Who's actually playing this beta?
IMO, it's pretty terrible. I've played a bunch of games and while I can't talk to balance due to the quality of those games, Protoss just seems worse, to both play and to stratagize with. The disruptor is just bad against terran and against half good zergs its kinda useless, you can split away from it, it does nothing to air and once it pops its insta killed 300 gas gone... for maybe a few marines and a roach or two, and worse than that robo build time...
The extra bases thing also kinda ****s you because if you get behind, your behind forever and it's super duper obvious if you've got a hidden base.
The oracle is still too powerful and the new gateway unit just seems odd (though i've not really seen any decent games showing how the pro's are using it).
I've fallen off hots and sc2 alot in the last month or two.. I got back into dia last season and worked up to try and get to masters but after a few weeks of that packed in and got tired of the endless SH turtle games and having to deal with terrans. lotv was something I was hoping to get me excited and back into the game, hell when the test map came out i played that loads and loved it... but now... now it just seems bad and dumb.
There was a part in the test map balance thing where protoss would slowly work up this army that, wasn't really a deathball and required good control to get the most out off but still allowed protoss to harass; blink stalker, collosus, tempest, disruptor and the ability to transition into more archons if needed... and this would fight most things, but playing with it was so fun, blinking stalkers away from bio or super-roaches was fun, controlling and microing collosus and disruptors at the same time was also super fun and with the buff to tempest speed you had a decent seigh weapon you didnt have to baby sit... and best of all you could do what zergs have been doing since WoL and send out about 1000minerals of zelots to harass all over the map forcing your opponent to deal with them while you micro'd your heart out in the main fight.
it was awesome, and, it didn't last...
The beta ****ing sucks, the maps are trash, the players (top 20% lmao) are trash and the game its self is just a bad version of hots and hots is boring as ****.
