4-Gate obsolete in Heart of the Swarm
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 8:57 am
Get ready to say goodbye to everyone's least favorite opening: The Protoss 4-gate.
This will be obsolete upon release of Heart of the Swarm due to:
1. You can't warp in units on high ground from a pylon on low ground.
2. Mothership core's "purify" skill provides significant defense early on for Protoss.
This is all very good, because 4-gate is/was the most "broken" thing about SC2. That is, if you are protoss, and you are playing against another protoss, at most levels of play it worked like this:
1. If he 4-gated and you didn't, he won.
2. If you 4-gated and he didn't, you won.
3. So everyone 4-gated every time, just in case.
Thank you DUSTIN BROWDER for overseeing this fix! Thank you!
We will always have this to remember the 4-gate by:
[youtube][/youtube]
This will be obsolete upon release of Heart of the Swarm due to:
1. You can't warp in units on high ground from a pylon on low ground.
2. Mothership core's "purify" skill provides significant defense early on for Protoss.
This is all very good, because 4-gate is/was the most "broken" thing about SC2. That is, if you are protoss, and you are playing against another protoss, at most levels of play it worked like this:
1. If he 4-gated and you didn't, he won.
2. If you 4-gated and he didn't, you won.
3. So everyone 4-gated every time, just in case.
Thank you DUSTIN BROWDER for overseeing this fix! Thank you!
We will always have this to remember the 4-gate by:
[youtube][/youtube]