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If you havent played through campaign yet, then don't read this
+ Show Spoiler +So in the final mission Kerrigan is deinfested by the Artifact, Tychus shot by Raynor and most(if not all) of the zerg on Char being incinerated by the Artifact pulse. So what will happen in Heart of the Swarm? It seems that the Zerg has apparently lost their main leader( and likely player character)aswell as their main power base in the Koprulu sector devastated. So first of all Blizzard is going to have to conjure up a new protagonist for the zerg( we obviously need a new main character for the zerg, pref a cool one) Who will this be? Duran,a new cerebrate/overmind , another infested human or hybrids ? The interesting thing is that Blizzard stated that you will control Infested Kerrigan in the HoTS expansion(quoting this from http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Heart_of_the_Swarm)This raises the question, will Kerrigan be reinfested? Personally i Don't think so, Blizzard is better at writing stories than that. Either way i think we can really expect some interesting story in the next expansion.
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I'm guessing blizzard is going to write stories in the same time frame. I remember in the campaign where kerrigan depicted somewhat of a jesus model. (It's really vague in my memory as I didn't focus on the story much.) Maybe in her shoes in the last mission, she had another one or even many goals after preventing terran from stopping the zerg. Maybe. haha
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+ Show Spoiler +Looking at her hair, I'd say she isn't totally uninfected. I think she'll still be able to control zerg in small numbers while retaining her humanity, which also allows Blizzard to implement the progression of Kerrigan as they wanted - the better you've upgraded Kerrigan the more zerg she can control. Maybe she'll side with Raynor and help bring down Mengsk. Possibly Raynor will be out of the picture somehow, putting her in this position - it'd be very easy for Valerian and Mengsk to grab Raynor directly after that last cutscene.
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On August 02 2010 05:20 Bananas wrote:If you havent played through campaign yet, then don't read this + Show Spoiler +So in the final mission Kerrigan is deinfested by the Artifact, Tychus shot by Raynor and most(if not all) of the zerg on Char being incinerated by the Artifact pulse. So what will happen in Heart of the Swarm? It seems that the Zerg has apparently lost their main leader( and likely player character)aswell as their main power base in the Koprulu sector devastated. So first of all Blizzard is going to have to conjure up a new protagonist for the zerg( we obviously need a new main character for the zerg, pref a cool one) Who will this be? Duran,a new cerebrate/overmind , another infested human or hybrids ? The interesting thing is that Blizzard stated that you will control Infested Kerrigan in the HoTS expansion(quoting this from http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Heart_of_the_Swarm)This raises the question, will Kerrigan be reinfested? Personally i Don't think so, Blizzard is better at writing stories than that. Either way i think we can really expect some interesting story in the next expansion.
Bolded statements seem incompatible... The single player's format is cool but the story is absurd.
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On August 02 2010 05:29 blastedt wrote:+ Show Spoiler +Looking at her hair, I'd say she isn't totally uninfected. I think she'll still be able to control zerg in small numbers while retaining her humanity, which also allows Blizzard to implement the progression of Kerrigan as they wanted - the better you've upgraded Kerrigan the more zerg she can control. Maybe she'll side with Raynor and help bring down Mengsk. Possibly Raynor will be out of the picture somehow, putting her in this position - it'd be very easy for Valerian and Mengsk to grab Raynor directly after that last cutscene.
u can't ungrow hair, if she shaved her head and let it grow back it'd be normal again i think
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My take on this is:
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The game will have a much more RPG-like feel focusing on Kerrigan being half infested/healed and trying to regain her dominance over the Swarm. Raynor will probably be trying to take down Mengsk, Zeratul will be busy with more things in the void, leaving Kerri to try and regain her powers and bend other rebellious broods back to her will.
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+ Show Spoiler +You have no idea how disappointed I was that Duran didn't show up inthis campaign
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+ Show Spoiler +I think they leave Tychus's body there and he becomes the new master of the Zerg.
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+ Show Spoiler +Kerrigan's humanity must be saved, she and the zerg are key to stopping the hybrids
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On August 02 2010 05:46 ZlaSHeR wrote:+ Show Spoiler +You have no idea how disappointed I was that Duran didn't show up inthis campaign
+ Show Spoiler +I think he was hinted to have appeared. The name of the head of the Moebius Foundation, the guy who gave Tychus the locations of all the artifacts in the first place and wanted all of his data destroyed in the Moebius mission, is named Dr. "Narud". And if you spell it backwards...
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On August 02 2010 06:09 jobiasRKD wrote:+ Show Spoiler +I think he was hinted to have appeared. The name of the head of the Moebius Foundation, the guy who gave Tychus the locations of all the artifacts in the first place and wanted all of his data destroyed in the Moebius mission, is named Dr. "Narud". And if you spell it backwards...
Never noticed that , nice find :D
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+ Show Spoiler +How could Kerrigan maintain control over any zerg when the power she had was taken away? Why would she want to control the zerg when the only way to do so would be for her to change her personality and become a murderous, evil sociopath?
Even if they find a way to infest a human in such a way that he would be able to control the zerg and keep the same personality as well, why would they pick Kerrigan for that, why not some other Ghost such as Tosh? After everything she has gone through why would Raynor ever consider making her go through that again? Maybe if Raynor wouldn't trust anyone else with it, but can he really find not a single capable person? I mean, you can train ghosts every single mission, surely he must have some he trusts?
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mensk imprison raynor and kerrigan is using whats left of her zerg abilities to get the power to rescue him \o/
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On August 02 2010 05:46 ZlaSHeR wrote:+ Show Spoiler +You have no idea how disappointed I was that Duran didn't show up inthis campaign
+ Show Spoiler + He's busy screwing around w/ more hybrids obviously. I was more disappointed about the lack of the UED. I mean what, did they just run in fear that no survivors reported back from the sector? Come on, it's been 4 years!
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On August 02 2010 06:20 Naib wrote:+ Show Spoiler + He's busy screwing around w/ more hybrids obviously. I was more disappointed about the lack of the UED. I mean what, did they just run in fear that no survivors reported back from the sector? Come on, it's been 4 years!
+ Show Spoiler +The UED did have a minor cameo in the campaign, they were just fat and bald. 
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+ Show Spoiler +Alright this is how its going to work. Zeratul said kerrigan is the key to the universe being saved from the hybrids right? He didn't say she had to be human in my opinion its going to be that they find out that kerrigan has to lead the zerg to for the universe to be save. Cheesy sayings between kerrigan and raynor as they say there good byes and she becomes the queen of blades again just less evil. blah blah blah kerrigan finds out her powers have been greatly diminished from being human and does a whole bunch of stuff to gain her powers back. Ending she fights some hybrid boss saving the protoss before legacy of the void where the final battle vs the hybrids will be fought. Anyways Duran will probably make some appearances to try and stop her from regaining her powers.
At least thats my take on it
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Yeah, but why would that be Kerrigan, what makes her so unique she would have to take on that responsibility?
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On August 02 2010 08:06 Mothxal wrote:
Yeah, but why would that be Kerrigan, what makes her so unique she would have to take on that responsibility?
Maybe being a class 12 psi? Nova is only class 10 you know.. (It's mentioned in the book "Starcraft Ghost: Nova")
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Well, that's just silly powerlevel talk that doesn't belong in a story.
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On August 02 2010 08:32 Mothxal wrote:
Well, that's just silly powerlevel talk that doesn't belong in a story.
Power level you say?
+ Show Spoiler +I hope you didn't open this spoiler looking for a meme, those aren't allowed :O
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On August 02 2010 05:46 ZlaSHeR wrote:+ Show Spoiler +You have no idea how disappointed I was that Duran didn't show up inthis campaign
I feel the exact same way 
The bonus mission from SCBW was so awesome, and I was like "damn you Duran, you've played us all!" what will become of this?
And then he's nowhere to be found in SC2
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On August 02 2010 05:46 ZlaSHeR wrote:+ Show Spoiler +You have no idea how disappointed I was that Duran didn't show up inthis campaign
About Duran:
+ Show Spoiler + He did you fool! XD Didn't you hear kerrigan say "I KNOW WHAT YOUR DOCTOR NARUD IS AFTER!!" In the destroy the datacores before kerrigan gets to them mission. Now turn Dr Narud around  . Muhahaha! Duran is the head researcher of the Moebius foundation and doing the hybrids in the dominion labs . Everyone seems to miss that! :p
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On August 02 2010 10:01 Nyovne wrote:About Duran: + Show Spoiler + He did you fool! XD Didn't you hear kerrigan say "I KNOW WHAT YOUR DOCTOR NARUD IS AFTER!!" In the destroy the datacores before kerrigan gets to them mission. Now turn Dr Narud around . Muhahaha! Duran is the head researcher of the Moebius foundation and doing the hybrids in the dominion labs . Everyone seems to miss that! :p
This equals truth! It would make sense. If kerrigan controlling the zerg is what stops the Hybrids than it would seem logical that Duran would want her to turn back into a human so she would not stand in his way. Whether she is dead or just not infested the effect will be the same for the Hybrids, No one to contest their control over the broods... Never the Less, I was really stoked to see her human again, I want a kerrigan of my own... haha.
+ Show Spoiler +And to be honest I almost cried in the last cut scene.... All my dreams came true at that point....
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Whatever happens I just hope:
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Kerrigan doesn't turn back into the Queen of the Blades. That would suck and be stupid at the same time.
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All i know is how Blizzard is gonna end Legacy of the Void.
+ Show Spoiler +Zeratul carries nude Jim Raynor off into the sunset
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On August 02 2010 11:45 dani_caliKorea wrote:All i know is how Blizzard is gonna end Legacy of the Void. + Show Spoiler +Zeratul carries nude Jim Raynor off into the sunset
Wow... I think he may be on to something....
+ Show Spoiler +I mean come on, That moment in the hallway was way to obvious! Even with editing out part of the scene that was NOT rated "T for Teen" >.>
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There must always be a Lich King... err head of the swarm.
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On August 02 2010 11:45 dani_caliKorea wrote:All i know is how Blizzard is gonna end Legacy of the Void. + Show Spoiler +Zeratul carries nude Jim Raynor off into the sunset
+ Show Spoiler +Zeratul and Raynor, bros forever
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One thing I wanna bring up about the last mission in Wings of Liberty
+ Show Spoiler +About the 3rd or 4th time you beat Kerrigan, you can vaguely hear her saying "Don't give up!" I tend to think that Blizzard carefully plant this in here, and that means Kerrigan definitely want to return to human form.
Part of the storyline was her and Jim competing for the XelNaga artifacts, so maybe she wanted them for the same reason Jim did.
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On August 02 2010 05:20 Bananas wrote:If you havent played through campaign yet, then don't read this + Show Spoiler +So in the final mission Kerrigan is deinfested by the Artifact, Tychus shot by Raynor and most(if not all) of the zerg on Char being incinerated by the Artifact pulse. So what will happen in Heart of the Swarm? It seems that the Zerg has apparently lost their main leader( and likely player character)aswell as their main power base in the Koprulu sector devastated. So first of all Blizzard is going to have to conjure up a new protagonist for the zerg( we obviously need a new main character for the zerg, pref a cool one) Who will this be? Duran,a new cerebrate/overmind , another infested human or hybrids ? The interesting thing is that Blizzard stated that you will control Infested Kerrigan in the HoTS expansion(quoting this from http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Heart_of_the_Swarm)This raises the question, will Kerrigan be reinfested? Personally i Don't think so, Blizzard is better at writing stories than that. Either way i think we can really expect some interesting story in the next expansion.
This is my speculation none of it is true. Think as if kerrigan had been able to see what was going on all this time unable to control her body. Think about what you would do if you controlled the zerg army and been betrayed by someone the way mengsk did her. Now think about a single player as a general/cerabrate of that woman as she takes her revenge.
I for one can't fucking wait.
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i just thought blizzard left the hair as it was, becuase a kerrigan with no hair ---> insane
i don't think it has to do anything with the "she-is-still-zerg" image, just the way blizzard always bypasses situations to make it look better =)
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On August 02 2010 05:46 ZlaSHeR wrote:+ Show Spoiler +You have no idea how disappointed I was that Duran didn't show up inthis campaign
I know its an old post... but you did see dr. narud right? The leader of the mobius foundation?
think about it
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On August 02 2010 11:45 dani_caliKorea wrote:All i know is how Blizzard is gonna end Legacy of the Void. + Show Spoiler +Zeratul carries nude Jim Raynor off into the sunset
HAHAHA!!! so epic!
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On August 02 2010 05:46 ZlaSHeR wrote:+ Show Spoiler +You have no idea how disappointed I was that Duran didn't show up inthis campaign
Huh?! He may not have shown up but his creations sure did!!
Any way my take on HotS is that the Zerg units will be buffed by the new Hybrids...!
On August 02 2010 10:01 Nyovne wrote:About Duran: + Show Spoiler + He did you fool! XD Didn't you hear kerrigan say "I KNOW WHAT YOUR DOCTOR NARUD IS AFTER!!" In the destroy the datacores before kerrigan gets to them mission. Now turn Dr Narud around . Muhahaha! Duran is the head researcher of the Moebius foundation and doing the hybrids in the dominion labs . Everyone seems to miss that! :p
Mind= Blown! I didnt think of that OMGGG!
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Haven't you guys seen the video that was leaked? It was the ending and she had powers.
3 takes
-Before Wings of liberty timeframe (least likely)
-She wasn't actually healed by the artifact (again, unlikely)
-She regained powers (through the campaign) and became her zerg self again.(most likely since it would fit in with getting units later, such as at beginning only having lings, then she gets more powerful and others like roaches start to believe in her or something.)
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The whole plot is wacko jacko, it's weird considering that from my understanding it's a lot of the same people. I don't know where they lost the compelling characters and story arcs between Brood War and SC2.
Personally I hope something about the overmind is going to come up in Heart of the Swarm, I didn't really enjoy the retconning in WoL.
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The way I see (or would like to see) the plot going is that Kerrigan is no longer infected, but retains her psionic link with the Zerg and some degree of control over them. With her personality back to normal, she would use her powers to ally the Zerg forces and the Terran to fight the hybrids together. (This would fit Zeratul's statement that she'll be a key element to the defeat of the hybrids).
Relating to the expansion's title, Kerrigan IS the heart of the swarm, giving them a reason to make peace with the Terran and fight the hybrids for a greater good.
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This raises the question, will Kerrigan be reinfested? Personally i Don't think so, Blizzard is better at writing stories than that.
WoL story absolutely blew balls
a deinfested Kerrigan because Raynor has sentimental thoughts about her makes a whole lot less sense than deinfesting Kerrigan for the purpose of removing her control over Zerg and punishing her for her crimes against humanity and Protoss
+ Show Spoiler +anyways, Kerrigan is going to be reinfested because she has to be able to control the Zerg so that the protoss/zerg hybrids don't.
Zeratul says Kerrigan must live otherwise the protoss/zerg hybrid takes over Zerg. I assume a human Kerrigan can't control Zerg, thus Kerrigan must be reinfested
edit: fuck, I responded to an old ass thread
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