Community Feedback Update - February 4 - Page 3

On February 05 2016 07:32 DinoMight wrote:


Tank damage buff doesn't really address any issues with the game at the moment.

Lifting them makes TvT unplayable.

Not lifting them makes Ravagers kill them too easily.

Removing Ravagers' ability makes Zerg too weak to Liberator rushes.


A series of bad designs just outdoing each other...

On February 05 2016 08:24 Shield wrote:
If so many protosses think PvZ isn't ok, why don't we get any feedback from Blizzard?

We could look into things many players have pointed out already such as: increasing Siege Tank damage

On February 05 2016 08:37 Fran_ wrote:
Tank pickups is working at Pro level to differentiate good players from better players, and it's exciting to watch. I wouldn't want to see it go.

On February 05 2016 08:40 Big J wrote:
First, this is a really cool update and I want to say that you please keep up the discussion about gameplay. The last few updates have been a bit lackluster and felt mainly like reports of the sort "we will put down a balance test map", "we will really put out the balance test map for these issues", "the balance test map is out now and we will patch next week", "we have patched". I.e. keep the discussion about various topics going, even if there are more pressing issues and the discussed topics are not on a balance test map (yet).


Siege tank, here is my simple suggestion:


The reasoning is rather simple: Siege tanks have high burst damage, but rather low damage over time. This makes them strong against units which they can burst down easily and which are greatly affected by their splash damage like zerglings, banelings or marines.
They are still decent against the middle-health, middle-size units like marauders, roaches or stalkers because they deal 15 extra against armored.
But the tank is very weak at doing this job against units with higher health and greater size, for example immortals, archons or ultralisks or even smaller high health units without the armor tag like zealots or adepts. This buff would leave the most common scenarios in which tanks are used as splash damage dealer widely unchanged but give the tank a greater range of units it can work well against.
This effect could also be introduced as an upgrade effect, e.g. by the iconic name of Maelstrom Rounds from the Wings of Liberty campagin.

On February 05 2016 07:41 inken wrote:
as a massive balance whiner, zerg fanboy, protoss hater (a-move, no honor), terran hater (total abusers), and so on...

let me just say that the sieged tank medivac pickup should STAY in the game ffs please. it's too cool of a feature to be removed just because it dominates tvt. so what, every mirror match has a focus, just think about ling bane or roach ravager wars in zvz. the tank pickup is just too freakin cool even to a total zerg racist.

you can't support nerfing the sieged tank pickup and still call yourself a starcraft fan.

the siege tank deserves <3 <3 <3

On February 05 2016 08:11 blade55555 wrote:


Tends to be NA Protosses that complain who are still opening Robo first and going into sentry/stalker/disruptor (what an awful composition). Once the Protosses complaining start doing a phoenix into chargelot/archon/immortal, they will enjoy pvz a lot more.

On February 05 2016 08:40 Big J wrote:
First, this is a really cool update and I want to say that you please keep up the discussion about gameplay. The last few updates have been a bit lackluster and felt mainly like reports of the sort "we will put down a balance test map", "we will really put out the balance test map for these issues", "the balance test map is out now and we will patch next week", "we have patched". I.e. keep the discussion about various topics going, even if there are more pressing issues and the discussed topics are not on a balance test map (yet).


Siege tank, here is my simple suggestion:


The reasoning is rather simple: Siege tanks have high burst damage, but rather low damage over time. This makes them strong against units which they can burst down easily and which are greatly affected by their splash damage like zerglings, banelings or marines.
They are still decent against the middle-health, middle-size units like marauders, roaches or stalkers because they deal 15 extra against armored.
But the tank is very weak at doing this job against units with higher health and greater size, for example immortals, archons or ultralisks or even smaller high health units without the armor tag like zealots or adepts. This buff would leave the most common scenarios in which tanks are used as splash damage dealer widely unchanged but give the tank a greater range of units it can work well against.
This effect could also be introduced as an upgrade effect, e.g. by the iconic name of Maelstrom Rounds from the Wings of Liberty campagin.