>>717629058 (OP) >orange clouds units >cannot be hit by FUCKING MASSIVE EXPLOSION
or >Gives some dude the plague >burns down missile turrets >eats through armor >but being deathly sick can't kill anyone
GookclickerCraft is such a blight on yhe RTS genre. We would probably still have a lively genre if it wasnt for gook esports crap. Esharts killed fighting games too.
>>717629058 (OP)
There is a massive seethe and cope thread on the sc2 reddit right now. Dudes have been claiming the game isn't dying for years and now it being undeniably dead they are seething at blizzard for not keeping it alive. They actually think sc2 is universally loved and that people don't play it only because of lack of marketing.
>>717634842
So many of the design choices are just plain bad and your mind never notices them because it's easier to imagine good things. Like Vultures having an open cabin, or Overlords having a coffee bean butt
>>717633030
I'm convinced brood war has achieved chess-like status in korea
a friend was telling me the other week that middle schoolers today are still playing brood war there
blizzard could die as a company or something and they'd still be playing starcraft there decades from now
>>717635625
I kind of saw the sprite like a crotch-rocket that was enclosed. Doesn't really line up with the unit portrait, but a lot of that seemed inconsistent anyway.
>>717636102
no, it shows him not wearing a helmet.
meanwhile all the marines have their visors shut on their models despite them being open on their portraits.
so what?
>>717636198
Yes, but they still clearly wear the same equipment in the portrait as they have on their sprites. Meanwhile the Vulture driver doesn't resemble the sprite at all. It looked good and made sense on the Marine why not do the same for the Vulture?
>>717636436
yeah he does.
you can see he is wearing a dark suit with gloves, just like his sprite.
they needed obvious colors, so some shit had to be like that.
>>717636769
Mutas are good but cost a lot of gas, zerg needs to stay ahead in bases but they can't until they get drops (which costs a lot of gas), and the other races can hard counter them easily since they know zerg are forced into muta
Sparkle (the map in question) actually went too far in the opposite direction by giving too much gas and they raped terran. It's actually one of the few maps that are skewed in zergs favor in that matchup
>>717636908 >>717637085
makes sense. i heard about sparkle but only saw a few maps on it.
>>717637072
high hp, high armor, splash debuffs to the enemy stack would be good. just need to be a visionary to use it on an island map. soulkey will prove me right.
>>717637229
Devourers can be good as a one of to help buff Mutas in dogfights but they stack VERY POORLY with themselves. So it's usually not worth teching to them just to make one.
>>717637324
That's the beauty though, you'll makes things wish they died.
>>717637229
You might actually see devourers used unironically in Uldolmok if it somehow doesn't get vetoed every game. There was a SK vs someone (Mini?) game recently where the protoss sat on 4 bases making carriers, and SK made like 20 devourers with hydras and defiler to counter it.
>>717637605
Because carriers can go around right clicking every base in .5 seconds while corsairs/archons/templars/reavers etc obliterate the things that can actually kill them. It's not like you are forced to sit there fighting hydras under dark swarm
