On January 24 2017 23:58 dr3am_b3ing wrote: Did new season go live today on NA? Said the 25th, Blizz sometimes resets a day early though....want to grind when I get home
On January 24 2017 13:44 opisska wrote: I wonder how many hundreds of megabytes i will have to download this time, only for my gameplay experience to stay almost exactly the same as before
Ever played dota2? you basically download 50-200 MB every day, sometimes twice and basically nothing changes.
And your point is? That something is even more stupid is not an excuse to other stupidity.
My favorite part is however how I have to constantly update battle.net itself, even though I do not care about the app at all and it brings me absolutely zero benefits. The arrogance on Blizzard's side towards people with slow internet is endless.
On January 24 2017 13:44 opisska wrote: I wonder how many hundreds of megabytes i will have to download this time, only for my gameplay experience to stay almost exactly the same as before
Ever played dota2? you basically download 50-200 MB every day, sometimes twice and basically nothing changes.
And your point is? That something is even more stupid is not an excuse to other stupidity.
My favorite part is however how I have to constantly update battle.net itself, even though I do not care about the app at all and it brings me absolutely zero benefits. The arrogance on Blizzard's side towards people with slow internet is endless.
We are getting a little bit offtopic here, but want to give my 2cent on the bnet client. I used Teamspeak, then in parallel tried skype for some years, but recently my friends and me started using the bnet clients voice chat and the chatroom. Its pretty nice since you have all in one program and for my part i have to say none of us had any issues using it. It just worked perfectly (well this is just about 20 people so the statistics are not very good ;D). And you do not have to run another program besides the client that you use anyways. So i think blizzard provided something great that is totally underused.
Also if you compare it to any other game. They are all related to steam that you have to start in some way. And i think the bnet client is way more elegant than steam is. Of course this is subjective and everyone has its own opinion about this and i can undestand your hate towards the updates. But somehow you have to get the improvements to the user. And if the game updates or a client...
On January 25 2017 01:57 vik7 wrote: is a balance change happening soon as well?
Last week, David Kim was thinking about testing a change as soon as possible.
This week, he suggested the idea about applying the Liberator nerf to the live game as soon as next week since he doesn't think it should drastically affect other matchups besides TvP.
Why is dayvie still toying with an idea of buffing hydras? Maybe I'm biased, but hydras got buffed indirectly once again by nerfing liberators, and current pvz midgame is already a nightmare for protoss so what's the point?
On January 25 2017 04:16 prabuty wrote: Why is dayvie still toying with an idea of buffing hydras? Maybe I'm biased, but hydras got buffed indirectly once again by nerfing liberators, and current pvz midgame is already a nightmare for protoss so what's the point?
Because the current meta for every zerg matchup is Ling bane (Or mass roach zvz). You sprinkle in hydras in ZvP for anti air, but that's it. You get like 12.
Blizzard probably wants top open up some choices for zerg.
On January 25 2017 06:10 Cheesologist wrote: Looks like I'm not the only one getting a 4 second screen delay at the start of each game. Are they going to fix this anytime soon?
As far as I can tell everyone I've talked to is getting the same problem.
Goodbye Starcraft, playing a game the devs care so few about that the seasonal changes are bringing back old maps which don't even remotely fit the expansions meta.
After many seasons, I can honestly say that this is one awful map pool. And enough of these horrible free natural expansions. Can we go back to actual Starcraft?