I wonder if these will be the only new units in HotS. I hope not since I think its entirely plausible that some won't make it to final release and having (say) only 1 new unit in a race would be pretty sucky for an expansion. Since I don't see the Replicant making it, the Protoss would then lose 2 and gain 2, which is annoying.
This thread is always 20-30 times more active than our SC2 channel.
Yet the whole point of BNET 2.0 was to make it more like a social application that people could easily incorporate to their daily life. Less like a mIRC channel, more like something you can drop in and out of, less direct involvement but more overall connection.
But I have never even felt a level of involvement to the Starcraft chat that I did even in Warcraft 3, eight years after it came out.
I WOULD SAY PROJECT FAILED NO?
nah man
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Typhon peaks I didn't have blocked. Lots of chokes to get army smashed by longer range toss/terran units, but also lots of ways to flank so I somewhat liked it.
searing crater I had blocked. F that map, so many bad experiences with that fucking column by the nat.
blackwater gulch also blocked, bad third base locations
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Hallelujah indeed. Though I did lose my placement match to a 2rax marine all-in on Metalopolis, which in close air positions is still surprisingly close.
I like to baneling terran all-ins to death. Except that marauder/helion one base shit, I hate that and died to it twice the other day, despite scouting it once and having time to prepare.
terrans be all like hey i got all these scvs in front of my marines to make a wall and i be all kaboom what scvs.
I wish they had just called blinding cloud or whatever the hell it is by its real name- DARK SWARM- and called the viper or whatever it is by what it really is- a DEFILER.
Except that it's Disruption Web, not Dark Swarm >.>
Huh? The description I read said that it reduced all attack ranges to range 1, meaning that you had to melee (I guess not quite, stalkers could still shoot if they were touching the unit), not that it prevented attacking completely under the cloud. That's Dark Swarm, not DWeb.
I wish they had just called blinding cloud or whatever the hell it is by its real name- DARK SWARM- and called the viper or whatever it is by what it really is- a DEFILER.
Except that it's Disruption Web, not Dark Swarm >.>
Huh? The description I read said that it reduced all attack ranges to range 1, meaning that you had to melee (I guess not quite, stalkers could still shoot if they were touching the unit), not that it prevented attacking completely under the cloud. That's Dark Swarm, not DWeb.
dark swarm stops units under it taking damage from ranged attacks
disruption web stops units under it from attacking at all
blinding cloud stops units under it from using ranged attacks
Close spawns are fine in BW though, what sc2 really needs is a way to make the earlygame strats for a certain race punish them instead of being win/win.
Oh shit, getting closer! Here's my placement match for s4:
You gave away your placement match?! That takes balls man. Grats on your master league cajones.
This is the...3rd season I think that I've done that? I apparently got matched with a diamond person though, so it should probably be the last season I do it, too. >_<
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Close spawns are fine in BW though, what sc2 really needs is a way to make the earlygame strats for a certain race punish them instead of being win/win.
that's my big issue with the 2rax. THERE IS LITERALLY NO DOWNSIDE. At most, you're risking a coupld of scv's and a bunker, maybe some marines.
But if its going badly, the scv's retreat, marines retreat, you cancel/salvage the bunker - you've just spent a total of 25 min screwing with someones early game. i mean, what is the punishment there? If I go <=12pool, I've sacced econ. What does terran have to sac to pull off a 2rax?
Close spawns are fine in BW though, what sc2 really needs is a way to make the earlygame strats for a certain race punish them instead of being win/win.
the thing I hate about close spawns is when I defend some early bs, I should be way ahead and I should be able to go punish someone for doing some super risky all-in bs. Except that toss has forcefields and can block ramp forever, and terran has repair on their walls so I can't go punish those races.
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nah man
me and eclipse and kambing threw down in some 3s last night. We made the team in the PA chat channel. project successful
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Typhon Peaks, Searing Crater, and Blackwater Gulch are out; Metalopolis back in.
Uh, not sure what to veto now.
Typhon peaks I didn't have blocked. Lots of chokes to get army smashed by longer range toss/terran units, but also lots of ways to flank so I somewhat liked it.
searing crater I had blocked. F that map, so many bad experiences with that fucking column by the nat.
blackwater gulch also blocked, bad third base locations
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Infestors spewing ITs do a better job than hydras.
Zerg simply doesnt have a cost-effective anti-air strat other than "make more roaches"
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I guess this is a result of the public embarrassment that was the Blizzcon SC2 tournament.
No more XNC ZvT for me
You mean Nestea's "once the positions were reveleated I had to do an all-in"?
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actually i liked typhoon peaks, but aside from that, hells yeah
only really have to veto xnc now
I actually like close spawns, its the crazy assortment of terran all-ins that ruin it.
far spawns are pretty much having to wait until 8 min to attack...
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...early pressure.
Edit: OH SNAP! that Nydus into spines-on-the-main-plateue contain on Hero's stream! I wish i had decisionmaking/control like that ;____;
terrans be all like hey i got all these scvs in front of my marines to make a wall and i be all kaboom what scvs.
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>.<'
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got placed straight back into plat as i expected
this is the first league where i think i'll have to put serious effort in to get promoted
edit: also, nice kambing
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Huh? The description I read said that it reduced all attack ranges to range 1, meaning that you had to melee (I guess not quite, stalkers could still shoot if they were touching the unit), not that it prevented attacking completely under the cloud. That's Dark Swarm, not DWeb.
dark swarm stops units under it taking damage from ranged attacks
disruption web stops units under it from attacking at all
blinding cloud stops units under it from using ranged attacks
right?
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Veto that shit and you're all set. You must have had at least one of the dropped maps vetoed before
I'm not sure how I feel about removing close spawns. It just feels like a band-aid.
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You gave away your placement match?! That takes balls man. Grats on your master league cajones.
E: Apparently cajones are drawers. I meant cojones.
I am playing like absolute shit.
I actually like close spawns, its the crazy assortment of terran all-ins that ruin it.
far spawns are pretty much having to wait until 8 min to attack...
It is a bandaid because to fix it you would have to look at LoLMULES. SC2 is the game with teh superior race and the other two lesser important ones.
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This is the...3rd season I think that I've done that? I apparently got matched with a diamond person though, so it should probably be the last season I do it, too. >_<
that's my big issue with the 2rax. THERE IS LITERALLY NO DOWNSIDE. At most, you're risking a coupld of scv's and a bunker, maybe some marines.
But if its going badly, the scv's retreat, marines retreat, you cancel/salvage the bunker - you've just spent a total of 25 min screwing with someones early game. i mean, what is the punishment there? If I go <=12pool, I've sacced econ. What does terran have to sac to pull off a 2rax?
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the thing I hate about close spawns is when I defend some early bs, I should be way ahead and I should be able to go punish someone for doing some super risky all-in bs. Except that toss has forcefields and can block ramp forever, and terran has repair on their walls so I can't go punish those races.
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I have proof!
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