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Headshot
United States1656 Posts
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Shikyo
Finland33997 Posts
You could do all that with other timing methods, but this is going to make it abit easier. Overall I don't really see a huge problem with it besides making it require a bit less effort. | ||
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Doko
Argentina1737 Posts
I'm not a high enough caliber player to really say if its good or bad for the game. | ||
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Mikilatov
United States3897 Posts
On September 22 2010 02:42 bonifaceviii wrote: I may be a bronze player, but I'd like to ask a question. Why is an in-game feature with the potential to allow players to better refine their timing a bad thing? I personally don't like it, but I'm not really hardcore for or against it either way. Here's why: Game sense comes with experience. When I'm playing against a Zerg, I can FEEL when I should scan to look for spire tech. That's something I've developed through lots of play. Soon enough, with the clock feature, players will simply be like "oh, just scan the zerg at 5:25 (made up time) and see if they are going mutas." That seems too easy for me. I think game sense and timings are tough to develop, and it kind of takes away from that. Same can be said for games like Quake, where item spawn times are extremely important. Simply noting when you picked something up and having a timer on your screen makes it so easy to time out item spawns. It totally takes away from a player who can grow the skill to mentally sense when items are going to respawn. I also like build orders being displayed via food counts, and not via clock time, not for any particular reason, but it's just what I'm used to for so many years. But like I said, I'm not really hardcore for or against it either way. | ||
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MegaBUD
Canada179 Posts
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Cofo
United States1388 Posts
On September 22 2010 02:37 SpaceYeti wrote: .... Personally, I think it's a good idea. It can be a valuable tool when practicing new build orders on the ladder. Top players will still be the top players. An in-game clock doesn't change the need to scout, expand, micro, macro, and execute your strategy with precision. These are all things that come from practice. Adding a clock doesn't make you inherently better at those things, increase your APM, make you Korean, and change you name to Gosu. That's a silly argument. If you, for example, made spawn larvae autocast, top players would still be top players too. It doesn't change the fact that it took something away from the game. | ||
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blabber
United States4449 Posts
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Glasse
Canada1237 Posts
On September 22 2010 02:31 fabiano wrote: heh? Now I wonder if BOs will be listed as following: 0:00 probe 0:17 probe 0:34 probe 0:56 pylon 1:10 probe 1:27 probe & chrono boost nexus 1:44 probe 2:03 probe 2:20 gateway etc... instead of the good old 9/10 pylon 14/19 gateway ps: timings were made up. i sure hope that if they add this you still have the choice to see the food count | ||
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NoUShutUp
United States172 Posts
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Gescom
Canada3521 Posts
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Kibibit
United States1551 Posts
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Mikilatov
United States3897 Posts
On September 22 2010 02:48 Gescom wrote: Should be in practice league/custom games only. >_> You are absolutely brilliant. I think this feature would be FANTASTIC for custom matches so you can learn/test builds, but I really don't think it should be use in ladder games and tournaments. | ||
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Dooba
Croatia588 Posts
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iamke55
United States2806 Posts
On September 22 2010 02:21 Plexa wrote: I dont see it helping anyone to be honest. Some people might find it useful, great. Most people won't, that's fine too. Don't see why the option shouldn't exist! It will help zergs fine tune their build orders against timing attacks without going through the hassle of rewatching replays on 8x just to write down attack timings. It also helps protosses survive timing attacks by terrans for the same reason. It doesn't really help terran. Overall it should speed up the evolution of the game toward fast expo/macro styles because refining build orders is now something everyone can do, and not just the people who have the patience to rewatch replays. | ||
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Vexx
United States462 Posts
I find the QQ about any feature that makes the game more accessible to be completely ridiculous in this community. | ||
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happyness
United States2400 Posts
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bonifaceviii
Canada2890 Posts
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Merikh
United States918 Posts
On September 22 2010 02:44 Headshot wrote: I don't see it being allowed in tournaments, and that's a good thing. You won't be able to tell if a person used it or not unless they recorded their games. Simple as that. | ||
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Zodeak
United States6 Posts
A clock will help a player like me, who is newer and hasn't memorized all the various timing with my various builds. All the clock will provide is a universal metric between builds to understand my opponents timing. *note* typically when I die to something that relies on timing anyways, I'm not thinking "OMG HOW DID HE GET THAT NOW!!", its more of a....wow I didn't expect that--though I understand how he did it, and what I could have done to remedy the problem was better scouting...not buy a watch. | ||
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comis
United States333 Posts
I think it's a garbage change. | ||
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