StarCraft 2 Q&A Batch 49 Released!

Back to my first point, that would only be the case if they retained their current speed and bonus. Of course it would be imbalanced if they were just given a flat thirty percent speed upgrade while mining, but so what? There's not even a point in mentioning that. Not only would it be fairly simple to balance an active and a passive speed bonus, but increasing cost proportionately isn't the only way to do so. On top of that, you're saying their speed off-Creep is irrelevant, but then saying it hinders strategies.

The point, regardless of how much it deserves a conversation or not, is that giving them the Creep bonus wouldn't instantly result in an imbalanced game.

 

Irrelevant to the conversation; not to the game, obviously.

Furthermore, irrelevant doesn't even mean "has no effect on-". It means "not important to" or "pertaining to the subject of the conversation at hand".

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/irrelevant

Yes, it would unless Blizzard went to great lengths to pull off some great balancing act to allow a worthless, pointless stupid mechanic to be the game. And, I have explained why this is so. It's either imbalanced as far as mineral mining goes or imbalanced as far as strategies that require Done movement go, contrary to what you said. Sure, Blizzard could balance this by messing with everything else. This is painfully obvious. They can balance anything. We have to speak realistically here and not bog ourselves down with technicalities and nitpicking just because there's not much else to talk about (hopefully, this won't last much longer ) They could make the Protoss have only have one unit and still make it balanced. Anything can be changed and then balanced. But, that's not the point.

Find something noteworthy or at least a bit interesting to talk about please. Conversation ended.

POLO!

 

Well one issue with balancing that was ALWAYS true with the original Starcraft, changing balance to make one unit be able to cost effectively stand up against another unit often created IMBALANCE elsewhere in the game. Their is no true perfect balance in Starcraft, but its pretty damn close.

 

We're talking in direct relation to the game, for both on-Creep and off-Creep movement, so how on Earth can it be irrelevant to the conversation?

Regardless, whatever. It's simply not hard to balance a passive bonus and an active bonus. Giving Drones a bonus movement speed on Creep wouldn't automatically mean the game's imbalanced.

 

I like the retouched Zerg units. They still look flashy but less toyish in a sense.

 

For anyone that cares, there was some new wallpaper put up at StarCraft2.com

 

yeah so Q&A Batch 49 was great..now whens then next battle report

 

It was supposed to be out with this batch.. but clearly it isn't

 

everyone start mking your picket signs. We march on Blizzard to demand a new battle report with zerg in it!

 

Right on!

 

http://www.starcraftwire.net/articles/comments/polygon-parallax-more-models/

A news article commenting on the new model designs. A worthy read

 

I'd like to see a TvZ battle report. The article was nice very well written.

 

Thank you, was a great read, the models in starcraft 2 i have always felt as of large importance, i simply cannot wait to play the single player campaign, and zoom in on the insane detail that im sure will be on the hero characters, as well as checking it all out in the editor, campaign, in game cinematics will at last look decent when the camera is zoomed in!

Imagine how awsome the kerrigan model is gonna be? They wont be as constained, polycount wise because its a hero - so there will be only one... so imagine the detail!!!!

AAAAAAA my god, imagine zooming in on the new tychus model aswell...

****, i love blizzard.