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Terran Buffs - Balance Testing Soon - July 1 - Page 6

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iHirO
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United Kingdom1381 Posts
July 01 2014 17:46 GMT
#101
Joke balance suggestion:

Change the Ghost cost to 250/150 and come with one free nuke (would probably need to let the Silo store more than one missile).

Terran late game would definitely be more 'interesting'.
GraphicsThis is for all you new people: I only have one rule. Everyone fights. No one quits. You don't do your job, I'll shoot you myself. You get me?
Cheeseling
Profile Joined March 2012
Ukraine132 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-07-01 17:47:42
July 01 2014 17:47 GMT
#102
They can make WM less powerful but cheap 1 supply unit. It will help Terran defend bases and zone out units.
CakeSauc3
Profile Joined February 2011
United States1437 Posts
July 01 2014 17:47 GMT
#103
On July 02 2014 02:42 Xinzoe wrote:
...... buffing unload speed makes doomdrops 500x easier. TvT will just be doomdrop vs doomdrop now. The widow mine buff is ok


I agree, doomdrops are already bad enough, would hate to see them with this change. I don't want base trades to be the norm in every matchup. We have enough coinflips in SC2 as it is.
Soke
Profile Joined September 2012
United States790 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-07-01 17:48:01
July 01 2014 17:47 GMT
#104
WM buff is pretty even, as it should help with those Anti-Mine hits as well, but still helping terram a bit, while the Medivac buff makes early pressure even more likely to flat out kill the opponent, and helps with doom drops and pressure in general. Terran does not need help early game, they have helbats in vZ, if there is any problem, it is lategame ! :D
Djsoke
Tenks
Profile Joined April 2010
United States3104 Posts
July 01 2014 17:48 GMT
#105
On July 02 2014 02:41 stuchiu wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 02 2014 02:40 Tenks wrote:
On July 02 2014 02:33 stuchiu wrote:
I'm going to be real here.

The best medivac play was done by MMA and Gumiho in WoL. Since then it has never improved. Each time they improve that unit it lowers the skill ceiling of dropping.


That is just outright false. Medivacs were fire and forget in WoL. You sent it to do it's thing and there was not much you could do to make it do it's job better. Make sure it isn't flying into a static defense and you're good. Now you have to cycle through all your drops making sure to use boost appropriately for the situation because the other races got goodies to deal with boosted medivacs. Dropping was easier in WoL it is harder in HOTS.


Making drops actually be worthwhile in WoL was harder than making them do something in HotS.

If you wanted to make a drop good in WoL. You needed to do three other attacks. You needed a tank siege in the front. Another drop on the opposite side of the map. And a third harassment force running through. The coordination of multi drops is harder than these run and gun spam boost drops HotS players use now.

The only players who still do that now are Polt, Maru, TY, and Supernova.


You still have to draw attention away or you are going to lose to drop for doing absolutely no damage. Unless you're playing someone very, very bad at the game. All these things are true still in the drop game but now you have to babysit drops far more than you had to babysit in WoL. Speed boost doesn't really change the initial drop. It'll get there a few seconds faster sure but it is mostly a retreat tool. And if you don't pick up and retreat with your medivac and have boost available you'll find you just dropped a ton of money down in the toilet.
Wat
darkscream
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Canada2310 Posts
July 01 2014 17:49 GMT
#106
silly davie

what terran needs is a reason to get to late game, not more stuff to end it before late game

what if BCs or ghosts were like, useful in all 3 matchups always, kinda like templar, vipers, broodlords, archons, etc are

_Epi_
Profile Joined February 2014
Germany158 Posts
July 01 2014 17:49 GMT
#107
Oh, well I posted my answer on already on the other thread, but I didnt see the discussion being here now.
I want to put my answer here, hopefully thats okay.
"Hey Mr. Kim,
I really like that the ballance team is looking into this. I also like the approach you are going with and try to bring more diversity to the game. I also fully agree to the changes you suggest (even without knowing any numbers), but I would also like to have a look into units which are absolutely not viable in either TvZ or TvP.

For instance the thor is pretty okay in terms of anti-air against muta balls or maybe also against some medium ground units, but for instant the impact anti air is pretty weak if you think about having the trouble to change the weapon (which also takes time). I would love to take a look into that to buff the damage output so Terran mech might be more viable against void rays and such.

Also tanks should be considered to get some kind of improvement. There was widely proposed to give the tank some additional damage against shield so it would be more viable in TvP.

Another Problem is the mutaball (which might be solved with the widow mine). The only thing which was able to do anything against mutas is a thor with some support (because if mutas are magic boxing even a thor is useless). It would be great to have some Air Unit which would be able to at least be added to the composition to deal with mutas effectively. Vikings (which I would prefer to take that role) and Battlecruisers, which you cant mass easily, cannot deal in any kind with mutalisks which leaves terran greatly behind.

Another suggestion was to increase the thor movement speed due to increasingly bigger maps which makes such units most of the time really useless to not being able to move fast enough (applies to the muta problem)

I think bio itself (also the medivac) is fine as it is, terran should get some more viable options to add to their army to be able to diverse their composition more.

TvT is in an awesome state currently where extremely great diversity is happening. But because of the fact that those units are really weak in terms of speed, health or unsmart damage output it is really hard to diverse from standard bio play.

I want to put this VOD here for an example for an awesome TvT where every unit with almost every ability was used (maybe even every ability) and how much fun it is to watch such a crazy game. I wish there was more possibility to have such options in the other matchups aswell (TvZ is somewhat okay, but zerg outspeeds terran in the lategame, but TvP it is just completely impossible to vary your composition).

VOD:


Kind Regards"
Extenz
Profile Joined October 2011
Italy822 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-07-01 17:59:23
July 01 2014 17:50 GMT
#108
medivac is one of the most balanced units in the game -_-
Axxis
Profile Joined May 2010
United States133 Posts
July 01 2014 17:51 GMT
#109
Medivacs are overall the strongest unit in the game. Terran complain about end game units but they are the only ones that can make a unit from the beginning of the game to the end and keep upgrading/supporting it. Super end game zealots and lings are bad. I mean we should give them an ultralisk or collossus type unit so they'll have an endgame unit. Then give zerglings a death spawn and zealots hardened shield.
What we obtain too cheaply; we esteem too lightly. It is in dearness only that gives everything it's value.
r691175002
Profile Joined October 2012
249 Posts
July 01 2014 17:51 GMT
#110
I voted yes, but after reading some posts and reconsidering my position I'd have to agree these changes seem fairly poor.

They demonstrate a severe lack of understanding by David Kim, and do not address the real problems.

I'd like to see tanks become viable again. Unfortunately, I suspect achieving that will require a huge +damage, +to shields, and a reduction on muta regen.
Ctone23
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
United States1839 Posts
July 01 2014 17:51 GMT
#111
On July 02 2014 02:49 darkscream wrote:
silly davie

what terran needs is a reason to get to late game, not more stuff to end it before late game

what if BCs or ghosts were like, useful in all 3 matchups always, kinda like templar, vipers, broodlords, archons, etc are




Get your logic out of here!
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Hider
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Denmark9407 Posts
July 01 2014 17:51 GMT
#112
On July 02 2014 02:49 darkscream wrote:
silly davie

what terran needs is a reason to get to late game, not more stuff to end it before late game

what if BCs or ghosts were like, useful in all 3 matchups always, kinda like templar, vipers, broodlords, archons, etc are



Regarding Ghosts, what about simply reducing the cost of them? That would seem like an easy way of improving TvP late game balance.
r691175002
Profile Joined October 2012
249 Posts
July 01 2014 17:52 GMT
#113
On July 02 2014 02:51 Axxis wrote:
Medivacs are overall the strongest unit in the game. Terran complain about end game units but they are the only ones that can make a unit from the beginning of the game to the end and keep upgrading/supporting it. Super end game zealots and lings are bad. I mean we should give them an ultralisk or collossus type unit so they'll have an endgame unit. Then give zerglings a death spawn and zealots hardened shield.

Uh... Super end game zealot warpins are one of the most game-breaking aspects of protoss. Any army is instantly +40 supply of unkillible, zero-micro units anywhere on the map.

And give zealots hardened shield? What?
Ninjabutter
Profile Blog Joined January 2014
14 Posts
July 01 2014 17:53 GMT
#114
These are horrible changes. They are buffing the annoying parts of Terran without addressing any of the core issues with the race.
Tenks
Profile Joined April 2010
United States3104 Posts
July 01 2014 17:53 GMT
#115
On July 02 2014 02:49 darkscream wrote:
silly davie

what terran needs is a reason to get to late game, not more stuff to end it before late game

what if BCs or ghosts were like, useful in all 3 matchups always, kinda like templar, vipers, broodlords, archons, etc are



And what is that reason without making 1base Terran broken?
Wat
Patate
Profile Joined January 2011
Canada441 Posts
July 01 2014 17:54 GMT
#116
If anyone is still wondering if the SC2 dev team still works full team on this game, here's your answer...




"it is a direction we wish to explore" What the fuck is this supposed to mean? Is he saying that tweaking these numbers will open up a whole path of strategies to explore? lol
Dead game.
Ctone23
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
United States1839 Posts
July 01 2014 17:54 GMT
#117
On July 02 2014 02:53 Tenks wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 02 2014 02:49 darkscream wrote:
silly davie

what terran needs is a reason to get to late game, not more stuff to end it before late game

what if BCs or ghosts were like, useful in all 3 matchups always, kinda like templar, vipers, broodlords, archons, etc are



And what is that reason without making 1base Terran broken?



How does improving late game units make 1base Terran broken?
TL+ Member
DinoMight
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
United States3725 Posts
July 01 2014 17:54 GMT
#118
Medivacs are strong enough as is.. that's not the problem...

Widow mine splash should just go back to where it was before. I'm afraid that increaseing the splash but also leaving the + to shields might make them too strong vs P.
"Wtf I come back and find myself in camp DinoMight all of a sudden, feels weird man." -Wombat_NI
Tenks
Profile Joined April 2010
United States3104 Posts
July 01 2014 17:54 GMT
#119
On July 02 2014 02:51 Axxis wrote:
Medivacs are overall the strongest unit in the game. Terran complain about end game units but they are the only ones that can make a unit from the beginning of the game to the end and keep upgrading/supporting it. Super end game zealots and lings are bad. I mean we should give them an ultralisk or collossus type unit so they'll have an endgame unit. Then give zerglings a death spawn and zealots hardened shield.


End game zealots are bad? Odd tell that to the Protoss who warp in 8 of them to destroy my SCVs at my third immediately after a stalemate fight in the middle of the map.
Wat
Tenks
Profile Joined April 2010
United States3104 Posts
July 01 2014 17:55 GMT
#120
On July 02 2014 02:54 Ctone23 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 02 2014 02:53 Tenks wrote:
On July 02 2014 02:49 darkscream wrote:
silly davie

what terran needs is a reason to get to late game, not more stuff to end it before late game

what if BCs or ghosts were like, useful in all 3 matchups always, kinda like templar, vipers, broodlords, archons, etc are



And what is that reason without making 1base Terran broken?



How does improving late game units make 1base Terran broken?


Because Terran is the only race who can reasonably get to tier3 off 1base...
Wat
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