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 Kal_rA   United States. August 17 2012 08:21. Posts 2442
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On August 17 2012 07:09 Forikorder wrote:

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seriously?

the only way to get creep fast enough is to delay your spawning pool heavily to get out the early evo and even then you probably wont have creep spread in time to actually do anything worthwhile unless you want to spine rush

Yeah also +1 is slowed as a result.. And your forced to invest in evo chamber which sometimes people delay till later. Youy can't use your evo for two things like you could for protoss FFE in bw (get +1 and cannons at the same time).

Yeah you can get spores but lets be real.
Jaedong 2012.
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 BeeNu   August 17 2012 08:28. Posts 615
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Guys I think you are overlooking something here, what about Spine rushes against Terran? Just totally fuck their wall at the top of the ramp with your Overlord vision, outrange Bunkers, flood in with Speedlings once the wall falls.

I've already come up with half a dozen ways to cheese in hots, if I get in beta that's all I'm going to do.

MY BODY IS SO READY FOR THIS EXPANSION.
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 blade55555   United States. August 17 2012 08:29. Posts 14087
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On August 17 2012 08:28 BeeNu wrote:
Guys I think you are overlooking something here, what about Spine rushes against Terran? Just totally fuck their wall at the top of the ramp with your Overlord vision, outrange Bunkers, flood in with Speedlings once the wall falls.

I've already come up with half a dozen ways to cheese in hots, if I get in beta that's all I'm going to do.

MY BODY IS SO READY FOR THIS EXPANSION.


Err that won't be hard for terran to defend. Marines + bunker + repair = problem solved .
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 Forikorder   August 17 2012 08:32. Posts 5172
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On August 17 2012 08:28 BeeNu wrote:
Guys I think you are overlooking something here, what about Spine rushes against Terran? Just totally fuck their wall at the top of the ramp with your Overlord vision, outrange Bunkers, flood in with Speedlings once the wall falls.

I've already come up with half a dozen ways to cheese in hots, if I get in beta that's all I'm going to do.

MY BODY IS SO READY FOR THIS EXPANSION.

how is the OV gonna survive long enough to spread creep?

and what if they get hellions+marines thent he hellions jsut toast the lings and the marines kill the spines before they even finish
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 Buchan   Canada. August 17 2012 08:33. Posts 149
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So is Protoss getting any new upgrades in HoTS? Like terran is getting reaper regen and battlecruiser speed while zerg is getting the hydra speed upgrade etc. Kinda seems like Protoss is getting the short end of the stick in HoTS.
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 blade55555   United States. August 17 2012 08:35. Posts 14087
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On August 17 2012 08:33 Buchan wrote:
So is Protoss getting any new upgrades in HoTS? Like terran is getting reaper regen and battlecruiser speed while zerg is getting the hydra speed upgrade etc. Kinda seems like Protoss is getting the short end of the stick in HoTS.


I dunno man mothership core seems really really good imo. Recall, 60 fps cannon thingy when activated for 20 seconds and instantly put energy on a unit/nexus.

Sounds pretty good to me and don't think protoss is really getting the short end of the stick other then their new units are kinda dumb.
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 HelloSon   United States. August 17 2012 08:37. Posts 387
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On August 17 2012 08:32 Forikorder wrote:

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how is the OV gonna survive long enough to spread creep?

and what if they get hellions+marines thent he hellions jsut toast the lings and the marines kill the spines before they even finish

yeah, T usually has map control in the early game where this spine crawler rush could be viable.
yo
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 Shiori   August 17 2012 08:37. Posts 2816
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On August 17 2012 08:17 Forikorder wrote:

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just complete the wall before the OV can get there and its problem solved

now PvZ is equal on both sides, we cant hatch first becasue youll pylon block and you cant nexus first because well creep block the wall


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they shoot down the intercepters and live another day?

Nexus first isn't the equivalent of Hatch first, because Protoss doesn't get production from Nexus first. Even if we do wall off, though, you can just send the Overlord to the Nexus position, spit Creep, and delay it. Pretty much no matter what happens, the Overlord is going to end up blocking something. because you don't finish the wall-off that early unless you go like Gateway Forge Cannon Pylon before Nexus, which is super uneconomical.

You already have a response to Nexus first. It's called doing an early pool build. You don't need another one. Evo chamber might delay you a bit, but it sure as hell doesn't delay you as much as Forge/Cannon/Gate/Pylon before Nexus does to complete a wall-off.

In what universe is Protoss favoured economically in PvZ? I mean, it's not like Nexus firsting gives Protoss a massive advantage over a standard 14 Pool, as opposed to Hatch First which is way better than Nexus first, hence why it's punishable. The reason is that Protoss has to delay production to Nexus first, whereas Zerg produces from Hatcheries, so their timing is unaffected.

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 blade55555   United States. August 17 2012 08:39. Posts 14087
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On August 17 2012 08:37 Shiori wrote:

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Nexus first isn't the equivalent of Hatch first, because Protoss doesn't get production from Nexus first. Even if we do wall off, though, you can just send the Overlord to the Nexus position, spit Creep, and delay it. Pretty much no matter what happens, the Overlord is going to end up blocking something. because you don't finish the wall-off that early unless you go like Gateway Forge Cannon Pylon before Nexus, which is super uneconomical.

You already have a response to Nexus first. It's called doing an early pool build. You don't need another one.

In what universe is Protoss favoured economically in PvZ? I mean, it's not like Nexus firsting gives Protoss a massive advantage over a standard 14 Pool, as opposed to Hatch First which is way better than Nexus first, hence why it's punishable. The reason is that Protoss has to delay production to Nexus first, whereas Zerg produces from Hatcheries, so their timing is unaffected.




Korea pvz is favoring toss (and has been past 3 months).
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 Shiori   August 17 2012 08:40. Posts 2816
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On August 17 2012 08:39 blade55555 wrote:

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Korea pvz is favoring toss (and has been past 3 months).


Hasn't got shit to do with Nexus first. Almost every KR Toss does a 2base all-in in PvZ, and, frankly, a lot of KR Zergs have been slumping pretty hard recently (DRG, Nestea, Symbol all playing bad lately). Don't think it really makes sense to call PvZ Toss favoured when basically no Protoss is very consistent in it outside of coinflipping with builds.

By the way, a 52% advantage in a tiny sample size isn't exactly what I'd call "favouring" in any real sense.
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 Xenocryst   United States. August 17 2012 08:40. Posts 519
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I feel like all masters players should get free keys, of course I am biased though :\
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 Arnstein   August 17 2012 08:43. Posts 2611
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I know that I won't get beta, as I never do, but I can't wait to see content from those who do!
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 Grumbels   Netherlands. August 17 2012 08:44. Posts 3415
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Yeah, I wonder what players will be streaming HotS though. I don't think IdrA and Stephano will, for instance.
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 KimJongChill   United States. August 17 2012 08:46. Posts 6424
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On August 17 2012 08:44 Grumbels wrote:
Yeah, I wonder what players will be streaming HotS though. I don't think IdrA and Stephano will, for instance.


I know Destiny would!
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 BeeNu   August 17 2012 08:46. Posts 615
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On August 17 2012 08:32 Forikorder wrote:

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how is the OV gonna survive long enough to spread creep?

and what if they get hellions+marines thent he hellions jsut toast the lings and the marines kill the spines before they even finish


If you do it off something like a 10pool you could have a few lings protecting ur overlord and then drop like 4 spines.

Or you could just build your spines in a bit of a hidden spot, crawl em forward with the overlord into range once they're done.
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 HeeroFX   United States. August 17 2012 08:51. Posts 1915
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*crosses fingers for a beta key* Thats good, HOTS will come up in 2013 then?
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 Crow!   United States. August 17 2012 08:58. Posts 144
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I hope they learned from the 1.5 fiasco that while unpaid testers can potentially be good for evaluating the quality of the gameplay, they can't afford to skimp on professional QA to watch for and fix technical issues.
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 Forikorder   August 17 2012 09:15. Posts 5172
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On August 17 2012 08:37 Shiori wrote:

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Nexus first isn't the equivalent of Hatch first, because Protoss doesn't get production from Nexus first. Even if we do wall off, though, you can just send the Overlord to the Nexus position, spit Creep, and delay it. Pretty much no matter what happens, the Overlord is going to end up blocking something. because you don't finish the wall-off that early unless you go like Gateway Forge Cannon Pylon before Nexus, which is super uneconomical.

You already have a response to Nexus first. It's called doing an early pool build. You don't need another one. Evo chamber might delay you a bit, but it sure as hell doesn't delay you as much as Forge/Cannon/Gate/Pylon before Nexus does to complete a wall-off.

In what universe is Protoss favoured economically in PvZ? I mean, it's not like Nexus firsting gives Protoss a massive advantage over a standard 14 Pool, as opposed to Hatch First which is way better than Nexus first, hence why it's punishable. The reason is that Protoss has to delay production to Nexus first, whereas Zerg produces from Hatcheries, so their timing is unaffected.



hatch first is greediest build a zerg can do and nexus first is greediest build a terran can do and CC first is greediest build a terran can do

every race should have MULTIPLE strats that can punish hatch/nexus/CC first Zerg doesnt without blindly all-inning
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 Shiori   August 17 2012 09:34. Posts 2816
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On August 17 2012 09:15 Forikorder wrote:

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hatch first is greediest build a zerg can do and nexus first is greediest build a terran can do and CC first is greediest build a terran can do

every race should have MULTIPLE strats that can punish hatch/nexus/CC first Zerg doesnt without blindly all-inning

That's not really the point. Zerg players can Hatch first safely in TvZ, for example, whereas Terran players can't necessarily CC first safely. That's not really an imbalance, it's that the two build are different because they accomplish different things. The reason you get a Hatch against Terran is because you need the production, not the Drones. Similarly, the reason you go 14 Pool against Toss is not just to kill Pylon blocks, but also because you get a quicker Queen, which means your Injects will quickly put you ahead of a quick Hatch. The reason this is viable against Protoss is because Protoss pressures come later than Terran pressures, and because Terran can prevent you from taking your natural if there isn't Creep there whereas Protoss can't really do that in most cases.

Zerg has plenty of easy ways to discourage Hatch first. Something as simple as a 13 or 14 pool is often enough to get the Protoss player to throw down a Forge. Again, though, it's moot because a 17 Nexus still goes down after or simultaneously with a standard Zerg 15 Pool into Hatch so you're pretty hard pressed to say it's any greedier.

The idea that Nexus first is on par with Hatch first just baffles me because the two builds operate completely differently. One of them slightly delays the initial Zerglings for production and economy, whereas the Protoss Nexus first basically cuts production entirely for a slightly earlier Nexus. We can't come at you with 2x the units just because we opened Nexus first. We just get our expo down at a similar time as the Zerg player (who is taking 3 bases anyway and quickly out macros us by, I believe, the 7 minute mark).

There's no reason to believe that Nexus first puts Toss in too good a position.

To demonstrate the flaw in your logic further: Terran and Zerg can make Static defense after their basic military production building! Therefore, Toss should be able to make Cannons after Gateway.

Oh wait, no they shouldn't be Toss as a race works completely differently and the Gateway has an entirely different mechanic.
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  Wombat_NI   Northern Ireland. August 17 2012 09:39. Posts 5145Profile # 

On August 16 2012 02:58 pallad wrote:
Btw .. i always had bad luck with beta invites.. so i just wanna say something...

+ Show Spoiler +

For future note if I get in... is she hot?
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