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nojok
France15837 Posts
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Nakajin
Canada8772 Posts
I am a bit affraid for what that will mean for the short time SCR and SC2 e-sport suport thought, with a merger on this size there is bound to be many things falling through the cracks... Let's hope the Starcraft esport team is not one of them. Also IDK if it a done deal, the US governement might want to look at something like this? We're in the mega-coorporation game now. | ||
deacon.frost
Czech Republic12116 Posts
On January 19 2022 00:02 nojok wrote: Reminder that AoE4 is a lot of fun minus the awful balance, the terrible maps and atrocious UI, join us! Really, the core of the game is great, come! If you send me a PC I can play it on, I promise I will play some maps :D | ||
tigera6
2909 Posts
On January 19 2022 00:03 Nakajin wrote: Wow.... maybe it will mean better for the chance of SC3 happening lets wait and see. I am a bit affraid for what that will mean for the short time SCR and SC2 e-sport suport thought, with a merger on this size there is bound to be many things falling through the cracks... Let's hope the Starcraft esport team is not one of them. Also IDK if it a done deal, the US governement might want to look at something like this? We're in the mega-coorporation game now. I also wonder who would ESL negotiate with for their next deal of SC2 esport? Or everything will be on-hold until the move is implemented, which is around middle of next year. As for the US govt intervention, if they let Disney done almost whatever the hell they wanted pretty much, I dont think they would give any friction toward this deal. | ||
fLyiNgDroNe
Belgium3958 Posts
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ZerOCoolSC2
8704 Posts
On January 19 2022 00:03 Nakajin wrote: Wow.... maybe it will mean better for the chance of SC3 happening lets wait and see. I am a bit affraid for what that will mean for the short time SCR and SC2 e-sport suport thought, with a merger on this size there is bound to be many things falling through the cracks... Let's hope the Starcraft esport team is not one of them. Also IDK if it a done deal, the US governement might want to look at something like this? We're in the mega-coorporation game now. Like Fable? | ||
Husyelt
United States671 Posts
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada15564 Posts
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gTank
Austria2259 Posts
On January 19 2022 00:35 JimmyJRaynor wrote: M$ included Starcraft in their welcome message! This is a promising sign! No warcraft 3 | ||
jpg06051992
United States580 Posts
Hoping someone at Microsoft takes the helm and at least offers SOMETHING to the SC2 community, the game still has an active tournament base so I just don't see the reason why a small team couldn't come in and make some minor adjustments. Obviously what I would want is for Protoss GW units to be buffed, to bring the races basic units into a bit more parity with the modern metagame, Protoss GW units have suffered tremendously due to rampant power creep, especially against Zerg. What I think should happen is that we should get some safer, easier to implement changes. - Removal of Adaptive Talons entirely, no need for such a powerful space control unit to be so nimble. - Make 2 Corrosive Biles required to destroy force fields. Sentries weren't removed from the game, so why put in abilities that all but do that? - Either transfuse needs to be looked at, or Queens need HP adjustments or changes to light or armored. There was a time when Queens weren't OP, I think that time has passed, at least a little bit. - Probably time for either a Stalker scaling buff so that they aren't so useless past the early/mid game, or some type of stat changes to the Adept which while marketed as a core unit has become kind of a glorified Reaper. Maybe a +1 range increase or a raw damage increase, modern pro Zergs have become exceptionally efficient vs. Adepts and the unit looks comically weak when responded to correctly. I think any of these changes would shift PvZ back to a good place, all of them definitely aren't needed. The Bile nerf alone would allow FF to make a stronger statement in the match up which would be HUGE for balance. | ||
Legan
Finland280 Posts
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Ciaus_Dronu
South Africa1848 Posts
BUT This has potential to be a great way to clean out some crappy behavior in the industry and revitalize SC2 a bit at the same time. Lots of potential good stuff as a result of this IMO. | ||
Doc.Rivers
United States404 Posts
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Charoisaur
Germany15616 Posts
On January 19 2022 00:47 jpg06051992 wrote: Obviously this is encouraging news for the future of the game, but I still don't understand why HoTS has a completely flat competitive and ranked scene yet gets regular balance patches AND hero reworks while the SC2 community sits here wondering why we can't even get an annual balance patch to keep the game balanced and fresh? Hoping someone at Microsoft takes the helm and at least offers SOMETHING to the SC2 community, the game still has an active tournament base so I just don't see the reason why a small team couldn't come in and make some minor adjustments. Obviously what I would want is for Protoss GW units to be buffed, to bring the races basic units into a bit more parity with the modern metagame, Protoss GW units have suffered tremendously due to rampant power creep, especially against Zerg. What I think should happen is that we should get some safer, easier to implement changes. - Removal of Adaptive Talons entirely, no need for such a powerful space control unit to be so nimble. - Make 2 Corrosive Biles required to destroy force fields. Sentries weren't removed from the game, so why put in abilities that all but do that? - Either transfuse needs to be looked at, or Queens need HP adjustments or changes to light or armored. There was a time when Queens weren't OP, I think that time has passed, at least a little bit. - Probably time for either a Stalker scaling buff so that they aren't so useless past the early/mid game, or some type of stat changes to the Adept which while marketed as a core unit has become kind of a glorified Reaper. Maybe a +1 range increase or a raw damage increase, modern pro Zergs have become exceptionally efficient vs. Adepts and the unit looks comically weak when responded to correctly. I think any of these changes would shift PvZ back to a good place, all of them definitely aren't needed. The Bile nerf alone would allow FF to make a stronger statement in the match up which would be HUGE for balance. This is the sc2 community in a nutshell - posting their bullshit balance suggestions under completely unrelated topics | ||
Legan
Finland280 Posts
On January 19 2022 00:47 jpg06051992 wrote: ... while the SC2 community sits here wondering why we can't even get an annual balance patch to keep the game balanced and fresh? I think this is probably mostly because Frostgiant really took everyone interested in continuing development and management of SC2, and everyone else moved to new projects while avoiding being made the sole person responsible for maintaining Starcraft 2. Also a lot of people just left the company because everything. Thus, they really do not have anyone who actually knows about the game in any depth. I would guess it is currently responsibility that just bounces around with very little resources allocated to it. | ||
Nakajin
Canada8772 Posts
What happened with Fable? | ||
meadbert
United States681 Posts
If GSL were told it could not longer run tournaments of Starcraft 2, but would be paid to run Age of Empires IV tournaments, how many extra licenses of AOE4 get sold? Ponder those questions before you get too optimistic. By the way I actually like AOE4, but I prefer Starcraft 2 mostly because the games are shorter so I can sneak a 15 minute game in rather than dedicating like 45 minutes to a game. Same reason I only play Dota 2 in turbo mode. | ||
Charoisaur
Germany15616 Posts
Yeah I wish PvZ would get fixed but I'm too scared they'd fuck up something else in the process so I'd rather have no changes at all. given how many bullshit suggestions get thrown around in the forums it'd really scare me if they'd look into that | ||
Poopi
France12466 Posts
On January 19 2022 01:12 meadbert wrote: If the Blizzard Starcraft 2 servers go down for maintenance for three months then how many $60 Age of Empires IV licenses get sold? If GSL were told it could not longer run tournaments of Starcraft 2, but would be paid to run Age of Empires IV tournaments, how many extra licenses of AOE4 get sold? Ponder those questions before you get too optimistic. By the way I actually like AOE4, but I prefer Starcraft 2 mostly because the games are shorter so I can sneak a 15 minute game in rather than dedicating like 45 minutes to a game. Same reason I only play Dota 2 in turbo mode. They prefer to have as many games as they can on the gamepass, the fact that they showed the Starcraft license in their picture is a good sign. | ||
jpg06051992
United States580 Posts
On January 19 2022 01:13 Charoisaur wrote: I hope they don't touch balance. BW didn't get balance patches and SC2 doesn't need either. Let the game settle. Yeah I wish PvZ would get fixed but I'm too scared they'd fuck up something else in the process so I'd rather have no changes at all. given how many bullshit suggestions get thrown around in the forums it'd really scare me if they'd look into that You could have responded like this to my post but instead you chose to respond like a total asshole. Calm down son, it's a video game forum. As long as I'm not posting something that's blatant idiocy or trolling what the hell is it to you anyways? PvZ is in a bad spot, we both clearly enjoy this game, why can't we advocate ideas since a new company is taking over? | ||
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