EPTQ. New units?
DB: Yeah.
http://gameaxis.com/exclusive-interview-with-dustin-browder-starcraft-2s-lead-designer-part-1/
Interview with SC2 Lead Designer Dustin Browder - Page 7
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duckii
Germany1017 Posts
Q. New units? DB: Yeah. http://gameaxis.com/exclusive-interview-with-dustin-browder-starcraft-2s-lead-designer-part-1/ | ||
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Archerofaiur
United States4101 Posts
Much of Heart of the Swarm will be talking about the story of Sarah Kerrigan, and many things will be happening to her, and she might be attacked quite a number of times too. Oh no! :O | ||
BLinD-RawR
ALLEYCAT BLUES50978 Posts
uhhh of course they will.Its an expansion there are always new units in expansions. | ||
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Azarkon
United States21060 Posts
Idra (Z): Zerg is underpowered Nestea (Z): Zerg is underpowered FruitDealer (Z): Zerg is underpowered MC (P): Zerg is not underpowered MVP (T): Terran is underpowered Tyler (P): Protoss is not overpowered Incontrol (P): Protoss doesn't seem to be overpowered? IIRC, that's what I've read so far. | ||
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thebole1
Serbia126 Posts
150mm strike cannons thors > immortal. hahaha did you ever see that thor 250 mm canons kill imortall ? also i didnt see stim pack maraders vs blink stalkers ( in dustin story this 2 should be equal metchup) that stalkers conter maraders.... i yust dont like that dustin dont admit that his game now atm have plenty of problems... if blink stalkers shoud be = stimed maraders / than dustin made that to work... simply it dosnt work now.... now game go this way for terrans everything is abouth steam pack.... for zergs everything is abouth fungl and banglings.... and for toss everything is abouth colloss and (now nerfed High templars) masive dps need to be nerfed in my opinion simply becous game will have comebacks ... simply if stimed MMM kill toss army that is gg for toss... if zerg fungell Marines and do good with banglings that is gg for terran... if toss live to made big army and come with 5 colloss blink stalkers and charg zealots that is gg for terran....or zerg....sry for my ENG  | ||
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Lingy
England201 Posts
Just my oinion on it though Nice interview | ||
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loveeholicce
Korea (South)785 Posts
On April 29 2011 01:50 BLinD-RawR wrote: uhhh of course they will.Its an expansion there are always new units in expansions. I remember they said in an interview like a month ago that adding new units would make the game feel too clustered so they won;t be doing it in multiplayer. I'll see if i can find the interview | ||
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Hikko
United States1126 Posts
On April 29 2011 02:04 Lingy wrote: I dont like how he talked about win% to determine balance, if anything that just proves that the matchmaking system works Just my oinion on it though Nice interview If you watched the Blizzcon panels, they have solid data on equivalent level MMRs and win-rates for match ups, adjusted to ignore the 50% ladder matchmaking. They use that data, not the ladder working, to make their decisions, among many other things. They know the ladder matchmaking works, and they know how to ignore it. On April 29 2011 02:05 loveeholicce wrote: I remember they said in an interview like a month ago that adding new units would make the game feel too clustered so they won;t be doing it in multiplayer. I'll see if i can find the interview From what I understand, they will remove units as they add more units to the game in order to keep things from becoming too cluttered. | ||
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Sermokala
United States14127 Posts
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ALPINA
3791 Posts
On April 29 2011 01:50 Azarkon wrote: Well, if we're going to go by what pro players say... Idra (Z): Zerg is underpowered Nestea (Z): Zerg is underpowered FruitDealer (Z): Zerg is underpowered MC (P): Zerg is not underpowered MVP (T): Terran is underpowered Tyler (P): Protoss is not overpowered Incontrol (P): Protoss doesn't seem to be overpowered? IIRC, that's what I've read so far. Yeah players not going to say their race is OP, but I am sure most of protoss pros gonna agree that PvZ is toss favoured  | ||
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flodeskum
Iceland1267 Posts
On April 29 2011 02:05 loveeholicce wrote: I remember they said in an interview like a month ago that adding new units would make the game feel too clustered so they won;t be doing it in multiplayer. I'll see if i can find the interview They said that there would be some new 'single player only units' in HOTS, stuff like that bunker thing. But that isn't the same as saying the expansions won't have new units. They obviously will, don't even try to convince yourself they won't. | ||
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PH
United States6173 Posts
He has no fucking clue what he's talking about. | ||
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loveeholicce
Korea (South)785 Posts
On April 29 2011 02:11 flodeskum wrote: They said that there would be some new 'single player only units' in HOTS, stuff like that bunker thing. But that isn't the same as saying the expansions won't have new units. They obviously will, don't even try to convince yourself they won't. Well single player is kind of irrelevant atm, we're just talking about multiplayer. Here's the interview I was refering to: http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/710301/esports-interview-with-starcraft-2-game-director-dustin-browder-and-senior-esports-manager-joong-kim/ From this thread: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=192822 But you can imagine we do have some challenges ahead of us. We don't want to just add another three units to the game for this expansion, three units to the game for the next expansion. That would be a very bloated game for us at that point and the chances that some of those units would be duplicates of other units that already exist in the game in one form or another would be extremely high. So we're looking at the different solutions. We don't know for sure yet, but there will definitely be fixes and changes and various improvements to the multiplayer experience. The implication seems to be that adding new units would make the game too clustered, bloated, etc. Of course they might end up modifying units or adding an ability or perhaps replacing a unit, you never know, but I highly doubt they'll do what brood war did and take the complete game and add more stuff to it. Besides, WoL is definitely a more complete game than Starcraft 1 pre- BW was. | ||
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Chaosvuistje
Netherlands2581 Posts
To be fair, she probably deserves it. Imagine the hatemail she got when the artifact got her back to human and all the people that followed her blog and twitter were left without updates for like 5 years. There ought to be some lunatics that would be out to kill her for her non-updating. The interview doesn't include THAT much news, but I'm very excited that there will be more CG in HotS . | ||
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akaname
United Kingdom599 Posts
* dustin speaks English only I would guess, so this would have been translated and then back translated. This opens up even more opportunity for change in the tone and meaning. So don't take any specific lines so harshly. * I am Protoss and I think Zerg are UP, but the very fact that July can reach the finals, and that we have 2 Zerg champs, indicates that the game isn't totally FUBAR. Yes there's probably room for improvement, Zerg are v hard to play, but it's not impossible to win as them. | ||
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hitman133295
30 Posts
On April 29 2011 02:08 Alpina wrote: Yeah players not going to say their race is OP, but I am sure most of protoss pros gonna agree that PvZ is toss favoured Not anymore until Zerg figure out how to use their Infestor. I've been watching IdrA's stream recently and his style has changed to very heavy infestor. And I have seen the success from it in both ZvT and ZvP, basically just infestor + broodlords = autowin in ZvT, roaches, lings in early game vs Protoss or infestor for FG in late game. | ||
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hitman133295
30 Posts
On April 29 2011 02:04 Lingy wrote: I dont like how he talked about win% to determine balance, if anything that just proves that the matchmaking system works Just my oinion on it though Nice interview What should he do? Go to every LR on TL and hear the QQ from Zerg and Terran to determine the balance ? | ||
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Bleak
Turkey3059 Posts
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Attica
United States277 Posts
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hugman
Sweden4644 Posts
On April 29 2011 01:05 loveeholicce wrote: He's an idiot on several things but I agree this isn't one of them. I believe ZvP is broken but when I look at stats recently (in nasl and gom for example) they just don't seem to support it to the extent I feel it's there. Just from that I can understand why theyre cautious to implement balance changes. Also from what I hear they do a fairly good job of consulting pros. like I remember yesterday on Sheth's stream he said dayvie (david kim) had just asked him to play on the PTR to test some of the 1.3.3 patches. On top of that we just got an infestor buff. I don't think infestors are good in ZvP at all but it would still be silly to say theres an imbalance without letting this patch play out more. As incontrol pointed out on state of the game, a few months ago Protoss was the weakest race. They still get nerfed twice, and now theyre the strongest O-o Zergs do win games, but they still don't have an answer for the Protoss lategame. If you don't secure a game winning advantage in the midgame, or before, then your chances of winning fall off a cliff. | ||
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