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Developers Update : Heart of the Swarm - Page 26
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stfouri
Finland272 Posts
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amazingxkcd
GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts
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nunez
Norway4003 Posts
On April 12 2012 04:40 drbrown wrote: "Anya, it's a giant worm! They're sinking cities with a giant worm!" when i read it i thought of dune ii! great game. | ||
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sAfuRos
United States743 Posts
Releases slightly less horrible update wins over hearts of fans | ||
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synapse
China13814 Posts
On April 12 2012 04:13 BlueLantern wrote: I don't personally see a huge difference, if say, a Terran player had Dark Swarm or this new spell cast on their bio army, the only difference is that Terran wouldn't be able to fire until within 1 range instead of being completely negated. That's pretty ridiculous when combined with recharging energy from minerals and fungals from Infestors. If T has an effective way to kill them (vikings could serve this purpose, esp since zerg doesn't really have anit-air) then it would be very similar to swarm vs irradiate, which was both awesome and very balanced. | ||
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dCc
Canada86 Posts
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Bagi
Germany6799 Posts
On April 12 2012 04:45 stfouri wrote: Great! I will be using my mmm ball against Protoss for another 2 years...... I seriously don't know why people keep repeating this. The battle hellion alone is a change 100% tailored to change the TvP match-up. | ||
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FoeHamr
United States489 Posts
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Randomaccount#77123
United States5003 Posts
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blinkingangels
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On April 12 2012 04:49 Bagi wrote: I seriously don't know why people keep repeating this. The battle hellion alone is a change 100% tailored to change the TvP match-up. It's because Terran's have been begging for mech viability in TvP. If blizzard changes anything about Terran in HoTS, it has to be that. | ||
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KoBlades
Austria248 Posts
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Egyptian_Head
South Africa508 Posts
On April 12 2012 04:50 Barrin wrote: If only people had to take enough bases to make it actually useful. Well we are moving in that direction slowly. As long as people can correctly read and counter all the two base pushes reliably which should happen at some point more bases is inevitable. | ||
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Mirosuu
England283 Posts
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Randomaccount#77123
United States5003 Posts
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LazinCajun
United States294 Posts
 I don't disagree, but it would involve rebalancing everything in the game. You'd need a major expansion or something to do that. | ||
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Tausken
United States81 Posts
But I am not really sure why they don't like the warhound, in theory it sounds like a great unit. It has mechanical DPS so you can actually mech TvP, and it allows mutas to be more effective lategame, and less effective early game which is the exact problem the thor creates of to much splash. I think blizzard is trying to hard to make a new unit and not realizing they already have a good one, it just needed to be downsized. I don't really know what to think of the long ranged missile launcher, it just sounds silly. I can see how the new tempest could be great for broodlord fights, but not sure about how it fits. I don't like how they kept mass recall on the nexus either. Toss already has force fields to prevent bad engagements it doesn't want (see parting's FF usage). Why are they adding a mechanic that is so forgiving to the game, it just seems dumb. I am also surprised burrowed moving banelings and ultralisk charge were not mentioned, I was sure they would be taken out. I might be stretching an idea to much, but I feel those two combined with this disruption web spell, could make Terran biomech rather impossible for TvZ. I just don't see how a Terran biomech can survive against that, currently Zerg's go for Infestor, Blord, corrupter and then transition to mass ultras. If you pummeled your opponent with Disruption web, Fungal and burrowed ultras seems to much. Glad the oracle is still in, its an amazingly well designed unit. Also seems as if the battle hellion is still around which is great for meching players. I am just worried that the game is becoming to much about spellcasters. Toss are beginning to use Templars more than Collosus, Zerg are using Infestor instead of mutas. Now their is discussion on a Terran missile caster. An almost confirmed zerg 2nd caster....Just seems silly when you win battles by pressing T T T or F F F F a bunch of times. | ||
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amazingxkcd
GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts
On April 12 2012 04:57 Barrin wrote: Maybe if you were forced to make units more slowly due to less income. Hmmm... Nice allusions towards 7m1g.... + Show Spoiler + I support that notion too | ||
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GuardianEU
Netherlands488 Posts
On April 12 2012 04:57 Barrin wrote: Maybe if you were forced to make units more slowly due to less income. Hmmm... I see what you did there ^^ | ||
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GuardianEU
Netherlands488 Posts
On April 12 2012 04:58 LazinCajun wrote: Barrin, you and your 6 min patches I don't disagree, but it would involve rebalancing everything in the game. You'd need a major expansion or something to do that. isn't HotS the perfect opportunity then? | ||
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R0YAL
United States1768 Posts
On April 12 2012 04:49 FoeHamr wrote: Surprisingly the unit I hate the most from what I have seen in Heart of the Swarm is the Swarm Host. It just seems like a shitty unit. I guess I just want my lurkers back, You're giving the Swarm Host way too much credit. I would much rather have a shittier version of the Lurker over the Swarm Host. The Swarm Host literally serves no purpose other than parking it outside of the opponents base so it can spawn one beetle that is somehow more durable than a Hydralisk. Blizzard is doing a pretty poor job at making dynamic units in SC2. | ||
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