StarCraft 2
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Sorry Zap I had some unexpected housework to do yesterday.
I've only played maybe 5 games on the patch. I'm still undecided. The early-midgame is SLOOOOOOOWWWWWWWW. Blizzard did a good job of giving the races early harassment tools from the get-go but somewhat forgot to give anything in the early-midgame. So once you are done reaper harassing you sit around trying to build up an army for what feels like an eternity. It also hugely, immensely puts a focus on worker pressure from the get-go. I'm starting to think I'm just going to open double reactor reaper every game since they're so mineral cheap (ie: won't hugely slow down macro production) and can get kills. A worker in the current patch is worth so much more than it was previously so killing them can give you a huge leg up even if you have to invest quite a bit of gas to get these kills.
I've only played maybe 5 games on the patch. I'm still undecided. The early-midgame is SLOOOOOOOWWWWWWWW. Blizzard did a good job of giving the races early harassment tools from the get-go but somewhat forgot to give anything in the early-midgame. So once you are done reaper harassing you sit around trying to build up an army for what feels like an eternity. It also hugely, immensely puts a focus on worker pressure from the get-go. I'm starting to think I'm just going to open double reactor reaper every game since they're so mineral cheap (ie: won't hugely slow down macro production) and can get kills. A worker in the current patch is worth so much more than it was previously so killing them can give you a huge leg up even if you have to invest quite a bit of gas to get these kills.
Zaphid
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I think that is the way to go, especially with the beta maps. I can do 2gate 2 adept rush while expanding, which seems to annoy zergs a lot or just rush a nexus with a stargate and hope MsC is enough. It feels a lot like BW right now, HotS gave everybody tools to blow up mineral lines in seconds and you have very few options to recover unless you have a drop already on the way.
Disruptor does friendly fire damage, so it's useless with zealots and you can't load it until the ball has blown up, bummer.
Disruptor does friendly fire damage, so it's useless with zealots and you can't load it until the ball has blown up, bummer.
I also assume Terran is probably the worst race at the moment. Terran relied heavily upon MULE throughout the entire game so not having it makes buildings feel really fucking expensive. Like a MULE would pay for 2 barracks. Now I can't do that so it feels like trying to build up infrastructure is a massive chore.
Zaphid
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How the fuck do you deal with turtle zerg now ? Tempest range got nerfed, so if they just sit on their ass in a sea of spore crawlers with vipers yoinking anything valuable that comes close, you are simply fucked. Disruptor has shit range, carriers are terrible and you need HTs to feedback any problems, so you are not exactly mobile...
I held him down to like 4 bases for a while, but he never did anything, just slowly crawled from a base to base and held his main through a nydus
I held him down to like 4 bases for a while, but he never did anything, just slowly crawled from a base to base and held his main through a nydus
With the latest patch of automated macro mechanics the game seems to be in a legit good spot. At least for Terran.
Personally I think PO took a massive nerf this patch. It is pretty easy to just a-click your bio ball onto a pylon and remove PO. It wasn't quite so easy with a Nexus and at 13 range.
Have you played around with the automated CB? It seems somewhat clunky. I'm loving auto-MULE though.
Sidian
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You can at least count on Blizzard to make a bad ass cinematic. I haven't touched sc2 multiplayer for a loooong time. I still casually map make every once in awhile & I still follow the pro scene, so most likely I'll do what Needless is doing and just pick up LOTV for the campaign.
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Meh, I found the trailer to be a bit pointless, but I guess it's good animation. Still going to buy the game just to play the campaign anyway. Maybe I should replay the other campaigns first cause I forgot half of what happened. They're still not the War3 campaigns though. I kinda wish they'd just do warcraft campaigns without any multi, but I guess that wouldn't happen. In a few years though since SC2 is over, I guess they'll go back to war4 and retcon all the wow panda time travelling space goat shit.