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

[Rigby]

I just tried playing another couple games and the speed of units is just insane..... there is no more micro involved . I love sc2 but the whole speed upgrade has spoiled it for me . Will wait until blizzard mentioned anything about this isssue .

[Dragoonx]

Haven't played since the patch but this is a bit disappointing. I felt SC2 was fast enough. Battles are over much faster than in SC1. It's all due to the damage mechanics increasing dmg rather than reducing along with the speed.

[Gradius]

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?

So that there can be a higher skill ceiling.

[Islandsnake]

Oh I was wondering why it was harder to macro

Coolness, kinda crazy haha

[Maxa]

So that there can be a higher skill ceiling.

You're in trouble if your only way of fostering skilled play is speeding up the game; I would be surprised if this was really Blizzard's thinking. Like others, I was surprised by the acceleration, largely because SC2 was already quite fast to begin with.

[TWD]

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%.

Can you provide links, because this is just not what I'm seeing. There seems to be some amount of confusion at TL as if anything has changed, if it's only in the EU, and how much faster it really is. I'm seeing 4% which if it's true might explain why some of us just aren't noticing.
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[TheEconomist]

@TWD: What league are you in? Some people have suggested that only Platinum and perhaps Gold leagues got the boost.

[Rogueleader89]

Huh, I was wondering why all my macro timings have been off after the patch, this explains a lot.

[Rigby]

@TWD: What league are you in? Some people have suggested that only Platinum and perhaps Gold leagues got the boost.

The speed boost is for all . I'm in bronze league ... was on my way to silver , but i cant get a win anymore because of that insane speed . The game is no fun anymore for me sadly. I still don't understand how people think increased speed = skill in a strategy game. Even if the game would be played for example on slowest speed a good player with the right decisions should be winning against a lesser skilled player and not winning because he can press the button for building units faster.

The game speed before was in my opinion just right .

[Asfastasican]

I didn't really notice, but I was playing an FFA as Zerg yesterday and I kidnapped a probe for fun. I then built a few Warp Rays and said to myself "Wow, Void Rays move pretty fast now!"

Maybe it was the increase in game speed?