I’m watching a video of Artosis playing SC2 today on his youtube channel and he makes a good point about the differences between SC1 and SC2. The reason why some people like Brood Wars more is because the game is better balanced and more complex.
SC1 Brood War is more complex and better balanced, so it’s much more possible for turn arounds, come backs and more interesting play, because it’s not like watching a chess match where the computer has already figured out all the possibilities and the pros just play that same end game match over and over again.
Now there’s a simple way to fix this but Blizzard needs to get the SC2 programmers back on board and get them to update SC2 to VASTLY improve the SC2 Professional Gaming scene and this is how you do it.
Thankfully, everything we need is -already- in the game, they just need to integrate it into multiplayer versus play mode.
Remember how in the campaign, each race has the ability to pick and choose their units modifications. Terran has a vast number of modifications that can be made to their units to improve them, as does Zerg and Protoss.
All Blizzard needs to do is incorporate these changes into the VERSUS game. IMAGINE for a moment how AMAZING the games will be if each player has the option between each game to modify their units just like in the campaign.
Now the same limitations should exist in the versus as the campaign.
For example - you choose Terran and then it gives you a list of all the units and you get to make modifications in them like in the campaign. You can add jump jets to certain units but you can only do it to 1 unit. So the same limitations exist as they put into the campaign. You have 1 of each type of upgrade and you get to choose which unit you add it to. Now there would also be a way to pre-customize a set number of unit profiles in the multiplayer menu - so that when you start up a game, you can simply choose the profile customization you prefer and you can have as many customization profiles saved as you want to save time.
Zerg - Same thing, as I remember from the campaign, each unit has 1 of three evolutionary paths it can take and this gives a HUGE range of variations between armies, because you can make lots of different combos.
Protoss - Same as campaign. Each unit has 1 of three variations you can bring into the battlefield with you.
Now just THINK about this for a moment, how much AWESOME AND INCREDIBLE complexity and variation this will bring to the pro scene because I’m going to say that your opponent CANNOT see what profile or choices you make for your army before the game starts.
Essentially it will be IMPOSSIBLE for players to predict what units the other player is going to play with. There would be near ENDLESS combinations of games - it would be SO EXCITING AND FUN TO WATCH.
And I really think Blizzard should just open up the game and put this new pro versus multiplayer mode out there without any play testing and let them balance it out in real time. I seriously doubt we would ever see any kind of “one dominant” profile type because there are simply so many combinations of units to counter one another.
Now if a single profile became super dominant and way too powerful, then yes of course that setup would need to be nerfed in some way. But I don’t think they need to overthink this. Just open up the game in this Fully Upgraded Versus Pro mode and let the Pro players have at it. Let them establish the best profile unit combos over decades.
THIS WOULD BE AMAZING AND FANTASTIC AND GIVE SO MUCH MORE LIFE TO SC2. BLIZZARD YOU CAN MAKE STARCRAFT 2 THE GREATEST VERSUS GAME EVER IF YOU DO THIS, INCLUDING MY OTHER IDEA OF MAKING A 2 V 2 MODE WITH A MILITARY AND ECONOMIC COMMANDER.
GUYS IF YOU LIKE THIS AND I HOPE YOU DO, THUMBS IT UP, LIKE IT AND POST TONS OF POSITIVE COMMENTS AND THREADS SO BLIZZARD TAKES ACTION ON THIS.
LETS KEEP IMPROVING STARCRAFT 2 FOREVER.
