Official Star Craft 2 Beta Thread

[KungKras]

NunedQ said:

KungKras said:

Snesboy said:

Machina said:

Snesboy said:
I just got a beta key by reserving it at umm. A game store....

I've played around with it. Protoss are way different. I miss my Arbiters.

Well we have the Mothership instead, it's like a useless Arb...


To be honest I prefer Protoss from Broodwar:

Corsairs >> Phoenix
Goons >> Stalkers
Arbiter >> Mothership
Scout >> Void Ray (air)
HT > HT 2
Archon > Arhcon 2
DT > DT 2 (this whole tech tree line feels so redundant now)

Reaver/Colossus swap is pretty even.

Scout << Void Ray (ground)
Dropship < Warp Prism

Sentries are fantastic.


Blizzard's reaction at every stage has been to nerf, nerf and nerf again (for all the races). It's making the Beta increasingly dull.  Right now I much prefer the original game.

The mothership pisses me off. It's so damn annoying. It moves so slowly.

Carriers are a lot better though.

 

The Dark Shrine is completely useless. I hate how they gave mind control to the damn zerg.

I don't like how 2 DT will make an archon and not a dark archon.

Agreed.

Arbiter > Mothership

Mind Control > Neural Paracite

Corsair > Phoenix

And Dark shrine needs to be buffed. And psionic storm. There is virtually no reason at all to not open with robo bay, you're forced to do it each game.

Not true, Citadel for blink and especially charge can really be a game winner in the midgame, i almost always build it first

Against Terran you need a fast robo to get observers since they are your only protection against cloaked banshees and you need fast immortals or you WILL get raped by their marauders if the terran knows how to play.

   Against Zerg you need robo to get scouting since you won't have map control and you need fast immortals to deal with mass roach.getting an observer early to scout for spire is also extremely important.

Not until after you have at least one robotics facility is it viable to get a citadel since even with the upgrades, your units will be too weak to deal with the enemy without tech support. (And protoss are supposed to be the strongest but most expensive -_-)

   In PvP robo bay is also the by far best choice for teching since the immortals rapes stalkers and the observer lets you scout your enemy fairly early on. You can go stargate => Voidray, but that's only if you all-in.

Templar tech would be viably if psionic storm didn't suck and if you could get DTs faster. Starport needs units that are not raped by the basic enemy air units (Viking > Phoenix? but aren't protoss supposed to.... nevermind)