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Somehow i don't think the incoming patch will change pvp as far as blizzard and the players do expect. correct me, but i think 4 gate was already during the beta really strong and i think a lot of changes planned for the next patches to fix pvp where already made in some way before - but pvp only got more 4gate-heavy.
i would really appreciate a "refreshed" pvp.
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On May 10 2011 00:23 tdt wrote:Show nested quote +On May 10 2011 00:20 Mali__Slon wrote:On May 10 2011 00:11 tdt wrote:On May 09 2011 12:59 Mykill wrote: Fungal growth should not be able to stack casted imo. Thats the only thing I would add to this patch.
I didn't realize FG stacked? IMO the thing missing is for blizz to figure out how to get carriers in the game. It's ridiculous such a venerable unit from SC1 and toss top tier capital ship is never used. Granted BC's/Ultra are not used much either but they are found in games 100x more than carrier. BCs are used? Lol. I only see them late game tvt. Z and P have so good counters for them, so making BCs against Z or P is like typing GG. I see em all the time. Like I just watched a game yesterday where goody used like 8 vs nani and rolled him. Do you mean the game where Goody opened proxy rax against Nexus first and was extremely far ahead in worker count the entire game?
Yeah that's a good situation to use BCs in.
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On May 10 2011 00:33 Mataza wrote:Show nested quote +On May 10 2011 00:01 tdt wrote:On May 09 2011 02:47 Theberlinwall wrote: As a Terran player i actually have to say i overall really like this patch, however the one thing i really don't like is the the Thor change. I'm in masters(was 3400+, season 1) and i have been tinkering with Mech a lot recently, with some success.
The fact it is that immortals just about own lone tanks, and although 1 on 1 agasint a thor (no cannons), the Thor will win, immortals are still extremely cost efficent vs mech, that being said i actually feel the strike cannons is required when facing an immortal, chargelot, collosi based army.
i actually will be concerned about the future viability of mech if this change makes it past the the ptr and onto the ladder, too me the strike cannon(with no energy) was a good balance between its absolute devastation and the cost effectiveness of the immortals. Now with an energy bar, not only are thors susceptible to feedback damage but this will also render the Thor without cannons, which i feel are imperative.
i really want to see mech become more viable and not less. i really dont want the thor to become the next reaper. That's why they lowered the gas cost of Ghosts so you could go mech and BC's. I think this patch will increase dynamics because Ghost will become so integral. Likewise toss needs HT's to deal with mech rather than just spam immos. Immortals are just terrible vs thor with strike cannon and SCVs on repair. Try it yourself in unit tester. Take only 8 thor vs 16 immos. Strike Cannon first 8 and you will kill off the rest of the immos with normal attack and only lose 3 Thor, you'll find the cost effectiveness you speak of disappears when massing hence the need for feedback since unit designed to counter fails miserably. I don´t know how you tested this, but in my test the immortals utterly destroyed the Thors in a 2v1 ratio. First you must ball them up, since that´s the natural state of any army in SC2. If you preposition the Thors in a way so they have superior position it won´t count. Immortals are much smaller and much faster than Thors, also Strike cannons take 2 full seconds before showing any effect. You can hardly micro Thors since they block each other and a second row Thor might as well not be there(Thor at least has a length of 2 attack range, maybe even 3). I just redid the test again. Shiftclicking the Thors from afar, Immos won even with Thors having a concave. The only way 1 thor wins against 2 Immortals is when some shit stands inbetween and the Immortals hits that. I personally think they should remove Strike cannons. It´s a terrible upgrade. It was a hardcounter to Ultralisks originally, but now it´s only really worth it against Immortals, pfortresses and other Thors. After 1 Mech upgrade, the autohit of the Thor does more damage per second than the cannons. It stuns your enemy for 6 seconds and your Thor for 10. Since Colossi have range 9 and Ultras are stunimmune, you only get small units reliably into range meaning Strike Cannons overkill nearly always. How bad is all that together? How do I record video of me playing in unit tester and I'll show you? I did 8 thor with 3 armor in an open area vs 16 immos on A move into thor and SC the first 8 immos and killed off the rest with normal attack.
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On May 10 2011 00:38 tdt wrote:Show nested quote +On May 10 2011 00:33 Mataza wrote:On May 10 2011 00:01 tdt wrote:On May 09 2011 02:47 Theberlinwall wrote: As a Terran player i actually have to say i overall really like this patch, however the one thing i really don't like is the the Thor change. I'm in masters(was 3400+, season 1) and i have been tinkering with Mech a lot recently, with some success.
The fact it is that immortals just about own lone tanks, and although 1 on 1 agasint a thor (no cannons), the Thor will win, immortals are still extremely cost efficent vs mech, that being said i actually feel the strike cannons is required when facing an immortal, chargelot, collosi based army.
i actually will be concerned about the future viability of mech if this change makes it past the the ptr and onto the ladder, too me the strike cannon(with no energy) was a good balance between its absolute devastation and the cost effectiveness of the immortals. Now with an energy bar, not only are thors susceptible to feedback damage but this will also render the Thor without cannons, which i feel are imperative.
i really want to see mech become more viable and not less. i really dont want the thor to become the next reaper. That's why they lowered the gas cost of Ghosts so you could go mech and BC's. I think this patch will increase dynamics because Ghost will become so integral. Likewise toss needs HT's to deal with mech rather than just spam immos. Immortals are just terrible vs thor with strike cannon and SCVs on repair. Try it yourself in unit tester. Take only 8 thor vs 16 immos. Strike Cannon first 8 and you will kill off the rest of the immos with normal attack and only lose 3 Thor, you'll find the cost effectiveness you speak of disappears when massing hence the need for feedback since unit designed to counter fails miserably. I don´t know how you tested this, but in my test the immortals utterly destroyed the Thors in a 2v1 ratio. First you must ball them up, since that´s the natural state of any army in SC2. If you preposition the Thors in a way so they have superior position it won´t count. Immortals are much smaller and much faster than Thors, also Strike cannons take 2 full seconds before showing any effect. You can hardly micro Thors since they block each other and a second row Thor might as well not be there(Thor at least has a length of 2 attack range, maybe even 3). I just redid the test again. Shiftclicking the Thors from afar, Immos won even with Thors having a concave. The only way 1 thor wins against 2 Immortals is when some shit stands inbetween and the Immortals hits that. I personally think they should remove Strike cannons. It´s a terrible upgrade. It was a hardcounter to Ultralisks originally, but now it´s only really worth it against Immortals, pfortresses and other Thors. After 1 Mech upgrade, the autohit of the Thor does more damage per second than the cannons. It stuns your enemy for 6 seconds and your Thor for 10. Since Colossi have range 9 and Ultras are stunimmune, you only get small units reliably into range meaning Strike Cannons overkill nearly always. How bad is all that together? How do I record video of me playing in unit tester and I'll show you? I did 8 thor with 3 armor in an open area vs 16 immos on A move into thor and SC the first 8 immos and killed off the rest with normal attack. You can upload the replay on sc2 replayed or some other site
The Thors get 3 armor and the Immos don´t?
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On May 10 2011 00:23 tdt wrote:Show nested quote +On May 10 2011 00:20 Mali__Slon wrote:On May 10 2011 00:11 tdt wrote:On May 09 2011 12:59 Mykill wrote: Fungal growth should not be able to stack casted imo. Thats the only thing I would add to this patch.
I didn't realize FG stacked? IMO the thing missing is for blizz to figure out how to get carriers in the game. It's ridiculous such a venerable unit from SC1 and toss top tier capital ship is never used. Granted BC's/Ultra are not used much either but they are found in games 100x more than carrier. BCs are used? Lol. I only see them late game tvt. Z and P have so good counters for them, so making BCs against Z or P is like typing GG. I see em all the time. Like I just watched a game yesterday where goody used like 8 vs nani and rolled him.
BCs are pretty good vs Protoss if you can get the at the right time
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On May 10 2011 00:48 Antisocialmunky wrote:Show nested quote +On May 10 2011 00:23 tdt wrote:On May 10 2011 00:20 Mali__Slon wrote:On May 10 2011 00:11 tdt wrote:On May 09 2011 12:59 Mykill wrote: Fungal growth should not be able to stack casted imo. Thats the only thing I would add to this patch.
I didn't realize FG stacked? IMO the thing missing is for blizz to figure out how to get carriers in the game. It's ridiculous such a venerable unit from SC1 and toss top tier capital ship is never used. Granted BC's/Ultra are not used much either but they are found in games 100x more than carrier. BCs are used? Lol. I only see them late game tvt. Z and P have so good counters for them, so making BCs against Z or P is like typing GG. I see em all the time. Like I just watched a game yesterday where goody used like 8 vs nani and rolled him. BCs are pretty good vs Protoss if you can get the at the right time 
Totally agree, T's totally dominate ladder with them. Maybe the next patch will fix this issue.
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On May 10 2011 00:36 Whitewing wrote:
I think it had a lot more to do with the 1-2 thor rushes that automatically killed any fast expanding protoss because you could strike cannon the one or two immortals out and just mass repair the thors after that. Yeah but aren't there like a million builds that you can do to instantly kill a FE protoss as terran? And same vice versa if the terran doesn't bunker up like a boss.
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It has probably been asked before but why the hell did they change Thor back to energy? Its not like they are OP TvP...?
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On May 10 2011 00:51 no.1 kissy boy wrote:Show nested quote +On May 10 2011 00:36 Whitewing wrote:
I think it had a lot more to do with the 1-2 thor rushes that automatically killed any fast expanding protoss because you could strike cannon the one or two immortals out and just mass repair the thors after that. Yeah but aren't there like a million builds that you can do to instantly kill a FE protoss as terran? And same vice versa if the terran doesn't bunker up like a boss.
No, there aren't a lot of builds that just straight up kill a FE with no chance of keeping the expo at all. There are one base plays that can punish a FE, but generally they don't straight up auto-win.
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On May 10 2011 00:52 KaiserJohan wrote: It has probably been asked before but why the hell did they change Thor back to energy? Its not like they are OP TvP...? According to Blizzard, they are. And having HT counter nearly every Terran unit used in TvP is fine.
Get HT, storm marines and marauders, feedback ghosts, medivacs, ravens, banshees, and now Thors. Personally I find it ridiculous, and have no idea where Blizzard gets the idea that thors are imba but colossus are fine, but then again I didn't make the game so....... what can ya do.
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On May 10 2011 00:54 Whitewing wrote:Show nested quote +On May 10 2011 00:51 no.1 kissy boy wrote:On May 10 2011 00:36 Whitewing wrote:
I think it had a lot more to do with the 1-2 thor rushes that automatically killed any fast expanding protoss because you could strike cannon the one or two immortals out and just mass repair the thors after that. Yeah but aren't there like a million builds that you can do to instantly kill a FE protoss as terran? And same vice versa if the terran doesn't bunker up like a boss. No, there aren't a lot of builds that just straight up kill a FE with no chance of keeping the expo at all. There are one base plays that can punish a FE, but generally they don't straight up auto-win.
3 rax shuts it down real easy.
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On May 10 2011 00:56 Mali__Slon wrote:Show nested quote +On May 10 2011 00:54 Whitewing wrote:On May 10 2011 00:51 no.1 kissy boy wrote:On May 10 2011 00:36 Whitewing wrote:
I think it had a lot more to do with the 1-2 thor rushes that automatically killed any fast expanding protoss because you could strike cannon the one or two immortals out and just mass repair the thors after that. Yeah but aren't there like a million builds that you can do to instantly kill a FE protoss as terran? And same vice versa if the terran doesn't bunker up like a boss. No, there aren't a lot of builds that just straight up kill a FE with no chance of keeping the expo at all. There are one base plays that can punish a FE, but generally they don't straight up auto-win. 3 rax shuts it down real easy. Kind of like how 4gate destroys terran FE? I don't see what your point is.
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sigh immortals and thors are quiet even with the 250mm, 250mm strike canon is just like the yamato. It takes out parts of the opponent army before the fight even starts. Though the 250mm works a bit different. And it makes immortals not as hardcore against thors as it would be otheriwse. without the strike canons immortals could win with near 0 losses against an equal ammount of thors via hitn run. And its still really good against ultras and other thors. Also no one with a clear mind would fight thors with immortals. (marines or hellions will accompany thors and block the immortals from reaching the thors, so a better choice would be voidrays first to force vikings as the marine force can be teared down with voidrays and stalkers until the thors are unprotected and if there are no tanks on the ground to protect the thors immortals can shine )
Well with the ghost change its more viable for mech less viable for bio so you will probably see ghosts in the thor mix as well ^^ and i guess you don't want to use immortals if they have no shields (would look like tanks with no range would fight thors hehe.)
edit: right blizzard will probably release a justification shortly after the patch, so i guess waiting a lil more should help. I really wonder on how much reasons i guessed right hehe.
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So high templer now counter nearly all Terran units? Thors, BC, Bio, banshee, hellions, medivac... I guess this forces us to make tanks. Oh and ghost taking away a max of 100 energy means they can still own my army after i pull off perfect emps.
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On May 10 2011 00:57 ihavetofartosis wrote:Show nested quote +On May 10 2011 00:56 Mali__Slon wrote:On May 10 2011 00:54 Whitewing wrote:On May 10 2011 00:51 no.1 kissy boy wrote:On May 10 2011 00:36 Whitewing wrote:
I think it had a lot more to do with the 1-2 thor rushes that automatically killed any fast expanding protoss because you could strike cannon the one or two immortals out and just mass repair the thors after that. Yeah but aren't there like a million builds that you can do to instantly kill a FE protoss as terran? And same vice versa if the terran doesn't bunker up like a boss. No, there aren't a lot of builds that just straight up kill a FE with no chance of keeping the expo at all. There are one base plays that can punish a FE, but generally they don't straight up auto-win. 3 rax shuts it down real easy. Kind of like how 4gate destroys terran FE? I don't see what your point is.
Just as you say, yeah, they can kill FE, but they don't auto-win. Decent forcefields can hold the bio at bay long enough to get the necessary units up, you can hold a 3 gate expand against a 3 rax. You can hold a fast CC as terran against a 4 gate too. It's not auto-win though, like the 1-2 thor rush is, since barracks units don't negate forcefields.
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On May 10 2011 00:52 KaiserJohan wrote: It has probably been asked before but why the hell did they change Thor back to energy? Its not like they are OP TvP...? I assume they want to push toward ghost/mech builds, and fear that the ghost change wouldn't give P enough leeway if the T can deny scouting. It might also be to simply encourage templar play PvT.
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On May 10 2011 00:57 ihavetofartosis wrote:Show nested quote +On May 10 2011 00:56 Mali__Slon wrote:On May 10 2011 00:54 Whitewing wrote:On May 10 2011 00:51 no.1 kissy boy wrote:On May 10 2011 00:36 Whitewing wrote:
I think it had a lot more to do with the 1-2 thor rushes that automatically killed any fast expanding protoss because you could strike cannon the one or two immortals out and just mass repair the thors after that. Yeah but aren't there like a million builds that you can do to instantly kill a FE protoss as terran? And same vice versa if the terran doesn't bunker up like a boss. No, there aren't a lot of builds that just straight up kill a FE with no chance of keeping the expo at all. There are one base plays that can punish a FE, but generally they don't straight up auto-win. 3 rax shuts it down real easy. Kind of like how 4gate destroys terran FE? I don't see what your point is.
You dont? It seems pretty selfexplanatory, but alright i ll try to simplify. If I scout FE toss i'd ruther go 2 rax pressure into 3 rax, then bulid factory, then armory, then 150/150 for canons and wait for thor to kill the toss.
3 rax is much safer way to do it. So in my opinion thats no reason the nerf the cannons.
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On May 10 2011 01:00 Whitewing wrote:Show nested quote +On May 10 2011 00:57 ihavetofartosis wrote:On May 10 2011 00:56 Mali__Slon wrote:On May 10 2011 00:54 Whitewing wrote:On May 10 2011 00:51 no.1 kissy boy wrote:On May 10 2011 00:36 Whitewing wrote:
I think it had a lot more to do with the 1-2 thor rushes that automatically killed any fast expanding protoss because you could strike cannon the one or two immortals out and just mass repair the thors after that. Yeah but aren't there like a million builds that you can do to instantly kill a FE protoss as terran? And same vice versa if the terran doesn't bunker up like a boss. No, there aren't a lot of builds that just straight up kill a FE with no chance of keeping the expo at all. There are one base plays that can punish a FE, but generally they don't straight up auto-win. 3 rax shuts it down real easy. Kind of like how 4gate destroys terran FE? I don't see what your point is. Just as you say, yeah, they can kill FE, but they don't auto-win. Decent forcefields can hold the bio at bay long enough to get the necessary units up, you can hold a 3 gate expand against a 3 rax. You can hold a fast CC as terran against a 4 gate too. It's not auto-win though, like the 1-2 thor rush is, since barracks units don't negate forcefields.
3 gate exp is in no way FE.
Secondly if terran kills your FE, you will be so far behind == loss. I still havent lost a game where i killed toss FE, I mean you are free to camp and to get your own expansion going.
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So I guess we go back to defensive emps on Thors so Templars don´t feedback half their life away. PvT will probably move to Ghost, Ghost, Scan Observersnipe and Ghost on the one terran side and Gateway/Colossi/Templar on the other side.
If I am not entirely wrong HT now counter every terran unit besides Tanks, Hellions and Ghosts, the Ghost only being viable because you can sneak in invisible when they skimp on observers.
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So I guess we go back to defensive emps on Thors so Templars don´t feedback half their life away. PvT will probably move to Ghost, Ghost, Scan Observersnipe and Ghost on the one terran side and Gateway/Colossi/Templar on the other side.
If I am not entirely wrong HT now counter every terran unit besides Tanks, Hellions and Ghosts, the Ghost only being viable because you can sneak in invisible when they skimp on observers.
You guys keep saying this but it's not like Ghosts don't counter every Protoss unit.
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