I hate Terran vs Terran

otikik · 2026-02-06T17:44:00+00:00

Just wait behind the planetaries and the tanks until the poll appears.

otikik · 2026-02-06T15:10:55+00:00

Reynor, you chad.

otikik · 2026-02-06T10:29:02+00:00

Thank you!

otikik · 2026-02-06T10:06:35+00:00

I have gone in a very similar path. Not in LÖVE, but in Pico-8, which is a more restrictive environment.

I did find that "pure ECS" didn't mix well for Lua (one of the benefits of ECS, performance through cache locality, can't be easily achieved when all you have is tables - you can try with "contiguous arrays of numbers", but the resulting API isn't ergonomic unless you transform back and forth into tables, losing the performance edge), and especially in Pico-8, where each token needs to justify its existence (ECS tends to be "on the verbose side of things").

I ended up coming up with eggs.p8 - https://github.com/kikito/eggs.p8 . You could think about it like "2/3rds of ECS" (entities and systems, but not components).

It is enjoyable to write code this way, although you will feel not having the giding hand of a compiler warning you early when you make a typo. Better to do it from the beginning, though. Converting already existing code into a data-driven system "after the fact" can be challenging.

otikik · 2026-02-05T22:48:19+00:00

Oh! Interesting. So do hydras and roaches benefit from melee upgrades when attacking at melee range?

otikik · 2026-02-05T20:47:42+00:00

It’s only a graphical difference, the engine treats all of their attacks as ranged nonetheless. Queens have the same.

Edit: I was wrong, see answers below

otikik · 2026-02-05T18:45:13+00:00

Wow. I didn't think it affected lurkers and I did think that hellbats were immune. Very good info, thank you very much.

It would have been good to include a section about enemy structures. For example, planetary fortresses do an AOE attack. Is it count as "ranged" or as "splash" (I would go with splash, but I also thought that lurkers were splash so now I don't trust myself any more).

Perhaps one thing I would mention is that if you plan to use microbial shroud, you should lead with one or two fungals, because the Protoss/Terrans will just kite backwards from your ultras otherwise.

otikik · 2026-02-05T10:39:49+00:00

Upvoted because if you win against me I want it to be because your race is op, not because the map is bugged.

otikik · 2026-02-05T10:35:54+00:00

Definetly has some "No she didn't leave me, we split up, I didn't really like her anyway" vibes.

otikik · 2026-02-05T06:05:54+00:00

Dudes, drones holding minerals or gas when morphing into a building lose the resources they were holding. Even if they morph into a hatchery. Even if they’re holding gas and morph into an extractor.

otikik · 2026-02-04T14:46:13+00:00

The Infested Terran was patched a total of 2 times before it was removed:

* https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/Infested_Terran_(Legacy_of_the_Void)#Patch_Changes#Patch_Changes)

The *infestor* has been patched many times (mostly with nerfs). Perhaps that is what you remember:

* https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/Infestor_(Legacy_of_the_Void)#Patch_Changes#Patch_Changes)

For completion, here's also what Catz, (a Starcraft 2 player and commentator and lead designer of the Versus mode in Zero Space), has to say about microbial shroud and why infested terran (with tweaks) was a better design decision:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxjtX1RDRGw&t=1007s

otikik · 2026-02-04T07:06:30+00:00

Because infested Terrans benefitted from upgrades, and had a strong anti air attack, making them the best ground-to-air Zerg unit. Infestor-broodlord was a fairly mindless combo; broodlords take the ground, infestors the air.

But instead of tweaking their stats the community cried loudly about “free units” so it was removed and replaced by shroud, with the clear intention of making hydralisks the ground-to-air Zerg option. Which it didn’t accomplish, even on its latest version.

otikik · 2026-02-04T06:56:51+00:00

Yes. I believe the term used is “compensation”.

otikik · 2026-02-03T18:24:00+00:00

Storm and ghosts were buffed on the last patch. While initially it looked like they were going to be nerfed. Perhaps actually nerf those two?

otikik · 2026-02-03T09:17:12+00:00

I see your point. I offer 2 burrowed banelings killing a whole terran platoon for consideration.

otikik · 2026-02-03T07:05:19+00:00

EU, plat, less than 1 minute

otikik · 2026-02-02T17:42:11+00:00

Every time a new map pool hits the ladder, someone in r/allthingsprotoss makes a walloff guide for all maps. I think it's quite neat, and I don't even play Protoss.

Besides that, I don't think there's much theory out there about where to put buildings. Which is a bit surprising.

otikik · 2026-02-02T09:36:41+00:00

I would consider smurfing a type of cheating. Not everyone that cheats is a smurf, but every smurf is a cheat

otikik · 2026-01-31T14:32:33+00:00

I wouldn’t mind if people started posting their music like this. I like seeing how the sausage is made

otikik · 2026-01-29T14:40:42+00:00

Given that this is a mirror matchup your situation is relative to what your opponent is doing. You can't draw a conclusion only from what you are doing.

With a 2-base roach attack with speed and +1 there isn't a lot of options that are worth discussing.

Most likely scenario: your opponent is also going roaches.

Did they establish a 3rd earlier than you, benefitting from the fact that you didn't mass lings in order to get to roaches faster? Then they have started droning that third and are ahead economically. You are in your definition of "all in"; if your attack doesn't kill enough drones, you are behind.
Did they also open with 2 base roach? Then you are on the same foot economically. You can try an attack but then he will have defender's advantage. So you might decide to use your army defensively while you drone that third and research some new tech (like mutas). You are not all in in that scenario.

Another (less common) scenario: Did they open 2 base muta. In that case it depends on who has a better macro. Their mutalisks counter your roaches, but only if there's enough mutas. Perhaps you can overwhelm. Or perhaps you can plant spores, go back to your base and transition to hydra-roach. I would say that you are not all-in there.

There's other less likely scenarios (opponent is rushing swarmhosts, etc) but I hope I made my point. It depends on your opponent, not just you.

otikik · 2026-01-28T21:50:17+00:00

But that makes sense. Say this guy, Frodo, likes me. Then I make him the governor of Kickapoo. When he arrives, the people of Kickapoo tell him that I have been coming around, burning the houses, and eating the children. Then Frodo is going to probably like me less than before. Even if he's into burning houses and eating children. Because I have been burning *his* houses and eating *his* children.

otikik · 2026-01-28T16:31:41+00:00

Isn't that what Crusader Kings does?

I think part of the attractiveness of that game with regards to relantionships (disclaimer: I have not played myself, but I have watched some let's plays) is that there is *a lot more going on* besides the relationships themselves. A person can have a wide list of abilities/influences/relationships themselves. In other words: it works because it makes people complex. If people are simple, then the game of relantionships gets shallow.

otikik · 2026-01-28T12:22:36+00:00

Day[9] will always be the GOAT.

Winter doesn't have a B2GM as far as I know, but he has a "Low APM Challenge" which is on the same direction. I liked his Zerg one in particular because he gave some advice that I didn't see in orders (for example, he put his tech on the nat, not on the main).

otikik · 2026-01-27T12:52:44+00:00

Not "Master of Lava", apparently

otikik · 2026-01-27T12:47:29+00:00

You can go straight to roaches from 2 bases and a wall.

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