EPTThanks to slasher for sending me an embed link.
Summary:
-Zerg at a pretty good spot with the new units
-Burrow charge seems to overlap with viper and swarm host role
-Psionic units immune to infester fungal test map. so a good buff to ghosts and HT vs infester.
-Fungal projactile so it takes more skill to use.
-Protoss seems very good, Oracle might have minor number changes
-Tempests very good in, sometime too good in TvP.
-Widow mine useless when you know how to counter them.
-Mech still doesn't work vs toss.
-Hellbat buff
-Raven HSM too far out and some other unit redesigns before holidays.
The problem I have is with his race distribution justifications.
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Here is the translation for HOTS and the infester.Full translation credit to weirdkid
Q:Who do you want to win the tournament?
All the players who made it to BWC are all heroes. To me, there's no such thing as a best player. They're all amazing. I just wish to enjoy the best and most balanced competition, without any problems regarding the balance.
How many times have you been to China? What's your impression of Shanghai?
This is my first time in China. I feel that Shanghai is really beautiful, really clean. It's orderly, and very modern.
Q:What strategies do you personally like to use?
I play random, and I can use any of the races. I know almost all the strategies for the races, as well as the various types of all-ins and cheeses.
I'm really good in the first 10-15 minutes, about as good as professionals even. But as the game draws longer, I become weaker and weaker, especially when it comes to a situation with 200/200 supply, my play is just.......
Q:Do you know that the Chinese players call you the marauder? [T/N: Because the marauder is bald, and he is bald, and their heads are pretty similarly shaped I guess]
(Much laughter) Oh, no no no, don't do that. When we look at Terran, we hope to look at it as a whole, and not just at a specific unit type. Balancing has to be done with the overall picture in mind.
As for the marauder, I feel that he is really strong, and is a compulsory unit in TvT and TvP. But he has his weaknesses too, like being unable to shoot air.
No matter what, I will still listen to your opinions, and examine the marauder carefully.
[T/N: Afterwards, Dustin Browder finally understood that he was called the marauder because he looked similar to a marauder, and he laughed even more about it.]
Q: You said the new units in HOTS are pretty good now, and you are going to make some change to some old units. Do you have any plans about changing the units in WOL? I'm more interested about the raven, void ray, carrier, and especially the infestor.
For now, I can't promise what is going to be changed. In the following weeks, we'll be taking a new look at the current existing units, whether we'll be doing some tweaks to some numbers or to overhaul and redesign the unit.
As for the units in WOL, I'll raise some examples. First example would be the hunter seeker missile of the raven. I'm still considering if I should tweak it or whether I should redesign it.
A second example would be the Thor's 250mm Cannons. Very few players use it currently, and so, HOTS is a good chance for us, and we may redesign it to make more players use 250mm cannon.
For the void ray, do you mean it's too weak? But before we made the previous change many people were complaining that it was very strong. I really want to make some crazy changes to the void ray, but we still don't know yet. We'll be doing some tests before Christmas.
Personally, I'm looking forward to a complete overhaul. That's why I'll be encouraging the Starcraft 2 team to make a few revolutionary changes to increase the diversity of our strategies.
Q: You seem to have forgotten the infestor (laughs)
Oh, I forgot. But never mind, I'll tell you.
Infestors. We are going to make a balance test map and put it on WOL servers, where psionic units would be immune to neural parasite. And on HOTS beta servers, we'll add a projectile animation back to Fungal Growth, just like in patch 1.3 PTR.
Note: Psionic units include the mothership, high templar, ghost, infestor, queen, and archon. Therefore, MC's complaint about the mothership being neural parasited would be solved... At this stage, one of the reporters quietly added "MC, you won..."
Question by Mike Morhaime: What about infested terrans?
That's really troublesome, and really hard to balance. We'll have to think about it somemore.
Q: Will the Starcraft 2 tournaments in 2013 be using HOTS or WOL?
That will be decided by the tournament. If they still want to use WOL it'll still be fine, so it'll be completely be up to the tournament organisers.
All the players who made it to BWC are all heroes. To me, there's no such thing as a best player. They're all amazing. I just wish to enjoy the best and most balanced competition, without any problems regarding the balance.
How many times have you been to China? What's your impression of Shanghai?
This is my first time in China. I feel that Shanghai is really beautiful, really clean. It's orderly, and very modern.
Q:What strategies do you personally like to use?
I play random, and I can use any of the races. I know almost all the strategies for the races, as well as the various types of all-ins and cheeses.
I'm really good in the first 10-15 minutes, about as good as professionals even. But as the game draws longer, I become weaker and weaker, especially when it comes to a situation with 200/200 supply, my play is just.......
Q:Do you know that the Chinese players call you the marauder? [T/N: Because the marauder is bald, and he is bald, and their heads are pretty similarly shaped I guess]
(Much laughter) Oh, no no no, don't do that. When we look at Terran, we hope to look at it as a whole, and not just at a specific unit type. Balancing has to be done with the overall picture in mind.
As for the marauder, I feel that he is really strong, and is a compulsory unit in TvT and TvP. But he has his weaknesses too, like being unable to shoot air.
No matter what, I will still listen to your opinions, and examine the marauder carefully.
[T/N: Afterwards, Dustin Browder finally understood that he was called the marauder because he looked similar to a marauder, and he laughed even more about it.]
Q: You said the new units in HOTS are pretty good now, and you are going to make some change to some old units. Do you have any plans about changing the units in WOL? I'm more interested about the raven, void ray, carrier, and especially the infestor.
For now, I can't promise what is going to be changed. In the following weeks, we'll be taking a new look at the current existing units, whether we'll be doing some tweaks to some numbers or to overhaul and redesign the unit.
As for the units in WOL, I'll raise some examples. First example would be the hunter seeker missile of the raven. I'm still considering if I should tweak it or whether I should redesign it.
A second example would be the Thor's 250mm Cannons. Very few players use it currently, and so, HOTS is a good chance for us, and we may redesign it to make more players use 250mm cannon.
For the void ray, do you mean it's too weak? But before we made the previous change many people were complaining that it was very strong. I really want to make some crazy changes to the void ray, but we still don't know yet. We'll be doing some tests before Christmas.
Personally, I'm looking forward to a complete overhaul. That's why I'll be encouraging the Starcraft 2 team to make a few revolutionary changes to increase the diversity of our strategies.
Q: You seem to have forgotten the infestor (laughs)
Oh, I forgot. But never mind, I'll tell you.
Infestors. We are going to make a balance test map and put it on WOL servers, where psionic units would be immune to neural parasite. And on HOTS beta servers, we'll add a projectile animation back to Fungal Growth, just like in patch 1.3 PTR.
Note: Psionic units include the mothership, high templar, ghost, infestor, queen, and archon. Therefore, MC's complaint about the mothership being neural parasited would be solved... At this stage, one of the reporters quietly added "MC, you won..."
Question by Mike Morhaime: What about infested terrans?
That's really troublesome, and really hard to balance. We'll have to think about it somemore.
Q: Will the Starcraft 2 tournaments in 2013 be using HOTS or WOL?
That will be decided by the tournament. If they still want to use WOL it'll still be fine, so it'll be completely be up to the tournament organisers.
