HotS MLG Info Updates - Page 116

On June 10 2012 13:01 one-one-one wrote:


I dont know about the microability of the warhound, but it seems to be a fast , low health and high damage unit.
Probably needs to be microed to be cost effective.

Battle hellions are very interesting. Move hellions into small chokes behind mineral lines and transfer a few of them into battlemode.
Also, the problem of how many hellions that should be in battle mode is interesting. Fast hellions are good to clean up after a battle but in a full on engagement it might be a better idea to transform some of them as a shield.
Then again , it might be wise to keep a few in standard mode for kiting and junk.

Just my 2c

edit: and the mine has the potential for terrans to control space as in Brood War. Basically every terran with a BW background has been screaming for this. Changes to terran are enough imo.

On June 10 2012 19:36 -Archangel- wrote:

Probably by building spine crawlers if you scout toss having stargate
Blizzard logic. Lets design an air unit that will make you build anti ground towers :D

I wonder how they plan for terran to defend against it :D

On June 10 2012 20:32 ETisME wrote:
wait, so that means we could be seeing proxy nexus into mama core cannon rush? how epic is that

On June 10 2012 19:36 -Archangel- wrote:

Probably by building spine crawlers if you scout toss having stargate
Blizzard logic. Lets design an air unit that will make you build anti ground towers :D

I wonder how they plan for terran to defend against it :D

On June 10 2012 19:07 Zorkmid wrote:
Entomb seems stupid and annoying. How on earth do you prevent that early game?

On June 10 2012 20:53 31415926535 wrote:

I play Protoss and had kind of the same reaction. I think the game already has a lot of frustrating mechanism like FF, concusive shells and fungal. Those are abilities you can't really micro against. Even with the best micro in the world, you can't escape concusive shells, which is kind of sad. Fungal would be much better if it would just slow down units as to allow good player to move units out of it.

Entomb just looks like another of those non-micro abilities.Maybe it should require channeling so you have to somewhat move your oracle to avoid the opponent's units to use it effectively. But this whole "one click, move away" mechanism looks really dumb.

I actually like the new zerg green cloud ability (the one that reduces range) much more. You can escape it, so a good player will be able to spread and move its units to reduce its effectiveness. That's how it should be.

On June 10 2012 21:22 Morphage wrote:


I feel the exact same way, some of the units added in HOTS are good concepts but not implemented as good as they could be. If Protoss needs a harass unit (which I think they do), give them something which takes more skill to use than one click to deny ALL mining at one base (the reaver comes to mind).

Also, I really don't like the Abduct ability, it renders positional play and advantages completely useless, and there is no point in making high tier units if they are going to get destroyed so easily :/

Now about the warhound, I don't really think Terran needs an anti-mech unit, we already have marauders so I feel the warhound is kinda redundant especially when it doesn't even have an anti-air attack. The warhound, with it's auto missile attack to mechanical units is also a terrible idea. Terran was a really nicely designed race in the sense that almost all units benefited from good control...we don't want a chargelot number 2 -.-

On June 10 2012 19:59 Fragile51 wrote:


You can kill it with workers. They aren't doing anything else that's useful, so i don't see the problem there. Also, entomb will cost a lot of energy, so its not like this will hit at the 6 minute mark or something.

On June 10 2012 20:41 Gladiator333 wrote:


Patrol a couple of marines should do the trick

On June 10 2012 21:36 Naphal wrote:
i am a terran player, i like the additions to protoss and zerg, but for terran i have one issue:

change the warhound model TT

the widowmine can and hopefully will be very cool
battlehellion is a welcome addition (will block masses of lots and lings)

but the warhound looks like trash assembled in a rush (modelwise)... but also the use of the unit seems weird if you compare it to the marauder:

you will make 0 warhounds against zerg. (no mech)
will you choose the warhound over the marauder against protoss?
(the only protoss unit that is mech but not armored is the sentry)
will you make warhounds over siegetanks in TvT?

i don't like this unit, both in looks and in usage it is outdone by the marauder in TvZ and TvP, and for TvT i guess it can be useful if it breaks big tanklines (poor siegetanks in hots btw no matter the matchup)

On June 10 2012 21:30 MCDayC wrote:
I just want another battlereport!

On June 10 2012 21:54 -Archangel- wrote:

You serious? That didn't work with version they had for Blizzcon and it will not work for this one. Yes, you can attack but it takes way too long and you need to manually send them back to mining afterwards for each base after each attack.

You know how long it takes toss per base to do this? click oracle, shift+click spell on minerals, shift+click back to safe air behind base.

Lol? couple of marines cannot do anything. In last version I could not stop it with 2 spores.
Did you look at battle reports? Did you see the range it can be cast from?
Couple of marines only work if Oracle needs to come above minerals to cast. As long as cast range is something like 6 it will never work unless you build 4 towers at each base.