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my highest terran apm game ever!

Happy 18th birthday Taeja!

Hyun streaming right now, a support Hyun tournament. Streaming as QuanticHyun for some reason.....

Blizz considering another balance test map with...
- photon overcharge reduced from 60 to 40 seconds
- roach burrow movement speed increased
- something to buff mech even more, because I guess it's still not viable when you get free 3/3 air armies?

Also, I recommend Zergs check out this guy's stream: http://www.twitch.tv/ns_grinkers

He lives in Japan so he gets really good ping on KR and is masters there and does excellent commentary on his games. The other day he was talking about some stuff that apparently all pros do that I'd never even heard of - hotkeying individual hatcheries so that drones always come from the hatch you're trying to drone up, and overlords always come from your main.

All of those changes are so ****ing terrible lol. Photon overcharge is honestly one of the least troublesome aspects of the MSC. The 14 vision range empowering blink all-ins or the ability to make what should be a game-ending mistake and get out for free due to recall both seem like much bigger issues. Obviously I'm biased because I'm Zerg and don't play TvP or PvP though.

And roach burrow will always be nothing more than a gimmick strat (at least in PvZ, and I don't see any use for it in other matchups). By the time you actually have the upgrade, you're getting close to the point in the game where roaches really fall off a cliff in terms of usefulness because the toss is getting their tech units out. It can't ever really be part of a long-term strategy because roaches shouldn't ever be part of a long-term strategy. Besides, it doesn't even need a buff because it's a strong strategy. It's definitely all-in, but a Stephano-style roach build with burrow move is very strong IMO.

Edit: And I've never heard of or seen any pros do what that guy described either. It's easy enough to just individually rally eggs to various mineral lines for drones or off in a corner somewhere for overlords.

+1 to all of this

lol blizzard again... Pretty much what Narwhal said. I do think photon overcharge lasts way too long and is too effective, but yeah they really need to increase the energy cost of recall, or make the radius smaller so it's not just a giant freeroll when playing protoss.

If they buff mech I'm going to lose my mind. They want to buff it to be used for tvp but holy ****, some of the mech strategies vs zerg are ridiculous. I played a guy who went turtle tank, cloaked banshees into a late game comp of thor, banshee, hellbat, viking, battlecrusier... Couldn't fight his army, couldn't base trade/break him with all his tanks he had at home. Talked to a bunch of high-level people and their consensus was 'Kill him before he gets to that comp'. Guess I have to roach drop every time I scout factories and pray they can't multitask?

Just played a game today on one of the new maps, please tell me that stupid mineral/gas geyser glow is only on that one map, and not all of them? It's obnoxious.

From P perspective, I think Time Warp is, unneccessary spell and could be removed. Also, the cost of recall can be made higher so you cannot planetary nexus after recall. But I understand why they rather nerf PO than recall/timewarp, because they want the game to be more actionpacked than always "3base macro then lets go and meet middle" -type. I think the duration nerf is fine, but I would not be againts energy cost increase either.

However, nerfs to PO might brake PvP, which was in my mind in perfect state, but after oracle buff...

photon overcharge nerf

I placed into plat for the new season. I've become pretty bad at this game since starting a new job back in October.

as long as someone stays better than goofy the world is right

What are your guys' thoughts on the new maps?

Think I'm vetoing Heavy Rain, it seems really easy for Terrans in TvZ - perfect for reaper harass and too easy for Terran to set up their army in striking distance of your 3rd and 4th where you have to kinda split your army and play perfectly to defend.

Daedalus/Habitation seem alright.

photon overcharge is plain ridiculous early on. almost impossible to pressure toss early

In the new season, we have...
- ZvP: 2-5. My favorite was some tard who just built cannons at all 3 bases (never tried to take a 4th) while massing void rays and carriers w/ a mothership; I tried to get hydras/infestors/corruptors ready, wasn't even close to holding when he moved across the map, lol protoss
- ZvT: 3-8, standard badness

ZvZ imba

You are tard for not utilizing best weapon in zerg arsenal vs that. Swarm Host.

I thought about that after but I think he just continues to turtle using his skytoss/nexus cannon/etc to defend and the SHs are a total waste of supply once he moves out. I think I needed vipers.

There is no way Protoss holds Swarmhost without aoe. Pair them up with mass queens. Queen best zerg antiair.

the thing is that while he is turtling and defending against your free units, you are accumulating a bank of like 10k/5k

so even if SHs are directly not great vs skytoss, the freedom they afford you makes them great

Registration problems at WCS NA. Lol NA!

QPM > APM

GOM TV Classic season 4 announced, BW4life

yellow and sea[shield], mother****ers!

Also, Jangbi, maybe Bisu, probably Killer and Hiya since they are doing the Afreeca thing. Too bad it's Ro8, but that's probably appropriate since a few fan favorites are playing SC2. Too bad savior is hated, otherwise it would be even sicker if he played.

Excite!

MenSol[ZerO] pls

Oh jeez, how could I forget about Zer0...