Needs to be nerfed/eliminated. It's incredibly easy to que up 4 bot factories and you'll have 50 booms in about 10 minutes. After that, just scout their commander and attack. It pisses people off.
Try scouting. If they are building straight boom bots then build some tanks. They deal a small AOE affect that can tear through boom bots. Try using the uber cannon on the commander, It can take a chunk out of a blob of them. If you can micro doxs they can take them out pretty easily too. Also, send a bumblebee if you see a idle group of them. They will be gone in seconds. They are pretty fast if you ask me, but without proper intel they are useless due to their very poor vision range.
I think booms are fine as they are, personally. They're easy enough to deal with if you have intel, and if you don't have intel the you kinda deserve to be boom rushed...
By 10 minutes I have a huge army and control over at least half the planet. If all you can throw at me are 50 booms, you're going to be in trouble.
I did it yesterday The game was a 1 v 1 v 1 v normalAI. i kill the two other players (beginner), but the normal AI defeated the boom rush. It is fun to do but it is not overpowered.
I tried a bot/air start yesterday against elodea. Took out his 2 expanding fabbers with 2 booms and a scout. I'm sure they are great for turning enemy turrets the wrong way too etc. More practice and these babies will be a skill on their own.
Don't get me wrong it was nice play from you, but i still think bot first is still overwhelmingly a bad choice even if you rush 2nd air after that. It was more a smart metagame thing you did because you knew i don't generally like to open air first. And if i do, it's only to defend against imbabombers. I just wish atleast one person in uber knew how to play their own game. Then they would see how silly the blind openings have become. The situation was already pretty bad last build, and now it's gotten way worse. You can't get information, and you can't blindly defend against both opener rushes. Vanilla state of the game is just really silly and disappointing right now for me.
you can always try the realm rebalance mod. There's one up right now by zweistein. i'm in it, join. bombers are still the old bombers in it.
