EPTNew Zerg Unit in Heart of The Swarm - Page 72
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DarKcS
Australia1237 Posts
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Mr Mauve
United Kingdom386 Posts
On October 11 2011 18:11 Skoop wrote: The idea of roach lurkers just gets me wiggly :S. So I'm just going to keep pretending that blizzard is that awesome till they finally show it. /me imagines lurkers with burrowed movement eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek | ||
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ClS
Sweden14 Posts
So from the suggestions from the thread, I thin that there are enough ideas to make a poll Poll: What Does This unit do? Roach Mutation Siege Unit (488) Burrowing Attacking Unit (Lurker-esque) (450) Unit Catapulting Unit (101) Mutated AA Unit (79) 1118 total votes Your vote: What Does This unit do? (Vote): Roach Mutation Siege Unit I would say that it's most plausible, judging from the suggestions presented in this thread, that it is a siege unit - but NOT evolved out of Roach, but rather Hydralisk - I would say. Why? Well because of mainly two things; 1. The bodily characteristics of a Hydralisk 2. The fact that an evolvement of Hydralisk in the past was possible and that this was a Lurker. A change from the mechanic of the Lurker to a bombardment type static attack unit seems most in-line with the examples given in this thread. That's at least my thoughts... judging by what you other guys came up with ;P. A fun mechanic though would be some sort of nydus worm-catapult unit that loads and shoots lings haha, that would be hillarious! | ||
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Sylkvass
Norway29 Posts
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Robinsa
Japan1333 Posts
Zerg dont need any new siege unit, on the contrary I think they would become too strong if it wasnt possible to wall with buildings in an effective manner late game. Maybe its some sort of flying ground unit like the reaper and the carapace contain wings ? Or maybe like the viking ? | ||
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Callynn
Netherlands917 Posts
On October 11 2011 17:28 gruff wrote: No that was not what I was refering to. It was definatly a zerg unit. I'm talking about a preview where a russian (?) guy sat in front of a computer so you could see the screen while he was talking about HOTS. It was a fairly long youtube video, maybe 30+ min. About halfway in there was some bulky zerg unit running around that in my head at least somewhat resemble the profile. It was posted in some other thread but I can't for the life of me find it. But as I said, I'm probably just remembering it wrong, or it was some single player unit. I think he is referring to the Gorgeling. Which is a campaign-only evolution of the Baneling that looks rather bulky and from behind looks exactly like our silhouette. However, from the front the Gorgeling does in no way resemble the silhouette. The russian guy was talking about the first zerg campaign mission on char, where you fight Za'gara. I doubt the new multiplayer unit is this soon into the campaign anyway, anyone would have noticed. | ||
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VoiceOfDecember
Australia206 Posts
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/m9RGj.jpg) The new unit looks like a slimmer version of the Roach. I can understand why people think it's an evolved roach but I can't account for the spines on the back and the new unit going from 4 legs and 2 front melee claws to just 2 hind legs and the 2 front melee claws. If it is a siege unit, maybe it can't attack close range like siege tanks when they are sieged. But it is possible the roaches carapace opens up and turns into a long range weapon. Here's the image without the black: ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/4cBob.jpg) This new unit could be the roach coming out of its shell so to speak. Just how the zergling evolved into an acidic baneling. Maybe the roach gets to shoot some acid long distance, or maybe it sprays it like a firebat. Who knows, it's all speculation  But it is fun :D | ||
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Vildhjarta
Sweden126 Posts
On October 11 2011 18:50 VoiceOfDecember wrote: This new unit could be the roach coming out of its shell so to speak. Just how the zergling evolved into an acidic baneling. Maybe the roach gets to shoot some acid long distance, or maybe it sprays it like a firebat. Who knows, it's all speculation But it is fun :Dacid long distance? really more acid? I say nay. down vote. dislike. defriend. bland social media reference. | ||
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Catch]22
Sweden2683 Posts
On October 11 2011 18:50 VoiceOfDecember wrote: I took the liberty of taking a screen cap of a roach from HOTS gameplay videos from blizzard and superimposed it over the new unit and this is what I got: The new unit looks like a slimmer version of the Roach. I can understand why people think it's an evolved roach but I can't account for the spines on the back and the new unit going from 4 legs and 2 front melee claws to just 2 hind legs and the 2 front melee claws. If it is a siege unit, maybe it can't attack close range like siege tanks when they are sieged. But it is possible the roaches carapace opens up and turns into a long range weapon. Here's the image without the black: This new unit could be the roach coming out of its shell so to speak. Just how the zergling evolved into an acidic baneling. Maybe the roach gets to shoot some acid long distance, or maybe it sprays it like a firebat. Who knows, it's all speculation But it is fun :DThis is actually a pretty good find imo | ||
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VoiceOfDecember
Australia206 Posts
Hey thanks man  I saw the picture on the front page of this thread as a baneling and since everyone is talking about roaches I thought I'd throw together what a roach may look like if it were stuffed in that silhouette. It was gonna be otherwise me or one of you guys to do it. I just have more free time hahah XD | ||
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PresenceSc2
Australia4032 Posts
On October 11 2011 17:35 Thune wrote: Anyone Thought about a Droideka from Star Wars? ![[image loading]](http://cmiradio.info/images/Droideka.bmp) That would be aweosme lol I'd like to see this be a Hydra upgrade to make it not insta die to everything and be viable for things other than killing air units. | ||
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RustinPeace
Australia2 Posts
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Qikz
United Kingdom12058 Posts
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Arolis
United States496 Posts
On October 11 2011 18:36 DarKcS wrote: Maybe it's a baneling cannon (move a baneling(s) on to it), making it possible to bypass siege defence range. On October 11 2011 18:41 harrycane wrote: Its just a zergling/baneling upgrade, whereeas the baneling can pick off the acid bag and launch it, and then return into the regular zergling and then morph a new bag again after a cooldown.. my thoughts:p Interesting. A friend showed me someone describing something similar on the Starcraft 2 section of the Something Awful forums. The poster dubbed it the "bukakeling." Just thought I'd share, because I'm a classy guy. | ||
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Hattori_Hanzo
Singapore1229 Posts
I like your idea, like the ballista unit in AoE2. It shot a line of sight (like a lurker/hellion) damage while unburrowed but shoots ballistic shots like a siege tank when semi-burrowed. And can hit air but no splash damage. | ||
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grappasc
Belgium86 Posts
On October 11 2011 18:23 Cirqueenflex wrote: here is my pic from page 23 of this thread: ![[image loading]](http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/2029/gvxau.jpg) with a double barrel on the back, how is it not symmetrical? (even though my paint skills are pretty low ^^) your version is a little different from the one I was arguing against earlier. I was thinking the silhouette would show the front edge of the shell, but you drew it a lot higher. so my previous arguments don't apply to this one. yours is a little weird to me, too. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/xiPxQ.jpg) I have no clue of what's going on in the silhouette. I would like to think that it's symmetrical, but I don't see what it is. | ||
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RustinPeace
Australia2 Posts
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Breaker 1st Class
Australia47 Posts
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/220/arachas.jpg/sr=1 :O | ||
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RockStarCrft
Turkey470 Posts
On October 11 2011 12:18 shihido wrote: ![[image loading]](http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/311790_10150873567645515_785870514_21324431_484815886_n.jpg) I think this is a roach hydra baby. Basically you need roach and hydra to make sweet love, not like those gay high/dark templars and the roach and hydra make a hydroach baby. HYDROACH! It can do everything, including solve a rubix cube. ![[image loading]](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4078/4928632031_c079f3dbde_o.jpg) rrrrrr. Old pic from some TL page, idk which, got it off elsewhere. Oh man, you guys are awesome. This is probably how this unit looks like. OP should put this post in the first post. I agree with you that this will most probably the result of merging and hydra and roach. Lets hope that its functionality will be similar to lurker. Maybe throwing an acid spray in a line of action like lurker which can attack only attached to ground like siege tank. | ||
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ELA
Denmark4608 Posts
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