EPTOn March 06 2011 12:40 randplaty wrote:
BW was a much less ambitious project. BW had "core" units that did decently well against all units. Terran had goliaths and marines. Zerg had hydras and Toss had goons.
SC2 introduced bonuses for "armored" or "light." In a sense Blizzard introduced more imbalance in the specific units in order to create a more dynamic game. There are a lot more hard counters. Every unit has a hard counter. This is VERY different from BW. Hydras are owned by collossus. Stalkers are owned by marauders. This just did not happen to hydras and goonz in BW.
Blizzard refuses to nerf or buff any of the core units in SC2... so these huge imbalances exist. The marine, hydra, and stalker will not receive any changes because they're afraid that small changes to these units will completely change the game... which might be true. The problem is that there are huge imbalances within these core units which are causing the imbalances in the game. Because Blizzard is too scared to balance the core units, they are using peripheral changes to peripheral units and upgrades in order to balance the game. This may or may not work. We will see.
Examples:
Blizzard refuses to change the Stalker when it's clearly the problem with the PvT matchup.... so they have to do drastic changes to Khaydarian Amulet and Stim.
Blizzard refuses to change the marine when it's clearly the problem with TvZ... and therefore they have to do bunker changes and infestor changes.
BW was a much less ambitious project. BW had "core" units that did decently well against all units. Terran had goliaths and marines. Zerg had hydras and Toss had goons.
SC2 introduced bonuses for "armored" or "light." In a sense Blizzard introduced more imbalance in the specific units in order to create a more dynamic game. There are a lot more hard counters. Every unit has a hard counter. This is VERY different from BW. Hydras are owned by collossus. Stalkers are owned by marauders. This just did not happen to hydras and goonz in BW.
Blizzard refuses to nerf or buff any of the core units in SC2... so these huge imbalances exist. The marine, hydra, and stalker will not receive any changes because they're afraid that small changes to these units will completely change the game... which might be true. The problem is that there are huge imbalances within these core units which are causing the imbalances in the game. Because Blizzard is too scared to balance the core units, they are using peripheral changes to peripheral units and upgrades in order to balance the game. This may or may not work. We will see.
Examples:
Blizzard refuses to change the Stalker when it's clearly the problem with the PvT matchup.... so they have to do drastic changes to Khaydarian Amulet and Stim.
Blizzard refuses to change the marine when it's clearly the problem with TvZ... and therefore they have to do bunker changes and infestor changes.
You know Goliaths don't do a full 20 damage to Mutas right...
And you also know that Hydras don't do a full 10 vs Marines right... keke.
