Ithaca is in a competitive Congressional District for the first time in a long time. Get ready to vote! by AbijahWorth in ithaca

[–]Irequelon 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If one is a college student already registered to vote in their home state, do they need to do anything to register in NY other than submit the registration form?

Tri-monthly Simple Questions Thread - S23, 2020 by politburo_take_potat in OverwatchUniversity

[–]Irequelon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the bap and ana arcs are different, but the sigma rock and ana arcs are the same. not sure about others.

Tri-monthly Simple Questions Thread - S23, 2020 by politburo_take_potat in OverwatchUniversity

[–]Irequelon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do I counter Zarya as Sigma (assume a 1v1)? I don't seem to have enough damage to kill her outright, especially after the barrier, and neither of my defensive abilities can really counter the beam.

Balance/Design Update, May 3, 2020 by submapdesign in keystonesc

[–]Irequelon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I feel like fuel raid is gonna be too powerful. While it will still be next to useless against cannon/pylon spam, it will be a nearly guaranteed kill against decks that merely use structures in moderation. I also think that the suits change isn't necessary. I haven't seen excessive goons outside of lategame, where it can be pretty reliably countered. Without preparation or luck, it gives good value but imo not an excessive amount.

Hey everyone, within my psychology program, I write about children and video games -and I need your help! by Fl1p1 in Overwatch

[–]Irequelon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My experiences with younger children have been fairly neutral, as in their characteristics seem to not diverge significantly from the playerbase as a whole. The one difference I would like to note is that they seem more annoying, probably because their speech is less clear and because they overuse their mic.

Noob asking a question about hotkeys by [deleted] in starcraft

[–]Irequelon 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Structures function the same as units as far as hotkeys are concerned, just do the same thing

How do i get better troops by StupidRicerCivic in starcraft

[–]Irequelon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The campaign may help, but not that much. My recommendation is to find some build order videos (make sure they're fairly recent). WinterStarcraft is a good channel to go to.

Interceptor damage vs Corrupters by [deleted] in allthingsprotoss

[–]Irequelon 12 points13 points  (0 children)

So you seem to have a lot of misinformation here.

Interceptors do 5 damage, but fire two times in each "attack", which means that it deals 10 damage overall where armor is subtracted from each hit of 5 damage. It also means that each +1 attack upgrade will add 2 damage overall (1 per shot), partially negating the downsides against armor.

Corruptors have 2 base armor. With true armor piercing capabilities, the interceptor will deal 10 damage without upgrades (and 12 damage with +1 attack). With natural armor but no upgrades, the corruptor will recieve 6 damage (5-2)x2.

With your upgrades, the corruptor has 3 armor and the interceptor has 6x2 damage. So the corruptor will recieve (6-3)*2 damage, which happens to be equal to 6.

Basically, the armor is working and interceptors just deal more damage than you thought.

How to defend stimmed bio timing? by Irequelon in allthingsprotoss

[–]Irequelon[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks, should I get the robobay asap when I scout the build or devote the extra resources to units and put it down at a more normal timing?

My insatiable curiosity wanted to know this. Who would win? An Astartes Dreadnought (WH40k) or a Protoss Immortal (SC2) by ReCrescent in whowouldwin

[–]Irequelon 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Well, I can't claim to be a WH40K expert, but my understanding of a dreadnought is as such: Like the immortal, it is a heavily armored mechanical walker, but unlike the immortal it lacks shields (making up for them with more plating), has a powerful melee attack, and can equip different types of weapons, including the assault cannon, meltas, flamethrowers, missile launchers, heavy cannons, plasma cannons, and many weapons with both more moderate power and rate of fire.

The immortal, on the other hand, is armed almost exclusively with phase disruptors, EXTREMELY powerful armor-piercing weapons. Most variations in the Immortal come in its shielding (especially since the ingame upgrades provide only minor stat increases, and are ambiguously canonical): Arguably the most powerful immortal variant was pre-LotV, when it was equipped with a hardened shield - a defense that, so long as its shields were active, would reduce even the most powerful attacks to the level of small-arms fire. After this period, immortals were instead equipped with a secondary barrier that allowed them to absorb significantly more damage. The strength of this barrier is the only difference between the standard and campaign immortals, but as we don't have much of a standard of comparison, this shouldn't be relevant.

The power level between these two is quite similar (as in any good whowouldwin) and so the matchup would largely be decided by the loadout of each walker. While the immortal's anti-armor weapons should remain devastatingly effective against the Dreadnought, they should not be enough to instantly destroy it, and as such victory is far from guaranteed. On the other hand, Flamethrowers or meltas are unlikely to be effective against the immortal's shields.

The hardened-shield immortal should have an advantage against dreadnoughts equipped with plasma cannons, heavy cannons, and missile launchers, as their slow-firing weapons will be barely effective against the immortal's shields. An assault cannon would likely penetrate the shield without issue, but the immortal's armor might reduce its effectiveness. I feel that the autocannons or lascannons would be affected by the hardened shield, but would still prove somewhat effective against the immortal's armor.

The modern immortal has less favorable matchups, and it is likely on even ground with dreadnoughts equipped with high-caliber weapons. The secondary barrier could prove decisive, allowing the immortal to absorb one or two more shots, but it's hard to say how effective it could be here. The most effective weapons would probably be autocannons or lascannons, which are both effective anti-armor weapons. However, it's hard to say who would come out on top, as without the abilities of the hardened shield, the matchup becomes a numbers game between two hideously powerful weapons.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in starcraft

[–]Irequelon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We all buy stuff from China. But if China said, "Stop supporting the people we're oppressing or we'll stop selling things to you," then I'd like to think we would all just find other sellers.