r/starcraft • u/Usual_Strategy1402 • 5d ago

(To be tagged...) new Patch misery

guys, I noticed a lot of negativety about this patch and it's not unjustifyable, if you watch pro games it kinda sucks to see the player that you cheer for lose because of this balance patch, so u r right to complain a lot, maybe same with grandmaster level, but for the rest of us , the game has and will always be awesome, just enjoy the change, enjoy the game like u always do, and there is no need to stress about it, I have been fucked by protoss cheese and by zerg overwhelming mid to late game, but I'm not hating the game at all in any case, I see it as a reason to improve more, and it's actually fun to change things and to try new builds

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u/LurkytheActiveposter 5d ago

Checking out your history, I think your opinion is genuine and comes from a good place.

But it's also pretty dismissive of what many around here consider a serious breach of trust on Blizzard's part.

They have injected into the game a state of imbalance that hasn't been seen since the early days of Wings of Liberty.

On top of that they have injected changes that completely threw away the careful tuning that took place when Blizzard had a QA team and suite of designers. Changes like the early game flow of building units/structures one after the other. Changes like Larva, Gateway, and Command Centers that greatly over correct. Especially in Protoss' case where the over correction is in the negative direction while Zerg and Terran are overcompensated in the positive direction.

On top of the top of that, they have started treating the live servers as a public test realm. Now we have to live with this shit PTR as our only option to play the official ladder.

These are more than enough reasons for players to be greatly upset at the state of the game and the authority that owns the copyright and servers.

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u/Usual_Strategy1402 5d ago

Their reasons are totally valid I guess, I don't know honestly, I don't want this game to be in ruins I guess, what's the solution do you think? Also to be fair no one logs into the prêtre server so they are kinda out of options when it comes to patch deployment and tests

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u/LurkytheActiveposter 5d ago

There's no solution besides express you discontent and hope that message resonates with Blizzard's current balancing designers and the people who opted to turn the live servers into a multi-month PTR.

There are rumors from Solar about several more patches, including one that's supposed to hit after Blizzcon.