Not sure if this has been posted on Team Liquid yet, so here goes nothing. Game journalist and hobbyist Starcraft 2 player Brad Shoemaker of GiantBomb interviews Dustin Browder and David Kim in two separate interviews during MLG. Touches on their favourite players, balance for Heart of the Swarm, the fate of the carrier, and more.

Demonhunter04

1530 Posts

June 16 2012 03:56 GMT

Watching now. Brad Shoemaker has a glorious voice

Highways

Australia6104 Posts

June 16 2012 04:00 GMT

Great interview!

polyphonyEX

United States2539 Posts

June 16 2012 04:02 GMT

Very nice interview! I could actually hear Browder's voice in this one.

`"lol

Waxangel

United States33457 Posts

June 16 2012 04:03 GMT

On June 16 2012 13:02 polyphonyEX wrote:
Very nice interview! Preferred it to the TL one.

insta ban!

DarkPlasmaBall

United States44910 Posts

June 16 2012 04:05 GMT

Wow, that interviewer's voice really is epic :D

Awesome interviews too!

Thanks for this!

EthanML

Northern Ireland55 Posts

June 16 2012 04:10 GMT

Everytime my Giant Bomb and Starcraft worlds crossover I freak out a little bit, but in a super awesome way.

0neder

United States3733 Posts

June 16 2012 04:15 GMT

On June 16 2012 13:03 Waxangel wrote:

Show nested quote +

insta ban!

I haven't seen either one yet, Wax, but your response made me LOLIRL!

Pokebunny

United States10654 Posts

June 16 2012 04:16 GMT

halfway done =o really good so far!!! :D

a176

Canada6688 Posts

June 16 2012 04:16 GMT

#10

It seems like so many people got interviews. And it seems like they must have fielded a million questions about the carrier :D

Shield

Bulgaria4824 Posts

June 16 2012 04:34 GMT

#11

What bothers me is they don't say how to deal with 'Abduct'. They say the replicator was bad because it was ruining unit diversity and what not, but 'Abduct' is just destroying the much needed units in a protoss or terran army. It's causing a similar problem as replicants imho.

Suggestion: Abduct can't pull massive units. That's a good start imho.

Belha

Italy2850 Posts

June 16 2012 04:37 GMT

#12

Thx for posting those, i enjoyed a lot both interviews.

enemy2010

Germany1972 Posts

June 16 2012 04:40 GMT

#13

Looks like a "Who can speak the fastest"-contest

Anyways, watching it right now. Hopefully, Dustin comes up with some better answers than in the TL ones.

-Kyo-

Japan1926 Posts

June 16 2012 04:41 GMT

#14

It bugs me so much how Browder keeps saying the only reason they think the Carrier should stay is "because it's core and people think it's core to the race" but then they don't build it.

Yeah, no one builds it beacuse it's a god awful unit until you have 25 of them. Why remove it when you have not even tried to balance it. Doesn't make sense to me.

No one uses BC's, but when they do they're actually filling a role they should be. Though for protoss, the VR + storm are much more efficient than a carrier. That is sort of a problem in my mind ><

Good interview~! thanks!

Roe

Canada6002 Posts

June 16 2012 04:56 GMT

#15

I still don't get why they can't just increase carrier range to 22 and dull the damage. Dustin Browder said he can just go to his desk and in 5 minutes change the range of the tempest to something lower, so why not do that to the carrier?

HeroMystic

United States1217 Posts

June 16 2012 05:06 GMT

#16

I'm glad the Infestor/Viper combo was questioned, but I'm really surprised DK finds the NP+Abduct combo to be fine.

Overall, great interview and solid questions.

CounterOrder

Canada457 Posts

June 16 2012 05:16 GMT

#17

Good interview, good questions.

Vindicare605

United States16092 Posts

June 16 2012 05:23 GMT

#18

Odd. He mentions at the end there that Entomb doesn't give an alert.

It did at the HOTS demo at MLG. Wonder if they've already finalized that decision. IMO, entomb would be too good if it didn't have that alert attached to it.

0neder

United States3733 Posts

June 16 2012 05:32 GMT

#19

On June 16 2012 14:23 Vindicare605 wrote:
Odd. He mentions at the end there that Entomb doesn't give an alert.

It did at the HOTS demo at MLG. Wonder if they've already finalized that decision. IMO, entomb would be too good if it didn't have that alert attached to it.

How easy does SC2 have to be? Let bronze league have their fun (i'm silver btw). Make it fun to WATCH.

dgwow

Canada1024 Posts

June 16 2012 05:47 GMT

#20

Wow really good interview indeed! Only thing I didn't like that was said was about introducing attack-move units into the game. High skill cap units = fun to watch and play.