StarCraft II Battle Report Three

[Hammy]

new drone?

New broodling. It spawns when hatcheries are destroyed.

Concerning the battle report, I found the early game to be absolutely excruciating. It was so... rock paper scissors... I hate that. And nullifiers seem to be so frustrating. I'm sure it will be really hard to balance maps because of the force field.
But as the game progresses it just gets more and more action packed and interesting. It was an awesome game alltogether, and the players skill seems to have improved a great deal! The obviously focused on micromanagement much more than in the previous games.

[Aldrius]

Concerning the battle report, I found the early game to be absolutely excruciating. It was so... rock paper scissors... I hate that.

In what way?

[ChaosSmurf]

Yeah new broodling. Have we seen that phase prism portrait before btw? I thought that was pretty cool.

[Freespace]

There were some nice twists in there, especially mind controlling those Colossi.

[Aldrius]

Yeah new broodling. Have we seen that phase prism portrait before btw? I thought that was pretty cool.

We've seen a Phase Prism portrait, not sure if that was the same one.

[Wankey]

Some things to comment:

Stalker walk animation looks really wimpy.
Stalker attack animation hit effects are missing, although they show up during protoss on protoss fighting when the stalker is mind controlled.

Phoenix feels weird. It's not a great model for its speed. It looks like it's supposed to be majestic rather than fast.

void ray's front no longer spins, fixed position. Kinda like it not spinning 'cause you can easily read how many beams its shooting.

Death animations not in this build.

This build is much older than it seems, probably from the same time when BR2 just came out (BR2 is based on a build months older since it took like 6 months to get out after BR1)

Zealot death animations look much more natural

Immortal portrait now makes sense (the half dead protoss is in-cased in a fluidic membrane)

Disruptor (nullifier in this video) has an amazing looking portrait

Force field feels OP, probably need to have a reduced staying time or more expensive energy cost.

[Hammy]

In what way?

My main concern was forcefield. The zerg had a decent chance of doing some damage because of he was aggressive with his first 8 or so zerglings, but that whole attempt was squelched by two nullifiers casting a forcefield. That's a pretty hard counter imo. I can imagine three nullifiers perma-blocking a narrow choke for the whole early game until the protoss tech can kick in. I think it's too hard of a counter to melee/low range units.
Though concerning this spell, as the game progresses armies get more diversified and goals like map domination become more viable so I think forcefield applies really well to the mid game and beyond.

That's really about it though, I thought burrow and blink usage was great in this game. And lots of other stuff like mind control and warp-in were used to great effet. Great game overall.

[RamiZ]

new drone?

New Broodling, not Drone...

This build is much older than it seems, probably from the same time when BR2 just came out (BR2 is based on a build months older since it took like 6 months to get out after BR1)

Actually build is somehow combine of new and old build, since Infestor is old but Mantalings(Broodlings) are new... Also Nullifire(Disruptor) is much bigger then Before, and easier to notice, in BR1 it looked like a Probe...

[Kaiser]

Now THAT was a battle report. That's how they all should be. Exciting and lots of action. I seriously can't wait till beta.

[Wankey]

New Broodling, not Drone...


Actually build is somehow combine of new and old build, since Infestor is old but Mantalings(Broodlings) are new... Also Nullifire(Disruptor) is much bigger then Before, and easier to notice, in BR1 it looked like a Probe...

Yeah... I meant that, BR1 is the blizzcon build, which was about 2 months older than the actual in house build during the blizzcon date. BR2 was the 3 months after the Blizzcon date inhouse build, but released about 6 months after Blizzcon. This one, BR3, is probably the 6 months after Blizzcon date, released now.

So until Beta comes along, these battlereports are always much older builds than the current inhouse version. If the screenshots are any indication, there are much more polishing happening (new zerg building effect, new spawning pool etc etc)

Mantling could simply be units that were never shown.