Could Brood War Mech Actually Beat SC2 Protoss?

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[RaggedVentures]

Besides the gameplay, I really enjoy the visual design of the Brood War units and buildings so much more than the SC2 design, where everything is rounded off corners and bezier curves. To me, SC2 terran always looked like a Mattel playset for toddlers, and protoss like a WoW elf faction. The old designs look great in 3D, though, which proves it was never a limitation of going from raster to vector.

[viliusjokubaitis]

lifting a building up to leave the base is so old school and i love it amazing.

[zergilli]

If they did an SC BroodWar + SCII ladder, then SC2 would blow up.

[Truck_Kun_Driver]

SC2 Protoss: Where are my armies?
SC1 Tanks: Gone, reduced to atoms.

[leepatterson]

Blizzard needs to make this an official game mode. It would really help make the game fresh.

[iowhitespirit]

28:06 FYI, Archons are considered hovering and won't trigger spider mines

[DrkCarbalt]

We need the goliaths and vultures back for starcraft future

[lordjimbo]

One thing that will be interesting to see is if the staggered siege can still work and if the new SC2 pathing helps with it. If you watch the old vids of Flash and co, the tanks were spread out because of the slow fire rates and to avoid mine drags from zealots. That required constant APM to unsiege the ones in the back and move them up but they could get caught on a lot of things. The entire map became a war zone covered in turrets, tanks and mines where mech units were rushed to the front across a wide area, as opposed to the "deathballs" that Marc is using here.

[TheArchivistArchive]

Marc you gotta up that gorgeous original SC music a bit so we can all bop while you do your thing. ;)

[xeruexe]

Whoah. Was just checking out the Evo mod in other videos, and then you also come out with one. Cheers Marc, I hope this becomes a long running series.

[RiskOfBaer]

Blink Stalkers are something Brood War Terrans saw in their nightmares.

[nassattack]

oh yeah I remember the range upgrade on the goliath anti-air attack being absurd. Also valkyries seem really good against carriers with their air splash damage.

love these brood war vids, this mod is so cool!

[dewinmoonl]

With carriers you could actually make ghost with lockdown work. In BW split targeting is really difficult, but in SC2 you'd be able to perfectly lockdown every carrier

[mazhiwezakizo]

Even though the Medic was a mistake making, medics are actually pretty useful for fighting against SC2 Protoss, as you should be able to "Flashbang" the Protoss observers, making them blind and useless as detectors, which is better than killing them, as they now take up population space, while providing almost no value. So the enemy has to made the decision to kill them themselves or suicide them into missile turrets. This should also work on the Warp Prisms, as it should make it much harder for the warp Prism to teleport in new units, as it would have almost no field of vision to do so, unless it has some units inside it as well.

[rankothefiremage]

Ever since the first previews of SCII many Toss and Zerg units where defined by "this unit counters seige tanks" and Terran where never really given counter counters, or tools other than MMM micro which doesn't always work when you need to out APM other people at your mmr by a good amount to make it work.


Not to mention the "tank counters" where also good all around units as well.

[TurTurHamMan]

Man, I miss the brood war units soo much

[christopherjohnson]

Goliath/Tank was strong in BW, I think that's why some people in SC2 have been so disappointed that going with mainly factory units has never really been viable in SC2, at least not in any era I can recall.

[leafykille]

This is so fun to watch, this should be a regular feature of rts games that run for long enough. Bringing back brood war factions was exactly what sc2 needed. I hope to see much more of this in the future:)

[gcl]

Brood war the way it was meant to be played.

[somedude]

vultures being OP af is the only reason terran is playable in bw