Will HOTS top WOL?

[Caliban113]

I think he's intentionally (and quite successfully mind you) baiting TF - He does so often, he's prolly waiting for one of those little achievement banners to flash on screen...

...Whoosh..!

Success!

"Piss off Tychus 1000 times"


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[flak4321]

It's not a QQ thread and DB gave air time to the positive side of the coin. Shows he's making an effort.

I voted storywise. There's not much more the MP can get to make it better, imo. Given how delicate the balance is right now, new units may hurt more than they help, unless they fill tactical voids without being OP like a Zerg unit that can scale cliffs (but, for example, cannot burrow).

I think he's intentionally (and quite successfully mind you) baiting DB - He does so often, he's prolly waiting for one of those little achievement banners to flash on screen...

...Whoosh..!

Success!

"Piss off Tychus 1000 times"

roflmao!!

[GnaReffotsirk]

Another unit or two wont change the core dynamics DB has chosen for sc2. There's too many units than structures, for example -- if you haven't noticed. I'm afraid this will never change. This pacing and dynamics is not as fun and not as intense.

Gameplay wise, it's another year of frustration and bitching to look forward to.

Campaign wise, it will be cheezy -- given the plot revealed from the leak. I mean, if that was the resolution of the story, goddamit!

I'm going to purchase it for sure, simply because of modding. I hope they include the tools or somebody inside blizzard post the script code on pastebin.

Will it top WoL? I guess not. It will be as hyped, and just the same flavor.

I mean for god's sake. 1 or 2 units? You can add that in a single patch.

[deloctyte]

Will HotS top WoL?

I don't honestly know.

Should HotS top WoL?

It bloody well better! There are still places to go both story-wise (that's the most obvious (And this horrible cheesefest came from such childhood idols...)) as well as gameplay wise (With the zerg race effectively incomplete (That's doesn't mean unplayable!) compared to the other races).

Oh, and more cinematics. Lotsandlots of cinematics! Please? :>

If they can rise from what they did wrong, creating something awesome again, not listening to the tons of nubs screaming at them to nerf this and change that (Like myself ^^), then the answer is a definate yes. We'll just have to wait and see...

[Wankey]

It's pretty clear what SCLegacy discussions have pretty much turned into. I've realized my fault and I've stopped. But now, it's just

New you can get anywhere else
Whine posts about various problems with WoL
Speculation posts which are a really whine posts
And random questions

[Blazur]

It's pretty clear what SCLegacy discussions have pretty much turned into. I've realized my fault and I've stopped. But now, it's just

If you think this is bad try perusing the official forums. Every other thread is a balance complaint and frankly it's becoming unbearable.

[GnaReffotsirk]

There's a reason, I think, why the bitching has become rampant and wide-spread.

And people may not know what it is exactly that has gone wrong, but there is something wrong. If there was anyone, anyone who could simply say to some balance complaint,

"well, do this, and that, and you counter that" problem solved. But some of these issues just dont have a solution like that. There IS something wrong. And I don't want to go into the same detail again.

[flak4321]

I have to agree that the balance/QQ/complaint discussions are picking up a stale note. I must also state that the game is too new yet for us to have fleshed out every strat possible. And we can't state "do this, do that, counter with this" clearly because of this lack of knowledge by inexperience. For example, SC2 does not yet have a creative strategist on the level of Boxer in SC1. We have plenty of awesome players who deserve all the credit they have earned thus far, just no SC1 Boxer level players yet. It seems to me his arrival was a major spark in the strat growth of SC1, a spark SC2 has yet to feel. Is there something wrong? I can't say for sure as I do not personally have enough data to make such a claim.

[GnaReffotsirk]

I agree. I wanted to point that out before as well. Looking back, some of the changes back then may have been too hasty.

[flak4321]

Some of the changes may very well have been too hasty, but I doubt we could pick them out. All of the proposed changes had some merit to them, and those that have been implemented have greater merit than others. Were they the right changes? Again, we just don't have enough data. Further, with the development of HotS in progress, Blizz needs the WoL game to be as done as possible so it may serve its platform function most fully, requiring some speed in the balancing act.