Official TBA StarCraft II Thread

[Sinitron]

butt

also 1.5 is apparently out

i got a tychus findlay marine figure to put on my shelf with the WoL collector's edition

[Gladius]

1.5 out with tons of tasty enhancements to menus, gameplay and editor go grab it 

[rtil]

it's ugly but it's better

[psi43]

can someone sum up the most important 1.5 patch notes?

[psi43]

i've been 8 pooling all protoss recently with excellent results. i've won probably 90% of those games.

steady 8-pooling attacks (pulsating) or all in with workers? I always seemed to get better results when I wasn't all-inning, because it was the pulsating attacks that crippled my opponent at first and degraded his ability to come back more and more with each attack.

[rtil]

lings until 16 supply, overlord and then queen. if it fails you've pretty much lost but i have transitioned out of it once after i killed enough workers to basically "reset" the game

[Sinitron]

hots apparently delayed until 2013 BIG FUCKIN SURPRISE

but it's like 99% done mostly bugsquashing and polishing left

[rtil]

Not big surprise.

[cipher]

I always thought it was coming out in 2013 anyways. Didn't blizzard say they had two releases planned for this year anyways? Those thus being D3 and the next WoW expansion.



...Or was that something that was just a rumor/leak and not an official announcement? I don't even remember...

[rtil]

the arcade will keep me thoroughly entertained until then

[psi43]

Didn't they say the same thing about Cataclysm and then they released it around Christmas to take over the market? I think they did that more than once but i'm not sure.

either way, I'm fine with 2013.

[Sinitron]

christmas 2013

pwned by yi

[rtil]

World class gamer: Inside the life of pro-gamer MVP

[Crabarms]

Changed name to GilTurtle friend code is 502.

[rtil]

there is this new game out on the arcade called photon discs, it is basically TRON the game in starcraft 2. you are a zealot in 3rd person camera view, you get 3 discs to toss at enemy players to kill them, as well as a lightcycle speed booster which you can run people over with, a shield, and a melee attack. it is fucking fun and awesome. the controls are the best i've seen in a 3rd person sc2 custom so far.

edit: actually it's not so new, it's been around for a long time. but it popped up today in upcoming games, so the lobby filled up really fast.

[rtil]

somehow i've found myself back in diamond, peaked at rank 11 last night. i  can't believe i'm saying this but i think i'm a better cheeser than i am a macro player. i like early aggression and trying to surprise my enemy. it's really exciting to play that way. even if it doesn't end the game, i've still won longer games. i just got really bored of sitting around waiting to see who maxed out first and clashing max supply armies.

[cipher]

Yeah I'm kind of the opposite, I find those long games to be much more entertaining than the ones that are over in less than 10 mins. Matter of fact I really don't like those short ones at all, whether I'm winning or losing.

The only downside to that is that all my games end up being long, and thus I need to devote more time to playing if I want to maintain a high rank, which I don't always have the time to do.

[Crabarms]

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/6873704/

*testing it on Antiga Shipyard 1.5.0 Balance v1.0,

Creep tumor build radius, vision radius, and creep spread radius decreased from 10 to 8

Raven movement speed increased from 2.25 to 2.5.

[rtil]

oh god. creep tumor change isn't too bad i guess. but ravens are already devastatingly powerful. i cringe to think of all the mass raven builds people are going to use if they get buffed.

[cipher]

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