[D] Medic Replaced by Medivac Dropship - Page 4

On March 12 2008 13:07 rpf wrote:
I would whine and complain, but let's face it: SC2 is really unimpressive. The creativity of the current development is completely sub-par to that of the original design team, and I'm beginning to question their ability to effectively create a game that doesn't just cater to the 12 year-old players that simply want cool, shiny special effects and stupid cheese strategies.

It's bad enough they don't understand that lasers don't naturally curve, as light travels in a straight line unless bent, and it's bad enough that had fucking units on surfboards shooting green goo, but now this? Seriously, what the hell did you smoke, Blizzard?

If Terran gets this crap, I want a fucking floating shield battery that regenerates 10 energy a second that I can float around with my army.

On March 12 2008 13:07 rpf wrote:
It's bad enough they don't understand that lasers don't naturally curve, as light travels in a straight line unless bent, and it's bad enough that had fucking units on surfboards shooting green goo, but now this? Seriously, what the hell did you smoke, Blizzard?

On March 12 2008 13:13 Last Romantic wrote:
SC2 is a good game. I like it. It exceeded my expectations when I played today.

That being said, Terran has a helluva hard time vs Zerg now.

1) Infester has Dark Swarm. Infester also infests buildings. It also moves while burrowed. Furthermore, it is LAIR TECH.

2) Zergling speed upgrade also gives 1 atk and 1 carapace. It still costs 100/100 and has comparable research time as the original speed upg.

3) Roaches are invincible, really. Roach rush is incredibly powerful since no race has a solid counter to your initial 6 roach/12 ling timing attack. Unless they make that themselves. 6 roach/12ling can break 8 'sunkens', to give you an idea.

I will make a more extensive post later.

I just realized none of the stuff I just typed is about the dship.

OK, so I didn't know the dship healed until I played today and was like 'hey why is the dship emitting little yellow sparks?' and then clicked on it and it said 'MEDIVAC'. Heh.

I don't like it tbh. Browder didn't like it much either, but a lot of the dev team did like the idea, so they're going to try it.

They make a new build of the game every week, though, so it's not definitely in or out.

On March 12 2008 13:13 Last Romantic wrote:
SC2 is a good game. I like it. It exceeded my expectations when I played today.

That being said, Terran has a helluva hard time vs Zerg now.

1) Infester has Dark Swarm. Infester also infests buildings. It also moves while burrowed. Furthermore, it is LAIR TECH.

2) Zergling speed upgrade also gives 1 atk and 1 carapace. It still costs 100/100 and has comparable research time as the original speed upg.

3) Roaches are invincible, really. Roach rush is incredibly powerful since no race has a solid counter to your initial 6 roach/12 ling timing attack. Unless they make that themselves. 6 roach/12ling can break 8 'sunkens', to give you an idea.

I will make a more extensive post later.

I just realized none of the stuff I just typed is about the dship.

OK, so I didn't know the dship healed until I played today and was like 'hey why is the dship emitting little yellow sparks?' and then clicked on it and it said 'MEDIVAC'. Heh.

I don't like it tbh. Browder didn't like it much either, but a lot of the dev team did like the idea, so they're going to try it.

They make a new build of the game every week, though, so it's not definitely in or out.

On March 12 2008 13:15 d.arkive wrote:


Well, you ARE whining and complaining right now, and a lot of your complaints are pretty bad. How does this topic show that the dev team is not creative ? If anything, it shows they are even more creative, thinking up a possible Medivac dropship instead of fixing the weak bio unit with jetpack problem by just plopping another jetpack on a support unit.

The effects have obviously been toned down since the early development, which nullifies that point, and your other point is totally just out of the blue.

Now you're just nitpicking. Lasers don't naturally curve. So? Organic units don't naturally go into space nekkid. They even took out the surfing protoss. They're not stupid.

What the heck does this suggestion have to do with ANYTHING? You don't even know how it works!

at your whining and complaining.

On March 12 2008 13:23 Zanric wrote:
Arent reapers supposed to be hit and run so why would they need a fuckn medic with them?

On March 12 2008 13:25 fusionsdf wrote:



please write more!@

On March 12 2008 13:30 rpf wrote:

Oh no, not a sadface. Whatever shall I do?

The logic they use to support the addition of such a unit makes no sense to me. So what if you can't use medics in tandem with reapers efficiently? Last time I checked, reapers are not exactly the bread and butter of your army. They jump cliffs to get to weak areas of their opponent.

The point is that each unit has a role. Medics are a support unit. Would it be nice to be able to heal reapers while harassing? Sure; but if you're going to make it a flying unit, it seems to defeat the purpose of teching to a harassment unit when you could just go build a dropship and drop medics in with marines. I was under the impression that raiding units were there to bypass the necessity of ferrying units.

On March 12 2008 13:31 ._. wrote:

Random question:
Irradiate still in the game?
If it is, i can imagine all the decimation it can achieve, I hope its an earlier tech now that zerg has those qualities early in the game.

I suppose mines could kill roaches.