EPT[Spoilers] Heart of the Swarm: Main character? - Page 2
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sup3rchan
Canada127 Posts
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EliteAzn
United States661 Posts
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tgdm
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^-- about Samir Duran as far as kerrigan being back to her human form, that just means she looks and acts human again. No more hive mentality. The confederacy was the one that started the experiments on ghosts + zerg (and thus created psi emitters). There's definitely grounds for control there. | ||
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Carthaginian
Australia3 Posts
On an unrelated note, did anyone else sort of fell that Matt Horner was supposed to be the player for the original game? | ||
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WyghtWolf
Israel145 Posts
On August 04 2010 16:27 Carthaginian wrote: Remember, Kerrigan was involved in the confederate experiment to use ghosts to control the Zerg. In fact, if i remember correctly, she was the ghost that was most adept at it in all the experiments they did. Then she got infested and it massively boosted her powers, so even though she is uninfested now (and lets assume a complete return to her level of power pre-infestation, even though her zerg hair seems to indicate retention of much of her power), she would have at least a nominal command of Zerg in her vicinity, should she want to. But I would say most likely the first few missions in HotS will definitely be her working to regain her control over the swarm and hunting down rouge cerebrates or whatnot that have tried to become the top dog in her absence. As far as I noticed, Kerrigan didn't create new cerebrates. She was too paranoid of what happened during the broodwars with Xazs(WTF was his name spelled like anyway?)and him trying to create a new overmind by fusing several cerebrates together, so she killed off all the ones that were still around. the reason why I think she didn't make new ones was the same reason the overmind gave her, mostly, free reign to do as she pleases. A strategist is only as good as the room for manuevaring he has. That's why the swarm attacked everything in sight, even itself when the over mind was lost. it lost it's brain, so it was reduced to pure instinct. also, it's stated somewhere that kerrigan mutated the queens to what they are now to allow her easier dominance over the zerg. sure, the queens probably have free will to a degree, but they can't do anything that might endanger their queen(like creating a new overmind). it might have something to do with bits of kerrigan being mixed in with the queens DNA(the huge claws the queens use to attack the ground) Yeah. I'm thinking the zerg will be controlled by the now half human kerrigan. why half? during the final scene where jim found her in the ash, her eyes were still the same as when she was infested(although they didn't glow, and you could see her old eyes as well under the gold). | ||
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splcer
United States166 Posts
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GenesisX
Canada4267 Posts
2) Kerrigan is not fully human. Therefore she still has some power over the snerg. 3) Narud = Duran. He had vitiligo. These are my thoughts. | ||
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BrownBear
United States6894 Posts
The one question I have is, what if the artifact didn't alter Kerrigan's powers, but rather her mindset? Remember when she met Zeratul on the prophecy world, she seemed to be bored/ready to accept the inevitable doom coming for them. That seems to be a zerg mentality, so what if the dezergification not only returned part of her human body, but also her human mind? If so, wouldn't the human Kerrigan want to use the army she still controls to fight the return of the Dark One? Just a thought. Perhaps Heart of the Swarm could have you controlling Kerrigan - as she fought alongside Raynor. Perhaps fighting more Protoss that worship the hybrids/more Tal'darim (why did they guard the only dezergification machine in the galaxy and NOT use it...?) Perhaps taking some time out to give Mengsk a serious smackdown for what he did? There are definite possibilities there. I'm still sad about Tychus' passing, though. Man was the most badass comic relief we've had in a while. | ||
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Camila_br
Brazil529 Posts
I'm already picturing the first mission of HotS: Kerrigan will try to control frenzied drones, overlords and zerglings. And the next few missions she will try to get other units to her side as well. Kerrigan's enemies will be the terran's dominion, frenzied zergs without control, protoss who didn't believe Zeratul's premonition, and the hybrids. | ||
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JunZ
United States314 Posts
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tetracycloide
295 Posts
On August 04 2010 13:30 On_Slaught wrote: Kerrigan will still be the leader of the zerg. She wasn't turned into a terran. She was merely balanced between zerg and human (whereas before she was much more zerg), probably even making her more powerful. The proof of this, without going into spoilers about how the xelnaga work, is that Blizzard has explicitly said that the next story is about Kerrigan. We also know it's about the zerg. The connection is all too obvious. Further evidence lies in the Prophecy Missions. The Zerg, should Kerrigan have died, would be used as tool for the Voice of the Void combined with his hybrids to destroy. Given the way the campaign ended I would say the next two campaigns will revolve around Kerrigan gathering her strength in her new form so she can remain in control over the swarm instead of the Voice, and finally in the Protoss campaign some kind of final confrontation, much like the level In Utter Darkness, only this time Kerrigan and some if not all of the swarm is on your side plus it will be a full campaign. I'm sure there will be plenty of drama in both campaigns about everyone coming to grips with allying themselves with Kerrigan and by extension the Zerg but they'll all eventually get over it and win through in the end but only just barely. | ||
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Kezzer
United States1268 Posts
On August 04 2010 17:36 GenesisX wrote: 1) Tychus becomes infested. He is the King of Blades. 2) Kerrigan is not fully human. Therefore she still has some power over the snerg. 3) Narud = Duran. He had vitiligo. These are my thoughts. Or maybe Jack of Blades becomes the new leader of the Swarm. | ||
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Psychopomp
United States237 Posts
On August 04 2010 14:05 On_Slaught wrote: Valerian owns the Mobious foundation which seems to be led by Duran. Seems pretty obvious where his knowledge comes from imo. Just to nitpick, in the first game you weren't actually the overmind but rather a cerebrate created for the sole reason of protecting the crystal Kerrigan was in. Once she was hatched you became her fav cerebrate and the only one to follow her. As the terran you were a commander and as protoss you were the new executor replacing Tassadar who was shamed for not killing terrans. More confusing as to what you are in BW since it seems Artanis becomes executor. I think they just dropped the plot device altogether after SC1. | ||
l10f
United States3241 Posts
On August 05 2010 03:13 Kezzer wrote: Or maybe Jack of Blades becomes the new leader of the Swarm. Valerian gets infested??? | ||
Last Romantic
United States20661 Posts
On August 04 2010 14:05 Logo wrote: I attribute that to Dr. Narud (Duran) as his objective would be to help the Terran/Protoss defeat Kerrigan and kill her so the hybrids can take over the Zerg. In the original SC you were either a commander, a cerebrate, or a protoss commander (whatever that title was). In SC2 it seems kinda odd. You're sorta Jim Raynor but mostly not. SC1 you were Terran Magistrate Cerebrate (Killed by Tassadar) Artanis Selendis UED Captain (killed by Kerrigan) Cerebrate (killed by Kerrigan) | ||
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KinosJourney2
Sweden1811 Posts
Also, Duran will probably show up in the next game. But we can't know what Blizzard has planned. It's like 1.5 years until they will release the HotS-expansion(which im really looking forward to  ) | ||
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Spaceninja
United States211 Posts
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lazerwizz
Hungary53 Posts
INFESTED NOVA WILL LEAD THE ZERG IN HOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I called it first. | ||
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Pandain
United States12989 Posts
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Doso
Germany769 Posts
I guess Heart of the Swarm will be about "infested but not so much" Kerrigan slowly regaining control of the Zerg swarm. She will probably also have to deal with Mengsk. We will also get bits and peaces about who the Xel'Naga are, what their plan was and how it all went wrong (or did it?). Legacy of the Void will probably with the aftermath and the fight against whoever we discover as the mastermind of the (possible) destruction of everything. Probably also a lot more background about the Protoss culture with more info on Tassadar and flashbacks into Protoss history. Of course the Terrans will play a part in some way or another. Oh yeah, also a few "WTF" moments by Blizzard mixed in like the OMFG-WOW video of Ghost-Kerrigan beeing overrun by the Zerg. | ||
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