Real talk: we need to stop nerfing everything

MrIronGolem27

United States250 Posts

October 31 2024 21:48 GMT

Over the last few years, we have seen nerfs to a lot of units:

- Liberators
- DTs
- Void Rays
- Queens
- Lurkers
- Brood Lords
- Ghosts
- Disruptors
- Widow Mines
- etc.

We decided at one point that they were broken, and we did away with them. We've nerfed all the OP shit and we're running out of stuff to nerf. Instead of creating counterplay for broken builds, we just got rid of them outright.

Nothing is fun. There's nothing to convince people to stick around for a patch that is gonna play the exact same as a year or two ago but now everybody has worse tools.

SC2 is still imbalanced.

What are we going to do about this?

RPR_Tempest

Australia7798 Posts

November 01 2024 05:27 GMT

Literally none of those units are fun lol

RandomPlayer

Russian Federation400 Posts

November 01 2024 05:40 GMT

It may be fun steamrolling with OP units, but it's frustrating being on the other side.

Charoisaur

Germany16065 Posts

November 01 2024 19:15 GMT

I mean, I get where you're coming from as since the balance council took over the default response to a perceived problem is to simply nerf it, whereas actual interesting changes or new solutions have become much rarer. On the other hand, if one unit is nerfed it's technically a buff to every unit that is interacting with it so other units are are still 'buffed' in that sense.

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CicadaSC

United States1916 Posts

August 11 2025 09:47 GMT

what an ironic post a bot bumped, but I actually agree with this, and it echoes the sentiment PiG was expressing with bringing back each races "fun toys."

MJG

United Kingdom1451 Posts

August 11 2025 10:40 GMT

On August 11 2025 18:47 CicadaSC wrote:
what an ironic post a bot bumped, but I actually agree with this, and it echoes the sentiment PiG was expressing with bringing back each races "fun toys."

I was going to respond, but then I realised that Tempest already wrote a perfect response 10 months ago:

On November 01 2024 14:27 RPR_Tempest wrote:
Literally none of those units are fun lol

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