Zerg Hex Forum

Mike had a great idea to balance lobbies: allow players to bid on a mineral bonus for playing as zerg.

The default would be that zerg gets a very high mineral bonus that would give zerg a chance against even 6 pros. Say 1000 minerals.

In the race selection menu, players would be able to bid to play zerg for a lower amount. So if you thought you could beat the lobby with only 500 extra minerals, you could bid 500.  But if someone else thought they could win with just 200 minerals, they could bid 200.

The amount could even go negative for noob lobbies. So if someone bid zero but you think you could win even with a negative amount, you could bid -100 or -500 or whatever.

The 2 players who bid the lowest amount would get to play zerg.

This could theoretically make every lobby balanced.

No one in esports would call a game balanced if it required the players to be at different skill levels.  That's a fictional notion invented solely by apologists for wmaster.

I think I can.  Wmaster doesn't know how to balance the game, so the game doesn't attract good players, since there is no challenge.  Terran will win every time if the lobby is good.

And then when good players do join a random lobby, the game is structured so that zerg will focus them the entire game and make it unplayable.  So there is no point in playing.  Either terran wins easy, or you get focused while your allies do nothing, or you choose zerg to inflate your record.  All things that make the game unpopular.

You've got it backwards. Due to the higher cost of lings and especially strikelings, it's better for zerg economy to make more extractors (up to a point).  The "gold number" should be slightly higher than the "blue number" (especially when making strikelings).

Terran is insanely overpowered. There isn't even a point in transfusing large spines because they just stasis cannon all your stuff from inside their base and then ion a path into your hive, killing all of your units. The only 2 ways for Zerg to win is a bruta rush sub 20 mins or rushing as many infused roach as possible IF you're lucky. Blue laser Terran army should not be able to handle roach. Yellow laser should not be able to handle ultralisk. Elites should have a difficult time with brutas. Otherwise what's the point of armor if tanklings, roach, ultralisk are all totally useless? Nobody builds ultralisk so why does it exist? Upgrading your spawners only hurts you so why even make it an option if it's never worth it? Mass slowling doesn't even slow down a Terran army anymore. Spores are dumb as hell and can't kill or destroy a thing.

Stasis should not be able to kill structures, PERIOD. Tanklings should give double income and have double armor to make them worth building. Ultralisk should be the new bruta and brutas should be buffed. The starting level cost of supply should be equal to the starting amount of income, so 400. Large spines should be buffed and their reach should be increased by 1/3. Gas cloud's energy draining effect should actually **** do something. Zerg's economy should be increased so that you don't need to do the stupid dance of shuffling income back and forth.

Why does Terran even need a tank when they can build 1 italis and buff their walls on 2 **** gas and survive most of the game? Terran turtling of any kind should be punished. Either they push out or they lose. And when they push out, it should be a challenge and not a cakewalk to just stomp through all your spawners boosting and spamming stasis without a hitch.

either Zerg eco gets buffed or Terran weapons get more expensive. if everybody's a **** pro and only two top tier Zerg can hold off 3 pro terrains and maybe win at the end then this game will **** suck ass. It is too easy for Terran to hold 4 gas and just sit in their base for 25 minutes.

The old game used to be fun. Now its unbalanced, overly complex, and with crap nobody even uses like the tank or ultralisk. Get rid of the infestor heal bullshit and just buff Zerg units so they can perform similar functions to the infestor units. This game is **** **** as it is with terrains early quitting and getting killed early game if they are new or ONE PRO PLAYER getting FULLY FOCUSED for 20 mins and STILL not getting pushed into their base.

TERRAN IS OVER **** POWERED

I hope wmaster reads this and fixes the game.

Just in case wmaster ever reads this, he should know that in lobbies with 8 pro players, the terrans almost always win, even when they limit themselves to 1 gas outside their base (2 gas total including the pocket gas behind the rocks).  Zerg is severely underpowered and can't win even if all 6 terrans are limited to 2 total gas.

if this version on sc2? i didn't see it online when i searched.

Also, any word on the creator? Seriously open source the game, the balance needs lots of work.

Ink got mad because someone on here called him out for quitting games at 11, so he deleted Community Version. 

ICEBear - what is changed in this version?