PC Gamer: Which matchup do you find to be the most fun now, with all of the changes coming in Heart of the Swarm?Dustin Browder: I still think TvT is glorious. That one, still, is all over the place. And the unit compositions are just bananas. It’s just, I need one of everything, and then five of those. And the positional play is just really exciting.
I feel like Protoss vs Protoss is probably the most improved overall. You’re seeing just lots and lots of tech in some of those games. Certainly in the games I’ve played, I’ve seen crazy amounts of tech. You know, I have … like an hour and ten minute game of Protoss vs Protoss. We built everything. We built High Templars, we built Archons… we had Tempests, we had Oracles. He had Carriers. I started adding Carriers. We had Immortals, of course. You know, we had Sentries… we had everything.
It was one of those games that, when I finally beat this guy, I was like, “Dude, you’re awesome!” And he was like, “No, you’re awesome!” Like, it was just this total high-five. It was a very positive experience. Which is weird, right? I’m used to being yelled at on the Internet.
I haven’t seen a lot of ZvZ yet. For me, at my skill level, it’s still very much a Zergling/Baneling challenge. I do feel like we’ve unlocked Muta[lisk] a lot more in that matchup, because of the nerfs to the Infestor. You know, I’ve watched Grandmaster players play. These are not pros, these are Grandmasters, so let’s be real about that. Grandmaster does not equal pro. But I’ve watched them play, both in streams and here at the studio, and they miss with Fungals. They miss, especially on fast units like Stim Marines, or on Mutalisks.
And that’s significant. That helps unlock that Muta in a very real way. Plus, the regeneration on the Muta is significant. So, I’m hopeful that that unlocking of Muta will be real. But I’ve also heard nightmare horror stories of, it’s all Swarm Host/Brood Lord battles. So we’ll see how that one goes.
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