Game speed uped in patch 11? Is it a good thing?

[TheEconomist]

I play on US, and can confirm with absolute certainty the speed has been drastically amped.

I think so too because I just did a ZvP and, in my mind, I had felt that it was early enough to keep macroing before Void Rays. However, Void Rays showed up JUST as my Hydralisk Den popped up. I lost the game though because he killed my overlords and I was only able to get 3 or 4 Hydralisks.

So, either that blood donation I just gave lowered my skill more than I thought or the game is, indeed, faster because I have never even come close to falling for this since I got used to the game.

[TheEconomist]

Why would you think that?

[sandwich_bird]

Changed the name a bit to promote discussion surrounding the change instead of just having posts confirming the change.

You know I think that the speed is just faster when you play on plat or gold because yesterday I played with one of my friend who's a noob and our team is in silver. I didn't notice any difference but when I played in plat again that night, I felt like it was faster. Maybe it's just me...

In any case, I think this is a bad change. The game is already fast enough and faster than SC:BW.

[GnaReffotsirk]

I thought this is related to some kind of lag issue happening in Bnet.

When I watch a replay of a game that felt quite fast, it's about the same speed as before. So, I guess this is some lag issue.

[Rigby]

First of all thanks Sandwich_bird for changing the thread title. GnaReffotsirk the speed has increased and has nothing to do with lag , on official blizzard forums and on teamliquid forums people have acknowleged that the speed has increased i think by roughly 17%. i share the same opinion as Sandwich_bird that the increase of the speed wasn't necessary at all. In my opinion it's even bad because players will not micro anymore but more massing units because they don't have the time to think about strategy and try to outplay or out think their opponent.

Maybe blizzard or people who organize tournaments will have to make another league for lower speeds . But as i hope it isn't in the patch notes mentioned that it is a bug and blizzard will revert to the prvious speed wich was allready faster then scbw.

[Flatus]

I haven't noticed anything, but if this is true, it sucks. This is not FPS game, this is Real-Time Strategy. Speed is nice to keep matches from becoming boring and having that excitment on, but too much is too much.

If the game becomes "whoever clicks around his base faster building bigger army first wins" in 60% of the games, especially at lower levels, then what's the point?

I can see it allready... you use anykind of strategy out of basic "rush to middle to meet your opponent's army" and you get flamed as cheater, lame, noob, etc...

Though, like I said, I haven't noticed anything ^^' So I'm just throwing some random nerd-rage here.

[Rashed801]

omg i thought i was the only one who noticed the game speed seemed faster! and i LOVE it! it seems so much more fun!

[TWD]

I haven't noticed a thing. If it's true why hasn't Blizzard been putting this in the patch notes?
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[sandwich_bird]

I haven't noticed a thing. If it's true why hasn't Blizzard been putting this in the patch notes?

Sometime they do stuff like this just to see if we would notice. Dustin himself said so. I'd have go search a bit if you want the source though.

[Pick]

I believe that if the game speed gets too high then the game favors only the person who can macro the best under those conditions and not who makes the best strategic decisions.

I thought the speed was fine the way it was, but I am an old man who can't keep up with you crazy kids in the APM.