If you don't want to watch the entire Video i'll put a tl;dw down here, since i didn't plan for this Video to be so long!
I would be very interested in hearing Your thoughts on the balance changes, and how you think it affects Your Own games, since i'm mostly only familiar with the level of top Starcraft 2 Players.
*Also as a little note the first part of my video i don't necessarily mean just designwise whenever i say it but more so in a vacuum without taking balance into consideration many times.

tl;dw: Personally i like the direction of alot of changes, allthough i think the execution lacks a little bit at some. I believe with all the changes taken into consideration as they stand at the 30th of august they would favour terran in tvz, Protoss in pvz, and Protoss in pvt. I don't think any of these changes will necessarily break any matchups, and how much exactly they will tilt the scales will have to be seen.
I think it is generally great to see, that bigger redesigns are allowed, even if I'm not the biggest fan of the cyclone one for example. And i think big patches benefit the scene in general. I find some of the takes of the forums and the general widespread negativity wild, and would really love for everybody to slow down on the balance whining a little bit. Sharing your own oppinions on balance and the state of starcraft is fine, but there's no need to go overboard with it, since it mostly just ends up spreading negativity and toxicity.

I hope you guys enjoyed this video, i recorded and then deleted this a couple of times, and was generally very uncertain about uploading it in general.
In the end, I really wanted to adress some of the concerns the community has had had, which pushed me towards uploading this Video. I hope someone finds this helpful :)



00:00 Intro
0:56 Thoughts on Individual Changes
10:19 ZvT Balance
25:30 ZvP Balance
32:42 TvP Balance
34:45 Community Concerns
38:54 "Toss Players Are Worse"
41:47 Balance should be based on community oppinion
43:28 Pros are too biased to balance
44:53 "We need Professional Game Designers"
48:10 History of the Balance Council vs Public Oppinion

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