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PanzerDragoon
Profile Joined March 2010
United States822 Posts
April 29 2010 23:36 GMT
#41
On April 30 2010 08:03 Wr3k wrote:
The purpose of the reaper is to be annoying and kill workers/tech buildings.

But they aren't really better at the worker thing than a marine drop or hellions, and the tech building snipe requires you building 4-5 reapers instead of 4-5 marauders.
zupf
Profile Joined April 2010
Germany8 Posts
April 29 2010 23:45 GMT
#42
remove hellions, give reapers the flamethrower, and bring back vultures with spidermines.


Novembermike
Profile Joined April 2010
United States102 Posts
April 30 2010 00:15 GMT
#43
Step 1: Make reapers require some kind of early tech like Engineering Bay or something. This allows blizzard to balance them around a 4-5 minute rush and not a 3 minute rush, so they can have a faster build time, more useful abilities etc.

Step 2: Give them a real role. Right now they are a fast moving unit that kills workers well. They share this with Bio in a Dropship, Hellions and Banshees right now, and all of those are more viable late game units in an actual fight. I personally like the idea of making them semi-casters, with something like a spider mine style deployable that doesn't move or blow up but gives you a short (2-3 range) vision or maybe an activated snare (and remove the snare from marauders or something).

Step 3: Profit. Balance the unit so that it has real uses in the late game and you have something that doesn't force players to go a certain tech but is still a viable part of the terran army.
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