Windows THE bit-tech StarCraft 2 thread

Well just like MLG, IPL 3 has put 3 toss togther in the last 32, so Inori knocks out MC and Huk.

Toss out in the 32:
Socke
HerO
Minigun
KiWiKaKi
MC

Toss out in 16:
White-Ra
Huk

Quater finals
Inori loses 2-1 to stephano.

Semi finals are both terran/Zerg, stephano only non korean left.

Toss still needs work blizzard.

 

So for once it was not a terran vs terran final but a zerg vs zerg where stephano beat lucky 4-0, outplayed him every game.

Nice to see a non-korean win Ipl considering the best of the koreans where present at the event, though last toss went out in the quater finals out of 8 that started in the 32 slot tourney as there was 12 terran and zerg players.

 

Is the IPL available on VODs?

I think terrans have lots of options open to them, so they can really dictate play, whereas tech routes for toss are a lot more expensive/take longer to get to the unit composition you want to get to. Zerg is re-active so its a coin flip if both players have the same skill!

I am going to get flamed for saying that!

Oh - the new Immo's are much better, and there are some sick unit comps for toss that are practically unbeatable - you just have to kill them before they can get to that!

 

Your spot on! No flame needed sadly
Zerg just has to read it properly and hope he has the power/skill.

 

Greetings!

Let’s Play "Guess the new Zerg Unit!"

 

Similar idea to a brood lord, but fires smaller less powerful banelings out of its back.

And for the terran unit a zergling hunting flame version of the thor?

 

Not sure about the brood lord part, it looks like it has a pair of "claws" like the zergling, left side is most obvious.

 

Yeah I think some kind of artillery. Probably just shoots goop though I reckon.

 

That might actually be it, Zerg could use some "artillery"

 

Yes the entire IPL is avaliable on vod, will have to go through a few of the vids to find the games you want as theres about 415 games played.

http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/IGN_ProLeague_Season_3/Main_Tournament#VODs

Bottom of the page is all the vod's.

Also this game has been extremley popular, proably best toss vs zerg game of the year Stephano vs. Kiwikaki game 2- last 6 min in the vid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_KLeMsUvQ8

 

I liked SC2 when I started but I've steadily started hating the ladder. Not do to raging idiots or tryhards, but because frankly once I got past silver everybody was doing the exact same thing. Out of my past 12 games against Zerg and Toss All I've seen from Zerg is Muta Zergling and 3 gate Robo from toss. I know the counters I do them and I win. And it's driving me nuts. Every game plays out exactly the same way. I know going into a game against toss that at 12 minutes 3-4 immortals with a gaggle of stalkers and zealots will be at my wall two emps and the immortals get killed and stalkers melt to my maruders and the toss ggs out. It's making me gg and the start of games just to lower my rank so I can see creativity.

 

sounds like you have been caught in the mediocre place, if it is that easy you will get into gold or diamond, there things start getting better but silver is where people just found one or two good builds XD

begin some 2v2 or 3v3 and you will find quite a few different tactics being used.

 

Greetings!

Leaked at Blizzcon!
Trailer and units.

 

Really not so sure about them
Quite a few sound pretty gimmicky to me; I'll give 'em the benefit of the doubt, but I'm kinda sceptical.

 

Greetings!

Some units are removed:
http://kotaku.com/5852440/how-starcraft-ii-heart-of-the-swarms-new-units-provide-multiplayer-balance

 

Not sure I like this, Zerg air has been pretty much destroyed.

Corrupters no longer able to take on a Viking, Mutas even less useful against Toss wit their new air units.

I no longer see a reason for a Toss not to go air, a few phoenix these new ones and a few voids, how would you counter it? Currupters are too slow, expensive and without corruption too weak. It may be countered with Hydras however I don't ever see a Zerg with air control again.

But all this may be solved with different prices/build times.

But are the Swarm Host hidden while attacking ? because if they are they open up for a few mean strategies XD

 

Can't wait. HOTS gonna be epic.
Not sure why it says "leaked" blizzard themselves said they were being announced and they have.

 

hots should be fun but I really hope they bring better units to protoss. the new units do it solve the problems of protoss (from what i can tell) and will just cause more loses (have you seen the gas cost on all the new units?). cant wait to see how they tweak things coming to beta!!

Also guys check out i44. Its turned into ipl4 EU qualifyer with $15,000 total prizepool :O

http://iseries.multiplay.co.uk/i44/ipl4uk/

 

New Units overal are interesting though can just see terran spamming out the Warhound, against toss as aside from the zealot everythings mechanical which the warhound is desinged to kill.

Battle Hellion counters zealot so looks like toss are nerfed again. Loss of carrier is not to bad as tempest looks like a good addition.
lossing the mothership sucks as its a viable unit for toss in late game.

Shredder is a interesting unit though it will stop zerg ling run bys etc.

Zerg viper takes over overseers role via the eye spell on any friendly unit, wonder if there will be a different colour when dected to show which unit has it.
Vipers smoke is interesting but means more melee focused armies unless the viper is killed first, the pull ability looks crap as pulling collouss off etc and siege tanks is enoying as high investment units get killed straight away.

Swarm host is a interesting unit but why do zerg need to siege they are ment to be a fast replinishing army, goes against what zerg are.

Replicator is interesting but gass heavy like the rest of the new units, oracle is going to be useless needs offence as thats what the other races uses for harras.

Arc shield is interesting but is also protoss cheese, ie build a assmimlator on gas active shield and it kills probes/scvs etc as the arc shield gets a bonus damage to light armoured units.

Ghosts need a emp nerf as it ruins wol atm and will do the same to hots, espeically against toss, since storm only does 80 damage.

Burrowed banelings that can move, basically means that detection will be spammed everywhere.

Overall its not lets how to fix wol, lets add more units in and break the game further, though the one shinning light is the amount of pros avaliable to beta test the crap out of it before general release. So hopefully lots of changes for the better.

 

@CCXO

Where did you find that the baneling will be able to move while burrowed ?

And the unit costs ?