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Loccstana
Profile Blog Joined November 2012
United States833 Posts
January 23 2014 18:52 GMT
#101
Terrible patch changes. Tempest patch change means another retarded Protoss cheese lol. Hydra buff only makes zerg 2-3 base timing stronger. Ghost "buff" is actually pretty useless since it doesnt change the fact they are fucking expensive and are terrible against any nonpsionic unit. Mothershipcore: why not just decrease photon overchange by 1 sec, it is the same effect.

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yawnoC
Profile Joined December 2010
United States3704 Posts
January 23 2014 18:52 GMT
#102
I wonder what would happen if they made blink similar to colossus cliff walking where they couldn't blink up ledges that were 2 levels.

Overall I like the proposed changes its just depends on how they play out.
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figq
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
12519 Posts
January 23 2014 18:53 GMT
#103
Hydra buffs are a trap - so you make lots of hydras and only then remember they can't become lurkers.
If you stand next to my head, you can hear the ocean. - Day[9]
NEEDZMOAR
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
Sweden1277 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-23 19:04:41
January 23 2014 18:53 GMT
#104
A Passive Tempest ability that allows them to deal 2-3 times more damage vs. Structures

Tempests attack far too slow for this to make much of a difference, and that still doesn't make the game any less boring or exciting.


To be fair, not everybody consider the turtle styles to be boring to watch/play.


diversity is good :D.

I have a feeling 25 gas hydras might be way too good.
The more I think about it , 25 gas hydras would probably be incredibly broken...but oh so fun!

Im welcoming the PvT changes, dont know if its enough but at least the suggestions show that theyre talking about implementing changes.
Micro_Jackson
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany2002 Posts
January 23 2014 18:54 GMT
#105
Well at least the changes made me laugh.

You can still cast 2 Timewarp at once, nothing against blink allins, no nerf to P stargate.

The Hydra buff is just a troll.
stuchiu
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Fiddler's Green42661 Posts
January 23 2014 18:54 GMT
#106
How could you all start without me? Buff 10 pool.

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Damngood
Profile Joined April 2013
16 Posts
January 23 2014 18:55 GMT
#107
Nothing in this list comes close to even being relevant to balancing tvp except the msc overcharge time which isnt decreased enough to help anything significantly and also the range at which its activated or its range is not nerfed. So..... with all this that has nothing to help this mu he turns around and randomly buffs tempest? No wonder this game is dying and the race distribution percentages in gm worldwide are screwed. And no dont touch oracles at all...

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BillGates
Profile Blog Joined April 2013
471 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-23 18:57:08
January 23 2014 18:56 GMT
#108
Don't like any of the changes and I usually like Blizzard's small changes that they do. This round of balance changes I feel is inappropriate and doesn't really address any of the key issues.

But my beef is bigger and with the overall game design that won't change until LotV and even then its questionable how many changes will Blizzard make?

Like I really, really don't like the colossus and imortal shields. I think the Colossus should be removed from the game, possibly being replaced with the reaver and then removing imortal shields, but possibly making it cost less, so that Terran mech can actually be viable.

The reason terran mech in not viable in TvP is because of Collosus and immortal, these two deal so efficiently and easily with mech.

Remove the absurd roach from the game as well, its just a really WC3 type unit that has a ton of HP to basically soak up damage and zerg shouldn't be like that, they have many small and cheap units that try and overwhelm you or use in addition of certain abilities to turn the tide of the battle, not on massing and A-Moving roaches across the map.

As far as terran goes remove the marauder and bring back the old battlecruiser that did 20 damage per shot, rather than the current one that shoots candy, its like it doesn't do any damage at all.
Lorch
Profile Joined June 2011
Germany3703 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-23 18:57:13
January 23 2014 18:56 GMT
#109
So I guess this confirms that they are indeed spinning a buff wheel. First oracle, then roach, now it's hydra.

However, the funniest part of this is that their fix for swarmhost/gglord static d turtle is to make tempest anti building? I love how they continue to do really wierd shit to make their game work rather than address the issues themselves.

The best part about this is the fact that it's only a test map.
StutteR
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States1903 Posts
January 23 2014 18:56 GMT
#110
Decrease PO length, give it a buff versus shields. Maybe AOE dmg to shields
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goody153
Profile Blog Joined April 2013
44282 Posts
January 23 2014 18:56 GMT
#111
No poll ? I'll make a poll about every change.
this is a quote
KatatoniK
Profile Blog Joined October 2013
United Kingdom978 Posts
January 23 2014 18:57 GMT
#112
What did I just read? Some of these propositions are crazy, not sure what Dayvie is smoking but I'd like some.

Time Warp energy increase still doesn't fix Blink problems, vision reduction would. Yes Time Warp helps but that vision helps more.

Hydralisk cost reduction? No just no, I hate PvZ as it is without cheaper hydras. I can't comment on ZvZ and ZvT but this will just murder PvZ.

That Tempest change, even as a Toss I hate that. If SH are the problem why make Skytoss more disgusting than it already is for PvP and PvT. Just change the SH already.
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BlueLanterna
Profile Joined April 2011
291 Posts
January 23 2014 18:57 GMT
#113
I'm actually sitting here laughing at how badly these changes missed the mark, it's kind of sad that Blizzard pays people to come up with these because I have no idea what any of these changes are supposed to actually do to make the game better.
Cheren
Profile Blog Joined September 2013
United States2911 Posts
January 23 2014 18:57 GMT
#114
Poll: Photon Overcharge duration decreased from 60 to 50

Doesn't go far enough (745)
 
62%

Good change (320)
 
27%

Goes too far (130)
 
11%

1195 total votes

Your vote: Photon Overcharge duration decreased from 60 to 50

(Vote): Goes too far
(Vote): Good change
(Vote): Doesn't go far enough



Poll: Time Warp energy cost increased from 75 to 100

Good change (777)
 
70%

Doesn't go far enough (177)
 
16%

Goes too far (160)
 
14%

1114 total votes

Your vote: Time Warp energy cost increased from 75 to 100

(Vote): Goes too far
(Vote): Good change
(Vote): Doesn't go far enough



Poll: Ghosts build with the energy upgrade built in

Good change (753)
 
68%

Goes too far (280)
 
25%

Doesn't go far enough (67)
 
6%

1100 total votes

Your vote: Ghosts build with the energy upgrade built in

(Vote): Goes too far
(Vote): Good change
(Vote): Doesn't go far enough



Poll: Hydralisk cost decreased from 100/50 to 100/25

Goes too far (740)
 
60%

Good change (465)
 
38%

Doesn't go far enough (27)
 
2%

1232 total votes

Your vote: Hydralisk cost decreased from 100/50 to 100/25

(Vote): Goes too far
(Vote): Good change
(Vote): Doesn't go far enough



Poll: A Passive Tempest ability for bonus damage to structures

Goes too far (729)
 
68%

Good change (285)
 
27%

Doesn't go far enough (51)
 
5%

1065 total votes

Your vote: A Passive Tempest ability for bonus damage to structures

(Vote): Goes too far
(Vote): Good change
(Vote): Doesn't go far enough

aZealot
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
New Zealand5447 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-23 18:59:39
January 23 2014 18:57 GMT
#115
Oh well, I suppose a patch was inevitable. I do hope that this will be the last one for a long while.

Leave PO as is. I don't see the gain between 60 seconds and 50 seconds. Almost as if they are bowing to the pressure of doing something about the PO even if they realise a whole slew of PvP HOTS builds are reliant on it.

Better to reduce the MSC vision range a little.

Ghost buff. No, thank you. Please don't remove yet more upgrades from the game. Nerf P a little first. Then look again.

Time Warp enery nerf. This is good. I think it will prevent a full energy MSC from putting out 3 TW one ofter the other. I've never liked the spell, and I'd also like to see it affect friendly units too. So that it is a true defensive spell.

Hydra? I don't like this change nor the reasons for it. It smells like Blizzard once again wanting to dictate the meta. Fuck off.

The Tempest change is huge. With a lot of unintended consequences possible for all match-ups. I think this should not go through. And I'd prefer Blizzard wait for a while (at least 3 months) before choosing to "fix" late game turtle Z. If the style does become the standard full on Z meta then let P players have a go at finding a solution. If we can't, a change to SH is better, I think, than buffing the Tempest like that. It sounds a cool change. But it is complicated and will be complicated.
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ZenithM
Profile Joined February 2011
France15952 Posts
January 23 2014 18:57 GMT
#116
On January 24 2014 03:41 ffadicted wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 24 2014 03:40 sitromit wrote:
On January 24 2014 03:34 DinoMight wrote:
On January 24 2014 03:33 sitromit wrote:
I thought it was universally accepted that Hydraliks are too expensive for what they are, and now they propose making them a bit cheaper, and everyone's up in arms?


Make them require less minerals then. But 25 gas is wayyyy too little. You can basically support 14 hydras at a time off 2 bases. Which is game breaking in PvZ because every single Protoss will have to rush AOE.

It's not game breaking at all. No one ever meant minerals when they said "Hydralisks cost too much". They still need 300 gas worth of upgrades to do anything in the 1st place. Hydralisks are too expensive, 25 gas is a change that's long overdue. It should have been this way since WoL.


It's 100% game breaking in PvZ and it will never go through tbh. This will be worse than infestor buff, worse than queen buff, a gazillion times worse than oracle buff that's such a popular QQ these days.

I think so too. It's quite absurd really. It's so absurd that I want to see it. :D
Skynx
Profile Blog Joined January 2013
Turkey7150 Posts
January 23 2014 18:58 GMT
#117
Photon Overcharge duration decreased from 60 to 50

I still think this is not the way to go, nerf at damage and adding bonus damage vs. shileds seems the best option to me.

Time Warp energy cost increased from 75 to 100

This won't help the situation, a nerf to % slow should be implemented such that running trough tw does not mean all your marines die, players with good decision making should be rewarded.

Ghosts build with the energy upgrade built in

Trying to make mech viable vs p is cute but I believe this will make scv pulls incredible hard to hold.

Hydralisk cost decreased from 100/50 to 100/25

Making roaches and Hydras cost same gas is just insane, protoss players will be forced to tech into colossus to hold mass hydra all-ins from 3 base.

A Passive Tempest ability that allows them to deal 2-3 times more damage vs. Structures (We’re not 100% set on the actual value yet.)

This is madness.


"When seagulls follow the troller, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea. Thank you very much" - King Cantona | STX 4 eva
404AlphaSquad
Profile Joined October 2011
839 Posts
January 23 2014 18:58 GMT
#118
On January 24 2014 03:52 BlueLanterna wrote:
I will absolutely not be playing HOTS anymore if these changes come out. Completely missing the direction of where things need to go, why they are making tempest even BETTER against terran is fucking retarded. Absolutely no meaningful terran buffs to help deal with TvP, still have to do M&M&M + ghost/viking as we have for 4 years, so boring. Like how the fuck are we even supposed to be using ghost mech when it's nearly impossible to even get to the point when you have enough resources to USE that army comp???? So tired of nearly every match I turn on in proleague being PvZ.

I'm sticking with starbow


Dont worry in LOTV we get other 2 units that wont help us to mech. We wont use it in our bio composition either. That will surely spice up tvp!

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Undead1993
Profile Joined January 2012
Germany17651 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-23 18:59:52
January 23 2014 18:59 GMT
#119
oh the gsl winratio zvp is 57% in favor of z? and noone is complaining about this matchup being protoss favored? let's buff hydras i guess. i really don't understand their thought process, it's just unnecessary and kind of extreme. the msc changes seem good and pretty much what pros wanted to see i think. ghost buff could be helpful during the current meta, we''ll see, not really sure how it will turn out for terran, some cool ghost timings could play a role in the game.
and finally the tempest change doesn't change anything about lategame pvz. seriously.
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-NegativeZero-
Profile Joined August 2011
United States2142 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-23 19:02:16
January 23 2014 18:59 GMT
#120
So people have been begging for hydra buffs for 3 years and now when it finally might happen, people still complain lol...

And this is coming from a protoss player. Sure it might suck for balance at first but that can be fixed; more importantly cheaper hydras should produce more interesting gameplay.
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