EPTWhat happened to Dark Archons? - Page 4
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SimpleNEasy
United States22 Posts
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kamikami
France1057 Posts
On March 15 2011 14:33 BlackMagister wrote: Well Blizzard attempts to make lore explanations sometimes. The vulture was removed supposedly because it was unreliable maintenance wise according to the mechanic on the Hyperion. The Dark Archon however I'm not sure how it would be explained away. Supposedly Dark Archon's are a last resort thing and are looked down upon because dark templars are individualistic and have to merge. Not only that, but the ability to mind control others is probably something looked down on but I only remember Zearatul having a problem with the later. The thing is the lore for Colossus was they were terrible weapons of war made only for killing. The reaver while also devastating had a non combat purpose (can't remember atm) so the Colossus were sealed away only brought back out now out of desperation. http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/game/unit/colossus (seems like they edited down the entry from pre release version) It was explained in the Dark Templar Trigogy that morphing Dark Archon is actually a fobbiden art and Dark Archons are considered evil beings by the Protoss. | ||
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TheKillers
United States17 Posts
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dartoo
India2889 Posts
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sluggaslamoo
Australia4494 Posts
On March 14 2011 23:17 Conversion wrote: dt -> scout -> arbiter -> DARK ARCHON -> MC A SCV -> MAKE TANKS -> RECALL TANKS YEAHHHHH in a nutshell Correction: Recall tanks in seige mode :D | ||
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iSometric
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stalking.d00m
213 Posts
On March 12 2011 05:42 Sanguinarius wrote: I think they will make an appearance in the protoss campaign. I doubt they will be a multiplayer unit. Exactly. I think Lurkers will be back in HOTS and Reds in LOV. If everything was in game from start why would people buy expansions? So lets just enjoy what we have now. The map size and unit count is bound to increase in future. | ||
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Iksf
United Kingdom444 Posts
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[UoN]Sentinel
United States11320 Posts
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FaCE_1
Canada6184 Posts
That would be awesome  | ||
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VeNoM HaZ Skill
United States1528 Posts
On March 14 2011 07:19 GoonSack wrote: MC also went dt > morph archon against MVP in the GSTL He also lost. Terribly. | ||
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FeyFey
Germany10114 Posts
And you must consider that they weren't fighting together all the time, so it was dark templars and dark archons versus mutalisks and all that stuff in masses. Warcraft 1 to warcraft 2 was really fun every unit had an explaination why its gone or where its from hehe. Also a possibility is that the knowledge is simply destroyed since shakuras was pretty much raided by the zerg. (like the wizard of the humans that got whiped out with all their knowledge lost, atleast the clerics could teach the lorderon knights there knowledge of healing and thus the paladin was born, but at the same time the ork necromancer got mostly killed but the remaining few used corpses of paladins to ressurect them as the death knights (or how they were called hehe) ) | ||
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SeaSwift
Scotland4486 Posts
On March 18 2011 02:46 VeNoM HaZ Skill wrote: He also lost. Terribly. I don't see how that's relevant. If he tried to do that in the GSTL, he clearly considers it a viable strategy. MC doesn't just play on a whim each game, he has practiced the build orders etc repeatedly, and knows what works and what doesn't. Sure, he mucked it up, but he's mucked up other builds plenty of times as well. Basically, if MC thinks it can work, chances are it can work. | ||
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Coldspyros
United States18 Posts
I would sure like to see that. Even though I'd hate giving more money to Kotick, if they threw out that kind of expansion i might pay for it. | ||
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Geovu
Estonia1344 Posts
... ...Nice job there buddy. | ||
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niteReloaded
Croatia5282 Posts
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brum
Hungary187 Posts
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Hypemeup
Sweden2783 Posts
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BlackMagister
United States5834 Posts
On March 16 2011 09:21 kamikami wrote: It was explained in the Dark Templar Trigogy that morphing Dark Archon is actually a fobbiden art and Dark Archons are considered evil beings by the Protoss. Like I said Colossus were sealed away for a similar reason and are being unsealed now because the Protoss are desperate. Not sure why it makes sense lore wise to reseal the Dark Archon. They can get rid of things by saying they're technologically inferior now for example the Scout and Corsair -> Pheonix which supposedly combines Auir Protoss Technology with DT Technology. Dragoons were written off by saying the facility that makes Dragoons was on Auir and got infested but the technology was copied by DTs hence the Stalker. So unless there is some side story where Dark Archon's go rogue between BW and SC2 I don't see why they would re-ban them after just unbanning their usage. Here is the Dark Archon Lore http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_archon#History Oh and found the old SC2 page seems like the Stalker might get more abilities? Swift and deadly, stalkers have been credited with many fantastic powers in recent conflicts. Nevertheless the only one that has been witnessed consistently is the ability to instantly teleport or 'blink' from one spot to another. http://us.starcraft2.com/features/protoss/stalker.xml | ||
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RLTY
United States965 Posts
On March 14 2011 23:05 da_head wrote: wait, i know what the stove is (dt, scout, arbiter), but what is the royal stove? o.O Not really, but it was done during race wars by (CrownRoyale?) . I still have the wallpaper since it looks so badass  http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=88864 | ||
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