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Fanatic-Templar
Profile Joined February 2010
Canada5819 Posts
July 19 2014 00:58 GMT
#21
I generally agree with the Terrans that this will mostly help Terrans in the mid-game, the part they are already strongest at, rather than in the more important late-game (and early game versus Protoss), and I agree with the Protoss that this will probably not so much affect TvP winrates but rather favour awful Colossus-based play to the detriment of awesome Templar based play.

And reading Happy's delusions reminds me of why I so enjoy watching Terrans suffer these days.
I bear this sig to commemorate the loss of the team icon that commemorated Oversky's 2008-2009 Proleague Round 1 performance.
neptunusfisk
Profile Blog Joined July 2012
2286 Posts
July 19 2014 00:58 GMT
#22
On July 19 2014 09:43 Faust852 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 19 2014 09:36 Nebuchad wrote:
"If I would try to make it short: with whatever balance, Terrans still win tournaments (TaeJa for example), and no person that is not playing Terran, not even Blizzard, will ever agree that Terran players (especially the very top) are a lot better than their Protoss/Zerg counterparts."

Yeah, Happy, the best terrans are so good that a balanced state would have them win all the time. Good to know. This is a frequent enough view but I didn't expect someone as good as him to have it.


It's almost impossible to prove that what he says is true, but it's generally a shared views among terrans. I personally think that top top tiers terrans are overall better than their couunterparts zergs and protoss. But meh, there is no real evidence so it's probably a general bias.


The thing is that terrans go for the same build every game (and thus nails them to perfection), and then balancing around that will in the end obviously require mechanical skills from the terran and strategical skills from the protoss.
maru G5L pls
Varroth
Profile Joined April 2014
Sweden471 Posts
July 19 2014 01:00 GMT
#23
On July 19 2014 09:43 Faust852 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 19 2014 09:36 Nebuchad wrote:
"If I would try to make it short: with whatever balance, Terrans still win tournaments (TaeJa for example), and no person that is not playing Terran, not even Blizzard, will ever agree that Terran players (especially the very top) are a lot better than their Protoss/Zerg counterparts."

Yeah, Happy, the best terrans are so good that a balanced state would have them win all the time. Good to know. This is a frequent enough view but I didn't expect someone as good as him to have it.


It's almost impossible to prove that what he says is true, but it's generally a shared views among terrans. I personally think that top top tiers terrans are overall better than their couunterparts zergs and protoss. But meh, there is no real evidence so it's probably a general bias.


Terrans just look flashier due to their micro
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Faust852
Profile Joined February 2012
Luxembourg4004 Posts
July 19 2014 01:03 GMT
#24
On July 19 2014 09:56 Nebuchad wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 19 2014 09:43 Faust852 wrote:
On July 19 2014 09:36 Nebuchad wrote:
"If I would try to make it short: with whatever balance, Terrans still win tournaments (TaeJa for example), and no person that is not playing Terran, not even Blizzard, will ever agree that Terran players (especially the very top) are a lot better than their Protoss/Zerg counterparts."

Yeah, Happy, the best terrans are so good that a balanced state would have them win all the time. Good to know. This is a frequent enough view but I didn't expect someone as good as him to have it.


It's almost impossible to prove that what he says is true, but it's generally a shared views among terrans. I personally think that top top tiers terrans are overall better than their couunterparts zergs and protoss. But meh, there is no real evidence so it's probably a general bias.


Yeah it's no wonder to me that someone like you would think that. Happy is more surprising. It sorts of makes his achievements even more impressive, because it's such a bad mindset to have, I wonder how he can just keep his cool despite losing against people that he doesn't have much respect for.

You say it's almost impossible to prove that it's true: on the other hand it's very easy to prove that it isn't. Terrans don't perform better when the weakest race than the others did. It took Mvp going to foreignland to beat broodlord infestor in 2012. And the logical fallacy of using TaeJa's wins as evidence that terrans are better, when terrans have introduced themselves the idea that these wins don't mean much because he's playing against fields that are wildly inferior to him most of the time, is kind of astonishing.


When you take more time to look, you might realise that, for exemple, terran is the least represented race for years in top league, even at the top foreigner level. Even before the WMs patch, there were few foreigners terrans and we were still the least represented race in GM. But top koreans terrans kept winning everything.
Hell, even at the sbig terran era, in 2011, there were really few top foreigners terrans compared to protoss and zergs. This is something that make us think that there might be a huge wall that only topkorean terrans have overcome.

I read a translattion of a korean talk show recently with Flash etc. TheMarine said that it's almost impossible to see the difference of level between top protoss for exemple. I can tell you that it's very much different between terrans players. You will always see the difference between players.
Jerubaal
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States7684 Posts
July 19 2014 01:06 GMT
#25
At this point, I just want them to make terran OP so they will stop bitching.
I'm not stupid, a marauder just shot my brain.
Fanatic-Templar
Profile Joined February 2010
Canada5819 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-07-19 01:08:25
July 19 2014 01:07 GMT
#26
On July 19 2014 10:03 Faust852 wrote:When you take more time to look, you might realise that, for exemple, terran is the least represented race for years in top league, even at the top foreigner level. Even before the WMs patch, there were few foreigners terrans and we were still the least represented race in GM. But top koreans terrans kept winning everything.
Hell, even at the sbig terran era, in 2011, there were really few top foreigners terrans compared to protoss and zergs. This is something that make us think that there might be a huge wall that only topkorean terrans have overcome.


That's an attempt at distraction. You're supposed to be demonstrating a difference of skill between topkorean Terrans and topkorean Zergs or Protosses, not a difference between topkorean Terrans and foreigner Terrans.

On July 19 2014 10:06 Jerubaal wrote:
At this point, I just want them to make terran OP so they will stop bitching.


They won't. I was there during 1/1/1. They were bitching that Terrans were going to be nerfed because all the best players coincidentally chose to play Terran, making the race look overpowered while they were actually the weakest.
I bear this sig to commemorate the loss of the team icon that commemorated Oversky's 2008-2009 Proleague Round 1 performance.
Iron_
Profile Joined April 2010
United States389 Posts
July 19 2014 01:08 GMT
#27
I think Supernova's points were quite valid. He was pretty much saying "uhh thanks I guess, but our main issue was TvP, mainly in the later part of the game". I was pretty vexed that this patch doesn't really do anything for late game TvP, which has been a problem since day 1.
Faust852
Profile Joined February 2012
Luxembourg4004 Posts
July 19 2014 01:08 GMT
#28
On July 19 2014 10:07 Fanatic-Templar wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 19 2014 10:03 Faust852 wrote:When you take more time to look, you might realise that, for exemple, terran is the least represented race for years in top league, even at the top foreigner level. Even before the WMs patch, there were few foreigners terrans and we were still the least represented race in GM. But top koreans terrans kept winning everything.
Hell, even at the sbig terran era, in 2011, there were really few top foreigners terrans compared to protoss and zergs. This is something that make us think that there might be a huge wall that only topkorean terrans have overcome.


That's an attempt at distraction. You're supposed to be demonstrating a difference of skill between topkorean Terrans and topkorean Zergs or Protosses, not a difference between topkorean Terrans and foreigner Terrans.


As I said, there is no way to prove my point. I said it's probably a general bias from the terran population. The only argument I can give is TheMarine's argument.
Faust852
Profile Joined February 2012
Luxembourg4004 Posts
July 19 2014 01:10 GMT
#29
On July 19 2014 10:07 Fanatic-Templar wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 19 2014 10:06 Jerubaal wrote:
At this point, I just want them to make terran OP so they will stop bitching.


They won't. I was there during 1/1/1. They were bitching that Terrans were going to be nerfed because all the best players coincidentally chose to play Terran, making the race look overpowered while they were actually the weakest.


It's exactly the same now with protoss bitching instead of terrans.
Fanatic-Templar
Profile Joined February 2010
Canada5819 Posts
July 19 2014 01:11 GMT
#30
On July 19 2014 10:10 Faust852 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 19 2014 10:07 Fanatic-Templar wrote:
On July 19 2014 10:06 Jerubaal wrote:
At this point, I just want them to make terran OP so they will stop bitching.


They won't. I was there during 1/1/1. They were bitching that Terrans were going to be nerfed because all the best players coincidentally chose to play Terran, making the race look overpowered while they were actually the weakest.


It's exactly the same now with protoss bitching instead of terrans.


There are Protoss bitching that Terran is overpowered?
I bear this sig to commemorate the loss of the team icon that commemorated Oversky's 2008-2009 Proleague Round 1 performance.
neptunusfisk
Profile Blog Joined July 2012
2286 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-07-19 01:18:39
July 19 2014 01:16 GMT
#31
On July 19 2014 10:11 Fanatic-Templar wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 19 2014 10:10 Faust852 wrote:
On July 19 2014 10:07 Fanatic-Templar wrote:
On July 19 2014 10:06 Jerubaal wrote:
At this point, I just want them to make terran OP so they will stop bitching.


They won't. I was there during 1/1/1. They were bitching that Terrans were going to be nerfed because all the best players coincidentally chose to play Terran, making the race look overpowered while they were actually the weakest.


It's exactly the same now with protoss bitching instead of terrans.


There are Protoss bitching that Terran is overpowered?


That's a very clever comment, ha ha


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This is very sensible by Squirtle. Noone finds the colossus exciting and these recent patches just forces protoss to never build anything else.
maru G5L pls
Nebuchad
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
Switzerland12620 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-07-19 01:20:58
July 19 2014 01:17 GMT
#32
On July 19 2014 10:08 Faust852 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 19 2014 10:07 Fanatic-Templar wrote:
On July 19 2014 10:03 Faust852 wrote:When you take more time to look, you might realise that, for exemple, terran is the least represented race for years in top league, even at the top foreigner level. Even before the WMs patch, there were few foreigners terrans and we were still the least represented race in GM. But top koreans terrans kept winning everything.
Hell, even at the sbig terran era, in 2011, there were really few top foreigners terrans compared to protoss and zergs. This is something that make us think that there might be a huge wall that only topkorean terrans have overcome.


That's an attempt at distraction. You're supposed to be demonstrating a difference of skill between topkorean Terrans and topkorean Zergs or Protosses, not a difference between topkorean Terrans and foreigner Terrans.


As I said, there is no way to prove my point. I said it's probably a general bias from the terran population. The only argument I can give is TheMarine's argument.


And as I said, it's very easy to disprove his point, because terrans don't do better than the other races when underpowered. Look at the leap in logic that is happening there. When someone tells you that TaeJa winning tournaments proves that terran isn't that underpowered, you're going to answer to him that he isn't playing against the very best opposition, so the fact that he wins doesn't mean much when it comes to balance. It even skews the winrates, as you have argued before, because it makes the terran winrates look better than they would look if he was playing people of his own level all the time.

But now suddenly Happy wants to use Taeja's wins as balance points, saying that because he can beat these people, that proves terrans are superior players, and that doesn't shock you a single bit?
No will to live, no wish to die
Varroth
Profile Joined April 2014
Sweden471 Posts
July 19 2014 01:18 GMT
#33
On July 19 2014 10:10 Faust852 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 19 2014 10:07 Fanatic-Templar wrote:
On July 19 2014 10:06 Jerubaal wrote:
At this point, I just want them to make terran OP so they will stop bitching.


They won't. I was there during 1/1/1. They were bitching that Terrans were going to be nerfed because all the best players coincidentally chose to play Terran, making the race look overpowered while they were actually the weakest.


It's exactly the same now with protoss bitching instead of terrans.


What protoss apart from Rain who plays a style which doesnt really give him an advantage which other toss players have which makes it op has complained?
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neptunusfisk
Profile Blog Joined July 2012
2286 Posts
July 19 2014 01:20 GMT
#34
On July 19 2014 09:58 Fanatic-Templar wrote:
And reading Happy's delusions reminds me of why I so enjoy watching Terrans suffer these days.


I think you meant to write:


And reading Happy's delusions reminds me of why I so enjoy watching swarm host vs colossus every game these days.

maru G5L pls
atuor
Profile Joined July 2010
United States83 Posts
July 19 2014 01:23 GMT
#35
Timewarp limited to 10 seconds is good if the spell could also be used to increase the shield regeneration for units who come in contact with that spell. Shield battery of sorts, also giving the Protoss players options to cast on own damaged units in non-combat situations.
PoZu
Profile Joined October 2013
Germany4 Posts
July 19 2014 01:24 GMT
#36
Happys opinion is disgusting and disrespectful.
yido
Profile Joined March 2014
United States350 Posts
July 19 2014 01:27 GMT
#37
On July 19 2014 09:27 MtlGuitarist97 wrote:
I think most of the Terrans hit the nail on the head. This patch ultimately could result in doing nothing at the higher levels and it doesn't address any of the real issues. Sad to not see some kind of potential ghost/BC buff, but I don't think we'll ever see those units get buffed T_T

Yes, exactly this.
I want Terran Tier 3 tech to actually have the ABILITY to trade somewhat evenly.
BCs are especially shit in TvP and generally useless.

Instead of buffing/nerfing WM and Hellbats over and over why not do something to help the actual problem?
Blizzard is forcing Terrans to become one dimensional. If the tier 3 units have the ABILITY to be microed properly to trade evenly, I believe pro Terrans will use them as transitions instead of rally snowballing tier 2 composition over and over.
gl hf
Fanatic-Templar
Profile Joined February 2010
Canada5819 Posts
July 19 2014 01:31 GMT
#38
On July 19 2014 10:20 neptunusfisk wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 19 2014 09:58 Fanatic-Templar wrote:
And reading Happy's delusions reminds me of why I so enjoy watching Terrans suffer these days.


I think you meant to write:

Show nested quote +

And reading Happy's delusions reminds me of why I so enjoy watching swarm host vs colossus every game these days.



Ha! No, you are assuredly right about that.

Honestly, Terran has the most interesting matchups to watch (which makes me wonder why people actually want to see mech happen, but that's a different matter), and that's probably because they revolve around a highly dynamic unit like the Marine, instead of the excruciatingly boring Roaches or the dreadfully awful Colossi and Swarm Hosts.
I bear this sig to commemorate the loss of the team icon that commemorated Oversky's 2008-2009 Proleague Round 1 performance.
BaronVonOwn
Profile Joined April 2011
299 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-07-19 01:40:14
July 19 2014 01:38 GMT
#39
The duration of a stimpak is 15 seconds. If time warp doesn't last as long as that, what's the point? I thought it was supposed to make it easier for gateway units to fight terran without kiting. I was OK with the nerf to 15 seconds, but 10 seconds seems too short. I am a zerg player.
plogamer
Profile Blog Joined January 2012
Canada3132 Posts
July 19 2014 01:44 GMT
#40
I agree that templar openings will be nerfed by this changed. But then again, templar opening is already dead in the current patch so that doesn't really impact too much.
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