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#1  Edited By Ben_H

Marauders, medivacs (from a reactored starport.  if he sends void rays just switch to viking production and kite the voids), and if it gets late enough into the game ghosts to emp shields.  Marauders demolish stalkers thanks to their bonus against armoured units. It's almost as ugly as marauders versus roaches, where marauders just don't die and kill double their numbers in roaches.
 
Believe it or not, tanks actually work well in defensive situations.  They chew through stalkers, which is one of the reasons why the 1/1/1 is so hard to stop, because the tanks kill your anti-air so fast and then the banshees kill all the ground units. 
 
For zerg just do roach/infestor (if he has zealots with stalkers) or ling/infestor (if he only has stalkers, the lings will hold them up long enough to get fungals off) and lock the stalkers down and kill them.  You can infestor your way out of any situation if your micro is good enough. Don't forget after you kill all his stalkers (and his macro will likely suck if he only made stalkers) to go infested terran bomb his expos to salt the wounds.  It's quite satisfying when they swear at you as they lose their expansions in record time.

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#2  Edited By Ben_H
@wewantsthering said:

I've also seen people complaining about having to pay for the podcast. Did I miss something?

A year ago they suggested breaking the Bombcast in two, one half free, and the other half for subscribers.  The non-subscribers would get the second half a week later.  People were not enthused about that idea so they scrapped it.
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@DG991 said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mdmWs1SfuY

Trimaster is such a boss.  In an interview he said he saw that idra was watching him play Haypro before their match so he did polar opposite builds of what he did to Haypro and crushed Idra because he figured Idra would auto-counter the builds he did to Haypro (which he did).  That guy deserves to be in pool play with the amount of skill he's shown.  He deserves it way more than Incontrol, and others who are in their only because of one good result a long time ago.  He's destroyed tons of really good players, and he hasn't even been playing professionally for very long.
 
@tarquinbb said:
idra was the same in broodwar.  back then he played terran and whined about balance, in sc2 he plays zerg and whines about balance.    nothing stopped him changing race since day one yet he's remained as zerg.  that says to me that he's more intent on whining than winning.
Yep, in the classic SOTG balance argument between Idra and Day9, Incontrol even pointed that out by asking Idra what the weakest race was in BW, but Idra dodged the question but by then everyone already knew the answer.
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#4  Edited By Ben_H

I'll get that bundle, I only have one controller so for 20 bucks that seems okay.

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#5  Edited By Ben_H

I don't even think fungal growth was a problem (against Protoss, I don't have very much experience against it as Terran).  All you have to do is get a Templar  archives and a few HTs to feedback, which is an easily accessible tech by the time infestors come out.  I do feel that it should slow units instead of locking them in place though as  it does feel kinda dumb that you can get chain fungaled and not be able to do anything about it.

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#6  Edited By Ben_H

The immortal change is huge.  People don't realize how insanely good it is, and with this new range it will not get caught behind stalkers anymore and it will help a ton in PvP.
 
My favourite thing is the Terrans on TL flipping out over the 5 second barracks change claiming it will mess up all of their timings.  Protoss has had basically every opening timing screwed up (gateway time increases, zealot build and warp time increases, warpgate research time increase etc.).     
 
The infestor nerf isn't a big deal, marines still take 2 FGs to kill, only certain mech units take more growths to kill (viking take 4 instead of 3). Destiny said on his stream that it wouldn't do anything to ZvP because the damage change is so small compared to the hp of Protoss units.  Though, ultimately I wish they would have left the base damage alone and just changed the armoured damage (because of how potent it is against stalkers).  I have a feeling this change will be reworked before the actual 1.4 patch comes out.
 
The BF hellion nerf was absolutely required.  For the minimal cost of them, they could do far too much damage, and the Terran wouldn't even have to go out of their way to get the unit, or really be set back if the harass failed.  I played Terran for a while before switching back and it felt borderline unfair how much damage you could do with 2 hellions.  If Zerg isn't ready (which they can't really scout it until it is on its way) they basically autolose unless your hellion control sucks and you get caught by zerglings.

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#7  Edited By Ben_H

The menus suck, but other than that it is just fine.  I've played both versions and I prefer PC, but that's because a gamepad will never be as good as mouse and keyboard.

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@Loose said:
Video game hipsters are hilarious. "I liked Resident Evil BEFORE IT SOLD OUT!"
Exactly, it's kinda sad. But then again, I don't give two craps about what other people like.  If I like it, I'll play it.
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@crusader8463 said:
So young and full of life back then. I miss the old days before they became all grumpy and full of hate. :(
I miss it too. :(
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@StarvingGamer said:

@Ben_H said:

@lilburtonboy7489 said:
@StarvingGamer said:

I never understood why people don't like EG. Is it because of Idra?

Also wooo I am excited!

That hate on EG is completely unjustified. It's popular to hate on them. They were an extremely successfull team is CS, which is what allowed them to make money and then they made good recruiting picks which allowed them to make even mroe money. This allowed them to spend money on getting even more good players, which is good for both EG and the players they support. The Puma deal was not shady. This deal is not shady. I don't know about the DeMuslim or the other deals though.
Was that not the CS team the bought out from under Complexity without telling telling the owner after CoL worked for a long time to get that team good?

The hate on EG is fully justified. They don't run a good team, they just throw money at everything and hope for the best because they have a few big sponsors. They don't contribute to creating new talent, they buy people in (or just past, like Idra) their prime and then don't help with their practice so they stagnate as players. I've never liked them. I like a couple of their players but their management is a bunch of greedy greaseballs who would rather buy teams than create teams. When they screw up they create scapegoats to alleviate the blame from them, specifically the whole Milkis issue where they called him a bad journalist when all he did was translate someone else's article. Then they invited him on one of their shows only to attack him Bill O'Reilly style and ask why he didn't get their permission to post a translation of a news article that was already available in Korean.

Having big sponsors and money means nothing if the team. Slayers has just as big of sponsors but instead of buying already established players out from under teams they find new talent or promising current talent who just need some work (see the recent acquisition of ZenexCoca, who has tremendous potential) and look how godly they are now. They have a strong practice regimen and organized practice schedule and it shows. It certainly doesn't for EG.

I think TLO said it best in his blog: http://www.teamliquid.net/blog/LiquidTLO

But isn't throwing their money at it a good thing? Stronger players like Idra and Huk deserve to make the big bucks which is what a team like EG is there to provide. Obviously the money Huk is being offered is a significant boost over what he was receiving from TL, he even alluded to as much. He wanted to stay with TL but EG made him an offer he couldn't refuse.

As far as practice goes, EG has done nothing recently but strive towards developing stronger players. Between the new AZ house with all the American players and the house that Idra, Huk and Puma will be inhabiting in Korea, their players are only going to improve. Maybe I don't pay enough attention to the management side, but I'm glad that these strong players that I'm a big fan of are able to make a significant living doing what they love to do and I love watching them do. If another bigger and badder team comes around to pay them even more money, I'd welcome it.

I get your point, and yes they do deserve what they get paid.  It just feels like a waste of talent.  HuK is not going to get better nearly as well or fast practicing with EG compared to what he did studying the game with MC.
 
My issue with EG is the management, not the players.  I like the players.  The managers are greedy assholes with double standards.  They yell at a volunteer translator for not getting permission to publish translations of articles that were already available to the public.  They approach players already on teams and make offers without even telling the teams (At least they contacted Liquid for Huk, they didn't say a thing to TSL for Puma).  They yell at everyone else about professionalism but don't exhibit it themselves.