I actually remembered this morning that I had another game last night exactly like that:



also came back and won (obv helps in this one that he was on 2 bases, not 3). This Protoss never made detection so once I finally got lurkers out (lurker den is soooo slow to morph and I wasn't ready until he killed my 3rd and my 4th) he couldn't attack into me. That didn't stop him from trying, and not too long after...



Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

Every single TvZ in the most recent GSL group opened with 3rax reaper. Plz nerf Blizzard, it's so dumb.

Last night's GSL group has phenomenal games in the loser's match. Players in spoiler:

Finally getting caught up to this... Oh my god these games!

Hero v TY iem was great just now.

SC Remastered launch event going on in Korea right now, with Flash/Bisu/Jaedong showmatches, following on from TheBoy/Grrr, Boxer/Yellow, Nada/Reach

Halle ****ing lujah, there's resource banks and supply counts for observers! Could use production tabs too but this is better than what I was expecting.

Tasteless: BISU DOESN'T SEE THIS DROP COMING, THIS IS CRAZY!
Bisu: is up 50 supply
Bisu: stays up 50 supply
JD: gg

Starcraft as it should be, at last!

GSL vs the World starts tonight - no idea how they made this bracket and why Major gets to play Kelazhur in the first round while poor Scarlett has to play TY?

Bo5 16 player single elimination bracket w/ Bo7 finals:

Stats vs. Hero
Major vs. Kelazhur

Innovation vs. Iasonu
Serral vs. Byun


Neeb vs. sOs
TY vs. Scarlett

Nerchio vs. Dark
Soo vs. Showtime

Day9's hosting a Remastered launch event this evening/tomorrow featuring G5/Draco/Ret/Nyoken/White-Ra/Incontrol/Legionnaire/Artosis

rofl white-ra v incontrol on python close spawns

One of my favorite ways to troll plat league Terrans is to induce them to make bad decisions about where to spend their APM. I sent 6 lings after this guy's first reaper and he spent about a minute straight microing the reaper to kill every ling. Result:



#WORTH #MICROGOD

Major balance changes coming to SC2 - being tested now, to eventually go live after Blizzcon



Proposed changes:
general:
- make it harder to starve someone out on 2 bases (wtf, WHY?): increase minerals and gas at bases by 12.5%

Terran:
- MULEs can harvest vespene gas, 10 per trip (WHY GOD WHY WTF)
- raven being totally redesigned - all abilities scrapped, new ones are a.) disable mechanical unit weapons & abilities for short period b.) drop a repair drone that repairs units in a radius for a short time c.) seeker missile that does only 30 splash damage but also decreases armor of units by 3 temporarily
- widow mines can be seen without detection while weapon is reloading
- cloak is no longer an upgrade for ghosts, they start with it automatically and start with 50 energy instead of 75 (upgrade to give them +25 starting energy will be added back)
- liberator gets small vision change (can see target circle but doesn't get increased version when using target mode)
- cyclone's anti-air lock on does faster damage at first, cyclones get an upgrade to make lock-on do +armor damage
- adding mech upgrade to let thor, hellion/hellbat, viking transform modes more rapidly

Protoss:
- mothership core is DELETED
- chrono boost goes back to Nexus, mass recall is now cast by Nexuses (so I guess P armies can move between several Nexuses at will once you have lots of bases and energy saved up??? although armies will no longer be able to move or fire for 4 seconds when being recalled), new shield battery mechanic that can charge nearby buildings for energy
- stalker weapon redesigned to keep overall damage the same but shoot less often and do more damage, making it better vs. units with armor; also will increase +2 in damage per weapon upgrade rather than +1
- disruptor being changed so that the ball explodes as soon as it hits something
- colossus changed to do less damage vs normal units but more damage vs light units; starts with 7 range instead of 6 (still has 9 after thermal lance)
- interceptor cost for carriers increased from 10 -> 15 minerals
- MAKE HIGH TEMPLARS EASY AGAIN (that's literally their explanation): "To do this we are adding a very low damage auto attack to the High Templar, like in the campaign. This will keep the High Templar further back during fights and avoid its charging heedlessly into danger." - give it a ****ty attack that does 4 damage every 1.25 seconds at a range of 6, because microing them is too hard otherwise apparently
- add "surveillance mode" to observers; causes it to stay fixed in place but gain 25% more vision (rationale is also easier micro; that way moving your army with F2 won't move observers also, lol Blizzard)

Zerg:
- fungal no longer hits air; units hit by fungal will be slowed, not rooted, if they're hit off-creep (on-creep behavior will be the same)
- Infested Terrans given a better anti-air weapon that takes priority over their (now-weakened) ground weapon, and they benefit from upgrades again
- Lurker Den now a separate building that requires Hydralisk Den; added an upgrade for lurkers that makes them burrow and move faster
- Parasitic Bomb damage is tripled (60 to 180) but no longer stacks
- Overseers get the same "surveillance mode" as observers which is weird because nobody uses overseers like that
- swarm hosts move slower off creep

feels like they're just clicking buttons at this stage

Blizzard officially saying Protoss is the easy amove race with not one, but two changes designed to keep F2 monkeys from having to learn how to micro LOLOLOLOLOL. The observer changer probably won't matter because people who are bad enough to use F2 are probably also bad enough to continuously forget to switch modes, but that HT change is utter garbage.

Also, that recall on nexus better have a long, shared cooldown, otherwise welcome back the "Protoss turtle on 3 bases than amove a maxed deathball to victory" meta.

Qualifiers for ASL 4 (now featuring the highest winning prize in BW history) going on

Auto seeds from ASL 3 (4) - Flash, Shine, Bisu, Soulkey
Qualifiers from Seoul (12) - hero, Sea, Last, Mini, Best, Jaedong, Effort, Shuttle, Light, Rain, Larva, Ssak
Qualifiers from Daegu (6) - Stork, Ample, Miso, Mong, Sharp, Mind
Final qualifier for the last 6 spots is in Busan tomorrow Korea time

Fun to note that soo played, and got smacked up by Snow and s2

Final qualifiers: Lazy, Sky, Rush, Hiya, Snow and FBH

ASL4 gonna be

Groups:

Sea-Sky, Larva-Light (10th)
Last-Where (Miso), sSak-Stork (11th)
Effort-Lazy, Mind-Rush (12th)
Sharp-Mini, Jaedong-Hiya (17th)
Best-Ample, Mong-Rain (18th)
Shuttle-FBH, hero-Snow (19th)

All series are on Gold Rush, Crossing Field and Fighting Spirit, first two are new 3 and 2 player maps respectively so probably going to see some cheesing

Are they broadcasting with Remastered graphics/interface?

Would assume so

Sea replaced by Killer because Sea did silly things while drank

specifically, being a creep and assaulting a woman

Korean article I can't read but it has gifs

TL thread

Aw ****

ASL not on Twitch/YouTube because Blizzard/Afreeca are ruining esports