Why are you guys so adamant in giving every race a dragoon-like unit? Zerg in Brood War used to be the race of fast, damaging, but fragile and easily countered units. Terran used to be the race of ranged units that required very deliberate movement and positioning. With the Roach and the Marauder, you've lessened the importance of those aspects in their respective races and given us two high-hp, fairly bland, one-dimensional, attack move units. Was this done entirely for the purpose of giving new players a simplistic, effective brute force unit?

Cyber_Cheese

Australia3615 Posts

October 21 2011 22:26 GMT

#830

On October 22 2011 07:05 Antares777 wrote:
Why was the Thor changed to be a "Mothership"-style unit for Terran?

Why bother keeping the thor if your just going to make it mothership-esqe?
I swear that's gotta be so LotV can be perfect or something :/
I suppose what I'm saying is "Can you take the thor out?"

On October 22 2011 04:00 Whitewing wrote:

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What? No, go the other direction, mech vs. mech is awesome.

I second this!

ktimekiller

United States690 Posts

October 21 2011 22:53 GMT

#831

Why is HOTS giving so much Command and Conquer vibe

Superouman

France2195 Posts

October 21 2011 22:55 GMT

#832

On October 22 2011 07:53 ktimekiller wrote:
Why is HOTS giving so much Command and Conquer vibe

Dustin previously worked on a previous C&C, don't know which one though.This maybe comes from there.

4of8

Germany256 Posts

October 21 2011 22:59 GMT

#833

Why is the tournament plan for the invitainal so stric?. Or more specific why do we have to miss Naniwa vs Nestea when there is actually no live game planned for about 50 Minutes ?

GhostFall

United States830 Posts

October 21 2011 23:08 GMT

#834

Completely diregarding racial balance please ask dustin browder why he decided the racial identity of all three races is as it is?

In Starcraft 1, all 3 races had very well defined racial narrative. You had Protoss: Strong pound for pound best units with psionics. Zerg: The aggressors and set the tone of the matches. They also had the swarm feeling as well as spreading across the map. Terran: The defenders with weak infantry but a strong entrenched positions. They had to sit turtled into their base meaning they didn't have map control.

In Starcraft 2, Zerg's racial narrative is pretty consistent, but Protoss and Terran are not. Terran have pound for pound the strongest units, and they have map control with marauders and marines as they waddle around in the center of the map. Protoss no longer have the strongest spellcasters.

Please ask him, what is the racial identity/narrative of each race in Starcraft 2? Is it different? Is it the same? If it is different ask him why he changed the racial narrative to be as it is. And if it is the same as Starcraft 1, ask him why units such as the marauder and marine completely go against that racial narrative?

zev318

Canada4306 Posts

October 21 2011 23:09 GMT

#835

On October 22 2011 07:59 4of8 wrote:
Why is the tournament plan for the invitainal so stric?. Or more specific why do we have to miss Naniwa vs Nestea when there is actually no live game planned for about 50 Minutes ?

yes can you ask why the sc2 tournament is basically a piece of shit for people who can't afford the plane ticket to blizzcon?

Ramuh

Germany238 Posts

October 21 2011 23:09 GMT

#836

Tell him: If they want to move the players over to hots early on they should give out enough beta keys :-)

Carbonthief

United States289 Posts

October 21 2011 23:10 GMT

#837

I would like to know what they plan on doing about the 1-1-1 allin vs protoss.

Sajaki

Canada1135 Posts

October 21 2011 23:14 GMT

#838

On October 22 2011 06:59 ffadicted wrote:

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YES PLEASE!

Ask this pretty please!

Lumire

United States607 Posts

October 21 2011 23:15 GMT

#839

On October 22 2011 05:02 Node wrote:
One of the most brilliant characteristics of fights in Brood War was the way space on the map was controlled. Units such as siege tanks, spider mines, lurkers, and arbiters emphasized this control of space, and led to battles that could range across entire maps. Look at nearly any Terran game in Brood War, and the tank line that inevitably stretched for miles. In SC2, one of the primary criticisms is the way battles often come down to "ball vs ball", instead of these epic fights over large swaths of space. Is there any desire to bring back this old style of battle, and if so, what is being done to do so?

If any question gets asked please please let it be this.

JLew

Canada353 Posts

October 21 2011 23:16 GMT

#840

I'm actually curious, of all the people that work on balance and/or adding new units or maps..Who has the highest ladder rank on Bnet.

I'm not saying that this would be indicative of anything, I'm just curious because I can't see any player over Platinum being in favor of close positions on a map like shattered or thinking that the new Zerg units Death Grip ability is balanced.