[July] SC2 General Discussion - Page 3

On July 16 2012 17:11 tsango wrote:



Without any hard evidence to support it, I've always felt as though console FPS's had the worst BM mainly because of the demographic they attract. I have certainly seen some pretty serious DOTA BM's/Rages though

On July 21 2012 02:02 Vindicare605 wrote:


Correct.

The community doesn't usually attach more prestige to different seasons, although most of us consider recent championships more relevant than older ones when comparing the skill level of current players.

But like I said before, once a Code S champion, always a Code S champion. There are multiple GSL winners in 1 year the same with every major tournament event.

It helps just for conversation purposes to know which GSL season a player won their title, but it isn't really all that important. The achievement is such a huge accomplishment that the title of champ or former champ follows the players wherever they go.

Hi. Does anyone know where to start looking if I want a replay pack from a pro protoss? Replays from the last month would be preferable.

I'm planning on doing some research, but I havn't really ever downloaded replays before, so I wouldn't know where to start looking. Any advise? And if a protoss pro recently released a replay pack, I would be immensely grateful to take a look at them.

Hoping someone can point me in the right direction

On July 16 2012 23:27 Andr3 wrote:
Something like this has been purposed in the past but not discussed enough I think.

Basically I'd like fungal to be changed so that it requires more micro from the zerg and his enemy.
Here's a video of a fungal being a missile + Show Spoiler + ( not my video)
Note that in the video, where the fungal is targetted the missile will explode, in essence it can actually pass marines. I would change this missile to hit on impact. This would first, make zerg aim the fungals and second his enemy would have to dodge. The speed of the missile could be changed, I think it's quite alright in the video shown.

Imagine MKP invididually sending his marines to block the fungals from hitting all of his marines, while moving the bulk of the army away from the infestors..would be glorious. Evenly for the zerg as he would have to predict where the enemy is moving and try to hit in such a way that most of the units are hit by fungal.

I don't see many flaws in this change, you can argue that it's a nerf, which it is but it can be neglected by player's skill.
It would add an interesting dynamic of aiming/dodging, rearranging armies to block fungals etc.

The only negative I can think of it is that is too similiar to EMP, and this is quite big I think because we want races to be different.

So my next purposal would be to maybe make Fungal like a delayed aoe-spell. Like green moss would sprout from the ground and then after X seconds( 0,5 perhaps?), the FG goes into effect. This could be interesting as well, zerg would force the enemy into moving, the fungals wouldn't neccessarily even have to hit as forcing the enemy into unfavorable positions could be better for flanks.

Also I'd like to make EMP a bit slower so as to add more in-battle micro/reaction based moves.

I don't really think FG or EMP or anything else is imba, but I think they should require more skill to use and give the enemy to react(which has been mentioned a million times i know).

Any thoughts? Would Blizzard add something like this? Why wouldn't they? Is it changing the gameplay too much? Is it too "arcade-ish" and not enough RTS-ish?

Any comments would be welcome.

On July 24 2012 11:21 mysteriousbox wrote:
Anyone want to take bets on how long until there's a big shake up in the EG team? Nothing against anyone on the team but their results have been nothing short of awful for the last couple of months. Add that Huk and Idra have clearly regressed and there's no one else ready to step up (demuslim hasn't really panned out as hyped)... I'm giving it another 2 months before there's a big shake up and iNcontrol is shown the door as captain/coach.

Any takers?