EPTWhat are the difficulty behind nerfing these units and how is the progress on it moving onward? Are they looking at nerfing the ghosts or buffing the other units primarily affected by EMP and Snipe?
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Pimmeh
Netherlands120 Posts
What are the difficulty behind nerfing these units and how is the progress on it moving onward? Are they looking at nerfing the ghosts or buffing the other units primarily affected by EMP and Snipe? | ||
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Kovaz
Canada233 Posts
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amazingxkcd
GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts
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RavenLoud
Canada1100 Posts
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Marou
Germany1371 Posts
- Can you give us an update about Blizzard's MOBA ? - Regarding SC2 design : considering the demographics of SC2 players being more and more focused on higher leagues 1v1-wise (diamond and master), are you considering focusing less on balancing the game for lower league and team games, knowing that balancing team games is pretty much impossible to do with ressource exchange and units abuse (hello BFH) ? On October 21 2011 01:17 amazingxkcd wrote: Will you guys take efforts to remove clumping from the game? +1 | ||
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zarepath
United States1626 Posts
Now that reapers don't have stim and aren't used as frequently (and when they're used, their fragility means that healing is null anyway), is there any discussion about adding the Medic back into Multiplayer and removing the healing ability from Medivacs? | ||
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CorruptedGT
7 Posts
On October 20 2011 23:42 monx wrote: Can you bring back the reaver? Why no 1v1 map pool change for season 4 ? When will be able to watch replays with multiple people? HoTS summer 2012?¸ Why are you hurting E-sports by not adding LAN support? good god PLEASE | ||
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Talack
Canada2742 Posts
Missing: -Shared viewed replays -weekly/daily tournaments, -short limit on b.net icons, -(imo) a terrible UMS system, -unable to kick/ban people from our games we create, -unable to disable all chat from other players on ladder, -no lan support (even if it was tournament only and required a license fee (expires in a few days or w/e). They keep telling us they have "plans" but we have been waiting a whole year for something that should have been completed before it was released. In 10 years we've actually downgraded considerably. 2) Is there a possibility that we could have a seperate ladder for practicing off-races? I.e: I wouldn't have to play at my own MMR in order to practice protoss instead I could compete at a plat-diamond level.\ 3) Is there plans for HOTS to remove the "bio-only" mentality from the TvP matchup and increase the effectiveness of tanks in TvP? | ||
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SiegeFlank
United States410 Posts
Blizzard has admitted in the past that making Terran such a versatile race, while not necessarily a balance problem, is really more of a design problem. How does Blizzard intend on adjusting Terran in HotS to make it less versatile? Will they simply take away from what Terran is capable of or will they add more to the other races to even it out? Any examples? | ||
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Klipsys
United States1533 Posts
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Mephyss
Brazil128 Posts
Marines - one of highest dps in game, 50 min - 0 gas Marauders - 100 min 25 gas Hellion - 100 min 0 gas Ghosts - 200 min 100 gas (50 less gas then his counterparts infestors and HT) Viking 150 min 75 gas (cheapest air unit on gas in game) And with Mules which increases Terran minerals so much, it feels that anytime terran and his opponent wiped their armies, Terran will come stronger next battle unless the other guy has way too much gas saved or more bases. | ||
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Shiladie
Canada1631 Posts
- While you say your goal isn't to make every unit or style usable in competetive play, we are seeing a lot of stagnation in ZvZ and PvP due to the unforgiving nature of these matchups. Are you satisfied to leave a matchup in a state similar to ZvZ is in BW right now, or do you have plans to increase defensive advantage for these matchups allowing for more diverse play? - Terran has been doing well recently in Korea at higher levels due to their extremely high number of options and high skill ceiling on their units. Can you elaborate on why your balance team has determined this is happening, and what solutions you are currently exploring to resolve it? - David Kim mentioned previously that he would like to increase scouting potential in the early game to prevent unscoutable 'build order losses' from being as dominant as they currently are. While this is partially true, there's also the low defensive advantage present in the early to mid game for protoss and zerg. Are there any plans to either limit the ways of bypassing defenses/distance, or to increase capibility to have defences up in time? - In relation to the different Macro mechanics, what was the reasoning behind the decision to make one a lot more unforgiving than the others in terms of mechanical skill required to optimise it's use? It seems that it is arbitrarily scaring lower level players away from an already very different race to play, which can be easily seen in the race per league stats. | ||
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zarepath
United States1626 Posts
No one who posts here will be able to escape alive. | ||
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thrilla2k10
United States9 Posts
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theBALLS
Singapore2935 Posts
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shockaslim
United States1105 Posts
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gobrin
Canada96 Posts
On October 21 2011 00:52 Shiori wrote: 2) Weird wall off positions. I was playing a game on Abyssal Caverns a few days ago as Protoss and I happened to spawn in the top left position. Bizarrely, the ramp is made in such a way that one needs to wall off in a rather unorthodox manner. May I ask why? It doesn't add anything to the game and probably slightly skews the map against Protoss (since Terran can reposition a failed wall off). What's stranger is that the issue only figures in to this one particular spawning location. I would REALLY like to know the answer to this. Didn't David Kim say in that interview with JP that he doesn't like the fact that Shakuras Plateau is in the ladder pool because vertical spawns are disabled and that some people on ladder don't know that? His reasoning was basically that he didn't want to take out close spawns on Temple/Metal etc. because it forces players to learn very specific details of each map. Why then, do they insist on not conforming to a uniform wall-off style? It blows my mind that there are maps like Abyssal/Backwater Gulch that require funky wall-off styles instead of a standard gate/core wall-off. | ||
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coko
United Kingdom570 Posts
- Have you, or would you, consider hiring ex-pro gamers to aid you in balance testing, game design. (Or in reverse), do you hire non-pro's to test in a less intense environment? (I guess it is more of a balance for pro's versus the majority) - If you had any advice for a company/indie developer for balancing a multi-player RTS, what would your top three be? - From designing the game, what emergent strategies/tactics have most surprised you? And, conversely, are there any strategies/tactics that you haven't seen become popular that surprises you? | ||
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getSome[703]
United States753 Posts
Protoss early and mid game play is based upon excellent usage of forcefields. Many players have complained about the strength of forcefields, yet it is almost undeniable that without them protoss would be incredibly weak and vulnerable. Has there been any discussion about nerfing sentries/forcefields, yet compensating for this by buffing gateway units? Or is Blizzard satisfied with the weak gateway units + forcefields balance that we have now? | ||
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Clefairy
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