StarCraft 2

DH Moscow was really bad.

Snute cheesed out, no protosses past ro8, mirror finals, crowd going mild.

Everyone vote Steppes of War

Do I need to use spoilers on this thread for games from days ago? Don't check this much because I don't actually play SC2 that much anymore. Not enough time to be even halfway decent, and I don't particularly enjoy getting stomped brutally because I don't practice/play that much anymore but I keep up with casts and tourneys.

Spoiler warning, just in case...

Really hate to see Harstem go out in Ro16 again in WCS, he's a personal fave. I know he's not exactly a world class player, but I really enjoy watching his games and his persona in general. Also, he can lay down some sick storms and force fields.

And TaeJa done too... To Hyun. It was a decent series, though. Much less cheesy than I expected.

Tenks_sl said:

I think Nazgul's latest blog said that Taeja's wrist issues are control now. Maybe he stopped going to his all natural voodoo doctor using bay leaves and frog oil to treat it. For military if you're being a success you can push that shit off for almost ever.

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Dunno. Every time I see him now he's shaking out his wrists and complaining. Although TaeJa always complains about feeling terrible in tons of interviews. Regardless, I'm biased as a Terran. I love his micro on drops and how he manages tank drops. Hate to see him go down. I feel like he deserves a Big W. Glad to know he's guaranteed for Blizzcon, but I have a feeling he won't make it to the final. He never seems to make it happen in the ultimate win situations.

Still. Harstem. I really hope he doesn't drop off. Kid's got promise and he's fun to watch.

This is amazing

Ded gaem.

Moving OnMore ESEX!

Kinda shocked. Seems like Hot_Bid had such a sweet gig. He must not have been making very much cash though if he feels running his own esports satire site could fund himself.

Well, he has been running TL for how long ? 6+ years ? He even moved to Netherlands for it, so I guess Nazgul didn't really want an admin on his own in the US. I'm not sure how many hits ESEX gets, but the articles rocket through related subreddits and the LoL one is pretty big, so they might have even hit the frontpage. With how many contacts he has, he could probably land a job producing content anywhere he wanted, but he wants to find out if he can make it on his own, because his content is leagues ahead of anything even remotely comparable.

Pumped in general for Blizzcon this year. I'm obviously a Heroes fanboy so I'm gunna love any news on that front. I can only imagine some LotV info will hit and then to top it off an amazing SC2 tournament. So much hype. I may even buy the fucking virtual ticket.

I just now found out it's on a weekend I actually have some free time, so I hopefully won't fall asleep before the finals, thanks to the timezones.

WCS ro16 starts in 3 hours. HYPE

There is a 2v2 showmatch scheduled being called something we've never seen before. Just prior to this showmatch is the SC2 "What's Next?" panel. My guess is this is the big LOTV reveal and the showmatches are played in LOTV.

lurkers, only needing 12 instead of 16 workers to saturate and possibly flying locust? omg, cant wait to see what is for real!

Some high level changes I'm hearing about:

Warp-in now takes ~6s to warp in a unit. Take 200% damage during warp.

Start with 12 workers.

Bases have far fewer minerals and mine out quicker.

Then quite a few individual unit tweaks. Best one is picking up sieged tanks.

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This does it better

Legacy of the Void Announced

Automated tournaments

Photon Overcharge: Shoots Ground Only


oh, they have to build air defense as protoss again and can't rely on nexus cannon anymore? How can that be balanced?

I'm loving a bunch of these changes.

Economy where you start saturated and mine out quickly will increase game speed. I love the "micro or die" units. I like the attempt to get rid of passive hard counters like Immo shields. I love the change to BC. Overall I haven't seen anything here I dislike. The new Terran unit (not the Herc, the other one) where it just locks onto a target seems kinda meh but we'll see. Sounds like a ground-ground Phoenix almost.

Also the Infestor buff + 3/3 Cracklings sounds absolutely terrifying.

Protoss got the short end of the stick judging by these changes. Corruptors are ground only Void Rays ffs.

I'm not sure I like the 12 workers change, it removes so much early game dynamic and literally every unit needs micro and babysitting now, I'll have to play it to make my own opinion, but I feel like they are trying too hard to make it 1v1 MOBA.

I'm curious how 12 workers will work. Are they really cutting down the bases to 6 patches with 1000 minerals each? Or will they put some arbitrary restriction on workers, so #13 will refuse to mine the line?