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gyrus
Profile Joined February 2015
United States53 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-04-10 02:20:55
April 10 2015 02:19 GMT
#141
PDD nerfed into oblivion. May as well put marine's firepower on cooldown as well. And now protoss players will finally realize that carriers are better.
Orcasgt24
Profile Joined August 2011
Canada3238 Posts
April 10 2015 02:37 GMT
#142
On April 10 2015 11:19 gyrus wrote:
PDD nerfed into oblivion. May as well put marine's firepower on cooldown as well. And now protoss players will finally realize that carriers are better.

Nope. Terrans that drop PDD's usually do it right at the engagement point and the PDD's get drained or the opponent retreats out of them. All this nerf does is not let T use them to totally lock down a location for 3 minutes
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shin_toss
Profile Joined May 2010
Philippines2589 Posts
April 10 2015 02:40 GMT
#143
On April 10 2015 11:01 Dingobloo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 10 2015 10:14 shin_toss wrote:
question: do u need to burrow the swarmhosts to spawn the locusts? .. i've seen old videos they did not burrow to spawn flying locusts


Nope you can release them without being burrowed and just keep on trucking.


Oh.. I still don't get the point of the researching burrow then. Plus doesn't make sense the physical apperance of SH is like that bec its an underground unit :/
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TRaFFiC
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Canada1448 Posts
April 10 2015 02:48 GMT
#144
On April 10 2015 11:19 gyrus wrote:
PDD nerfed into oblivion.

Yeah this is ridiculous. like 1000% change. Blizzard never tweaks. They nerf things into oblivion. And I say this as a Z main who hates mech.

The new swarm hosts are pretty cool, but can't imagine them being good vs protoss. Seems to me high level SH play required more skill than roach hydra viper every game. If that is their aim...
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RevTiberius
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Canada353 Posts
April 10 2015 03:25 GMT
#145
Irrespective of the fact which race benefits most from the most recent patch, it must be difficult for the pro-gamers (whose livelihood depends on their success) to adjust to these constant patches.

I'm inclined to agree with the previous guys who said that Blizzard should do less buffing/nerfing and more tweaking
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ApBuLLet
Profile Joined September 2010
United States604 Posts
April 10 2015 03:41 GMT
#146
Swarm host has always been such a boring, poorly designed unit. I get that they are more mobile now and I guess that's cool. But seriously, just take them out and give us the lurker now then come up with a new, more interesting, unit for LOTV.
ggrrg
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
Bulgaria2716 Posts
April 10 2015 03:52 GMT
#147
Holy shit!
It's not that I enjoyed watching SH games, but swinging the nerfbat so hard at them seems like a very poor decision. At best SH's role will change completely. What's more likely though, is that SH won't be used at all anymore.
ZombieFrog
Profile Joined August 2014
United States87 Posts
April 10 2015 04:43 GMT
#148
To those saying that blizzard should do less drastic changes and more minor tweaks, I feel like pointing out that the overwhelming majority of people were telling blizzard that they don't make drastic, major changes prior to the patch and how this was killing sc2 because they weren't fixing the problems of SH and mech turtling and whatever else they thought ailed the game. Now that bliizzard does I find it amusing to see people saying the exact opposite. I guess you can't make everyone happy.
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Lunareste
Profile Joined July 2011
United States3596 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-04-10 05:07:27
April 10 2015 05:00 GMT
#149
On April 10 2015 04:40 Solar424 wrote:
Probably going to be the last major balance patch for the next 6 months/until LotV release. Which is a shame, because this will absolutely destroy late-game ZvP. Zerg will have to end the game with the first push or just die to deathball.


wow that sounds REALLY familiar

I mean it isn't like the other two races had to play this way against Zerg before...

On April 10 2015 12:25 RevTiberius wrote:
Irrespective of the fact which race benefits most from the most recent patch, it must be difficult for the pro-gamers (whose livelihood depends on their success) to adjust to these constant patches.

I'm inclined to agree with the previous guys who said that Blizzard should do less buffing/nerfing and more tweaking


You do realize that they haven't changed the game in months, right?

Also, League gets patched for the better all the time. It's the pro-gamers job to adjust to changes which are positive for the game, not bitch and moan that their strategies that resulted in 3 hour stalemate games get nerfed.
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OtherWorld
Profile Blog Joined October 2013
France17333 Posts
April 10 2015 05:15 GMT
#150
On April 10 2015 14:00 Lunareste wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 10 2015 04:40 Solar424 wrote:
Probably going to be the last major balance patch for the next 6 months/until LotV release. Which is a shame, because this will absolutely destroy late-game ZvP. Zerg will have to end the game with the first push or just die to deathball.


wow that sounds REALLY familiar

I mean it isn't like the other two races had to play this way against Zerg before...

Show nested quote +
On April 10 2015 12:25 RevTiberius wrote:
Irrespective of the fact which race benefits most from the most recent patch, it must be difficult for the pro-gamers (whose livelihood depends on their success) to adjust to these constant patches.

I'm inclined to agree with the previous guys who said that Blizzard should do less buffing/nerfing and more tweaking


You do realize that they haven't changed the game in months, right?

Also, League gets patched for the better all the time. It's the pro-gamers job to adjust to changes which are positive for the game, not bitch and moan that their strategies that resulted in 3 hour stalemate games get nerfed.

LoL is a vastly different game with a vastly different philosophy.
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Tuczniak
Profile Joined September 2010
1561 Posts
April 10 2015 05:18 GMT
#151
If they break HotS, they should at least give open beta for LotV.
TelecoM
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States10667 Posts
April 10 2015 05:36 GMT
#152
Wow, this is a huge Zerg buff. Thanks for sharing!!
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-Kyo-
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Japan1926 Posts
April 10 2015 05:39 GMT
#153
On April 10 2015 12:52 ggrrg wrote:
Holy shit!
It's not that I enjoyed watching SH games, but swinging the nerfbat so hard at them seems like a very poor decision. At best SH's role will change completely. What's more likely though, is that SH won't be used at all anymore.


nerf bat? their dps just went from a hydra to 25% higher, how is that a nerf? lolwtf
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Tyrhanius
Profile Joined April 2011
France947 Posts
April 10 2015 05:39 GMT
#154
Seriously i'm ok to play more agressive or more dynamic, but as zerg what can i do vs player who just want t turtle mech or get invincible deathball ? Just quit ? 1sh will be same prize than viper, don't take us for idiots we can't even use it for harass ! Aslo it looks to be only a commercial trick to force players to buy LOTV : For P/T :blizzard is doing things (just forget they haven't adressed this since beta for 2 years), for Z you r race can't compete anymore so you will have to buy tbe next game if you want to have a chance of winning as Z.
opisska
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Poland8852 Posts
April 10 2015 06:10 GMT
#155
"Listening to the community" - hooray!!

Do you idiots understand that this is all YOUR FUCKING FAULT? That Blizzard did this only because you stupid whiny bitches who kept spouting nonsense about SH games being "not entertaining" enough for your useless little brains? Great, so now the game gets adapted to your majestic ADHD 5-minute attention span, because the average "fan" can't handle anything that goes on for more than that.

God, this is so stupid. Anything, really ANYTHING interesting Blizzard comes up with is crushed into the ground by this "
"community" of "experts" with "opinions". Everything that is not exactly the same boring shit again and again is either "inbalanced", "bad design" (lol at "design" in general anyway, it's just a buzzword every idiot nowadays uses to sound smart) or "boring" or "bad for the game".

I can't really imagine Blizzard coming up with anything interesting for LoTV. They have been forced to give up on the only really radical change in HoTS, why would they even try anymore? They will probably just make BW in 3D to make the five people who still care about BW (but produce thousands of posts each) happy and everyone will go play a stupid MOBA or an even more stupid card game anyway.

Everything nice gets destroyed by idiots. Real life has broken into SC2. Fuck you all.

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starslayer
Profile Joined August 2011
United States696 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-04-10 06:15:09
April 10 2015 06:14 GMT
#156
has every zerg lost every zvp today and mech tvz?
LOL
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Kayd3nKr0ss
Profile Joined April 2015
2 Posts
April 10 2015 06:14 GMT
#157
Time to switch to protoss
Dingobloo
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Australia1903 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-04-10 06:18:22
April 10 2015 06:15 GMT
#158
On April 10 2015 12:25 RevTiberius wrote:
Irrespective of the fact which race benefits most from the most recent patch, it must be difficult for the pro-gamers (whose livelihood depends on their success) to adjust to these constant patches.

I'm inclined to agree with the previous guys who said that Blizzard should do less buffing/nerfing and more tweaking


It has been so long since the last balance patch that this post borders on trolling.
MoosyDoosy
Profile Joined November 2014
United States4519 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-04-10 06:17:56
April 10 2015 06:17 GMT
#159
On April 10 2015 15:10 opisska wrote:
"Listening to the community" - hooray!!

Do you idiots understand that this is all YOUR FUCKING FAULT? That Blizzard did this only because you stupid whiny bitches who kept spouting nonsense about SH games being "not entertaining" enough for your useless little brains? Great, so now the game gets adapted to your majestic ADHD 5-minute attention span, because the average "fan" can't handle anything that goes on for more than that.

God, this is so stupid. Anything, really ANYTHING interesting Blizzard comes up with is crushed into the ground by this "
"community" of "experts" with "opinions". Everything that is not exactly the same boring shit again and again is either "inbalanced", "bad design" (lol at "design" in general anyway, it's just a buzzword every idiot nowadays uses to sound smart) or "boring" or "bad for the game".

I can't really imagine Blizzard coming up with anything interesting for LoTV. They have been forced to give up on the only really radical change in HoTS, why would they even try anymore? They will probably just make BW in 3D to make the five people who still care about BW (but produce thousands of posts each) happy and everyone will go play a stupid MOBA or an even more stupid card game anyway.

Everything nice gets destroyed by idiots. Real life has broken into SC2. Fuck you all.

Someone give this man a medal. 1 hour SH games are absolutely riveting and entertaining to watch for your casual fan of SC2. kek lel

I'm glad this change went through. Should spice things up (I'm a Zerg player) and be fun to adapt to. As long as it fixes ZvT mech and make ZvP games shorter and more dynamic I don't really care. Because for me, dynamic games are a lot more fun than 1 hour SH games. But then again, what do I know compared to opisska?
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starslayer
Profile Joined August 2011
United States696 Posts
April 10 2015 06:18 GMT
#160
On April 10 2015 15:10 opisska wrote:
"Listening to the community" - hooray!!

Do you idiots understand that this is all YOUR FUCKING FAULT? That Blizzard did this only because you stupid whiny bitches who kept spouting nonsense about SH games being "not entertaining" enough for your useless little brains? Great, so now the game gets adapted to your majestic ADHD 5-minute attention span, because the average "fan" can't handle anything that goes on for more than that.

God, this is so stupid. Anything, really ANYTHING interesting Blizzard comes up with is crushed into the ground by this "
"community" of "experts" with "opinions". Everything that is not exactly the same boring shit again and again is either "inbalanced", "bad design" (lol at "design" in general anyway, it's just a buzzword every idiot nowadays uses to sound smart) or "boring" or "bad for the game".

I can't really imagine Blizzard coming up with anything interesting for LoTV. They have been forced to give up on the only really radical change in HoTS, why would they even try anymore? They will probably just make BW in 3D to make the five people who still care about BW (but produce thousands of posts each) happy and everyone will go play a stupid MOBA or an even more stupid card game anyway.

Everything nice gets destroyed by idiots. Real life has broken into SC2. Fuck you all.



LOL someones upset they cant go mass swarmhost anymore. LOL it was boring and bad design and needs to just be removed from the game. Also vipers are really really really good in zvt and zvp try getting more then 2-3 more like 7-9 and figure it out then crying all day i bet you said the same when the infestor got changed come on if you really think that swarmhost was good for the game then theres no hope for you.
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