Clearly this is an assimilated scourge, and the previous zerg unit was an infested reaver!

It's also possible that this is a ground unit, though it seems rather unlikely. Imagine if you removed the glowy ball from the sentry it would look similar in shape.

KiF1rE

United States964 Posts

October 18 2011 05:29 GMT

#723

hmm all of these units look like mixes of units we already have.... hopefully this is the protoss "raider" that browder said we needed, but its an air unit lol... and we already have a phoenix for that mostly =/

EntropicXG

Canada10 Posts

October 18 2011 05:30 GMT

#724

Airborn spellcaster, IMO. With an AoE spell so that it isn't countered by Marine's like every other air unit Protoss can make is.

Janders

Mexico222 Posts

October 18 2011 05:32 GMT

#725

a caster harass/aoe unit sounds epic

anmolsinghmzn2009

India1783 Posts

October 18 2011 05:34 GMT

#726

You know what, its the freaking cougarship blizzard talked of in their april fools' day patch!

Goibon

New Zealand8185 Posts

October 18 2011 05:36 GMT

#727

I really hope it doesn't replace the Phoenix.

I voted for the harass unit, but i really think that niche can be adequately filled with Phoenix and Warp Prism especially once the latter is explored further.

I'm now leaning toward an air caster. There's a number of things it could do. I look at the Shield Battery, Faerie Dragon and the Obsidian Statue from WC3 and i can see this unit filling a number of funky role for Protoss.

edit: bad habit of mixing up warp prism and void ray lately

Euronyme

Sweden3804 Posts

October 18 2011 05:36 GMT

#728

I'm kind of disappointed at the new units.. They all look... Pretty bad.
The terran one looks like it's a member in the band Syndrome of a Down, the zerg one admittedly has some potential, and the protoss one looks like a boomerang for christ sake.

terran0330

New Zealand106 Posts

October 18 2011 05:37 GMT

#729

i think this is kind of a melee air unit, like the Phoenix it attacks is it moves, but you need to be in melee range, idk i think this looks interesting

Stipulation

United States587 Posts

October 18 2011 05:37 GMT

#730

Permanent guardian shield to replace cloak of arbiter/mothership?

Brotocol

243 Posts

October 18 2011 05:38 GMT

#731

Reminds me of this:

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I agree with the poster above me. Design-wise, the new units look pretty terrible and deformed.

Yoshi Kirishima

United States10331 Posts

October 18 2011 05:39 GMT

#732

On October 18 2011 12:14 iLike413 wrote:

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yes, fucking EXACTLY

Ooops i meant AOE damage.

holy shit if this is real it would be cool

And no it wouldn't overlap the phoenix and void role, phonex will still be map control and a little harass on the side, and anti air light

Void ray will be strong late game DPS unit or good at early game push to bust a defense or to even do some harass or damage to ground units, though not much, but also it is important to note that void is quite mineral heavy for a high tech unit (same min;gas ratio as a stalker), so is a sort of mineral dump for air style (they will be massing nexus/canon to expand too as mineral dump)

This new one will fly around, probably not that fast (it will be for harass so it can't be like 4 speed lol, probably like stalker speed and then like really slow when the laser/storm shoots), do lots of AOE damage to lots of weak ground units (bio, specifically marines and also hydras)

That way you can go air since you can deal with mass anti air like marines and hydras

mrtomjones

Canada4020 Posts

October 18 2011 05:41 GMT

#733

On October 18 2011 14:36 Euronyme wrote:
I'm kind of disappointed at the new units.. They all look... Pretty bad.
The terran one looks like it's a member in the band Syndrome of a Down, the zerg one admittedly has some potential, and the protoss one looks like a boomerang for christ sake.

I love how you somehow know what they actually look like already. Judging them based on a shadow is just idiotic. I think the protoss one looks pretty exciting personally.

Hall0wed

United States8486 Posts

October 18 2011 05:46 GMT

#734

Air spellcaster that will have good combat and harassment use. Pretty obvious.

hipsterHobbit

United States218 Posts

October 18 2011 05:48 GMT

#735

I think it will replace the carrier or the mothership.

That the carrier and mothership don't work well in unison is something that doesn't make sense from a design standpoint, and I think this unit will alleviate that.

I hope it's a replacement for the carrier, personally.

Velr

Switzerland10697 Posts

October 18 2011 05:49 GMT

#736

My first thought was:

"angry sentri"... ...

Hexxed

United States202 Posts

October 18 2011 05:51 GMT

#737

On October 18 2011 13:28 Fighter wrote:
Obviously this is the upgraded version of the scarab.

Reavers are back baby.

You sir are my hero.

Reavers please blizzard!

DMXD

United States4064 Posts

October 18 2011 05:52 GMT

#738

I think it needs more spikes..=O

But seriously I really hope it function like a corsair.

terran0330

New Zealand106 Posts

October 18 2011 05:53 GMT

#739

On October 18 2011 10:09 Daralii wrote:
Definitely looks a lot like Urun's phoenix.

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mhmm yeah thats exactly what i thought when i first saw it... I really dont know what to expect haha

Euronyme

Sweden3804 Posts

October 18 2011 05:53 GMT

#740

On October 18 2011 14:41 mrtomjones wrote:

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I love how you somehow know what they actually look like already. Judging them based on a shadow is just idiotic. I think the protoss one looks pretty exciting personally.

Go ahead and be excited then. It still looks like a boomerang and / or banana with speed streaks.
Not their best effort.

If this turns out to be a boomerang ship with a fucking Australian accent I'm gonna be really mad though.