I have to say, even though this is likely an Aprils Fool, I have to agree with many of the features :|

It's definitely April fools :). I don't understand the beef with auto-mining. Tedious routines like going back to your main/expansions to make the stupid workers do their job just slows the game down.

Imagine if quake made you stand still and press a bunch of buttons to put your armor on.

It's an example of skill vs good game play that some people don't agree with. Pretty dumb really. Same people who think they should of kept in retarded path finding on some units.

Actually that's one of the things I didn't agree with. I can see why some people would have a beef with auto-mining, but I just cba with it so am happy that auto-mining is in :D

Some things like the units they suggested seemed relatively sane though. Thors need to be sorted out. Retardedly large and slow and I actually liked the look of the changes they made there :P

Or if you had to time all the armors in your head .. oh wait!

Or if you had to jump and do some mouse movement to sprint

It's about competing demands for your attention adding much more depth. In SC you have to make a choice between shifting your view to move workers, to control a harass and to control a battle, constantly, each one with impact. If you never move your view during combat you fall behind a little each time. In SC2 you just press your main bind and spam the worker key however many times. This removes a large number of skill-testing decisions about where you place your awareness and when. Removing this does not add any new depth, it doesn't magically open new avenues of skill so the skill ceiling becomes much lower. The effect is fundamental and important, it's much more than a trivial mechanistic annoyance.

Also if anyone falls for this as anything other than an April Fools they're an idiot.

Yeah, you can spam workers, but that doesn't actually help your economy. If you're not using your macro mechanic, you can't compete with someone who is. In the cases of the macro mechanics, you specifically have to target nexus/hatch/building/mineral patch/supply depot/etc..

If anything, you spend more time in SC2 going back to your base than in SCBW.

ctrl+6
Nexus+Gates

ctrl+7
Nexus+Robot

ctrl+8
Nexus+Stargate

ctrl+9
Nexus+Upgrades


Almost no need to go back to base, & you still have 5 groups for units.

Would you be using those hotkeys and using E for worker and Z for zealot if you pressed 6 for example?

Because what would happen if you wanted a sentry? ;)


Interesting way of looking at it though. For now I've just been using 4 for All my nexuses, 5 for gates (or pylon when they're wg's), 6 robo, 7 stargate

Doesn't work that way.

Press TAB & you will go from nexus to gates, press TAB again to go back to nexus.


There's also another good thing about this way doing things. You can chrono boost your building by clicking on their icons.

Posted by Zer1toN @ 23:21 CEST, 31 March 2010

Edited by Zer1toN at 23:30 CEST, 31 March 2010


so it was 9 minutes for you

Actually I was putting in the [small] and [i] tags :P

you can't prove that!!!!11!11

LIES

NOTHING BUT LIES AND SLANDER!

fail april fools. =/

SC2 PROMOD, FUCK YEAH