Maybe it's an infested hellion like that infested bunker they showed off a year or so ago. Showing a "Terran" unit first could be their way of messing with everyone since everyone would expect Zerg units to be shown off first.

TERRANLOL

United States626 Posts

October 05 2011 02:44 GMT

#424

This is a hellion upgrade. Or a new bio unit altogether.
I wouldn't mind a firebat/hellion thing.
Maybe they're going to give us this siege firebat, and then give us vulture bikes back. with mines.

Torpedo.Vegas

United States1890 Posts

October 05 2011 02:46 GMT

#425

What about a permanent transformation that switches the Hellions ground only fire based attack to an anti air fire based attack. It would be useful if Zerg would get Scourges and other new air units in combination with Mutalisks. Especially the splash damage. The shields could be used to show its buffed defense since it can't hit ground anymore, but it is a ground unit.

Thors are slow tanky units, and if they are super fast mobile additions to Zergs air play, they could just be flown around and only attacked with critical mass.

Reithan

United States360 Posts

October 05 2011 02:46 GMT

#426

Wait a second...Heart of the SWARM, the ZERG expansion, and the first multiplayer unit/change debuted is....FOR TERRAN?

How hard did Blizzard just troll us? This is like an 11/10.

hiro protagonist

1294 Posts

October 05 2011 02:46 GMT

#427

If its a bio unit, I hope it replaces the marauder.
If its a mech unit, It better replace the thor.

This is my hope, but when I look at reality, I all ready know what it is. It makes me sad

+ Show Spoiler +

A updated reaper. More Bio T__T

Yoshi Kirishima

United States10343 Posts

October 05 2011 02:48 GMT

#428

On October 05 2011 11:42 emc wrote:
hopefully they remove hellion/marauder and this maraduer-firebat replaces both. So is this like the infested bunker? it's not actually a unit just a troll?

I'm actually guessing, that vehicle mode is flame mode and bionic mode is conc shells, so yeah a combo between marauder hellion looks just about right.

Probably will be a tech lab barracks unit. Requires factory to research transform into vehicle mode. Basically reaper speed will be replaced by this upgrade and reapers/marauders/hellions will be removed.

sounds like an effective way to end up with 2 units less (room for more), but it would seem that unit would be too flexible

iRon aka bananajuice

Germany124 Posts

October 05 2011 02:48 GMT

#429

i don't think that they remove marauders. i think its a hellion replacement, the production in techlab rax is plausible the upgrade too

0neder

United States3733 Posts

October 05 2011 02:48 GMT

#430

Looks retarded and cartooney. I really hope it's a joke. April Fools 6 month anniversary?

ApBuLLet

United States604 Posts

October 05 2011 02:48 GMT

#431

Probably some sort of messed up version of the firebat

Blizzard likes to take original Terran infantry and add some completely weird twist... like making medics fly... that kinda thing.

Warpath

Canada1242 Posts

October 05 2011 02:48 GMT

#432

+ shields

I really hope it actually turns out to be a mech unit, or that this is just one of several terran units to get swapped in

loleraserheadz112

United States63 Posts

October 05 2011 02:48 GMT

#433

Who's that Pokemon!

Imperfect1987

United States558 Posts

October 05 2011 02:49 GMT

#434

So when are we going to know what this unit is?

I'm not sure. I guess we'll have to look for a good platform or opportunity to make such an announcement...

I have a feeling they will reveal the unit during Blizzcon. The timing is just too perfect.

ClysmiC

United States2192 Posts

October 05 2011 02:49 GMT

#435

Omg Terran doesn't need any more units >.<

buzzkill568

Canada56 Posts

October 05 2011 02:49 GMT

#436

On October 05 2011 11:46 Reithan wrote:
Wait a second...Heart of the SWARM, the ZERG expansion, and the first multiplayer unit/change debuted is....FOR TERRAN?

How hard did Blizzard just troll us? This is like an 11/10.

Thinking the exact same thing myself...

ashburn

Singapore76 Posts

October 05 2011 02:49 GMT

#437

On October 05 2011 11:00 Reborn8u wrote:

Looks like a hellion in Walker form. I swear to god, if they give Terran a bio unit with splash damage that morphs into the fastest thing on the ground and gets healed by medevacs, I will loose my mind.

LOLOL
Best guess imo.. Blizzard is going along to differentiate each race with their own theme as much as possible. They already have Vikings that transforms, and back in early alpha/demo, Thor transforms into fortress Maximus. This is consistent with the theme... Hellion that transforms

aelynir

United States26 Posts

October 05 2011 02:50 GMT

#438

We noticed that the hellion wasn't getting enough play due to the fact that they could sometimes be killed. There were a handful of light units that could beat hellions when the ratio was only 4:1. We decided to fix this by giving hellions the ability to transform in order to give up mobility for +5 armor.

dranko

Sweden378 Posts

October 05 2011 02:50 GMT

#439

Such a unit would probably need to be very expensive though...

Al Bundy

7257 Posts

October 05 2011 02:50 GMT

#440

On October 05 2011 11:26 HisDudeness wrote:
I think that the thing on top shoots something that freezes other units. The blue post from Blizzard that says "Hint. (chill) Hint" points to this.

I think you might be on to something here. If I'm not mistaken, Terran is the only race lacking an area-of-effect crowd control spell (Protoss have Forcefields, and Zergs have Fungal)