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On December 16 2011 02:55 lizzard_warish wrote:Show nested quote +On December 16 2011 02:51 Termit wrote: Yea Protoss is cosidered an easier and more beginner friendly race in BW but because of the mechanics in that game you still had to have skill to not suck ass when it came to army control and macro. Too bad sc2 makes it possible to be in the highest league on the ladder with like 85 EAPM when you play Protoss. The same goes for Zerg, because of larva injects and MBS any player, good mechanics or not can spend upp all his larva, remax and rally 40 lings into your main in a heartbeat, while it at least took some effort to spend your larva in BW, rallying every hatch to your opponens base like in sc2 can only the real gosus do in time in BW too but now everyone can do it.
I don't know how Blizzard would increase the mechanical part for Z and P but I don't think it will ever happen. In the end it will just be like in BW, every foreigner is gonna play P and Z and a few T while the real korean gosu players will be sick in the head with Terran because they are amazing players. What mechanics exist for terran pray tell? one hotkey for all your buildings, hold down a letter. ZOMG the stress! What a load of shit.
Ok so pressing w once and rapid pressing 1 or 2 keys is hard? LOL you are told when your units are done and able to produce again, GTFO
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On December 16 2011 02:53 xUnSeEnx wrote:Show nested quote +On December 16 2011 02:51 ToInfinity wrote:On December 16 2011 02:28 Empire.Beastyqt wrote: A lot of terrans are quitting because other 2 races are easier to play and require less practise which means less microing, less macroing, less multitasking = less stress, its same on lower leagues or on pro level.
So many pro players switched already to protoss or zerg and I know 2 more terrans from EU that will switch soon (if they didnt switch already), I checked Rainbow stream 2-3 days ago and he's protoss as well now lol, ForGG ladders half of his games as zerg so he might switch as well.
Problem for us terrans isnt that our race is too hard to play and we want it easier, we want other races to be harder to play. http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/sc2-international/players/2131_Empire.Beastyqtworst winrate vs Terran, winrates vs the ''easy'' races much higher Beasty is a beast, he might have a lower winrate against terrans, but have you ever thought its because he plays really good terrans? Lol stop while you are ahead.
Seriously, how biased can you get to support your side of the argument? You are pretty blatant... Maybe he plays good P and Z also? This is a shit argument unless you go through his games and can factually say he played stronger Ts. By the way, to your above post, if I'm not mistaken T is also told when units are finished producing, just not the same way (side text/announcer)?
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On December 16 2011 02:49 iokke wrote:Show nested quote +On December 16 2011 02:41 SKYFISH_ wrote:On December 16 2011 02:34 Gelenn wrote:On December 16 2011 02:19 SKYFISH_ wrote:On December 16 2011 02:15 gosuMalicE wrote:On December 16 2011 02:09 xUnSeEnx wrote:On December 16 2011 02:07 gosuMalicE wrote: Terran is in no way, shape or form harder to play then Protoss or Zerg, and the fact that every other post in this thread is a baddie who clams otherwise is quite hilarious.
LOLLLLLLLLLLLL. I am sorry I cannot contain the laughter and irony of this protoss posting on here. EDIT: My bad for the double post I just thought this statement was beyond hilarious and supremely mis-informed. Please explain to me how terran are switching to toss and receiving a vastly higher win rate/ etc. and toss main race and cannot win anything comparably when they race switch? Show me a toss player who off raced terran and does not lose. Take your balance whining and absurd (aka. made up on the spot) "facts" to the blizzard forums that kind of stuff isn't wanted on TL. how are those 'facts' made up when the majority of Terrans in this thread are reporting better results after switching to Toss/Zerg? i think its your ass that should be hauled to blizz's forums, kiddo I really didn't want to get involved in this shitstorm of a thread, but I just wanted to point out that anecdotal evidence does not count as "fact" and there is this little thing called "reporting bias"- you're obviously going to get way more terrans supporting the idea that their race is the hardest when asking about it on a thread that has the most interest to a player who already feels that way. If you want to actually want to establish this as a "fact," you would have to support it by taking a random sampling of zerg, terran, and protoss from the ladder, have them offrace a number of games each, and examine the results. please dont direct this at me, open up the quotations and do note who started blabbing about 'facts' straight out of their ass. I also dont see the funny part about my personal experience of reaching the same ladder rank as Protoss with a 1/3 of the effort I had to put in when I was playing Terran. I could bet you money that it would take me 1/3 of the effort to reach my rank as P if i switch to T (which isnt too high to be fair). Why? Because I learned a lot of basics/mechanics while starting as Protoss that will transfer to other races. Actually I wanted to switch to T on my smurf but after watching TvTs... just doesnt seem to appealing
let me make it a bit clearer, i think i didnt express myself correctly. in my case,winning games in mid diamond EU ladder as P is a lot easier and in most cases more possible than winning games as T at the same level
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On December 16 2011 02:48 xUnSeEnx wrote:Show nested quote +On December 16 2011 02:47 YipMan wrote:On December 16 2011 02:46 xUnSeEnx wrote:On December 16 2011 02:43 -_- wrote:On December 16 2011 02:37 xUnSeEnx wrote:On December 16 2011 02:34 Gelenn wrote:On December 16 2011 02:19 SKYFISH_ wrote:On December 16 2011 02:15 gosuMalicE wrote:On December 16 2011 02:09 xUnSeEnx wrote:On December 16 2011 02:07 gosuMalicE wrote: Terran is in no way, shape or form harder to play then Protoss or Zerg, and the fact that every other post in this thread is a baddie who clams otherwise is quite hilarious.
LOLLLLLLLLLLLL. I am sorry I cannot contain the laughter and irony of this protoss posting on here. EDIT: My bad for the double post I just thought this statement was beyond hilarious and supremely mis-informed. Please explain to me how terran are switching to toss and receiving a vastly higher win rate/ etc. and toss main race and cannot win anything comparably when they race switch? Show me a toss player who off raced terran and does not lose. Take your balance whining and absurd (aka. made up on the spot) "facts" to the blizzard forums that kind of stuff isn't wanted on TL. how are those 'facts' made up when the majority of Terrans in this thread are reporting better results after switching to Toss/Zerg? i think its your ass that should be hauled to blizz's forums, kiddo I really didn't want to get involved in this shitstorm of a thread, but I just wanted to point out that anecdotal evidence does not count as "fact" and there is this little thing called "reporting bias"- you're obviously going to get way more terrans supporting the idea that their race is the hardest when asking about it on a thread that has the most interest to a player who already feels that way. If you want to actually want to establish this as a "fact," you would have to support it by taking a random sampling of zerg, terran, and protoss from the ladder, have them offrace a number of games each, and examine the results. Except a pro just posted here and agreed that Terran is alot harder than Zerg/Protoss, leave now please. That is a very important point. Professional players understand the game very well, and the fact that a Terran progamer thinks that Terran is the most difficult race is something to remember. However, and this is not a rhetorical question, would you feel the same about the issue if a Protoss progamer said that Protoss is the most difficult race to play. Now, as far I know, none have made that claim in this thread. But just as a hypothetical, if Huk comes into this thread and states: "Protoss it the most difficult race; because of the mobility of Z and T every time you move out on the map is a dive into shark infested waters" would you submit to his authority? Beasty's comment is certainly insightful. And who are you exactly? A pro protoss? I did not think so, Huk is an amazing toss player who would not come in here complaining because he knows that terran has it the hardest (I can almost guarantee). Hero is an amazing toss player. Need I go on? But a good player would tell you that terran is the hardest to play AKA not Incontrol. Guess that are facts again right? /sigh... Lol, it has been like that since Broodwar, I am assuming you just joined the SC community when SC2 came out? Brood War and Starcraft 2 are entirely different games, you cant draw those kind of parallels between them.
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The main problem is that terran was designed to allow for plenty of micro to make its units more effective. The other races were not given nearly as many microable units. Being the only race that has so many units that are microable is a blessing and a curse. On one hand the best terrans can extract more value from their units than players of other races can. This is a big reason why terrans dominated for about the first 9 months of the game. However this domination meant that balance changes were made to give the other races more of a chance.
However the balance changes that occurred were NOT the right way of going about it.
They just made some units stronger and some weaker. Instead, Blizzard should be adding microability to the other races. Then every race has a high level of depth that scales with player skill.
TLDR: Terrans shouldn't be asking for less micro. That's how Blizzard got away with introducing the stupid idea of the no-micro Battle Hellion. Terrans should instead be asking for Blizzard to add more micro to the other races.
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I haven't seen a legitimate Terran argument.
First of all, BeastyQT, is a very mediocre Terran player, so it figures that he thinks his race is so hard.
Terran has been nerfed over from ridiculous imba, to almost balanced, bad players are switching because they can't just a-move anymore and have to try.
No, Terran doesn't take the APM that Zerg does, by a long shot, nor does it take any kind of macro even close. Please don't insult Zerg by making it seem as easy as T.
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On December 16 2011 02:58 iokke wrote:Show nested quote +On December 16 2011 02:53 xUnSeEnx wrote:On December 16 2011 02:51 ToInfinity wrote:On December 16 2011 02:28 Empire.Beastyqt wrote: A lot of terrans are quitting because other 2 races are easier to play and require less practise which means less microing, less macroing, less multitasking = less stress, its same on lower leagues or on pro level.
So many pro players switched already to protoss or zerg and I know 2 more terrans from EU that will switch soon (if they didnt switch already), I checked Rainbow stream 2-3 days ago and he's protoss as well now lol, ForGG ladders half of his games as zerg so he might switch as well.
Problem for us terrans isnt that our race is too hard to play and we want it easier, we want other races to be harder to play. http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/sc2-international/players/2131_Empire.Beastyqtworst winrate vs Terran, winrates vs the ''easy'' races much higher Beasty is a beast, he might have a lower winrate against terrans, but have you ever thought its because he plays really good terrans? Lol stop while you are ahead. Seriously, how biased can you get to support your side of the story? Maybe he plays good P and Z also? By the way, to your above post, if I'm not mistake T is also told when units are finished producing, just not the same way?
Yea you got to listen, and micro and macro and repeat, Toss basically just spam w and spam unit production its so easy i could cry. Play me in PvP and i will go ahead and beat you down and prove myh point how much easier protoss is then terran.
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All I can give are my own experiences. I played Terran at high diamond low masters for quite a while, but it just got increasingly harder and I basically couldn't beat a Zerg anymore.
The problem with Terran for people at my skill-level is that Terran units are insanely cost-effective when micro'd at a very high level. However, with lower level micro, Terran units are actually quite weak especially the longer the game goes. Without good stimkiting vs Protoss and splitting vs Zergs you will get totally rolled in big engagements. I found myself having to rely more and more on 1-base allins or big timing attacks to win games, especially vs Zergs. Any attempt to play a longer macro game ends with me getting rolled in the mid/late-game. My macro is fairly good and I can easily keep up with my opponents in terms of numbers and army-size, but I have fairly sloppy micro and my army just melts to collosus/storm/banes/lings/broods/ultra A-moving through the map.
Tried meching for the longest time too, but it's just so dicey. It works occasionally vs Zerg on some maps, but a smart Protoss will just roll it, unless you are way better then them mechanically.
Eventually just quit 1v1'ing all together. My favorite matchup has always been TvT and I probably have a 85-90% winrate lifetime in that matchup. But after the Terran nerfs and Zerg buffs, I run into 5 Zergs for every 1 Terran and TvZ just frustrated me too much to continue playing.
Doesn't help that insane players like MMA/MVP with their godly micro can use Terran units so well that they keep getting nerfed
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People are always switching races, what else is new? In HotS we'll see players switch again. Its pretty much impossible to balance the game equally among all 3 races and keep them all mechanically equal without sacrificing the unique flavor of each race.
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W/E guys, lets just let the Protoss play PvP and PvZ for a while. I'll be playing DOTA2 instead, since there is no such thing as a chargelot in that game. Just gotta wait it out until the inevitable Protoss nerfs come rolling in.
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On December 16 2011 02:50 Wegandi wrote: TvZ and TvT are pretty well balanced. It's TvP which is the trouble. I don't think any sane person would refute that Terran is the most mechanically difficult race. As I said before, and as QT said, all Terrans want is to make Protoss and Zerg have a higher skill ceiling / more mechanically demanding.
Make charge manual and not automatically do damage. Make Colossus have to manually be charged / have FF. etc. etc.
I'm sure there is a lot more that could be worked on to make the game more difficult overall, at least to bring some semblance of equality of opportunity / skill with the races. One race shouldn't have to take 25% more APM to play on an equal footing with the others.
I personally find the mechanics of Terran to be the easiest. It could be because of the way I use hotkeys, that I actually find the macro aspects of terran to be far easier, but I do. And yes I do play protoss, but it's because I find stargate play a lot more interesting than anything else in the game, and TvT bores me to death.
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On December 16 2011 03:01 SCTallbus wrote: I haven't seen a legitimate Terran argument.
First of all, BeastyQT, is a very mediocre Terran player, so it figures that he thinks his race is so hard.
Terran has been nerfed over from ridiculous imba, to almost balanced, bad players are switching because they can't just a-move anymore and have to try.
No, Terran doesn't take the APM that Zerg does, by a long shot, nor does it take any kind of macro even close. Please don't insult Zerg by making it seem as easy as T.
LOL? Zerg is easy, I play random sometimes and never lose as zerg. You are prob some aweful kid who cannot beat a small tank push and are dick hurt because you lose every once in 20 games with your easy race.
User was temp banned for this and many other posts in this thread.
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On December 16 2011 02:55 lizzard_warish wrote:Show nested quote +On December 16 2011 02:51 Termit wrote: Yea Protoss is cosidered an easier and more beginner friendly race in BW but because of the mechanics in that game you still had to have skill to not suck ass when it came to army control and macro. Too bad sc2 makes it possible to be in the highest league on the ladder with like 85 EAPM when you play Protoss. The same goes for Zerg, because of larva injects and MBS any player, good mechanics or not can spend upp all his larva, remax and rally 40 lings into your main in a heartbeat, while it at least took some effort to spend your larva in BW, rallying every hatch to your opponens base like in sc2 can only the real gosus do in time in BW too but now everyone can do it.
I don't know how Blizzard would increase the mechanical part for Z and P but I don't think it will ever happen. In the end it will just be like in BW, every foreigner is gonna play P and Z and a few T while the real korean gosu players will be sick in the head with Terran because they are amazing players. What mechanics exist for terran pray tell? one hotkey for all your buildings, hold down a letter. ZOMG the stress! What a load of shit. hahaha! What about one hotkey for CC's, one for rax, one for factory one for starport that you constantly produce from. While you as protoss doesn't even need to hotkey your fucking warpgates because you press W and the letter for your god damn unit. And then semi-produce from stargate and robo but you will never produce from them like a Terran does.
It's sad how offended you got because you are probably one of these 85 EAPM guys that struggle hardcore with Protoss mechanics.
I just pray to higher powers that some day Blizzard get some fucking sense and removes warpgates so Protoss players have to learn to produce from gateways all game long without quing and keeping up production and have to rally their units instead of having the luctury to kill defenders advantage and spawn units where ever they want.
Bye.
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On December 16 2011 03:01 xUnSeEnx wrote:Show nested quote +On December 16 2011 02:58 iokke wrote:On December 16 2011 02:53 xUnSeEnx wrote:On December 16 2011 02:51 ToInfinity wrote:On December 16 2011 02:28 Empire.Beastyqt wrote: A lot of terrans are quitting because other 2 races are easier to play and require less practise which means less microing, less macroing, less multitasking = less stress, its same on lower leagues or on pro level.
So many pro players switched already to protoss or zerg and I know 2 more terrans from EU that will switch soon (if they didnt switch already), I checked Rainbow stream 2-3 days ago and he's protoss as well now lol, ForGG ladders half of his games as zerg so he might switch as well.
Problem for us terrans isnt that our race is too hard to play and we want it easier, we want other races to be harder to play. http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/sc2-international/players/2131_Empire.Beastyqtworst winrate vs Terran, winrates vs the ''easy'' races much higher Beasty is a beast, he might have a lower winrate against terrans, but have you ever thought its because he plays really good terrans? Lol stop while you are ahead. Seriously, how biased can you get to support your side of the story? Maybe he plays good P and Z also? By the way, to your above post, if I'm not mistake T is also told when units are finished producing, just not the same way? Yea you got to listen, and micro and macro and repeat, Toss basically just spam w and spam unit production its so easy i could cry. Play me in PvP and i will go ahead and beat you down and prove myh point how much easier protoss is then terran.
Again lol? As P you got to listen too, or watch the icon at least (just as you can watch text). And u need to mircro and macro. Missing WG cooldowns is same as missing barracks cool downs because even though u warp in instantly, u still missed production time. You might beat me in PvP as you may be a better overall player, or lose if your worse overall. But your pathetic bias is getting ridiculous lol. P also needs to do all those things you mentioned to be able to compete, spamming W will not work any better than constantly spamming ur production hotkey. You sound just like the people who say derp you can queue units as T so ur macro is super easy
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On December 16 2011 03:03 Termit wrote:Show nested quote +On December 16 2011 02:55 lizzard_warish wrote:On December 16 2011 02:51 Termit wrote: Yea Protoss is cosidered an easier and more beginner friendly race in BW but because of the mechanics in that game you still had to have skill to not suck ass when it came to army control and macro. Too bad sc2 makes it possible to be in the highest league on the ladder with like 85 EAPM when you play Protoss. The same goes for Zerg, because of larva injects and MBS any player, good mechanics or not can spend upp all his larva, remax and rally 40 lings into your main in a heartbeat, while it at least took some effort to spend your larva in BW, rallying every hatch to your opponens base like in sc2 can only the real gosus do in time in BW too but now everyone can do it.
I don't know how Blizzard would increase the mechanical part for Z and P but I don't think it will ever happen. In the end it will just be like in BW, every foreigner is gonna play P and Z and a few T while the real korean gosu players will be sick in the head with Terran because they are amazing players. What mechanics exist for terran pray tell? one hotkey for all your buildings, hold down a letter. ZOMG the stress! What a load of shit. hahaha! What about one hotkey for CC's, one for rax, one for factory one for starport that you constantly produce from. While you as protoss doesn't even need to hotkey your fucking warpgates because you press W and the letter for your god damn unit. And then semi-produce from stargate and robo but you will never produce from them like a Terran does. It's sad how offended you got because you are probably one of these 85 EAPM guys that struggle hardcore with Protoss mechanics. I just pray to higher powers that some day Blizzard get some fucking sense and removes warpgates so Protoss players have to learn to produce from gateways all game long without quing and keeping up production and have to rally their units instead of having the luctury to kill defenders advantage and spawn units where ever they want. Bye.
BAM! Remove warpgates = balance.
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On December 16 2011 03:02 xUnSeEnx wrote:Show nested quote +On December 16 2011 03:01 SCTallbus wrote: I haven't seen a legitimate Terran argument.
First of all, BeastyQT, is a very mediocre Terran player, so it figures that he thinks his race is so hard.
Terran has been nerfed over from ridiculous imba, to almost balanced, bad players are switching because they can't just a-move anymore and have to try.
No, Terran doesn't take the APM that Zerg does, by a long shot, nor does it take any kind of macro even close. Please don't insult Zerg by making it seem as easy as T. LOL? Zerg is easy, I play random sometimes and never lose as zerg. You are prob some aweful kid who cannot beat a small tank push and are dick hurt because you lose every once in 20 games with your easy race.
You never lose as P, you never lose as Z, we got your point. Rediculous... more facts please... ask yourself who the awful kid is...
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How is this thread still in existence? It's degenerated into senseless flaming.
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On December 16 2011 03:06 YipMan wrote:Show nested quote +On December 16 2011 03:02 xUnSeEnx wrote:On December 16 2011 03:01 SCTallbus wrote: I haven't seen a legitimate Terran argument.
First of all, BeastyQT, is a very mediocre Terran player, so it figures that he thinks his race is so hard.
Terran has been nerfed over from ridiculous imba, to almost balanced, bad players are switching because they can't just a-move anymore and have to try.
No, Terran doesn't take the APM that Zerg does, by a long shot, nor does it take any kind of macro even close. Please don't insult Zerg by making it seem as easy as T. LOL? Zerg is easy, I play random sometimes and never lose as zerg. You are prob some aweful kid who cannot beat a small tank push and are dick hurt because you lose every once in 20 games with your easy race. You never lose as P, you never lose as Z, we got your point. Rediculous... more facts please... ask yourself who the awful kid is...
I dont look me up. I could play you with any race I am sure and win.
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On December 16 2011 03:00 Fig wrote: The main problem is that terran was designed to allow for plenty of micro to make its units more effective. The other races were not given nearly as many microable units. Being the only race that has so many units that are microable is a blessing and a curse. On one hand the best terrans can extract more value from their units than players of other races can. This is a big reason why terrans dominated for about the first 9 months of the game. However this domination meant that balance changes were made to give the other races more of a chance.
However the balance changes that occurred were NOT the right way of going about it.
They just made some units stronger and some weaker. Instead, Blizzard should be adding microability to the other races. Then every race has a high level of depth that scales with player skill.
TLDR: Terrans shouldn't be asking for less micro. That's how Blizzard got away with introducing the stupid idea of the no-micro Battle Hellion. Terrans should instead be asking for Blizzard to add more micro to the other races.
This is a very reasonable post. It shows that not everyone is completely biased and there's hope after all =D. On topic, we are not asking for less micro to Terran. We are asking for the other races to made harder, just how you pointed out. It's Blizzard that is looking for an easier solution to the matter (battle-hellion, for instance).
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