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cbueno
Profile Joined November 2008
Ireland76 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-10-21 22:14:32
October 21 2011 22:14 GMT
#3761
OK ladies and gents...I am calling it right now....
The Heart of the Swarm is the patch where Zerg are gonna rule the nest in almost every competitions !
The game of starcraft 2 will no longer be called terrancraft but ZergCraft!
You have been warned, and this is no joke =(
Termit
Profile Joined December 2010
Sweden3466 Posts
October 21 2011 22:14 GMT
#3762
On October 22 2011 07:09 PredY wrote:
i hoped we could of gotten like spider mines on the reaper or raven t_t

I would have been okay with the Hellion driver tossing out spide mines with his hands!
( ̄。 ̄)~zzz ◕ ◡ ◕
tuho12345
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
4482 Posts
October 21 2011 22:14 GMT
#3763
On October 22 2011 07:07 ayaz2810 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 22 2011 07:06 Eppa! wrote:
On October 22 2011 07:05 ayaz2810 wrote:
On October 22 2011 07:04 Lazerlike42 wrote:
Thinking about it, the Arc Shield is effectively a gigantic cannon rush buff. If it does 20 damage to light, you basically have to kill any warping pylons before they finish. You can't just dedicate your workers to killing the probe anymore, because if the pylon finishes, even if you kill the first one a second probe can set up a cannon safely.



Incoming cannon rushes all day long brah. Seriously though, I would imagine that Blizz will get the balance right to prevent the kind of madness that COULD happen.

You need gateway to do it.


Gotcha. Starting to sound pretty okay to me. Although proxy gates would become more popular wouldn't they?

Same build time like right now. Why would be it matter? Stop whining please.
Bashion
Profile Joined February 2011
Cook Islands2612 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-10-21 22:17:33
October 21 2011 22:14 GMT
#3764
On October 22 2011 07:11 willyallthewei wrote:
Do they hate protoss? Why do we get the least "Net" units with the Mothership and carrier removed?

Oracle: 'oh they want a harassment unit huh? lets give them something that does exactly that, it just annoys ur enemy to death, it will kill absolutely nothing, but it will absolutely "harass" them and annoy the shit out of them"

Replicator: "we ran out of good ideas, here's a ball that copies other units, lets make it 200 gas so that its literally more expensive than any unit it can copy"

Mass Recall: "Toss can't put pressure on Zerg, here, now you don't have to suicide your army to take down a third a hatch, oh wait, we're totally removing this by release, sorry folks!"

Tempest: Yes, toss players, you can have your corsair back, it will only cost you 300/300 and a fleet beacon, and build at the same speed as Collossi, don't you love us? - signed, Blizzard.

Seriously, if the Oracle has detection, then okay, if not, then I really HAVE to wonder if the developers have some type of subliminal hate for the protoss race. Just take them out of the game, seriously, like Bisu said, SC2 toss is pointless, just axe it from the game if you are going to neuter them like this.




You made me laugh so loud.
Its sad but it might be true all you said.
I've got moves like Jagger
Ksi
Profile Joined May 2010
357 Posts
October 21 2011 22:14 GMT
#3765
I want to know if the new detection-parasite ability works on units that are burrowed. It'd be pretty amusing to have your own hidden detector for Zerg like Protoss does with Observers.
Smurphy
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States374 Posts
October 21 2011 22:15 GMT
#3766
On October 22 2011 07:11 willyallthewei wrote:
Seriously, if the Oracle has detection, then okay, if not, then I really HAVE to wonder if the developers have some type of subliminal hate for the protoss race. Just take them out of the game, seriously, like Bisu said, SC2 toss is pointless, just axe it from the game if you are going to neuter them like this.


If the Oracle has detection doesn't that make it the Protoss Overseer? A scout unit that with strange and possibly weak abilities that got removed because it had such narrow use.
Jetaap
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France4814 Posts
October 21 2011 22:15 GMT
#3767
On October 22 2011 07:13 0neder wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 22 2011 07:09 Ksi wrote:
On October 22 2011 07:05 Stanlot wrote:
On October 22 2011 07:02 sereniity wrote:
I find it funny how every protoss is going OMG CARRIERS REMOVED WTF THEY WERE SO COOL AND FROM BTW ETC...

Before I've seen EVERY SINGLE PROTOSS go "OMG CARRIERS ARE SO FREAKING USELESS THE UNIT BARELY EXISTS, WHY DOES IT EVEN EXIST ANYWAY?!? HUK GOT DECIMATED VS STEPHANO WHEN HE USED 3-3-3 CARRIERS, I WILL NEVER MAKE THEM AGAIN"

And then you got a new cool unit which actually seems useful. How can you possibly be whining about that?

It's the principle of it. Carriers should have been fixed to be as glorious as they were in BW but Blizzard took the easy way out and got rid of a long time iconic unit and gave us something else in place of it.


Both Zerg and Terran generally built their armies in such a way as to counter Colossus, and sadly the Carrier was countered by the same things. Also I really wonder how how glorious the image of BW carriers would be if it wasn't for the TvP meta-game being mech heavy.

Exactly, so the Colossus isn't just responsible for it's own slot that it's wasting. It has basically ruined both of the proxy attacking protoss units from BroodWar. Stubborn, Blizzard? Everyone agrees it's the most boring unit in the game.


But man, it LOOKS cool!! I saw an interview where they said they kept it during developement because they thought the design was great and that it was the best way to make units... but still...
TUski
Profile Joined April 2010
United States1258 Posts
October 21 2011 22:15 GMT
#3768
Has it been confirmed that the broodlord is still there?
"There is nothing more cool than being proud of the things that you love." - Day[9]
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20326 Posts
October 21 2011 22:15 GMT
#3769
On October 22 2011 07:14 ayaz2810 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 22 2011 07:12 ShoWTimE94 wrote:
On October 22 2011 07:07 ayaz2810 wrote:
On October 22 2011 07:06 Eppa! wrote:
On October 22 2011 07:05 ayaz2810 wrote:
On October 22 2011 07:04 Lazerlike42 wrote:
Thinking about it, the Arc Shield is effectively a gigantic cannon rush buff. If it does 20 damage to light, you basically have to kill any warping pylons before they finish. You can't just dedicate your workers to killing the probe anymore, because if the pylon finishes, even if you kill the first one a second probe can set up a cannon safely.



Incoming cannon rushes all day long brah. Seriously though, I would imagine that Blizz will get the balance right to prevent the kind of madness that COULD happen.

You need gateway to do it.


Gotcha. Starting to sound pretty okay to me. Although proxy gates would become more popular wouldn't they?


why should it? you need chrono for the zealots and the spell doesnt make that much dmg.


Yeah I guess that makes sense. I've had 8 cups of coffee and not much sleep. My brain is fucked.




With proxy gates, the spell would be useless unless you dropped chrono's on your zeals (and floated money because of it) in order to protect your 2 gateways from... enemy zealots?


If that is the case you fucked up
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
anmolsinghmzn2009
Profile Joined June 2011
India1783 Posts
October 21 2011 22:15 GMT
#3770
On October 22 2011 07:12 ayaz2810 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 22 2011 07:10 anmolsinghmzn2009 wrote:
OMG so excited for the new zerg units and abilities. HOTS can't come soon enough.



The ability that pulls units to your army is kind gay I think. Collosi will be neutralized pretty badly I would think. Then again, I haven't played. What the hell do I know?

Maybe u can't pull massive units? We shall see. But hell if u can immaterial make 10 vipers yeah!
Dunk first. Ask questions while dunking.
malaan
Profile Joined September 2010
365 Posts
October 21 2011 22:15 GMT
#3771
On October 22 2011 07:11 willyallthewei wrote:
Do they hate protoss? Why do we get the least "Net" units with the Mothership and carrier removed?

Oracle: 'oh they want a harassment unit huh? lets give them something that does exactly that, it just annoys ur enemy to death, it will kill absolutely nothing, but it will absolutely "harass" them and annoy the shit out of them"

Replicator: "we ran out of good ideas, here's a ball that copies other units, lets make it 200 gas so that its literally more expensive than any unit it can copy"

Mass Recall: "Toss can't put pressure on Zerg, here, now you don't have to suicide your army to take down a third a hatch, oh wait, we're totally removing this by release, sorry folks!"

Tempest: Yes, toss players, you can have your corsair back, it will only cost you 300/300 and a fleet beacon, and build at the same speed as Collossi, don't you love us? - signed, Blizzard.

Seriously, if the Oracle has detection, then okay, if not, then I really HAVE to wonder if the developers have some type of subliminal hate for the protoss race. Just take them out of the game, seriously, like Bisu said, SC2 toss is pointless, just axe it from the game if you are going to neuter them like this.




Please. stop talking. We havent seen them yet,
PresenceSc2
Profile Joined February 2011
Australia4032 Posts
October 21 2011 22:15 GMT
#3772
On October 22 2011 07:10 Xenocryst wrote:
this looks so imbalanced.....


Terran used to say colossus was imbalanced....
Stephano//HerO//TaeJa//Squirtle//Bomber
Andytaker
Profile Joined April 2011
88 Posts
October 21 2011 22:15 GMT
#3773
--- Nuked ---
Chemzoar
Profile Joined March 2011
United States14 Posts
October 21 2011 22:15 GMT
#3774
Don't understand all the complaints about no overseer. Zerg has to play slightly less greedy and get a lair up sooner? Toss is forced into robo builds if they want detection. Fast robos slow down expand timings. Plus, how will other races know which unit is the detector? Is it marked, sort of like parasited units in BW? It's easy to snipe obs/ravens, but mystery detectors for zerg seem pretty awesome.
tuho12345
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
4482 Posts
October 21 2011 22:15 GMT
#3775
On October 22 2011 07:11 XRaDiiX wrote:
I can See it Now Oracle comes into Zerg's Main/Natural Shuts Down Spores DT's Come in and Snipe Spores..___>>> Then Proceed to kill Zerg Spire GG

From what i've seen Oracle disables Spores Lets hope it doesn't Disable their Detection

Oracle can only stop the econ and production. Stop spreading bullshit
Jayjay54
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Germany2296 Posts
October 21 2011 22:15 GMT
#3776
btw do I get the replica right? you melee a random non massive unit and all your replicas can turn into it for the rest of the game? rly?
Things are laid back in Unidenland. And may the road ahead be lid with dreams and tomorrows. Which are lid with dreams. Also.
KristianJS
Profile Joined October 2009
2107 Posts
October 21 2011 22:16 GMT
#3777
On October 22 2011 07:14 syllogism wrote:
Not even going to bother addressing the rest of the points, however this one
Show nested quote +
On October 22 2011 07:11 willyallthewei wrote:
Do they hate protoss? Why do we get the least "Net" units with the Mothership and carrier removed?

Oracle: 'oh they want a harassment unit huh? lets give them something that does exactly that, it just annoys ur enemy to death, it will kill absolutely nothing, but it will absolutely "harass" them and annoy the shit out of them"

There is little difference in whether you kill the drones or prevent them on mining. The only thing that matters is the overall impact on the economy, which will depend on how, for instance, how mobile the oracle is and how much Entomb costs.



What? There's a huge difference between killing 10 drones and preventing 10 drones from mining for a short period of time. In one of the above the zerg actually has to spend money to remake drones in addition to lost mining time.
You need to be 100% behind someone before you can stab them in the back
ishkabibble
Profile Joined December 2010
Canada161 Posts
October 21 2011 22:16 GMT
#3778
On October 22 2011 07:11 ShatterZer0 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 22 2011 07:05 ayaz2810 wrote:
On October 22 2011 07:04 Lazerlike42 wrote:
Thinking about it, the Arc Shield is effectively a gigantic cannon rush buff. If it does 20 damage to light, you basically have to kill any warping pylons before they finish. You can't just dedicate your workers to killing the probe anymore, because if the pylon finishes, even if you kill the first one a second probe can set up a cannon safely.



Incoming cannon rushes all day long brah. Seriously though, I would imagine that Blizz will get the balance right to prevent the kind of madness that COULD happen.


Arc requires gateway tech... it says it on the screenshot. Though... BOSS gateway Forge inbase plays will be fucking BOSS!


You wall yourself in, they arc their nexus, your probe dies. Hardly seems boss to me.
Chemzoar
Profile Joined March 2011
United States14 Posts
October 21 2011 22:17 GMT
#3779
On October 22 2011 07:15 Andytaker wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 22 2011 07:13 Kaitlin wrote:
Has iNcontroL posted in this thread yet ? I'm guessing he is going to be THRILLED with the Nexus Mass Recall ability. Great drop defense.


Sounds pretty Imbalanced in lategame, you just send 10 Voidrays to snipe hatcherys or other buildings while camping at a Nexus in the middle of the map with your whole army^^



Dude, Nexus in the middle of the map purely for recall would be awesome. Some interesting strats to be explored there!
onmach
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States1241 Posts
October 21 2011 22:17 GMT
#3780
Some of the abilities of these units are just totally amazing. I can't wait for the beta to start so we can see some of the new strategies in action.
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