EPTTeamLiquid's Kennigit sat down with Dustin Browder, to talk balance, Heart of the Swarm, design philsophy, and more.
TL interviews Dustin Browder at Blizzcon
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Waxangel
United States33495 Posts
TeamLiquid's Kennigit sat down with Dustin Browder, to talk balance, Heart of the Swarm, design philsophy, and more.
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Dodgin
Canada39254 Posts
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Yoshi Kirishima
United States10366 Posts
This time he's weearing the terran shirt | ||
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Zlasher
United States9129 Posts
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boesthius
United States11637 Posts
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WightyCity
Canada887 Posts
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XRaDiiX
Canada1730 Posts
I just hope that this unit is gonna be decent ... Zerg really needs a robust unit and Swarm host is supposed to be good for Map Control. DustinBrowder said himself in the demonstration video for the swarm host ; its used for slow methodical pushes *Wearing down the opponent* Kinda funny how him Dustin Browder and Mike Morhaine both wear Terran Shirts.  | ||
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Zozo
Brazil2579 Posts
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hordeau
United States157 Posts
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skatbone
United States1005 Posts
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Taesis
Canada51 Posts
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KhAmun
United States1005 Posts
Interviews with DB are always really interesting, as sometimes it's tough to gauge how much he actually knows... | ||
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DeltruS
Canada2214 Posts
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Daralii
United States16991 Posts
On October 25 2011 09:27 hordeau wrote: Why not just chop out kennigit entirely in the video and zoom in on that sexy bald head? My eyes automatically go to the terran patch he always wears. >_> | ||
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ReturnStroke
United States801 Posts
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Dreamwalker91
Sweden8 Posts
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Vindicare605
United States16109 Posts
It's interviews like these that make me glad that people like DB are the ones balancing the game. Their reserved and calculated approach I think is the best chance we have at getting a game that's balanced and still fun years from now. | ||
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Bartimaeus
United States67 Posts
To start on Browder: Negative: His shirt is a Terran shirt. Awesome lol. He talks about ways the Replicator would be removed (one of them already being in the alpha play [no massive]) . . . before its even in the game. He says the drawback of Terran is that you are . . . too complete? too good? This is, imo, a little ridiculous as even the person who designed Terran can't find a drawback to the race - as he is the one who should know the race better than any other. His inability to find a strong flaw is astounding and revealing. He's saying that he doesn't want to fix the pathfinder because he believes it will still be ball-on-ball action, just slightly smaller - his option is to take food out of the balls, which is essentially doing the same thing - making the balls smaller? He's crossing his fingers and saying "Maybe!" when he's talking about a unit (Swarm Host) he's going to throw into this game that will affect the income of many pros in varying ways. He dismisses the option of Lan by saying that it is a lot of work for them - not by saying that it would affect them negatively financially. I'd wish that he chose the other option because saying that it will be hard for them to do is almost taunting us, saying that he just doesn't want to work on it. Positive: I'm glad that he could at least admit that the map issue was a problem instead of just dismissing it like the question about the drawback of playing Terran. I liked that he admits that he realizes the gravity of his decisions (later in the cast, after the Swarm host finger crossing). I'm happy that he admits that some problems exist, such as PvT in Korea. Overall the person interviewing Browder was flawless, and I'm disappointed with Browder's responses on a majority of the issues he spoke on. | ||
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Goibon
New Zealand8185 Posts
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Guardian1972
United States40 Posts
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