If you had to create a balance patch for Starcraft Brood War, what would you add/change?

I don't really know anything about the game so I'd just make zerg stronger because serral is my nigga

ghosts get +5 damage per weapon upgrade

Beats me.
Dark Swarm is probably the most bullshit thing in the game but not to any overwhelming degree.
Honestly Id find a way to buff Queen/Devourer/Scout/maybe Firebat. Even then Bats are used somewhat, and queens show up from time to time.
Scout and Devourer just suck and either needs to do more or cost way less.

Make scouts 175-75, and reduce ground attack cooldown to 25.

units take a minimum of 1 damage under dark swarm.

He looks like someone who enjoys his favourite video game immensely.

I would remove Zergs.

1. Protoss Shield upgrades price cut in half.
2. Zerg Queen gains Mind Control.
3. Terran Ghost gains Mind Control.

Buff Terran so that even Artosis can play them.

Make spore fire glaives
Make mutas into normal size units
Make scouts cheaper and better
Make Star ports not need an add-on for Valkyries
Make ghosts better

Watch Arty play against some pro (friendly match) on SC 2 Brood War mod

Arty plays BW Terran other guy plays SC2 Protoss

Arty puts up defenses to block the shield lady

Protoss guy builds the shield lady late (he forgot)

Arty puts down defenses and makes his armed units leave the base

Finally the shield lady comes into Arty's base and starts destroying the SCVs

lol this happens too often

Add smart rally for resources, bunkers, dropships
You can build creep colony everywhere
Reduce marine cost to 25 minerals, but also reduce attack speed and -1 dmg
Buff hydralisk hp to 100, 12 dmg and 1 armor but increase the cost 125/35/1.5
Reduce dragoon damage to 10 but increase attack speed

How does one play a single game for 20+ years?

Starcraft 1 (one) is the closest thing we have to a perfect game

sometimes a game is just that good

make burrowed units able to be hit by splash under dark swarm

nope

Then what is? Keep in mind he said closest rather than flat out saying best, so it's a comparative measure. You have to name an alternative to refute the assertion.

remove protoss

Why don't Protoss recall shuttles filled with units

Then what is?

Guild Wars

Because they don't need to lmao

Because they can recall more arbiters instead

They die quickly so you have to keep making a lot of them, whereas 12 tanks can leapfrog each other and win every campaign level as long as you have some anti-air

hire david kim to do the unit balance, make his work public and then fire him without actually implementing it.

Nerf SCV HP.
Sunkens now work under dark swarm, it's freaking melee attack.

I would delete Starcraft 2

it's freaking melee attack.

o_O

Ghosts get +3 damage per weapon upgrade and speed from 2.97 to 3.24
Firebats have 2 base armor
Scouts ground damage is now 12 (6x2)
Interceptor cost is doubled
Devourer speed increased to 4.4 (from 3.7, Mutalisk speed is 4.9)
Guardian base armor from 2 to 3
Queen costs 25 less minerals and gas

Why is the remaster so shit? Still 12 unit group cap and can't select multiple buildings? How is blizzard this lazy?

Autists think quality of life improvements hinder the game

remove defiler

because it only improved the graphics; changing the gameplay itself would make it a remake not remaster

The did fix Valkyries firing correctly, then again that bug was related to the old graphics

The gameplay, like the graphics, was a product of its time, not a conscious design choice. Nobody at blizzard sat down and brainstormed the perfect amount of units per control group.

Protoss scout speed increased to match upgraded vulture speed.

Starcraft 2 has those things and the scene is dead nowadays.

swap ensnare and plague

As opposed to the bustling SC1 scene consisting of 12 gooks and Artosis.

they did, though. that's why Brood War IS the perfect RTS game. the industry unironically peaked in 1998.

that's why Brood War IS the perfect RTS game.

No ;/

It's a much older game and people still show up to watch the live matches whereas with SC2... Lol

so why havent fanboys created the perfect unofficial balance patches?

umm cuckolding is actually better than having sex, that's why so many people watch their wives get fucked

People actually play SC2 instead of watching it, gookbro.

Changing the unit select cap would have had huge impacts on balance, and changes like that would have killed the game for any bwfag. Starcraft will never become a hit again, no matter how many qol features you try to implement, so appealing to the existing crowd was the right choice.
Blizzard did everything right with the remaster.

Yes retard, friction in games is actually good, fuck off and go play your mouthbreather cookieclicker garbage without bothering the rest of us.

Mutalisks are 20% slower

Zerglings are 20% slower

Sunken colonies take 20% longer to build

Add a border to the burrowed zerg unit sprites so they can be seen on the ash tileset and it can actually be used
Add an alternate version of the snow tileset so it doesn't rape the player's eyes so it can actually be used
Make dark swarm more transparent so it doesn't hurt player visibility
Let workers use Hold Position and Patrol if you press the hotkey, instead of needing to be grouped just because there's no space on the unit card for the physical button nobody clicks
Add a tiny doodad for mapmakers that spreads creep under itself as an alternative to neutral spores

That's all I can think of. The game is better and more balanced than it's ever been so it doesn't really need gameplay changes.

The game isn’t balanced at all

meanwhile, in reality

goliaths get the missile range upgrade in brood war
a tank behind a handful of marines makes taking down defended buildings way easier

my favorite moments is when his cam freezes and for the next 15 minutes you just see his face twisted in perpetual frown staring into your soul

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stops stream

basks in his huge bank account

lol

Name 1 RTS game with better balance

I'd like damage values to not trick me into thinking that a siege tank does 70 flat damage against everything when it actually does 35 + (35 to armored)
How am I supposed to know that as a kid when I just want to look at the cool art pictures in the booklet?