Not going to spoil the result, but it was absurd to watch.

From 15 minutes onwards his SCV lines got crushed. From 20 minutes to 26 minutes he like 20 SCV's.

In the last 5 minutes of the game he had 10 SCV's, all on gas.

In the last 2 minutes of the game he had 1 SCV.

He built a total of 26 CC's, of which 19 were orbitals.

Utterly comical.

It is sad to me how many revert to the usual balance squabble and change their views on this patch depending if it favors their race or not.

The problem with this patch is not balance, balance can be tweaked and fixed. The problem with this patch is that it made a fundamental change to the game (8 worker start) that delivered none of the promises it made and left us with only the downsides of it.

Everything else so far has been changes to try to fix a 8 worker start that the game didn’t need.

What needs to happen is for the 12 worker start to make a comeback and make wild changes with a start we know it works instead of wasting time trying to make the 8 worker start work.

Please stop balance wars for 2 seconds and think what’s best for the game for once.

We’ve been playing with 8 workers start for a while. I was bouncing between 4.5 and 4.6 in the 12 worker era and I reached 4.8 recently. So I’ll say by build is pretty effective.

I’ve found the following opening viable in all three matchups: pylon - gate - nexus - gas - core - pylon - gas. For PvZ I scout after gate and the other two matchup I scout after nexus.

In PvT I will open twilight take a third and pump zealots out of two gateways and then transition to colossi. In PvP I one gate expand and defend. If it goes into macro game I also do zealots into colossi although this seems bad against adept immortal. PvZ I just Skytoss coz I got no more brain left to figure out builds for a third matchup

Hello again, Patches here! Next Wednesday the Patch Clash open cup returns for its 9th edition!

As usual, it will be played on the PatchesSC Versus Mod, a custom version of melee balance based on the 12 worker start. Details for the event are below!

Patch Clash #9

Date: Wednesday, July 29 at 11:00 AM Central Time
Extension Mod: PatchesSC Versus Mod
Registration: https://challonge.com/patches_pc9

Streams:

• RotterdaM08
• Delthus

Base Prize Pool: $600 USD

• 1st: 42.5% ($255)
• 2nd: 20% ($120)
• 3rd: 12.5% ($75)
• 4th: 7.5% ($45)
• Best Use of Mod Changes: %12.5 ($75)
• Best Performing <5600 MMR: 5% ($30)

Eligibility:

• No restrictions

Support The Event: https://matcherino.com/t/patches_pc9
Support Future Events: https://ko-fi.com/patchessc

Big shoutout to Delthus for once again making this event possible! Thanks for reading and I hope to see y'all on Wednesday :D

I don't recall Guardians being a more effective Zerg air force compared to Mutalisks or Devourers, but the way they were depicted in most cinematics makes them look very imposing, especially their very high speed flight, ultra smooth and swift maneuvering as if they were some kind of powerful UFO saucers, etc.

I kinda believe that in real life, Zerg Guardians can always angle their body to target air units, especially against something big and slow like Battlecruisers, Carriers,.... allowing them to become a veritable threat.

Because of this, I bet that Guardians with their sleek and flat body are a more capable air superiority fighters than the slow and clumsy Mutalisks.

I mean, look at both of them. Despite what the lore says, Mutalisks seem to only do well in atmospheric environments, while Guardians look like they would have very little difficulty fighting in deep space.

Our one year anniversary and she got me this cool piece of art.

Just wanted to let everyone know that I created a tool that helps you run the StarCraft 2 Editor on Mac. For any of you that have installed the editor on a Mac recently, you've probably seen the following:

"StarCraft II has encountered an error while initializing your videocard."

Turns out it wasn't a video card issue, rather it's an internal flag check. It's been that way for about five years and the forum threads never got a reply. So the workaround has been running Windows in Parallels or going through CrossOver/Wine just to edit maps.

Hopefully the intern or someone at blizz sees this and can use the info to deploy a fix. More info can be found in the repo below.

This tool doesn't touch your SC2 install, it only patches memory in the editor while it's running.

Feel free to contribute and create any PR's to expand on it. I'll do my best to maintain it for however long we continue to get broken patches.

https://github.com/Nish07/sc2-editor-macos-fix

If someone knows how to get ahold of Nony, I'd like to get something off my chest. Thank you in advance for your kindness if you can put me in touch or get this message to him.

16 years ago after the release of SC2 I ran a small tournament on a gaming forum I was a member of, the Fires of Heaven guild forums. It was just going to be a few people with a small cash prize. I even applied and got a license to run a tournament.

Little did I realize that Nony was also a forum member and he reached out, interested in joining. Since the second highest ranked player entering the tournament would barely have qualified for gold league back then, I panic'd and asked him to bow out so it wasn't just a one sided waffle stomp.

He seemed disappointed but understood.

Tyler I'm sorry. I should have found some way to include you. Maybe ask you to play against the winner as part of the cash prize, or do a 4v1 or something.

I screwed up and I apologize.

Hope you are well.

Hey! I will be hosting 1-3 Probes Vs Zealot games tomorrow night around 8 or 9 pm EST. If you would like me to invite you, you can send me a friend request, my name is BinaryFusion. Or, comment here and I will come back and ping you when I’m loading up.

I managed to get a 10 player game today which was kind of surprising, and a lot of fun. I’m not sure how active the game is, but it took me awhile to start up, and it seemed most people were also old-new players. So, I’m making this post to spread the word in case it has been difficult to get a game going recently.

video source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF1fsPrfhwk

I've been trying to get into Blizzard games and saw this game was free! It looks awesome and I love how much effort they put into the voice acting and animation! It feels super ahead of its time.

So far I've gotten through chapter 8 of the Terran section, I've had some resets but so far I've been able to handle it okay.

However, I've read that the difficult spikes up soon, and that Starcraft is considered one of the hardest games in videogame history. As someone with almost no RTS experience I wonder if I'll have to use a guide.

So far my strategy has been to spend lots of time building my forces before facing the enemy, building tons of buildings so I can get as many units as possible. However I get the feeling that the longer I spend building my own forces, that also gives the enemy more time to build their army. Will it get to a point where if I spend too long building my army the enemy will get too strong for me to be able to win? What's the common strategy Starcraft players employ?