That's well into my bed time. :-/

Pity, I was thinking of watching a few of the showmatches. I didn't watch much of Artosis and Tasteless in the end, as tbh, their games were a little boring. Anyway, hope the showmatches are good games and you get some good views.

-Archangel-

Croatia7457 Posts

May 10 2014 09:07 GMT

#5823

On May 10 2014 17:58 aZealot wrote:

Show nested quote +

Well I am sure there are going to be VODs. BasetradeTV who are casting and streaming it, they make VODs of all the things they are part of.

As for Tasteless and Artosis, well both of them are fairly new to Starbow and they are trying their best to play it as Broodwar when Starbow is only inspired by Broodwar but not a replica. But it is a good opportunity for viewers to learn about Starbow together with two of them as they seem to discuss things they discover and units and strategies they try to use.

ANLProbe

667 Posts

May 10 2014 09:23 GMT

#5824

Why was the Marauder removed?

Xiphias

Norway2223 Posts

May 10 2014 09:25 GMT

#5825

Many reasons, but main reason I think was that they countered lurkers too well.

Also, they do not fit into the Starbow bio design principles.

404AlphaSquad

839 Posts

May 10 2014 10:00 GMT

#5826

Man it is so fun to watch Artosis and Tasteless play this. Although they dont know every detail of the game yet

goody153

44184 Posts

May 10 2014 10:02 GMT

#5827

On May 10 2014 19:00 404AlphaSquad wrote:
Man it is so fun to watch Artosis and Tasteless play this. Although they dont know every detail of the game yet

link please

404AlphaSquad

839 Posts

May 10 2014 10:05 GMT

#5828

http://beta.azubu.tv/Tasteless
http://beta.azubu.tv/artosis

goody153

44184 Posts

May 10 2014 10:11 GMT

#5829

ty yow

Superouman

France2195 Posts

May 10 2014 10:23 GMT

#5830

On May 10 2014 19:05 404AlphaSquad wrote:
http://beta.azubu.tv/Tasteless
http://beta.azubu.tv/artosis

The VODs are dead

404AlphaSquad

839 Posts

May 10 2014 10:30 GMT

#5831

http://beta.azubu.tv/artosis#!/play/1705/artosis-vs-tasteless---starbow-edition! there you can watch them play a few games

WombaT

Northern Ireland25634 Posts

May 10 2014 13:48 GMT

#5832

Sick, will have to check those VoDs out, sync each of them up and sit back with a beer

Apologies for my inactivity of late in here, being a fan of the mod but being too busy to really commit to growing it is frustrating. Speaking of that, are most Starbow fans a bit older on average/having BW experiences or is it attracting disillusioned SC2 fans too?

tehredbanditt

103 Posts

May 10 2014 13:57 GMT

#5833

On May 10 2014 22:48 Wombat_NI wrote:
Sick, will have to check those VoDs out, sync each of them up and sit back with a beer

Apologies for my inactivity of late in here, being a fan of the mod but being too busy to really commit to growing it is frustrating. Speaking of that, are most Starbow fans a bit older on average/having BW experiences or is it attracting disillusioned SC2 fans too?

I'd say it's a little of both. The top 5 players or so that I have seen play have at least a little BW experience. I know that the top three finishers from the last event were pretty regular BW players at one point or another.

Xiphias

Norway2223 Posts

May 10 2014 14:07 GMT

#5834

Showmatches are live!

http://www.twitch.tv/basetradetv

-Archangel-

Croatia7457 Posts

May 10 2014 18:52 GMT

#5835

Great time!! Lots of fun!!

-Archangel-

Croatia7457 Posts

May 11 2014 10:00 GMT

#5836

So was Franscar nervous or is this the real showing of difference in skill?
I though he did good, but I was hoping he would take a game :D

Sikian

Spain177 Posts

May 11 2014 10:35 GMT

#5837

Has anyone been able to find VODs of the invitational?

404AlphaSquad

839 Posts

May 11 2014 11:12 GMT

#5838

I cant speak for him, but there was too high of a skill difference imo.

Xiphias

Norway2223 Posts

May 13 2014 20:18 GMT

#5839

Patch for 13th of May

Protoss:

Zealot leg speed research time increased from 87 to 100
Stalkers range reduced from 5 to 4.
Disruption web area reduced from 2.1 to 1.8
Carriers gained +1 range.

Terran:

Reaper passive heal regeneration decreased from 2.0 to 1.5
Ghost movement speed increased to 2.5
Shock projectile starting speed increased from 0 to 4
Shock affects friendly units.
Matrix ability for medics energy cost reduced to from 50 to 35.
Matrix ability research time reduced from 166 sec to 88 sec.
Scan radius reduced from 11 to 10 (back to BW value, we had the wrong value).

Zerg:

Spine crawlers now makes a tight wall.
Tunnel research time for roaches reduced from 146 to 80.

Bugs

Production tab icons fixed for parasitic domination and scout speed upgarde.
Some tooltips fixed.

We are trying to make the ghost more useful, especially early game TvP without making bio too strong in TvZ. Please try out the ghost more now and let us know how it fairs.

Carrier range is just a pathetic compensation for micro not being as good as they were in BroodWar. We might play around with some acceleration values to make them more interesting to micro and having them always be mobile a positive thing.

Stalker range nerf is to further define them as a harassment unit and not a combat unit. Reaper regen nerf might help TvT to have more dynamic openings, or it may do nothing.

Matrix buff on medics is to compensate for lost hp with the removal of the marauder. This should add more hp to the bio in a more interesting and dynamic way.

The future

This patch was mostly devoted to Terran and Protoss. We are looking at some zerg units at the moment. Especially the baneling and the roach. We've changed the roach tunnel research time and that might be enough. We have some ideas for the baneling that we are currently testing and we'll get a testmap up as soon as we are satisfied with an initial concept.

Huge thanks to decemberscalm for doing 99% of all the work in the editor.