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Rickilicious
Profile Joined July 2009
United States220 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-11-26 07:20:36
November 26 2009 07:05 GMT
#1
Something that has been irking me to say the least is the visual effect on psi storm on air units. Sorry if this has been discussed.

http://pcmedia.ign.com/pc/image/article/100/1002572/starcraft-ii-terrans-wings-of-liberty-20090709082517293.jpg


If that picture is up to date, all we get for indication is the tiny blue flame? I'm not worried just about the person getting stormed, but the player who is storming. That doesn't seem to be a very good indicator.

How exactly do we know what the radius is from this angle? Is it when the air unit flies over the visual effect of the storm, or when a unit's shadow is over the storm?

Another question I have is what happens if it is stormed over a cliff? Does the storm 'fold' over the cliff or just float over the cliff?

I can't seem to land my finger on what I think is odd or out of place, and since the psi storm seems to "stick" to the ground, the only visual feature I could see adding would be something to the effect of lightning bolts simply to say this is a psi storm, because in SC1, they were really hard to miss, and it seems in SC2 they do their damage double as fast.

EDIT: Ya, I mean the flame on the BC to clear up any confusion
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koreasilver
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
9109 Posts
November 26 2009 07:09 GMT
#2
You call that tiny?
horang3
Profile Joined November 2009
United States261 Posts
November 26 2009 07:12 GMT
#3
I'm not sure if it makes much sense to be discussing the graphical features of the game before it's finalized. Just think about the way SC1's Alpha and Beta looked. I'm sure it won't change that much, but graphics change.
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PastrySC
Profile Joined September 2009
Denmark13 Posts
November 26 2009 07:15 GMT
#4
On November 26 2009 16:09 koreasilver wrote:
You call that tiny?


I think he might be talking about the small blue flame on top of the BC, that indicates it's been hit by the storm?
Chodorkovskiy
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Israel459 Posts
November 26 2009 07:16 GMT
#5
He means the blue flame shooting up at the center of the vast blue mass. I kind of see the point, the indication really should be closer to a "storm" in 3D, as opposed to "blanket".
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meeple
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Canada10211 Posts
November 26 2009 07:30 GMT
#6
I agree that he storm seem weird in that it seems to stick to the ground, but like horang3 said, its probably not good to worry about it now, when its not even in Beta yet.
da_head
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Canada3350 Posts
November 26 2009 07:33 GMT
#7
isn't this the old art for storm?
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OppositeSavior
Profile Joined November 2009
9 Posts
November 26 2009 14:32 GMT
#8
On November 26 2009 16:33 da_head wrote:
isn't this the old art for storm?

the old art is a storm... this looks more like some blue explosion
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Assault_1
Profile Joined April 2009
Canada1950 Posts
November 26 2009 14:38 GMT
#9
neh this is the old art, it looks like d-web.

the newer one you can see in BR4
arb
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Noobville17921 Posts
November 26 2009 16:11 GMT
#10
they should go back to the old psi storm look and make it go on top of everything, no confusion and the art is cool as hell
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