EPTOn October 20 2011 10:57 Thrasymachus725 wrote:
It would be a fallacy to say that nerfing the supply from 1 to 2 was cutting the potential of your army in half. How often do you run around with 200/200 and nothing but roaches for extended periods of time? You act as if it nerfed the quality of the roach by half, but in reality, it only really affected the late game. All it does is make you hit food cap quicker, which if anything forces an earlier engagement. It does nothing to the quality of the roach at all. Don't you remember all the rage from back in the day?
Plus, 1 food roaches were obscenely imbalanced. Do you really think that (given the current game trends), having that many more roaches in a 200/200 army would be fair?
Also roaches got one of the largest buffs in the games history: increasing it's range to 4. This changed the entire dynamic of the game. So don't say that roaches got nothing but nerfs and should be back to 1 food. Current roach at 1 food would break the game in half.
Err this was linked to me, my bad for the necro
It would be a fallacy to say that nerfing the supply from 1 to 2 was cutting the potential of your army in half. How often do you run around with 200/200 and nothing but roaches for extended periods of time? You act as if it nerfed the quality of the roach by half, but in reality, it only really affected the late game. All it does is make you hit food cap quicker, which if anything forces an earlier engagement. It does nothing to the quality of the roach at all. Don't you remember all the rage from back in the day?
Plus, 1 food roaches were obscenely imbalanced. Do you really think that (given the current game trends), having that many more roaches in a 200/200 army would be fair?
Also roaches got one of the largest buffs in the games history: increasing it's range to 4. This changed the entire dynamic of the game. So don't say that roaches got nothing but nerfs and should be back to 1 food. Current roach at 1 food would break the game in half.
Err this was linked to me, my bad for the necro
Meh, relevant considering the upcoming panel. Let's see what they've stuck with since then
EDIT: Post below on the other hand is probably meant for the New Zerg Unit thread >_>
