They've never been that popular except ages ago in ZvP. They are just not very good against Terran, too easily countered by Colossi and storm, and often end up being too expensive to get early on in ZvZ (though they do show up for anti-muta builds or to compliment roach/infestor). It's just that they cost 50 gas which is way better spent on pretty much any other unit, especially infestors.
so, why does almost no one use hydras anymore? Are they just like, not all that good or something?
the problem with hydras is that while they do a lot of dps, they have low health and are real slow off creep, meaning aoe just destroys em
in zvp they can have some use against gateway/immortal compositions, but as soon as the opponent gets collosus hydras just become irrelevant, and orach/hydra/corruptor has been almost entirely given up on as a viable composition
in zvz they can be added in to roach based compositions, as their extra dps + increased range (compared to a roach) means you can have a line of roaches firing, and then a line of hydras behind, and as the roaches are absorbing the damage the low health of hydralisks isn't a problem
however, hydras are expensive, and as such a player with a pure roach based composition can often have a timing where he can just overwhelm with sheer numbers
in hots you can upgrade hydra speed at hive tech, whether this actually affects anything is yet to be seen really, but i doubt it
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: ( Bling. He could have gone through if Moon had beaten ForGG.
yeah but even though stephano got a #2 seed, he's up against nightend with a #1 seed, which probably doesn't make nightend all that excited about tomorrow.
And then poor Bly is up against Taeja. I've never heard of him, but he's cute, so I'm sad.
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The caster did just say "metropolis, ribbed for her pleasure," not really sure why...
is ribbing really for her pleasure or is it a marketing thing?
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I have work in the AM so I'm really hoping day2 of dreamhack lasts more than 8 hours or I'm gonna miss the finals.
on the plus side, if taeja and stephano meet it will be the finals, so as long as it lasts long enough I'll get to see them. it certainly could last that long, lots of games to get through... and day1 was about 12 hours.
I'll catch a couple of games throughout the day too
According to the DH Valencia website, this is their schedule. Subtract 6 hrs from each for EST time zone.
10.00 – 17.00 Torneos oficiales en zona eSports: LoL, CS:GO, DOTA2, SSFIV.AE, COD:MW3B
12.00 Concurso Cosplay
13:30 Charla ESAT: ‘Cómo se hace un videojuego’ y presentación videojuegos
15.00 – 24.00 Auditorio: Finales del torneo de StarCraft 2 EIZO Open Valencia <- so from 3 PM to Midnight EU time are the SC2 finals
20.30 Entrega de premios de LoL, CS:GO, DOTA2, SSFIV.AE, COD:MW3B
22:30 DJ Session. Kails, de Mediavida
I'm not the first to say it, nor I'm sure will I be the last -
But the fact that I can't fire up SC2 and get a link on the splash page to commentated spectator-view or commentated replays of huge tournaments like DH is killing eSports™.
Okay guys so I bought an EU version of SC2 last night, but nowhere is it letting me switch the region when I log in. What exactly do I need to be doing to get into the EU account I just bought?
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The caster did just say "metropolis, ribbed for her pleasure," not really sure why...
the problem with hydras is that while they do a lot of dps, they have low health and are real slow off creep, meaning aoe just destroys em
in zvp they can have some use against gateway/immortal compositions, but as soon as the opponent gets collosus hydras just become irrelevant, and orach/hydra/corruptor has been almost entirely given up on as a viable composition
in zvz they can be added in to roach based compositions, as their extra dps + increased range (compared to a roach) means you can have a line of roaches firing, and then a line of hydras behind, and as the roaches are absorbing the damage the low health of hydralisks isn't a problem
however, hydras are expensive, and as such a player with a pure roach based composition can often have a timing where he can just overwhelm with sheer numbers
in hots you can upgrade hydra speed at hive tech, whether this actually affects anything is yet to be seen really, but i doubt it
Viper hydra seems like it could be pretty strong against toss.
Pretty good. Game 1 was awesome, if a bit anticlimactic. The other 2 games were solid, fairly even TvZ, which is the most entertaining thing in SC2.
I missed it and everything...
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And then poor Bly is up against Taeja. I've never heard of him, but he's cute, so I'm sad.
on the plus side, if taeja and stephano meet it will be the finals, so as long as it lasts long enough I'll get to see them. it certainly could last that long, lots of games to get through... and day1 was about 12 hours.
I'll catch a couple of games throughout the day too
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I get home about 1:15 (with a stop home sprinkled in earlier for about an hour)
top of bracket I say vortix or elfi vs., stephano
bottom taeja vs hero
http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/2012_DreamHack_Open/Valencia
edit - shit looks like it's 4 AM according to TL.
Hopefully the games start slowly
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good fucking lord.... I JUST got home
>.<'
According to the DH Valencia website, this is their schedule. Subtract 6 hrs from each for EST time zone.
10.00 – 17.00 Torneos oficiales en zona eSports: LoL, CS:GO, DOTA2, SSFIV.AE, COD:MW3B
12.00 Concurso Cosplay
13:30 Charla ESAT: ‘Cómo se hace un videojuego’ y presentación videojuegos
15.00 – 24.00 Auditorio: Finales del torneo de StarCraft 2 EIZO Open Valencia <- so from 3 PM to Midnight EU time are the SC2 finals
20.30 Entrega de premios de LoL, CS:GO, DOTA2, SSFIV.AE, COD:MW3B
22:30 DJ Session. Kails, de Mediavida
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hosting DH viewing party tomorrow
need to wake up and make the place somewhat presentable -_-'
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Need to clean your house more then.
How long are you staying up for Yilias - team games?
I don't have experience with this kind of thing, but my best guess would be... maybe? Can't imagine it would make things nicer for the guy though.
swarm hosts aaaaaaaa
There's a joke in here somewhere, and I found it.
wp
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Geez, that means this thing won't last very long. Maybe another 4 hours?
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But the fact that I can't fire up SC2 and get a link on the splash page to commentated spectator-view or commentated replays of huge tournaments like DH is killing eSports™.
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http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=357860
or download the eu version of sc2, which you can do on b.net from whatever account you have an eu license on