Official TBA StarCraft II Thread

[Crabarms]

I got a nydus to work in zvz. The zerg went mass muta and made a ton of spines on his natural. He brings a ton of mutas to my third and he can't do anything because of hydras. I had an overlord in front of his main and just unleashed a bunch of roaches. Killed his lair so he gave up.

http://www.thebackalleys.com/dump/files/555/732o1A_Screenshot2012-03-07%2009_13_05.jpg

He ran his mutas pass that overlord a couple of times which amazes me that it worked.




@Rtil - Yeah if he isn't going to make gateways I should be taking every advantage of that especially if they don't put defensive cannon first.

[rtil]

even if they kill the hatch, the creep is what gets 'em

also, that sounds very similar to a game i played yesterday. the guy was trying to build this ridiculously huge muta ball but i denied harass with hydras and ended up killing him with a roach hydra ball of all things. i really don't like this current metagame of mass mass muta. maybe cuz i was never really good at it. i like my roaches, infestors and brood lords.

[sev]

is anyone else really excited for the idea of creep getting all over buildings?

[rtil]

i'll tell overlords to shit in people's bases just to watch it happen

[Gladius]

yeah that one is fucking horrible you can easily banshee rush and fuck up a terran going marines but like it requires you to abuse cliffs and funnel units between structures and shit

in almost open ground it's next to impossible

suckas

this tactic is completely useless though

in the time it takes you to get banshees a terran player can research stim or grab even a single viking so what is the point

oh yeah and it's so micro intensive your macro will slip into oblivion as well DONE EDITING NOW

[rtil]

i dont even want to know how many tries it took you

[Sinitron]

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/4592755/Developer_Update_with_Game_Director_Dustin_Browder_-3_12_2012

[Gladius]

"One of the most significant additions will be the all new Arcade feature which includes improved custom game visibility, ratings, reviews, game instructions, screenshot support, and more. Patch 1.5 will also include significant improvements throughout the overall user interface, streaming support, antialiasing, editor and modding upgrades, new art tools, and more."



deliver on these promises you fuckers or SO HELP ME i will post irate messages on the forums

[sev]

oh cool, there must be lan updates too, right?

right?


















































right

[Sinitron]

sort of, they were talking about some thing to connect to players closer to you when playing or whatever

[psi43]

So they just announced a release date for diablo 3 (15th of may if anyone cares). I hope this means that the release date for HotS will be set as well, soon.

[cipher]

I'm going to throw it out there and now and guess HoTS will not be out until late summer. I would normally guess later, but judging by the fact they announced D3 like 2 months before it comes out, it's hard to tell.

[rtil]

i'm betting hots release late Q4 2012 or early Q1 2013

[Sinitron]

no way in hell

they're losing viewers already to league of legends (of all things shitty)

blizzard needs to step it into high gear or risk a stagnant or declining esports scene

[rtil]

they will never be able to compete with LoL for a host of reasons, two of the most important are that sc2 is not f2p and sc2 will never have LAN. realeasing HotS wont change anything, if not for a brief spike in popularity

[Gladius]

blizzard makes more money and vastly superior games so everything is a-ok

league's just a coffee break game

[Gladius]

open sesame? ...pretty please?

[psi43]

they will never be able to compete with LoL for a host of reasons, two of the most important are that sc2 is not f2p and sc2 will never have LAN. realeasing HotS wont change anything, if not for a brief spike in popularity

not sure if you're trying to imply that LoL has lan possibilities, but if so; LoL doesn't have LAN either.
I think one of the main reasons is that LoL gets major uptades on almost a bi-weekly basis.

[rtil]

there's a TL thread with a ton of major reasons why sc2 can't compete with LoL, frequent updates is not one of them. in fact frequent updates can sometimes be a bad thing, especially if it involves balance changes. some other reasons:

• sc2 minimum specs much higher than bw - bw can run on almost any machine, sc2 cant, sk pc's are mostly old
  
• not as easy to register with sc2 in sk - you need your sk social security # and a bunch of other shit to login, not everyone has it on them or remembers it so they just go back to playing bw at pc bangs
  
• blizzard pissed off kespa and almost single handedly killed the competitive scene in sk
  

[Sinitron]

kespa pissed off blizzard actually by pirating and altering their game in the first place