Developers Update : Heart of the Swarm - Page 41

On April 12 2012 10:03 pdd wrote:
I've thought about the changes for awhile and here are my detailed opinions (cross-posted from Reddit thread):

Regarding Terran:
- Warhound is fine personally. It doesn't need to be different, it just needs to make Mech more mobile and more viable vs Protoss and Zerg. Having a cheaper, more massable Thor + battle hellion kinda solves that. Meching Terrans just need some way to deal with late game Broodlord transitions and hopefully a cheaper Thor helps.
- Shredder was not really necessary anyway. Good removal.
- Missile unit could be interesting, but if it's only meant to counter siege tanks and is worthless in TvZ or TvP, it's just an uninspired addition. Perhaps if can be used to hit Colossi and Broodlords as well. Also siege lines make TvT interesting, don't know why there's a need to change it.
- Anti air spider mine sounds a little bit weird. I don't see why they're necessary as massing Thors seem to deal with mutas well enough (at least recently). Problem meching Terrans face these days are Brood Lord switches, and spider mines don't really seem to be an ideal choice to counter them.

Regarding Protoss:
- I absolutely despised the Replicant. It was the dumbest unit design ever. Good riddance.
- Tempest now basically does what the Carrier does. Please bring back the Carrier and use the Tempest for something else. Maybe a melee tanky anti-air unit to counter Corruptors or something?
- Mass recall on Nexus was and still is a horrible idea.

Zerg:
- I'm liking all the changes with Zergs so far. They've been receiving the most buffs, so hopefully there'll be a way to balance them though.
- Also there needs to be a building to build the Viper. I think just getting it off plain Lair tech makes it a little bit too imba. I like the mineral eating to recover energy. It's interesting, although it's difficult to use them midway through battle.

On April 12 2012 10:27 Mycl wrote:
As many people have stated I do not understand why the Carrier with some tweaks cannot become a 'very long-ranged aerial siege weapon that can strike both air and ground targets'. Old content with a new paint job is not new and exciting

On April 12 2012 01:20 NeWeNiyaLord wrote:

The tempest is currently a very long-ranged aerial siege weapon that can strike both air and ground targets. This gives the protoss army some real reach to force an engagement on their terms in the end-game.

EDIT: Quoted the whole statement by request.

On April 12 2012 10:24 malaan wrote:
this thread reminds me that I'm glad Blizzard don't really listen to the community because the game would get destroyed.

Despite all the haters and whiners the game is absolutely dominating esports and getting bigger by the day. They are obviously doing something right, as we are all still playing