On October 22 2011 01:48 Jedclark wrote:
Warhound = Goliath.
Battlehellion = Firebat

Viper = Defiler

I am pretty psyched for these. The Protoss ones seem a bit weird, though.

This is what strikes me odd.
Instead of doing this, why not just add Goliaths, Firebats and Defilers (and Lurkers <3)? The community wants 'em, and obviously Blizzard sees the potential of such unit within the SC2 unit arsenal (given that those new units basically behaves just as their BW counterparts), so why dance around the matter like this?

popsilique

United States71 Posts

October 21 2011 16:52 GMT

#784

Haha I'm excited too but some of this radical speculation and entailed conclusions seem a bit preemptive to me. As far as I know, we don't know anything about their stats, haven't seen them in action, and don't know how they implement these abilities except for the 2 sentence descriptions. On top of that, they're still going to have a beta with potential to tweak/remove. Seems overwhelmingly like a good opportunity.

Also, I'd guess that expansion packs are mainly designed to sell to people who purchased the original, and not as much to drawn in new players (at least compared to the initial game). If this is true, hopefully they'll have more leeway to focus on refinement than making cool, flashy, trailer-filler type things. Fingers crossed!

atwar

57 Posts

October 21 2011 16:52 GMT

#785

bye thor bye overseer bye corruptor bye reaper bye mothership bye collosus

hell yeah !!!

RyuChus

Canada442 Posts

October 21 2011 16:52 GMT

#786

Oh god. Oh god Zerg OP now. Noooo Dark Swarm!! WHYYY!!!! But personally I think the viper is an amazingly cool unit. The Swarm Host, meh? Probably only a campaign unit anyways. Replicant and Oracle are pretty much Observer and Hallucinate. The Tempest seems like an awesome overpowered pheonix. Warhound is definitely like a goliath. The Hellion transformation mode thing, seems like it's only campaign. Although I have to admit, it would be an amazing thing for multiplayer. Shredder seems pretty dam useful. I can see shredders being dropped from medivacs and owning a bunch of zerglings or something like that!

Overall seems way too cool!

Erandorr

2283 Posts

October 21 2011 16:52 GMT

#787

Is there anything in this that could be evene remotely considered as a replacement for the colossus?

I thought Blizzard hates those things , like most of us do too .

Flowjo

United States928 Posts

October 21 2011 16:52 GMT

#788

On October 22 2011 01:50 SiguR wrote:
I don't know why the polls are the way they are.

The two new zerg units seems really good, but I think zerg still need one more change to either corruptors or to hydralisks. Zerg still lacks a certain potency.

The protoss units are okay. I'm worried that if the new capital ship might be strong with it's anti air capabilties if it's put with a death ball, but time will have to tell. I think they could've done something with the colossi, but they didn't.

I think the terran ones are the best by far. No terribly drastic additions. Replacing the thor seems like a great move.

My biggest complain would be that the art seems extremely uninspired. Especially for the terran.

"Zerg still lacks a certain potency". Okay. So what it it? What more would you like served up to you and your fellow idralisks.

Reapafied

65 Posts

October 21 2011 16:52 GMT

#789

I see alot of "OMG T GETS 3 NEW UNITS WHAT BS!!!" People seem to forget that units may be getting changed, replaced, or removed all together.. Just wait untill we have all the information on the changes.

babysimba

10466 Posts

October 21 2011 16:52 GMT

#790

Seriously you people, just think about how these new units can bring about more interesting gameplay and not balance. What makes you think they are definitely not gonna tweak the macro mechanics, units stats, etc

hugman

Sweden4644 Posts

October 21 2011 16:52 GMT

#791

They should call the Viper the Deflier instead

Conti

Germany2516 Posts

October 21 2011 16:53 GMT

#792

Does anyone else wonder how the Oracle actually works? It's not explained at all how it reveals buildings (wtf) and stops mining.

nekuodah

England2409 Posts

October 21 2011 16:53 GMT

#793

I find it weird people saying tempest will replace/voids pheonix, it says capital ship which probably means fleet beacon tech, aka replacing mothership/carrier.

tuho12345

4482 Posts

October 21 2011 16:53 GMT

#794

Protoss is not that bad. I mean Replicant could become banshee to harass the mineral lines all day.
4-5 Oracles are gonna stop the econ for quite a while. Just what I need to harass the econ of other races.
But idk about the last thing

media

Canada13 Posts

October 21 2011 16:53 GMT

#795

I think Terran drops just got sillier.. armoured firebat that can change into a car? How sweet is that?!