Retro dow2 casts

[Toilailee]

I was going through some old dow2 casts for nostalgy's sake and found this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnV256MvxFY

It's from f***ing 3½ years ago, Indrid sounds so young (also featuring toilailee ).



Random thread is random(shit).

[appiah4]

Reminds me of the days I got into dow2 mp through watching Harlequin Casts episodes..

[Swift]

It's quite eerie how vacant Indrid sounds...

[Torpid]

It's quite eerie how vacant Indrid sounds...

Yeah lol. Also the noob gameplay lulz. Modern-day toil is so much better than that.

[Toilailee]

Yeah lol. Also the noob gameplay lulz. Modern-day toil is so much better than that.

Or at least was, before he rusted up again. Anyway thx for the compliment.

[Superhooper01]

Harlequin Casts episodes were great and nice find:)

[Caeltos]

If anyone has any of the DoW2live commentary, when it was the backbone casting for DoW2, I'd literally die of happiness.

Good memories.

[Wise Windu]

Do you mean these? Only ones I've seen.

https://www.youtube.com/user/dow2live/videos

[Deuce Bigalow]

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/dow2live

You may now die (of happiness).

[Caeltos]

lal

Reading up on old changes

http://www.gamereplays.org/dawnofwar2/p ... og-preview

"Walkers overbuffed"

lol'd. That's why they got price-cuts to re-align with their new performance, and they never got that right unfortunately. I never found the splash introduction and health increase any worthwhile, as well as the removal of melee resistance.

In an essence of once was
- Melee walkers had no splash, but had ALOT higher single target damage
- Walkers were alot more accessible due to their cost and replaceable even
- Deff Dredd had insane AoE burn damage, that was pretty much squandered. (from 90 to 45)

Can't forget those 80 damage cyclone missile launchers that knocked back retreating units. Or Wartrukks that had the dps of like 2x big shootas.

Or HT Crushing Claws dps not being amazeballs, and went to insaneballz dps later on.

I love nostalgia.

[Swift]

And this was all before my time

Though having said that I did play DoW II when it first came out, and looking at those videos, I remember a lot of it from way back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCJ3azmJjag Saw this replay come up, the British guy is so proper and smooth. Plus featuring our overlord Caeltos.

[Toilailee]

Good ol' Dow2Live with Bluefoot before he was imprisoned somewhere exotic, Istanbul was it?

@swift: Dat OR man, dat OR. Still great replay tho.

[Swift]

Good ol' Dow2Live with Bluefoot before he was imprisoned somewhere exotic, Istanbul was it?

@swift: Dat OR man, dat OR. Still great replay tho.

None of that post makes sense to me

I laughed when he mentioned the "Nascar Predators" though, sadly I've never seen them.

[Atlas]

I've actually been checking out these cats now and VinidcareX's play is pretty inspirational. I think I'm gonna try and steal a few moves from that playbook

[Swift]

I've actually been checking out these cats now

Meow

The idea of triple Cultists with GL and double dreads was sort of inspirational, but mostly funny.

[Myrdal]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td2RLQWxzeg

Loving this, the response from Spirit is just great

Some older stuff: http://www.livestream.com/dow2live

If anyone has any of the DoW2live commentary, when it was the backbone casting for DoW2, I'd literally die of happiness.

They used own3d.tv a lot iirc so it's likely erased by now since it went down ;/ Wishful thinking but perhaps Bluefoot has some of it stored?

[Gorbles]

lal

Reading up on old changes

http://www.gamereplays.org/dawnofwar2/p ... og-preview

"Walkers overbuffed"

lol'd. That's why they got price-cuts to re-align with their new performance, and they never got that right unfortunately. I never found the splash introduction and health increase any worthwhile, as well as the removal of melee resistance.

In an essence of once was
- Melee walkers had no splash, but had ALOT higher single target damage
- Walkers were alot more accessible due to their cost and replaceable even
- Deff Dredd had insane AoE burn damage, that was pretty much squandered. (from 90 to 45)

Can't forget those 80 damage cyclone missile launchers that knocked back retreating units. Or Wartrukks that had the dps of like 2x big shootas.

Or HT Crushing Claws dps not being amazeballs, and went to insaneballz dps later on.

I love nostalgia.

Let's be honest, old walkers were ridiculous.

Not quite Synapse-bomb level, or pre-1.4 Tacspam, but . . . . ridiculous. I think they just made a lot of changes at once to walkers, which confused matters.

Of course, they had a good three sites screaming balance feedback at them and demanding to all be noticed, so

[Caeltos]

I think Old Walkers functioned alot more practical. They weren't overpriced, and if you lost one, it wouldn't be the end of the game. The more expensive they become, the more likely to make a comeback dimnished. Coupled that with stacking snares and lascannon functionality, walkers saw a decline in useage due to the risk vs reward factor.

The old pricing also helped cause diversity and flexibility in builds. Largely, the changes made to the walkers were negative. Nevertheless, also that Chaos had crushers/bloodletter heavy_melee source that just destroyed walker viablity in the matchup.

I think their price should have remained the medium rather than the absurdity of power dependancy and been fine with it. Maybe.

[Cheekie Monkie]

T2 Carnifexes with rippers

*Shudders*