[Bcon] Questions For Dustin Browder - Page 23

On October 21 2011 04:42 Nemireck wrote:


This is such a ridiculous assertion.

You won't be banned for losing games when you switch races.

It's against the TOS to intentionally forfeit games in order to earn achievements (ie. win-trading), it's not against the TOS to go on a losing streak because you switched races.

On October 21 2011 04:55 PraetorialGamer wrote:
Dear Mr. Browder,

Would Starcraft 2 be better if the rankings of units contributed to a "kill-streak" system? For example, if a marine killed three zerglings, he would gain an ability for increased vision area, five kills would give a high aoe damage ability, and seven would grant the ability to summon a flying recon and attack unit that lasted for five minutes?

I think that this would be effective, because it would encourage newer players to learn to micro units effectively so as to score the most number of kills on a single unit, and would promote a diverse array of unexplored gameplay options and depth.

I think this would also draw newer players into the game, as the early game would be much more focused on combat and action instead of watching one's base for several minutes.

Praetorial

On October 21 2011 04:55 Roxy wrote:
I would like to know if we can have pylon radius back and warp gate research back to the way it was

It was stated that these changes were made for PvP but I think with the most recent changes, they are not necessary.

It is so freakin hard to defend against early pushes.
The pylon radius still screws me up regualrly (even after playing about 1000 games with them).

On October 21 2011 04:59 Roxy wrote:


that would definitely be a cool custom map, but i dont think this has a place in SC2 multiplayer

perhaps would be more suitable for WC4??

On October 21 2011 04:55 PraetorialGamer wrote:
Dear Mr. Browder,

Would Starcraft 2 be better if the rankings of units contributed to a "kill-streak" system? For example, if a marine killed three zerglings, he would gain an ability for increased vision area, five kills would give a high aoe damage ability, and seven would grant the ability to summon a flying recon and attack unit that lasted for five minutes?

I think that this would be effective, because it would encourage newer players to learn to micro units effectively so as to score the most number of kills on a single unit, and would promote a diverse array of unexplored gameplay options and depth.

I think this would also draw newer players into the game, as the early game would be much more focused on combat and action instead of watching one's base for several minutes.

Praetorial

On October 21 2011 05:07 rivurivurivurivu wrote:
who was the guy that suggest to change PDD from zerg to terran ?

On October 21 2011 05:03 ZenithM wrote:


This is so true about the pylon radius.
If you play fast, you have trouble finding room to throw down your buildings (and you can even see it in pro stream like Huk's and SaSe's, sometimes, they have to search for a place to put that shit down for quite a long time).
And if you want the most room you can have, you're forced to really spread out your pylons, yielding the so-called "Artosis pylons" that are so much more frequent since this patch.
For an expansion, you can no longer put a pylon in front of your nexus so that it covers the front and the mineral line at the same time (if you want to plant a pylon in the mineral line), you basically have to put 3 pylons (because one at the rear isn't even enough to cover the full area with cannons). It's 300 minerals that add greatly to the cost of an expand, without including the cannons you will have to put down like the other races do.
And of course, they are more reachable for your opponents, making defending against all ins and drops that much harder.

On October 21 2011 04:42 Nemireck wrote:


This is such a ridiculous assertion.

You won't be banned for losing games when you switch races.

It's against the TOS to intentionally forfeit games in order to earn achievements (ie. win-trading), it's not against the TOS to go on a losing streak because you switched races.

On October 21 2011 05:13 Tyrant0 wrote:
Does blizzard acknowledge the importance of allowing the meta game to play out for more than a few months rather than take innovation away from players when you cave into balance demands?

On October 21 2011 04:24 H0i wrote:


It doesn't take 5 seconds to produce a HT, it takes about the same as ghost/infestor. The production cycle is reversed, but you still need to have a pylon or warp prism up and in the end the only real moment where it takes 5 seconds to produce units is the moment when warpgate finishes, and at that moment your amount of units is small anyway so protoss needs that. To produce HT in 5 seconds you would need to have warpgates off cooldown and resources stockpiled. Really, what you're doing is quite similar to arguing ghosts and infestors shouldn't be able to enter medivacs/overlords because it would be instant "warp in".

Wait 40 seconds, spawn unit in 5 seconds, wait 40, spawn in 5 seconds. Total units spawned: 2. Time : 90.

Train unit in 45 seconds, train unit in 45 seconds. Total units spawned: 2. Time: 90.

See? It's exactly the same. Warpgates do give more mobility, but isn't that what they were made for? Complaining about this is like complaining about workers being able to mine, it's just what they do.

But this is offtopic...