New Terran Unit in Heart of the Swarm - Page 94

On October 06 2011 18:32 Ganseng wrote:
grappasc, I like your investigation. Seems plausible that blizzard could want to misslead us with the "obvious" hellion tire on this thing.
and then "chill" could be a counter-hint against hellion, couldn't it?
i'd love to see these things turn out to be mines!

On October 06 2011 18:21 grappasc wrote:

"if it had tires, which it doesn't, it wouldn't have hellion tires".
the picture is an answer to those making direct comparisons with hellions and saying the "tires" match, when that's false.

sorry I made such a messy picture. I should've seen it coming. people can't read the text on it.

On October 06 2011 18:21 grappasc wrote:

"if it had tires, which it doesn't, it wouldn't have hellion tires".
the picture is an answer to those making direct comparisons with hellions and saying the "tires" match, when that's false.

sorry I made such a messy picture. I should've seen it coming. people can't read the text on it.

On October 06 2011 19:36 Cabinet Sanchez wrote:
This is not a troll.
I am not trying to make anyone angry.
I am not trying to whine about balance.

BUT

I do, without question 100% agree with Artosis saying that Terran is the "swiss army knife" race. They really do have a unit for all situations, with a great variety of skills / features and a counter for every situation.
I find it,... frustrating that the first unit they post a picture of is a Terran unit rather than Z or P.
It's a bit childish of me but really, that's how I see it :/

On October 06 2011 19:36 Cabinet Sanchez wrote:
This is not a troll.
I am not trying to make anyone angry.
I am not trying to whine about balance.

BUT

I do, without question 100% agree with Artosis saying that Terran is the "swiss army knife" race. They really do have a unit for all situations, with a great variety of skills / features and a counter for every situation.
I find it,... frustrating that the first unit they post a picture of is a Terran unit rather than Z or P.
It's a bit childish of me but really, that's how I see it :/

On October 06 2011 19:44 ArhK wrote:


You are not alone with this feeling I think, I support you in that regard. It is so trollish, while we never ever had that many terrans in the GSL, with Terran being stronger than ever, Dustin Bowder stating rightfully that "Terran has already everything", to tease us with a .... terran unit, which looks like....a fucking HELLION...

Well, I guess they want some memes out of this.

On October 06 2011 19:36 Cabinet Sanchez wrote:
This is not a troll.
I am not trying to make anyone angry.
I am not trying to whine about balance.

BUT

I do, without question 100% agree with Artosis saying that Terran is the "swiss army knife" race. They really do have a unit for all situations, with a great variety of skills / features and a counter for every situation.
I find it,... frustrating that the first unit they post a picture of is a Terran unit rather than Z or P.
It's a bit childish of me but really, that's how I see it :/

On October 06 2011 19:51 Tyrant0 wrote:


Just calm down until you see the next new unit silhouette that will clearly be a lurker. You can tell because it'll actually be a blank image.

On October 06 2011 19:47 ZenithM wrote:


Pretty much everyone is pissed man, and feeling trolled. But Blizzard has announced new units for the other races too and that the release order was just to be consistent with the expansion's focused races. We just have to hope that they will complete their races much more than this one will complete (even more) Terran ;D.

On October 06 2011 18:07 NeoLearner wrote:
My very first impression was:

Blizzard is trolling us. That just Wall E


Then I saw the Hellion transformer thing and it looks nice, but I don't really see it. The left hand (in the right of the picture) is clearly a hand holding a weapon. The top thing looks like a flame thrower or a laser or something. But I would find it weird to have wheels on the back. Could it be Reaper wings?



EDIT: Why would a Hellion transform? Into what functionality? I mean, Hellion is fast and high damage, so the only "upgrade" would be extra armor. How does one transform into something with higher armor?

On October 06 2011 19:59 Cabinet Sanchez wrote:



I didn't read the thread and considering the mods at TL, it's best to err on the safe side.
Frankly, I want some units REMOVED for the races when they make this addon. I still agree with the fundamental position some people have expressed that Blizzard didn't put real deep analysis into the races when adding units.
Dustin admitted this himself "we'll add cool stuff and see what sticks" (something like that)

I never appreciated SC1 (or War 3) as much as I do until I saw SC2, which I do still love - but those 2 previous games both felt like they took the heart and soul of each race and gave them distinct strong and weak points, SC2 doesn't have that feel to it. Just how in an RPG the magician plays differently to the warrior, in SC2 however the races feel a bit similar.
I thought Protoss was meant to have less units, that are more expensive and stronger than anything else? but slower to build (you get the idea)

Anyhow, hopefully they address some of this for the expansion. I still enjoy watching the GSL but I must admit my passion is waning for the game.