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Dug up Age of Mythology, played a few games against a friend and some co-ops. Would play again (esp HD).

Well pal, I like the game and I think it works on a competitive level. I don't think any of it is really a whine. There's areas where I think the game could improve. Sorry if I offended anyone! Chris here smells a bit of what the Rock is cookin at least.

You say I'm asking for chess on a monopoly board but I'm not. You realize sc2 has things like nydus, drop ships, air units etc. Things that all SHOULD work as balanced between the races on an island game, but they don't. What DOES work is checkers on a chess board right now. Deathball vs...

For the last year and a half I took off from SC2. "The races are balanced against each other on certain types of maps" -> make all the maps this way. It's fine I guess but after 200 games, it gets a little stale.

I would but no real effort was ever made to preserve any kind of balance on those maps. Woulda been nice if they did.

So island maps are bad design? :P I disagree. I think races being non viable on island maps is bad design! My favorite WC2 maps involved taking bases on other islands, or even better, raiding another island and taking it as your base after you wiped it out.

I'm told this is taking a "patch everything approach" and bad design :P.

Glad you were able to completely deconstruct my argument and best me Ago

Where is this "triple A talent" that has been making these MMO's I "haven't been able to stop talking about" recently? Pfft. Still smells like a WoW clone with a bunch of wishy washy features. I'll give him one thing. Everytime an MMO failed (read: turned out to be another WoW clone or...

If I don't see a scouting scv from most terran, I expect reaper(s)

What's the point of T1 units then? Not trying to tech rush like a noob and getting stomped! Working on gaining early map control! I also don't see the problem with an upgrade that's really only good on island maps to balance out problems a race has on them. I don't see that as fail, it...

All I'm saying is this current meta game and balance changes that do result from it is all about maps being a certain way with little variety. It's also becoming a bio ball vs bio ball fest. Am I insane to think that the T3 units in bulk should in almost every case stomp t1 units? I mean look...

Oh I definitely had my share of island maps in SC1 games that mattered. SC1 didn't give you a "free" natural every game. And all expansions didn't have both gas and minerals. Point stands! I blame "the vision".

Re: my comment on island map, it appears as this whole game is being balanced around the "you get your base and a natural then a bunch of other shit is out there" map template style, which really is a shame. They've strayed a little TOO far from SC 1 in terms of "game for the masses". SC1...

Boy I will tell you what. You really can't use colossus effectively on island maps. Templar defense against terran drop is key imo lol.

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Yeah tempest could get stupid on that lol. I think I'm going to go through the maps and make some custom games, see if I get any nibbles on island maps and funky stuff for a change of pace.

Pretty mad about the lack of island maps tbh

Think Pyros said exactly what needed to be said in the drow vs PL debate

The order move then shift+deploy on siege tank is pretty lawls. It can still require some micro and there's better ways to position them... they just aren't the sc1 rape machines I loved. They are extremely prominent in terran v terran but I'm just not using them in other matchups.

This is a major problem in my opinion. Siege tanks and caster units should be more powerful but harder to micro. A true master can use them all seemlessly. There's a reason the real die hards are playing Broodwar still. Same reason I think some people still play chess, they just love the...

Great advice earlier: if DotA is making you mad, take a break and come back when more heros and balancing are done.

Well, look at lock down on the ghosts of SC1. Insanely powerful, harder to micro all of it, 2 per ghost if full energy with only 25s of stealth + 2 lock down if full energy. Ghosts were also 75m 25g in that I believe. I think the templar is probably fine though, with storms even being on the...

I think it needed a radius nerf, but probably an improvement to how much shield/energy it strips , how much energy is costs to fire the emp, or make ghosts easier to mix into your army somehow. Pretty sad lil unit for the micro it takes to really use it. Templar is just as much a pain to get...

Remove smart casting on ghosts/templars, make them more powerful :P. Shit, do something. I really don't like the ghost just being this "reactive against casters" unit. With the current emp blast radius, I don't know if making it remove all shields/energy would ruin everything at this point...

For the double! I just wanted to be able to use these without them having templar, but I feel like what's the point now that I really thought things through. What a shame! Ghost needs a rework imo... in SC1 I'd build templar really every game because you traded power for required micro...

Yeah I guess I'm trying to get them in while I'm building my 3rd. They always seem to attack when its 3rd time, so, yeah I think I need to put ghosts off until the later game unless he goes hard templar/archon (I've seen this shit lol) over colossus. I definitely know from being a toss that...

General observation based on current community/talking to friends: I notice a lot of players that just watch streams and are scared to just dip a toe in and grind games. If people just played more games and went up the traditional route of playing by feel, you'd also have less people run...

Maybe we are just good at harass/deny. PL is definitely crazy now in the right hands, don't let me steer anything away from that. When he gets rolling he reminds me of early vanilla Naix in terms of "you won't be able to fuck with this bud". I dunno, I just see paying strict attention to...

Look up builds for each race, watch YouTube vids of them. Practice builds on AI until you can regularly beat 'Harder' AI. Then queue up some unranked, watch your replays to see where you are floating money and where other races are at various points. Profit.

Never had trouble laning with my buddy against PL as long as we used dust and played a strong duo lane. Sven + Lion is good for hurtin em.

TvT just turns into a game of comstats + tanks and drops for me so far. Failure for opponent to build tanks is an auto loss so far for them.

Some people play to play, not to improve. I wish I could be one of those people but I have the disease.

Yeah I could (or at least it looked like I could on multiple attempts) but they're funky. I couldn't get it to fire immediately on a click, it has that weird arming time. I imagine its "hacked" in there like some kind of invisible very slow turn radius? Shrug. Maybe sploitable some how by...

Ancient App + CK is way meaner. Iirc the bonus from freezy touch (cast it before illusions) goes to minions but the attack slow does not. Couple that with magic damage buff from slow + double stun (you will get double stun unless you fail horribly at basic motor functions) = gg son.

Good thread on widow mines and how they work: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/view...opic_id=403878 nice change of pace from the drivel

Will be available on PS4 along with offline mode. Sorry, had to. Edit: Great, now I've rustled my own jimmies.

Fixed one for some old dude at a car dealership in Texas. He was in way over his head, and I'm a sucker for impossible technical tasks. He was forever grateful.

As a converted Terran player, glad to see a zerg who knows what he is doing highlight what the race is still very capable of doing. Speedlings are fucking sick if used right!

This final delivers. Puts a lot of the balancing undera microscope as well. Pretty happy with HotS. Break in case of living under a rock emergency. (Spoilered for "break for" analogy not any kind of plot reveal or outcome)