On February 13 2015 05:37 Noocta wrote:
Sounds to me they still have no idea in which direction going and they're testing random stuff they throw at each other in meetings.

Agreed. Feels directionless, but if their direction is weak, perhaps it can be directed by a pushy loud mouthed community inspired by starbow and other design concepts

TheDwf

France19747 Posts

February 12 2015 20:39 GMT

#30

If they want fights where players have more control over time, they can simply decrease the rhythm at which the economy grows... Less units = less terrible, terrible damage

Makro

France16890 Posts

February 12 2015 20:39 GMT

#31

terran being slaughtered piece by piece

Musicus

Germany23570 Posts

February 12 2015 20:39 GMT

#32

On February 13 2015 05:37 Noocta wrote:
Sounds to me they still have no idea in which direction going and they're testing random stuff they throw at each other in meetings.

Well it's not even alpha yet and I think it's awesome that they are actively changing things instead of being like "yeah well, guess that's good enough, let's just roll with it".

The_Red_Viper

19533 Posts

February 12 2015 20:40 GMT

#33

I am not sure what this new toss does accomplish Oo
Sounds to me like you need to "blink" around, meh

TheDwf

France19747 Posts

February 12 2015 20:41 GMT

#34

On February 13 2015 05:39 Makro wrote:
terran being slaughtered piece by piece

HERC is what would have slaughtered Terran

Pontius Pirate

United States1557 Posts

February 12 2015 20:41 GMT

#35

I would've liked the HERC if the Hellbat had its bio tag removed, but as it stands, they were right about them being too similar. However, I'm sad about it regardless. It was a cool micro ability, and it's really neat to see Terran with a melee unit other than SCVs.

The cooldown change they were testing seems a bit extreme. Really, they should do this change to both movement speeds and to cooldown, but by a lesser degree. Maybe 20%? All I know is that when me and my buddy play 1v1 in fast game speed rather than faster, our micro suddenly goes from extremely embarrassing to actually nearly pro level. Of course, our macro slips pretty bad, but that's just because we're not too great at the game.

Charoisaur

Germany15829 Posts

February 12 2015 20:41 GMT

#36

the more i hear about lotv the less i like it.
the worst designed unit in the game keeps its role and protoss gets another boring amove unit.
Also it blows my mind they are considering taking the speed out of the game and turning the game into a boring settler/aoe type of game with slow boring combats.
hopefully many people will keep playing hots so i don't have to quit sc2

NovemberstOrm

Canada16217 Posts

February 12 2015 20:41 GMT

#37

As you may know, one of our main focus points since the last update has been working on the design of a new Protoss unit. Although not final yet, we have a unit and are very happy with how it is currently playing out. While we don’t yet have a name, we wanted to provide you with some details on this new unit:

It is a core gateway unit with a ground-only ranged attack and normal movement speed.
The unit has an ability that sends out a Shade of itself, and after a fixed duration, the unit teleports to the location of the Shade.
The Shade can independently move around, but cannot attack or be attacked, and does not impede upon the actions of the main unit.
We intend to offer a more in-depth look at this new unit in the near future.

The shade being able to explode could be interesting.

fruity.

England1711 Posts

February 12 2015 20:42 GMT

#38

How can people approve or disapprove a unit they haven't even seen, and with such little information on? I don't get that at all!

Overall things seem to be ticking along nicely.

[PkF] Wire

France24192 Posts

February 12 2015 20:43 GMT

#39

On February 13 2015 05:37 Noocta wrote:
Sounds to me they still have no idea in which direction going and they're testing random stuff they throw at each other in meetings.

Exactly and this worries me. Where is the directing idea ? It's like they listen to the community on some things but throw in random retarded things with them, and all this is ending up to be a mess.

I mean why so many changes ? If you take out the SH stalemates and a rather stale PvT, everything else is going quite fine. SH stalemate is being dealt with -even in HotS- and that's absolutely fine, but what do the other changes achieve and what is their goal ? I don't see any deep insight here. It's a bit of this, a bit of that, bones thrown at us, food for thought that doesn't seem to feed anything concrete yet.

Clonester

Germany2808 Posts

February 12 2015 20:43 GMT

#40

So SCV is back again Terrans best melee unit.