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Situation Report: August 31, 2012 by David Kim - Page 3

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Instigata
Profile Joined April 2004
United States546 Posts
August 31 2012 16:26 GMT
#41
Wonder why not let the meta game work itself out before reaper, tank, barracks, hellion, ghost nerf. Although, it's pretty cool to be able to play a race that only real men (Thorzain) and Koreans can win with.
SC2 was doomed from the start.
TheDwf
Profile Joined November 2011
France19747 Posts
August 31 2012 16:27 GMT
#42
On September 01 2012 01:24 TechNoTrance wrote:
People whine when blizz makes changes too quickly without enough testing. People whine when blizz is patient and careful about making changes with a fair amount of testing.

Standard.

People complain when Blizzard makes stupid and unnecessary changes to a good match-up. People complain when Blizzard refuses to adress the various problems created by said changes.

Fixed.
Charger
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States2405 Posts
August 31 2012 16:27 GMT
#43
On September 01 2012 01:17 Zelniq wrote:
Show nested quote +
We feel that at this time, we should give players more opportunities to fully explore the slowly-shifting meta-game before we change the balance of the game.

Wish they just did this all the time.. players, most of the time will figure out ways to deal with any problems and on some occasions Blizzard should have just waited longer before making changes


This, exactly.

All I ask is for some consistency, really. I would prefer the wait for players to figure things out approach but if you are going to throw buffs and nerfs around then you might as well keep that going. Pick a lane and stick with it.
It's easy to be a Monday morning quarterback.
Frex
Profile Joined March 2012
Finland888 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-31 16:30:04
August 31 2012 16:28 GMT
#44
First I play 10 ladder games, meet 1 terran who actually was just losing games on purpose then I read this.

I understand that their view when they see terran somewhat adapting to the situation, however, for a average terran like me I can see clearly the lack of terrans on ladder each time I play. On ladder my opponents are 20% T / 40% P / 40% Z according to Sc2gears.

I understand that Kas and MVP makes it look easy, however, for majority of terrans it's a struggle.

And last but not least it's great to see that David Kim sees that Raven has potential. Since that's the only word to describe Raven, a unit with a lot of potential and that's it.
Incomplet
Profile Blog Joined September 2011
United Kingdom1419 Posts
August 31 2012 16:29 GMT
#45
LOL nice one MVP. <3

Bow down to the sons of Aiur...SKT1_Rain, CreatorPrime, ST_Parting, Liquid_Hero.
IshinShishi
Profile Joined April 2012
Japan6156 Posts
August 31 2012 16:29 GMT
#46
It's okay, all you need to do is constantly harass 2 locations while keeping your money low and pushing the creep back, that is if you get to play in a huge map such as metropolis or atlantis and get away with greed! It's a revolutionary change in the meta game, ehehehehe, freaking MVP beating 2nd/3rd tier zergs with ravens, ehehehe revolutionary indeed!!
On a second note, WHO didn't expect that? Terran being buffed?Ha, are you god damn mad?Better patch zerg again after virtually no PTR, because only terran makes them feel like they should give more time for players "to fully explore the slowly-shifting meta-game"
So... what that make you? Good? You're not good. You just know how to hide, how to lie
the_business_og
Profile Joined April 2012
United States167 Posts
August 31 2012 16:29 GMT
#47
david kim literally has to be the worst person for the job... the one time wol gets balanced he buffs queens for literaly no reason and now has no balls to say they were wrong...
shanti
MegaFonzie
Profile Joined April 2011
Australia1084 Posts
August 31 2012 16:30 GMT
#48
I am totally stoked to hear them say that they want to be very patient and give the meta game a chance to shift before patching, it's how it should be. I can understand terrans feeling hard done by because this obviously hasn't been their M.O for a lot of past changes, but I think it's a step in the right direction now
@x5_MegaFonzie
Plansix
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States60190 Posts
August 31 2012 16:30 GMT
#49
On September 01 2012 01:27 TheDwf wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 01 2012 01:24 TechNoTrance wrote:
People whine when blizz makes changes too quickly without enough testing. People whine when blizz is patient and careful about making changes with a fair amount of testing.

Standard.

People complain when Blizzard makes stupid and unnecessary changes to a good match-up. People complain when Blizzard refuses to adress the various problems created by said changes.

Fixed.


I dont agree with the TvZ was a great match up prior to the +2 queen range. I have a problem with a opening that was used on every map, every time. The only question was, "how many hellions will they build". But I guess it was nice for terrans to only have to know one build for the whole match up.
I have the Honor to be your Obedient Servant, P.6
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Little-Chimp
Profile Joined February 2008
Canada949 Posts
August 31 2012 16:31 GMT
#50
Thanks a lot Fantasy, Flash, Taeja, MVP.

MCDayC
Profile Joined March 2011
United Kingdom14464 Posts
August 31 2012 16:31 GMT
#51
I kinda wish they would put the raven buff in, just because ravens are cool, but aside from that, a policy of watch and wait imo is a good one.
VERY FRAGILE, LIKE A BABY PANDA EGG
Aquila-
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
516 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-31 16:35:01
August 31 2012 16:32 GMT
#52
I dont understand why they are fooling around such a long time about just the minor buff of giving the ravens a slightly higher speed, not like this would change the winrates at all but making it a bit easier to use ravens that already need a lot of time and money to get going. They nerfed so many major things without even a PTR that had a significant impact on the balance, but now when it comes to such a minor improvement they need to think about it for months?
Also: Comments are disabled, lol.
Warpath
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada1242 Posts
August 31 2012 16:33 GMT
#53
Its too bad they didn't do this with the queen change.
Either way, this change would need to happen all over again if zerg players learned not to clump their air units, but i still see motherships winning games in ZvP, so maybe were safe anyway?
TechNoTrance
Profile Joined May 2012
Canada1007 Posts
August 31 2012 16:33 GMT
#54
On September 01 2012 01:27 TheDwf wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 01 2012 01:24 TechNoTrance wrote:
People whine when blizz makes changes too quickly without enough testing. People whine when blizz is patient and careful about making changes with a fair amount of testing.

Standard.

People complain when Blizzard makes stupid and unnecessary changes to a good match-up. People complain when Blizzard refuses to adress the various problems created by said changes.

Fixed.


So much bias in one post. Thanks for proving my point.
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
Vete
Profile Joined May 2012
Germany190 Posts
August 31 2012 16:34 GMT
#55
In my Opinion they do a marketing trick . At the beginning of sc2 terra was in advantage and I guess they want to do that
with Zerg. The queen range + Show Spoiler +
( on +5Range maybe 4.5/4 would be enough
) was an Overstating+ Show Spoiler +
(yes it was necessary but not in this extend)
.

I think they will change the position with Terran in Hots ( Zergs dominate).After some months zergs wonder why they only get nerfs and terrans get buff. finally Hots Toss will get a good buff and will dominate ( the same things with this Addon then) ect.

it is most likly crap what I wrote but it could be a possibility to explain the strong buffs for Zerg.

Teoita
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Italy12247 Posts
August 31 2012 16:34 GMT
#56
How about you all shut the fuck up and stop whining. All they said is "let's wait some more", not NO TERRAN BUFFS EVER FU ALL.

Besides if we go by tournament results, one could also point out that Terran will be the most represented race in Code S for example...
ModeratorProtoss all-ins are like a wok. You can throw whatever you want in there and it will turn out alright.
CaptainCrush
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States785 Posts
August 31 2012 16:34 GMT
#57
On September 01 2012 01:32 Aquila- wrote:
I dont understand why they are fooling around such a long time about just the minor buff of giving the ravens a slightly higher speed, not like this would change the winrates at all but making it a bit easier to use ravens that already need a lot of time and money to get going. They nerfed so many major things without even a PTR that had a significant impact on the balance, but now when it comes to such a minor improvement they need to think about it for months?


This, exactly

I have lost all faith in David and Dustin...
oxxo
Profile Joined February 2010
988 Posts
August 31 2012 16:35 GMT
#58
They should've been doing this before. Like the queen buff. Or observing how map changes affected balance. Or countless other cases.

It's good they're doing this now... but drawing conclusings from Mvp winning games vs foreigners that are obviously far inferior players is pretty silly.
TheDwf
Profile Joined November 2011
France19747 Posts
August 31 2012 16:39 GMT
#59
On September 01 2012 01:30 Plansix wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 01 2012 01:27 TheDwf wrote:
On September 01 2012 01:24 TechNoTrance wrote:
People whine when blizz makes changes too quickly without enough testing. People whine when blizz is patient and careful about making changes with a fair amount of testing.

Standard.

People complain when Blizzard makes stupid and unnecessary changes to a good match-up. People complain when Blizzard refuses to adress the various problems created by said changes.

Fixed.


I dont agree with the TvZ was a great match up prior to the +2 queen range. I have a problem with a opening that was used on every map, every time. The only question was, "how many hellions will they build". But I guess it was nice for terrans to only have to know one build for the whole match up.

I hope you realize how ironic this statement is when talking about Zerg. And regardless of your opinion about pre-Queen buff TvZ, it was widely recognized at the most successful match-up in SC2. Now a lot of people compare it to ZvP... which unfortunately says a lot.
IshinShishi
Profile Joined April 2012
Japan6156 Posts
August 31 2012 16:39 GMT
#60
On September 01 2012 01:24 TechNoTrance wrote:
People whine when blizz makes changes too quickly without enough testing. People whine when blizz is patient and careful about making changes with a fair amount of testing.

Standard.

Except they had more than enough time for testing and their evaluation of IEM's games is atrocious at best, I watched every IEM replay involving MVP, his builds were extremely well thought-out, down to the T, his opponents were simply put subpar zergs, much much worse players than MVP, yet all that DKim could take from that is "game is fine, mvp wins, you see?"Why no PTR for a zerg buff that the majority DISAGREES with and when it comes to terran even when the majority AGREES with the change, it doesn't go through? It's laughable, queen range wasn't welcome, raven change was, blizzard doesn't care, probably thinking of new variations of destructible rocks.
So... what that make you? Good? You're not good. You just know how to hide, how to lie
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