I have returned: StarCraft II

[Aylee]

lmao played in a online turrney... got knocked out first round to a bronze player with 91 apm... he 3 gate robo stargate with about 5 phoenixes.... destroyed me with no problem ><

[Eanae]

You probably could have literately done anything at all to kill that lol. <.<

[Aylee]

when doing a 3 gate robo and 4 gate when should i be looking to expand? I know kind of dependent on what opponet is doing but around what time

[Julian]

when doing a 3 gate robo and 4 gate when should i be looking to expand? I know kind of dependent on what opponet is doing but around what time

Depends entirely on the matchup, and the map.

[Correction]

Heart of the Swarm probably won't come until 2013.

Company Outlook
In March 2012, Activision Publishing expects to release the first Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Content Collection, a compilation of content previously released to Call of Duty Elite premium members, on the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft.

The company's first quarter 2012 outlook does not incorporate a new release from Blizzard Entertainment, but its calendar year 2012 outlook anticipates two releases from Blizzard Entertainment. In addition, the company's full year revenue outlook is expected to be impacted by a reduction of about $130 million in revenues from the company's lower margin distribution and affiliate title businesses and a negative year-over-year foreign exchange planning assumption of approximately $200 million.

Diablo 3 is almost certain to hit 2012 (Summer at the latest) and Mists of Pandaria is getting a big media push in March, which I would guess means F&F/Closed Beta is close.

I mean, the leaked 'product slate' already rumored we wouldn't get HotS until Q1 2013, but this is more concrete evidence that it's not far along enough to include in their corporate outlook for this calendar year.

[Sonomaa]

I knew after watching the hots multiplayer unit preview and how most of the changes were pretty unpopular that it would be delayed until 2013. well that and the fact that they said the 2012 bnet tournament would be all in wings

[Salodin]

WHEN WE PLAYING AGAIN?!!

[Aylee]

u never on ; ;

[Eanae]

Been playing tons the last week and havent seen you on at all. The bg channel almost always empty. :/

[Salodin]

I'll be on randomly throughout the day!

[Bweigelt]

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/444...2_10_2012#blog

So wow, some fairly big nerfs to Terran coming in with this patch. Kind of weird that they wait till the game was showing a good balance between the races before implementing them instead of you know putting them in when Terran was dominating everything.

[Pikarya]

Anyone going to the Columbus Winter Championship for MLG this year? About 3 of us already have tickets (from BG) to go.

http://store.majorleaguegaming.com/p...r-championship

[geno]

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/444...2_10_2012#blog

So wow, some fairly big nerfs to Terran coming in with this patch. Kind of weird that they wait till the game was showing a good balance between the races before implementing them instead of you know putting them in when Terran was dominating everything.

Well the mules mining gold thing was pretty much a given already, as most major tournaments already removed golds to the same effect. So it's really only the snipe change and the phoenix upgrade. The phoenix one is pretty much purely PvZ (and imo could end up being way too big).

So the only real big nerf to terran is going to be the snipe change. I think it's only meant to stop those super late game mass-ghost balls which I can understand, but they definitely seem to have approached it wrong. I liked QXC's stance on this, if this was their intention they should have gone for something like 50dmg and then had minus 25 to massive. This would have kept the change exclusive to what they wanted to deal with.

In any case, I don't see any of this doing any real damage to balance of the game. They need to be more concerned with playability and diversity of play then balance. Afterall, the matchmaking system will defeat imbalance on the ladder, and the metagame will defeat it in tournaments. I'm pretty sure we'll still see plenty of terran in the GSL.

[Gredival]

Battlecruisers are already the most powerful capital ship, I feel like this just makes them better. In addition to the whole, capital ships as a whole becoming more viable, which I don't like.

Carriers will cost just 100 minerals over Void Rays now, there's really no reason not to go for Carriers. Voidrays get raped by Yamato and Vikings anyway, Carriers at least have better survivability.

[geno]

Battlecruisers are already the most powerful capital ship, I feel like this just makes them better. In addition to the whole, capital ships as a whole becoming more viable, which I don't like.

Carriers will cost just 100 minerals over Void Rays now, there's really no reason not to go for Carriers. Voidrays get raped by Yamato and Vikings anyway, Carriers at least have better survivability.

Um, are there extra changes I'm not noticing somewhere or patch notes out? What are you referencing here, I only see a small change to mules, ghosts, and phoenixes in the sit report?

[Eanae]

Some new news:

MLG is going ppv only. The winter arena will cost $20 for one weekend and gold membership does NOT get you access. Send a message to MLG that this is not acceptable. Personally I'll be boycotting MLG and pirating all their good games. Sad to see a respectable organization killing itself. Not even EG is in support of MLG right now...

[Julian]

Lol. Guess I'll stop watching the MLG broadcasts. They've been incredibly terrible anyway.

Fuck JP. He's not a bad person, or a SC2 figure, but he is NOT A FUCKING CASTER.

[Gredival]

Um, are there extra changes I'm not noticing somewhere or patch notes out? What are you referencing here, I only see a small change to mules, ghosts, and phoenixes in the sit report?

It was a troll, sorry. Some copy-pasta'd this to me and I never checked myself.

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/4044507131

[Bweigelt]

Well the mules mining gold thing was pretty much a given already, as most major tournaments already removed golds to the same effect. So it's really only the snipe change and the phoenix upgrade. The phoenix one is pretty much purely PvZ (and imo could end up being way too big).

So the only real big nerf to terran is going to be the snipe change. I think it's only meant to stop those super late game mass-ghost balls which I can understand, but they definitely seem to have approached it wrong. I liked QXC's stance on this, if this was their intention they should have gone for something like 50dmg and then had minus 25 to massive. This would have kept the change exclusive to what they wanted to deal with.

In any case, I don't see any of this doing any real damage to balance of the game. They need to be more concerned with playability and diversity of play then balance. Afterall, the matchmaking system will defeat imbalance on the ladder, and the metagame will defeat it in tournaments. I'm pretty sure we'll still see plenty of terran in the GSL.

I agree it won't really make a difference, I was just pointing out the odd timing of the changes. Like Gold mineral patches were removed from most of the tourney maps already and we've seen that have an impact. They aren't suddenly going them put back now just because blizzard made this change way too late.

[Thunder]

But new maps don't have to have the stipulation of "no golds" to be thrown into the "regular" map pools.

This is good. Map diversity is ftw for viewers and casual players