean I think they are interchangeable, it just means that for a similar cost, when you weigh up the pros and cons of each, you won't always conclude that Nydus is the way to go, and that their lack of popularity has very little to do with people not knowing how to use Nydus properly. | ||
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chimthegrim
United States31 Posts
On September 12 2010 12:48 dranko wrote: Even though I love IdrA'a plays and think he is a great player, to me, he just comes across as an arrogant bastard IRL. Or an anti-social nerd, who if he didn't have SC as his outlet, would be just another complete loser working at Gamestop. User was warned for this post User was temp banned for this post. | ||
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xtfftc
United Kingdom2343 Posts
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