1 less range = easier to snipe with colossus while they are doing the fungal and run fungal and run thing. Now when the guy goes in with infestors he probably wont escape with them unless he wins fight easily. I almost want to start playing sc2 again.... Maybe one more big change for pvz matchup will get me playing.

kju

6143 Posts

December 04 2012 18:25 GMT

#25

range reduction is the best part about the patch, should be a little bit easier to counter infestors now

nkr

Sweden5451 Posts

December 04 2012 18:25 GMT

#26

so this is only for WoL and not for HotS beta? Makes little sense to me :s

Durp

Canada3117 Posts

December 04 2012 18:25 GMT

#27

I feel like fungals range change is going to be much more relevant in TvZ. Vikings now out range fungal, and though it's only by 1, it at least makes that vikings vs fungal dance potentially easier for Ts.

Also a huge fan of the seeker missile change.

bluegarfield

Singapore1128 Posts

December 04 2012 18:25 GMT

#28

1 range reduction is great. HT and ghost can feedback/EMP infestor easier without having way too much risk of being caught by fungal. 8 range is still dangerous enough to force careful unit control from both side

and IT egg 70 hp, 1 storm and gone. great for protoss player. and 2 tank shot after upgrade (someone mentioned earlier) will help T and P deal with mass spam much easier

holy_war

United States3590 Posts

December 04 2012 18:27 GMT

#29

On December 05 2012 03:25 nkr wrote:
so this is only for WoL and not for HotS beta? Makes little sense to me :s

Nerfing infestors makes little sense? What?

Edit: They've been doing a test map, of course it was expected for WoL.

cari-kira

Germany655 Posts

December 04 2012 18:27 GMT

#30

hm..
i'd liked to see neural parasite removed from psionic units, namely the mothership.
thats the worst gamebreaker..

nkr

Sweden5451 Posts

December 04 2012 18:28 GMT

#31

On December 05 2012 03:27 holy_war wrote:

Show nested quote +

Nerfing infestors makes little sense? What?

Reading comprehension: 0

Ben...

Canada3485 Posts

December 04 2012 18:28 GMT

#32

Any change that weakens fungal is a good change so I am happy. Now we can finally feedback without feeling like we are going to be sacrificing that unit no matter what in order to land said feedback.

Also, the 70 health thing actually makes sense. 80 health was pointless, it still required 2 storms because of regeneration.

Boucot

France15997 Posts

December 04 2012 18:30 GMT

#33

OK, my english is bad. I thought they had totally removed the HSM. I was like "What the hell ? A terran nerf ?". But no, it's fine. :p

DruidzHistory

Sweden231 Posts

December 04 2012 18:30 GMT

#34

wow!

Talionis

Scotland4085 Posts

December 04 2012 18:31 GMT

#35

Woah, these are very nice changes to fungal and IT eggs.

Doesn't make the infestor any less dull, but the changes make for some more interesting plays to be made against them.

m3rciless

United States1476 Posts

December 04 2012 18:32 GMT

#36

Would have preferred a more interesting change to infestors instead of a numbers tweak, but overall looks good. Hopefully we see some ravens in proleague.

phipsL

Germany189 Posts

December 04 2012 18:32 GMT

#37

well, even though i'm zerg i'd appreciate a big patch much more than these small changes. Only because every game i watch is the same and these changes won't help much for that.

ACrow

Germany6583 Posts

December 04 2012 18:32 GMT

#38

This is good news! While the infestor nerf might seem very small, remember that such small changes tend to have a larger impact in practice than on paper (plus Z might seem more OP than they actually are). I've faith that this will make the situation more bearable!

morlakaix

United States860 Posts

December 04 2012 18:33 GMT

#39

On December 05 2012 03:22 Striding Strider wrote:
While this is a change in the right direction, it doesn't make Infesters more fun to watch.

because the game is obviously about how things look to the spectator, rather than how it actually influences the way the game is played

unfortunately, some of us still play the game rather than watching 95% of the time

/facepalm

dala

Sweden477 Posts

December 04 2012 18:33 GMT

#40

Woot! This was not a day too late. Let's do some laddering now!!!