[Bcon] Questions For Dustin Browder - Page 27

On October 21 2011 04:36 trGKakarot wrote:
"Dear Mr. Browder,

Currently, Terran has very powerful early game all-in attacks; mostly due to the high DPS of Marines and early expansion builds by their opponent. Don't you think that a reasonable solution to this would be to simply put destructible rocks at every natural expansion in order to encourage one base play until later in the game?"

On October 21 2011 06:14 PraetorialGamer wrote:
Dear Mr. Dustin Browder,

Would you consider making DLC for Starcraft 2, which a general theme on "party game" content, such as variations on the popular Left 2 Die custom map. Much of the community would be very willing to spend $8 a month to purchase DLC.

Also, can you take colossi and other boring units that we all obviously hate and replace them with units from Brood War?

Have you considering firing the devs if they don't begin a port of Starcraft 2 to the Xbox?

With regards,
Praetorial

Seems to be the general sentiment...

On October 21 2011 06:32 fuzzayy wrote:



You have no brain. Get out of here

On October 21 2011 06:26 TheGlassface wrote:


I'm assuming relative experience in the field from other companies?

I don't think they gave 2 shits about fanboyism, they gave every bit of their care to $$$.
And if you're implying that shit eater has any idea what he is doing, I am going to have to go ahead and say no to that, laughing all the while. DB has no business in gaming. He's the Rob Liefield of video games.

On October 20 2011 23:44 usethis2 wrote:
I would like to ask what his thought on balancing the game in an underhanded manner, under the guise of "bug fixes". There were a couple that I remember, but most prominent one is when they tried to force users to tab keys as many times in order to create units, instead of pressing and holding down the key. (Baneling drop "bug fix" is a similar one as well as no warp-in on ramp)

Everyone knew that it was not a bug, but rather a "quick fix" that they attempted to slow down Zerg's mid-late game macro. Of course it was retracted because it was not right - you shouldn't balance the game by chancing the mechanic or harming users' physical well-being.

Ask him what he thinks of these secret/quiet "bug fixes" that do not appear on balance change notes but nonetheless affects the balance or game play. How often do they have done it, and whether he feels guilty on these opaque balance changes that players may not recognize.

On October 21 2011 06:18 Hikari wrote:
Will you be willing to show up for a team liquid attack?

On October 21 2011 06:34 PraetorialGamer wrote:


As a note, I was writing that question to illustrate the prevailing attitude that Blizzard just cares about money, and that removing boring units is a good idea.

In reality, I would ask a more general question as, "What do you see Starcraft 2 becoming as an Esport in relation to Brood War and League of Legends, are there any plans in development to host large-scale Blizzard-sponsored tournaments to boost the playerbase?"

On October 20 2011 23:48 intrigue wrote:
phoenix autoattack ruins the potential to trick opponents into thinking it's a hallucination. can we make this a toggle? such an ez change.

more reasons:
to sneak past overlords to harass while your opponent is distracted, and not having a "units under attack" alert come up. might make precision dart in dart out snipe micro better, as no shots would be wasted on closer units on approach to a specific target.

On October 21 2011 06:47 Blacklizard wrote:


I'll second this.

On October 21 2011 06:50 Hider wrote:
Dear Mr. Dustin Browder.

I have a question regarding the PvT matchups. At high level play all we see from the terran players are heavy bio play, and the problem with bio play is that its most of the time not very interesting to watch as a spectator. Most of the time nothing major has happens (except a few drops) for 15 minutes before a big clash happens, and then one of the players wins the game. Compared to ZvT there are small battles all the time, and its possible to make comebacks with the use of counter attacks for the zerg and through the strong defensive unit (siege tank) for the terran player. This is probably why this match up is genereally considered the most entertaining.

So I wonder if there is any plan in HOTS to make siege tank play (mech) more viable vs protoss?