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DOOM! DOOM AND GLOOM FOR TERRAN! BEWARE TERRAN THE END IS NIGH! THE DAYS OF THE 2RAX ARE OVERRRRR
If you get lucky and they spawn close and you guess right, then your overlord will reach their base right about the time that the barracks is halfway done. Plenty of time to safely scout two rax or other such shenanigans.
If you send it across map and they are there, then your overlord arrives right about the time the barracks finishes. Still a pretty decent amount of time to scout.
I figured this change was to help scouting follow-ups to Gas.
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Sure, but if you could get away without pulling a drone, wouldn't you?
Not saying you can or anything
exactly. at least on 1v1 maps
The band is breaking up!
Yeah, sure. It's not hard to scout, but it's what you scout with that matters. After testing overlord speed, I'm pretty sure scouting on 1v1 maps can be done with just an overlord now, as it seems the overlord can get to the terran base right when the first barracks finishes, which means they can scout the whole base with the overlord before the first marine pops.
Don't get me wrong, as a zerg I'm super happy about this, but it does seem pretty drastic.
not to sound like I hate day9 or anything, I enjoy him, but I won't miss him on that show.
i hope you're surge protected.
but honestly it doesn't even seem to be weird midgame stuff that's fucking toss up anymore, it's more the very early game.
really though the only way that it hurts is it's less robo build time punishment if toss lets their obs get sniped. but that's looking for something.
Well, it will now be possible to get out three observers where before you could only get two in the same time frame, assuming you chronoboosted. That should help midgame against multi pronged drops.
Honestly I think the main reason they made the change is to help protoss in the early game against terran. And not so much that it allows you to get out an observer 10 seconds earlier, but moreso that you can get out an immortal ten seconds earlier. I think it's a decent change but I don't understand why they chose to address tvp early game and not pvt late game
Probably because addressing PvT early game is much easier to do. The problem is that Protoss has difficulty scouting Terran all-ins and then reacting to them in time. This change buys you bit of extra reaction time, and that should help.
But addressing TvP lategame is really difficult - its hard to pinpoint one specific thing that needs changing. Zealots are really strong, but if you nerf them you run the risk of hurting PvZ too much. Archons could probably do with some sort of nerf, but if you go too far you'll be back where we were before, where they weren't even used. Storm can't really be nerfed - its not overly powerful I feel.
If I had to guess, I'd say they have to tweak charge in some way. The only matchup where you consistently get Charge is PvT, so a nerf to perhaps the charge cooldown might be helpful.
EDIT: actually, a change that would probably make both Terran and Protoss happy is a total reworking of Charge. Instead of making it an ability that activates once every X seconds, make it a passive that makes zealots resistant or immune to Concussive Shell, and increases their movement speed only.
I would be happy if Storm had a ramp up and was compensated with more overall damage. It would still wreck with FFs but Storm dodging would be much more effective. It would also actually be useful vZ and vP as well.
Atm its
10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10: 10 damage in the first quarter, 40 in the first half, 80 overall
and it would be nice imo with
00-05-10-15-20-25-30-35: 5 damage in the first quarter, 30 in the first half, 140 overall.
Also, after playing a dozenish Mech TvTs, I feel that macroing is much easier, but that the army control needed is too great for me to handle. I have no idea how you guys can handle like 5 different control groups.
I did accomplish my goal of learning to properly push siege lines though.
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That would be a net buff. Chargelots are already good enough.
It's a decent subtle adjustment, though. I think we need to wait longer to see if the late game balance is a temporary thing or not.
Basically the way I see it is that the reason PvT early game and midgamei s so difficult is that the only reliable tool Protoss has to scout Terran is observers or heavy aggression, both of which commit you - observers commit you to robo (to a degree) and heavy aggression commits you to, well, heavy aggression.
In addition, because every unit Protoss makes (nearly) has such a high gas cost, its usually the case that once you start down a tech path, its slow and unwieldy to swap, so reacting to what you scout takes a fair amount of time. For example, if you go for a robo and you fly in and your opponent is going for super fast medivac drops, its a bit slow to switch into a more mobile composition, so you have to delay your third by a lot in order to defend the medivac drops. it also means Protoss can get 3 observers in the time it previously took to make 2, so you'll have the extra one for drop spotting.
It's a combination of Chargelots + Warpgates / Mech/Air against Toss just isn't Viable. Protoss see's he's facing a Terran, and knows he needs 3 things for late game: Templar, Colossus, and Chargelots. Templars serve a weird role in the matchup, because they are really good against Bio with Storms and Medivac feedback, and completely shut down SkyTerran or Mech Play with Feedbacks. One unit seriously hinders all three of Terrans mainstay builds. Some BC/Banshee/Viking combo *might* be viable if you could also afford to get some ghosts, but the gas requirement is way too high for that kind of build.
It's just a weird deal, because Terran is absolutely forced into one style of play for the mid/late game, just due to the match up. Which is why you see 1 and 2 base all ins so prevalent. The power swing from the 11-12 minute mark on is so ridiculous.
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I contain, deny a 3rd, contain, deny a 3rd, eventually lose the contain, he gets to 4, I say "I don't know how to actually win in this match either"
I get impatient and attack into him but as it turned out he had almost no upgrades at all and an uncomfortable bio/mech mix where as I had moderately upgraded mech and pushed through. containcontaincontain, he tries to push out and fails and I win. well, it took me another like 10 minutes to actually win.
"you fucking terran bitch" hahahaha. that game was torturous though jesus, I understand his aggravation.
even terran doesnt know how to beat terran