That sucks. I thought they had that balanced.
That sucks. I thought they had that balanced.
I asked someone on twitter what you're supposed to do as a Zerg if the Terran gets a big ball of Thor/Hellbat/Viking. He watches even more Pro SC2 than I do, is a channel mod for Day9, etc, etc.
His first response was an image link to this:
Which I admit made me laugh.
He also mentioned that Infestors are now essentially just wasted supply once you see the Terran going mech. The fungal nerf means you can fungal and fungal and fungal some more and they'll just laugh at you and keep coming.
His one suggestion was, if you can manage it, go Viper/Ultralisk and hit the entire center of the ball with blinding cloud. Which I guess could work if you have great control, but so far all I've managed to do with Vipers is throw a bunch of clouds out that seem to do nothing and watch my army melt anyway
Someone else suggested Swarm Host/Corruptor as a good combo, but Swarm Hosts are another thing I've had no luck at all with so far. I build them and they kind of annoy the other person for a few minutes until they get just annoyed enough to throw out a scan and then the swarm hosts all die in about two seconds.
Against Thor Mech ball, you have to use Abduct or whatever that crap is and whittle down as much as possible. The Cloud/Rush in tactic is sort of that final push you do (And I have not often seen Ultras in that combo, still too slow, clunky, and more important dumb-ass pathing).
Well, the thing with Ultras in HOTS is that they got a pretty big damage buff over WOL, at least I think they did. I was actually trying for that exact combination in one game, but got to Ultras too late. They take so incredibly long to build that it went like this. See the push leaving his base thanks to a burrowed ling near his natural. Build a ton of Ultras. I think I built 12 or 13. I started hitting the ball with Fungals early on, hit the front lines of it with fungal regularly on its entire path across the map, working down the health the whole way. Ball kills my fourth. Then my third. And then is IN MY NATURAL when the Ultras start spawning.
That was my last game.
Are we posting HotS news here? Because:
ahahahhahahaha.
the trailer...
Spoiler:i was like 'wait... huh? wtf?' until.... ITS A DREAM!!!!
ok.. sure there's NO WAY the zerg wouldn't have gotten COMPLETELY and UTTERLY f*cked from getting into a choke like that. of COURSE, kerrigan was f*cking dreaming.
lol, it was hilarious to see how Ultras exist in Blizzard's ever so imaginative mind.
cool trailer still though. ;p
The trailers have always been more along those lines, with massive Battleships and such. I imagine that canonically it would be the gameplay itself that's abstracted, rather than the other way around.
In WoL the cutscenes showed Kerrigan killing Hydralisks with a single bullet, which certainly never worked in StarCraft. I've always taken the view Redwing posits, that the game is the abstraction.
Science Vessels are apparently the size of a small moon. Some of the missions in the original game take place on one.
New patch for the beta adds group watching of replays and the ability to resume a game from a replay.
It apparently rewrites significant portions of code to accomplish those updates though, as you basically have to redownload the entire beta. The "patch" is over 8 gigs.
New patch for the beta adds group watching of replays and the ability to resume a game from a replay.
It apparently rewrites significant portions of code to accomplish those updates though, as you basically have to redownload the entire beta. The "patch" is over 8 gigs.
Can you resume a replay against an AI opponent? I'd like to be able to set up some replays where someone executes a few cheeses and then I can replay them over and over against the computer.
Thin_J wrote:New patch for the beta adds group watching of replays and the ability to resume a game from a replay.
It apparently rewrites significant portions of code to accomplish those updates though, as you basically have to redownload the entire beta. The "patch" is over 8 gigs.
Can you resume a replay against an AI opponent? I'd like to be able to set up some replays where someone executes a few cheeses and then I can replay them over and over against the computer.
I don't remember seeing anything about that in the patch notes. Just talked about doing it with players IIRC. There's a post on TL and a blog up about it on Battle.net if you want to check them out to see for sure.
PWAlessi wrote:Thin_J wrote:New patch for the beta adds group watching of replays and the ability to resume a game from a replay.
It apparently rewrites significant portions of code to accomplish those updates though, as you basically have to redownload the entire beta. The "patch" is over 8 gigs.
Can you resume a replay against an AI opponent? I'd like to be able to set up some replays where someone executes a few cheeses and then I can replay them over and over against the computer.
I don't remember seeing anything about that in the patch notes. Just talked about doing it with players IIRC. There's a post on TL and a blog up about it on Battle.net if you want to check them out to see for sure.
Ok, thanks. Regardless, it's an awesome feature for noobs like me. After one of you guys smoke me, we can go back, watch the carnage, and you can narrate how you smoked me.
Terran is fun.
The best thing about Terran so far is that TvT is a way less ridiculous mirror matchup than ZvZ is from a player's perspective. The early game in particular is almost leisurely in comparison.
Not dealing with ling/baneling micro wars is just the best.
I'm sure this will backfire on me slightly the first time I fail miserably to split marines against banelings or something, but for the moment it is pure win.
So I am guessing that patch where they tried to end the near mandatory reaper vs reaper wars worked?
The damage nerf was fairly huge. I believe it stopped pretty much immediately after that patch hit.
*Also worth noting, they added all the additional AI difficulty levels in to the beta. There's a lot of options there now where you can direct what kind of build they try and whether they focus on econ or aggression or whatever.
Just received a notice this morning that the 'publisher changed the release date' for my Heart of the Swarm pre-order. Not seeing anything online about the official release date changing- can anyone confirm?
Just received a notice this morning that the 'publisher changed the release date' for my Heart of the Swarm pre-order. Not seeing anything online about the official release date changing- can anyone confirm?
I haven't gotten anything like that from Amazon.
Dax wrote:Just received a notice this morning that the 'publisher changed the release date' for my Heart of the Swarm pre-order. Not seeing anything online about the official release date changing- can anyone confirm?
I haven't gotten anything like that from Amazon.
There's reports of some Amazon orders getting this email message. There is a post on the Blizzard forums that says the release date is unchanged but doesn't mention what's up with Amazon.
I added a bunch of you guys in HoTS this morning. I'm hoping to get some time in (and some practice) with the beta before it ends.
Pikey, I couldn't find your BN ID.
The beta just won't work for me. It showed up in my available list of games so I downloaded it but a I get an error message when I log in. Something about it not matching with my region (US).
The beta just won't work for me. It showed up in my available list of games so I downloaded it but a I get an error message when I log in. Something about it not matching with my region (US).
Yeah, I get an error every time that I log in that says that I need to switch regions or something. But, it still just let's me log in as usual.
Preview cinematic dropped today.
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