How was the Protoss?

I played the most Protoss and the race feels very very powerful, I loved them . Charging Zealots are great, they tear up everything early game including Roaches. Only thing i lacked was early game anti-air. With the recent build Blizzard did before WWI the cybernetics core needs 100 gas so takes a while to get Phoenixes up. Also Stalkers (new dragoon) takes a while longer since you need the 100 gas fro the cybernetics core.

Warp in is so awesome, sneak a pylon outside the enemy base and you can reinforce your army really fast, without risking gateways out in the open with a proxy base. To enable warp-in you need a cybernetics core(150 min 100 gas) and the tech from it (50min 50 gas i think). After that you convert your gateways (3 sec) and you're ready to spawn units within pylon psi power.

what about terrans?

I heard there was no citidel of Adun. is that true?

I'm a Protoss player too and watching those videos just got me that much more excited about them

From what I've seen so far it seems like Protoss and Zerg are the strongest, with what they can do... and Terran lagging behind

In the finals match between those fans Warp-in totally killed that Terran, I couldn't imagine what kind of defense the Terran could have done! Tanks would get pwnt by the Immortals coming in, also you can keep the Phase Prism out of range of turrents cause you would just set the phase prism down on the high cliff and then just warp in troops on the bottom half of the matrix that would be right in their base. 0_0

Protolisk wrote:I heard there was no citidel of Adun. is that true?

That's true, when you build the cybernetics core you can build all 3 of the higher level buildings (if I recall correctly), Stargate, Robotics bay and the citadel's replacement(can't remember it's name now). In the new citadel you can upgrade zealot charge and stalker blink.

Quote:what about terrans?

Didn't play that much as terran, we did a couple of test-games, 150 marines vs 20 ultralisks etc But never any really intense matches. Overall they seem nice, the nomad had the same art as previously (the U shape) and can place 3 things with energy:
* Auto turret
* Spider mine, single mine that burrow like the vulture's did (have bonus dmg against armored units)
* Targeting drone, flying stationary bot that "paints" 1 target with a laser, increasing dmg 50% against that target.

Medivac dropship has a nice healing animation, the + signs glow red, ambulance lights turn on and a focused beam of light with little + signs flow down to the unit being healed. It's nice that it easily can reach all units.

The Thor now being an anti air unit seems like the perfect friend for siege tanks. It also has a "new" ability, when it gets killed(0hp) it crashes on the ground and gain 200hp(i think), if you spend 200 minerals (i think ) you can repair it within like 10 seconds and it gets full 300 hp again. At one point 5 roaches were spamming my single thor, killing it, but before they could kill the wreckage I was able to repair it. Could keep doing that If you got a lot of thors and the enemy doesn't focus the wrecks your army basically is unkillable as long as you've got minerals.

Ghosts are really powerful, a single ghost could solo like 2 mutalisks (they have light armor), snipe is nice as well.


@Lipton:
Protoss definitely are the most complete, but I'd say terran are second and zerg the least.

We discovered that Zerg really are lacking at one bit for example, cliffs. Maybe we didn't figure out all the tricks, but they have a major problem claiming cliffs fortified by a terran drop or blinking stalkers. They either have to attack with air units (mutas are kind of weak and swarm guardian is endgame), or get an overlord over the cliff, spread creep, spawn a 200hp nydus (takes 5 seconds to emerge and can be killed during it) and then unload units(one at a time, ~0.5 sec for each unit). Overall 15 seconds of work where the terran can kill either the nydus or the overlord at any time.

It's a pain in the ass to detect stuff as Zerg, you have to manually upgrade Overlords into Overseers, then they work like Observers, but aren't invisible so easily killed. And they loose the ability to spread creep as Overseers. Let's just say you don't need Corsairs for a Bisu build with dark Templars anymore

Roaches can be powerful, but 4-5 stalkers oneshot roaches, so with a couple of zealots and focused fire from stalkers it's easy to kill them, even when they are many.

The Queen's Mutate larvae ability can be used to both store production and to build stuff like Ultralisks faster. It takes 50 seconds to do a mutated larvae and it can be turned into any unit in 3 seconds. An Ultralisk takes ~70 sec to build the old way.

Oh and Protoss shield regenerates über fast when out of combat, a good tactic is to attack with stalkers until their shield is down, blink back and regenerate to full. Zerg regeneration rate is very low.

I'll make some posts in the zerg forum on my thoughts on the new zerg