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  • EzekielEzekiel Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Keamien wrote: »
    Dhalphir wrote: »
    we're back!

    Hooray!

    Edit: I don't think my sig has been updated in like a month, whats up with that?

    Update it yourself. Click on the banner, reinput the battle net id stuff, and go back to forums and hit refresh. Bam.

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    I will throw you on the land and hurl you on the open field. I will let all the birds of the air settle on you and all the beasts of the earth gorge themselves on you. I will spread your flesh on the mountains and fill the valleys with your remains. I will drench the land with your flowing blood all the way to the mountains, and the ravines will be filled with your flesh. - Ezekiel 32: 4-6
  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    you can actually just click on the banner and hit Update Now below it

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  • kedinikkedinik Captain of Industry Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Dhalphir wrote: »
    Except its not.

    Show me a replay where someone holds off an SCV/marine rush without being further behind than the Terran.

    Dude, fruitdealer.

    Made it look easy to hold off the best marine/scv all in player of our time.

    Also nooooooo, fungal growth nerf on the horizon.

    e: Also, I think void rays were nerfed. I don't think 20% situationally added is worth becoming slow, their speed made them hard to kill.

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  • SeguerSeguer of the Void Sydney, AustraliaRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
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  • KeamienKeamien Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Ezekiel wrote: »
    Keamien wrote: »
    Dhalphir wrote: »
    we're back!

    Hooray!

    Edit: I don't think my sig has been updated in like a month, whats up with that?

    Update it yourself. Click on the banner, reinput the battle net id stuff, and go back to forums and hit refresh. Bam.

    I <3 You

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  • kedinikkedinik Captain of Industry Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Terran players, I promise that you can win every TvZ on the test server like so:


    Check for baneling busts, 6-pools, etc, defend against those when necessary.

    Go 2 port banshee supplemented by 1 raven.

    Appear in their main, throw down a PDD, laugh because it's literally impossible for zerg to hit back, win.

    Go forth, Terrans, prove that nerfing fungal in this manner would be absolutely retarded.

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    but since when would a zerg player go infestors to counter banshees anyway?

    maybe you do i dont know

    whats the PA chat channel on the PTR?

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  • SeguerSeguer of the Void Sydney, AustraliaRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Oh man, so now, Pheonixes are much more viable...

    SCVs + Thors are now less hax

    Void Rays are... worse late game? Unless they have massive.

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  • SeguerSeguer of the Void Sydney, AustraliaRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Dhal I think he means that the PDD will stop literally all attacks that can hit the banshees?

    And that then the Zerg can't even fungal them anymore.

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  • kedinikkedinik Captain of Industry Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Dhalphir wrote: »
    but since when would a zerg player go infestors to counter banshees anyway?

    maybe you do i dont know

    I do, in fact.

    Infestors are the only way to counter mass banshee if it's well executed, they're too cost efficient in straight up fights and too good at escaping otherwise.

    And to reiterate, PDD already blocks every single non-infestor source of zerg anti-air.

    Swear to god you terrans should be pushing the zerg main with banshee/raven + bio every single time.

    DO IT!

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  • SeguerSeguer of the Void Sydney, AustraliaRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Like Terran needed another way to win-button an entire race!

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  • tehmarkentehmarken BrooklynRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I feel kinda bad. When we lobbying earlier, I was pretty groggy and out of it and played horrible.

    Then at the end I was more awake, and I played really well against Joe. :(

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    i feel bad for making phoenixes against zerg now

    they come out so fast and there is nothing the zerg can do but go hydra and if they weren't planning to go hydra there's no way they can get the numbers they need

    the only way he managed to keep me away from his queens was three spore crawlers in his main and three in his natural, and even then i managed to constantly pick off overlords, at one point he had two overlords dirctly above his base and that was it.

    then i just rolled over him with chargelots.

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  • kedinikkedinik Captain of Industry Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Dhalphir wrote: »
    then i just rolled over him with chargelots.

    Goes without saying, :P

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  • KlykaKlyka DO you have any SPARE BATTERIES?Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I love Phoenixes. I now love them more.
    I also love the Void Ray change,now they serve as a counter,woot!

    Also,that Fungal Growth change is HUGE.

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  • kedinikkedinik Captain of Industry Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Phoenixes should never, ever die against zerg any more. Ever. :?

    e: Though I feel the VRs were actually nerfed, Flux Vanes are so important.

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  • VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    did phoenixes really need that buff? (edit - I'm considering zvp when I say this but I suppose it's gonna be huge in tvp since you can realistically get phoenixes to hit vikings hitting your colossus)

    the fungal change buffs all air but does pdd really stop queen fire? I didn't know that.

    if it does, wouldn't banshees + pdd kill you before infestors were out?

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  • SeguerSeguer of the Void Sydney, AustraliaRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    ked seems to think so now :P

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  • His CorkinessHis Corkiness Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I'm still switching to Zerg.

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  • kedinikkedinik Captain of Industry Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Variable wrote: »
    did phoenixes really need that buff?

    the fungal change buffs all air but does pdd really stop queen fire? I didn't know that.

    if it does, wouldn't banshees + pdd kill you before infestors were out?

    Queens, corruptors, spore colonies (!), mutalisks, hydralisks. Every not-infested-terran unit/building that hits air.

    You have plenty of time to scout and build infestors, currently. The first unsupported banshee hits your base at like 8 minutes or so if they rush it.

    They need a few other banshees, PDD research and a raven with enough energy. Frightening fleet, but expensive, slow to build and pretty easy to scout.

    Without infestors, queens and hydras generally die to all that banshee DPS long before the PDD runs out of energy.

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  • KlykaKlyka DO you have any SPARE BATTERIES?Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Wait,all I saw was that Phoenix build time was reduced.

    How does that make them better in a fight?

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  • VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    fair enough, I truly didn't know that

    seems like it will mess up that matchup and... I don't actually know what it's for. don't see why that change is necessary.

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  • SeguerSeguer of the Void Sydney, AustraliaRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    It doesn't.

    But you can get to 4 of them 20s earlier, which can be painful for Zerg.

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  • KlykaKlyka DO you have any SPARE BATTERIES?Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Seguer wrote: »
    It doesn't.

    But you can get to 4 of them 20s earlier, which can be painful for Zerg.

    Ah ok,then I just read that wrong, I thought they actually buffed their strength.

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  • SeguerSeguer of the Void Sydney, AustraliaRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    They are still paper airplanes with lasers.

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  • VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    ppppppssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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  • kedinikkedinik Captain of Industry Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Yeah, I'll stop belaboring the point but I promise that mass air will dominate zerg if fungal can't hit air any more.

    Hell, same goes for ZvZ. You can either rush or mass mutalisks in high level play now, pick your poison.

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Seguer wrote: »
    They are still paper airplanes with lasers.

    the difference is that now that you can more strongly commit to them without risking losing them all to an infestor and handful of hydras, you can start getting some upgrades for them.

    +1 weapons phoenixes are ridiculously strong

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  • stimtokolosstimtokolos Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    kedinik wrote: »
    Variable wrote: »
    did phoenixes really need that buff?

    the fungal change buffs all air but does pdd really stop queen fire? I didn't know that.

    if it does, wouldn't banshees + pdd kill you before infestors were out?

    Queens, corruptors, spore colonies (!), mutalisks, hydralisks. Every not-infested-terran unit/building that hits air.

    You have plenty of time to scout and build infestors, currently. The first unsupported banshee hits your base at like 8 minutes or so if they rush it.

    They need a few other banshees, PDD research and a raven with enough energy. Frightening fleet, but expensive, slow to build and pretty easy to scout.

    Without infestors, queens and hydras generally die to all that banshee DPS long before the PDD runs out of energy.

    PDD doesn't require research by the way it is a base skill.

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  • kedinikkedinik Captain of Industry Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Stimtokolos you cut me to my very core.

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  • stimtokolosstimtokolos Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    It is ok, you're already dead inside. Just like every other zerg who liked going not spire.

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    well you can't go spire now because there are phoenixes

    corrupters aren't that good :D

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  • stimtokolosstimtokolos Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I'm just going back to making a million fucking queens and slow pushing the map. Just gotta make sure it works this time.

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  • stimtokolosstimtokolos Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Dhalphir wrote: »
    well you can't go spire now because there are phoenixes

    corrupters aren't that good :D

    I meant more ZvT :P.

    Also voidrays for the shredding the shit out of ultras award.

    It is going to be a nightmare killing voids attacking any ultras you might ever make your way to.

    Maybe I'll just never stop making zerglings and hope the person doesn't get sentries or zealots.

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  • kedinikkedinik Captain of Industry Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    It is ok, you're already dead inside. Just like every other zerg who liked going not spire.

    I think you have that backwards, :wink:

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  • stimtokolosstimtokolos Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I was using 'not spire' as a noun. I am so cute with my speaking ^.^'

    I have constructed a helpful diagram to aid me in bitching about this patch:

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  • kedinikkedinik Captain of Industry Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    No no I got it, I mean that what you stated was backwards compared to reality.

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  • stimtokolosstimtokolos Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    I'm so lost. Was it that you liked going spire?
    I was talking about the few zergs who liked infestors as a way to sort of buy time into whatever else you might rather. I fall in that category.

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  • YannYann Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    No more holding down hotkeys to repeat them? Wow, carpal tunnel here I come.

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  • stimtokolosstimtokolos Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    That stung me a couple of times earlier. Thought I made a bunch of zerglings. Nope, one pair.
    Also made me think I was supply blocked so I did a double take and fucked around until I figured out what was going on.

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