Man, fuck this game… Protoss is such a bad design and it’s not really fun to play when your on edge the whole damn game…
Yeah, I found some nice Protoss in Code A this season that make protoss look solid. I’m not sure if it’s just their gimmicky play is working or if they’re just that good.
Basically, do double forge quick upgrades. All you have to do is have more units, be better upgraded, and engage properly and you too can win! (</sarcasm>)
When a protoss has to resort to 8 DT drop, it’s sad. Hell even his sentry drops were pretty gas heavy, it’s hillarious but they work all right.
Yeah, I think I saw that vid where the toss player dropped 4 dt’s in the guys main base and took out the zerg hatch. But, that’s kinda gimmicky if you ask me. Toss in general is a gimmicky kinda race. In all three match-ups there are issues.
He actually dropped 4, then warped in 4 more, so gimmicky haha thats like 800 gas. Then he killed the lair, the evo chamber and the roach warren before the overseer morphed. then he saved 4 with his prism, and from there won really easily. All you have to do is risk 800 gas!
See this is why it pays off to play random. I was playing toss but switched to zerg because toss is straight muff cabage right now.
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How long have you been playing rykushi???
And yeah rooster, toss is very interesting to play right now. Hard to figure out the matchups.
Can’t freaking wait…hope Mengsk finally gets his.
Read about some of the HotS unit updates. I’m kind of laughing at how they’re bringing back Dark Swarm for Zerg. That spell still gives me nightmares after all the times I’ve seen it in SC1 matches. IIRC, most of the TvZ metagame in SC1 revolved around Terran doing its best to kill Zerg before defilers came out. . .because once dark swarm/plague came out, terran bio and mech didn’t really do all that much to zerg. Those were sad times, haha.
It’s similar to dark swarm, but not the same. Dark Swarm makes it so any units under the cloud can’t be hit by ranged units; you’d cast it over your zerglings as you move in to prevent them from dying. The new spell is Blinding Cloud, which makes all units under it have a range of 1. So you’d cast it over the pack of marines as you send your banelings in to clean it up.
Similar uses, but a very different ability
About time marines got theirs!
From the sounds of it, it seems like it just turns w/e is underneath into melee units (I’m assuming range 1 is melee range). It’s pretty much like a D-Web except for range units only or a Dark Swarm without the range protection then. Wonder if it’ll hit flyers too. Actually speaking of flyers, since your range units can still attack but only within 1 range, technically they could still shoot flyers too right?
Imma still shaking my head at the Raven’s Point Defense Drone, I still can’t think of a legitimate reason why Terrans would need an opponent-only-mini-Dark-Swarm anyway? =/
Hey sorry for the noob questions but I figured there’s a good handful of you who can answer my questions.
Roach micro w/burrow antics: is this even worth it, or should I skip this whole dance and just tech to mutas? Are they still indispensable a la Brood War? I could never get used to muta micro on bnet lag, I hope things like magic box or stacking are not as important this time around…
Depends on what race you are playing against I suppose. If against toss, then yeah, burrow antics sure. I dunno, just play lots and watch what the pros do.
Muta micro is way easier, no need to have an overlord in a control group plus you can have infinite on one hot key. And magic boxing is as easy as hitting s, letting them spread out, then moving in to attack. All pretty easy to learn.
As for roach burrow antics, burrowed roaches makes my 6 gate timings pretty scary, because then I have to pull back to cannons. But if I’m already getting a robo, then they’re not really that useful. They’re very situational. But I don’t advocate skipping roaches fully, they wreck everything P has from their gateways cost for cost, until stalkers get blink and get microd
When was the last time you played SC2 Pimp??? Ladder?
Season 2, all I play is customs lol. But I told myself I want to ladder this season for sure
So hey I know it’s not about the game directly, but are the Starcraft books good?
I think i’m done with this game until Blizzard does a better job beefing up Protoss. As is, it’s annoying as fuck the way Protoss is designed.
Don’t know, never read the starcraft books but they seem interesting.
I’m also partially frustrated with Protoss, just because they feel so one dimensional. And I don’t think HotS is going to fix much, they give us a nice big unit to deal with Mutas (that will probably be magic boxed anyways lol), an expensive 200/200 unit that can copy any non massive enemy unit (against Terran, probably shredders or Tanks… possibly a medivac) and an APM dump that can disrupt mining for a small amount of time. I’m most excited for the recall ability, since you can save up chronoboost, and move your sentries out of your base without it becoming an all in