[D] Medic Replaced by Medivac Dropship - Page 6

On March 12 2008 09:12 Meta wrote:
Problem:
Medic can't keep up with reapers because they jump over things:
Solution:
Medic + Jetpack

On March 12 2008 21:42 gravity wrote:

It's still a small change compared to the likes of Warcraft 2 -> Warcraft 3 or even just removing medics entirely. There's still a "medic" unit, it's just flying now. Medics were always one of the least interesting units in BW anyway (the occasional medic-wall aside they were mostly just a War3 style buffer), so they could use a change (in this case, having their ability combined with another unit).

Starcraft 2 is already just about as close as it can possibly be to SC1 without pissing off normal people who actually want a 10-year-later sequel to have some differences from the original game. The basic mechanics, economy, etc, are exactly the same. The only differences are some units minorly tweaked and only a handful of truly new/original units. It seems ridiculously selfish for the "wannabe pro" community here to keep declaring the end of the world over what few changes *are* made.

This thread is just another example of knee-jerk conservatism from the hardcore community and should be throughly ignored by Blizzard. They should keep or cut the medic dropship on its own merits, not whether people reflexively whine over one of the units being changed without ever having played with it or even seen it action.

On March 12 2008 21:46 pyrogenetix wrote:
SC2 has become so bad now that it's at a point where it's just downright hilariously funny

On March 12 2008 21:49 gravity wrote:

Fine, then if you're so determined to hate it then fuck off out of this forum and take your thoughtless knee-jerk trolling bullshit with you.

On March 12 2008 23:26 FrozenArbiter wrote:

Don't really get comments such as this.. Did you honestly watch the HQ videos of zerg/of progamers playing SC2 and think to yourself; "Boy, this game sure does suck"?

I dunno, I watched them and thought "Holy shit I want to play this game!". Everyone who plays it says it's good, EVERYONE. Do they all say it's better than SC? Nah, they don't. But so what? Maybe it wont be EXACTLY as good as SC.. MAYBE. Maybe it will be better. MAYBE.

But I think calling it "So bad it's downright hilarious" makes 0 sense, at least unless you've tried it.

This being said, I'm 100% against the medivac.. It sounds awkward, clumsy, it removes some very cool micro (since medics are excellent at blocking incoming units) and the medic is just plain cooler.

On March 12 2008 07:58 Zelniq wrote:
It really fucking amazes me how they can think to remove the MEDIC in order to solve the problem of players not wanting to get REAPERS. Their "solution" doesn't even fix that anyways.

On March 13 2008 00:14 GoSuPlAyEr wrote:



actually i watch the vid's and really dont think it looks nearly as fun as sc because it reminds me too much of wc3, but maybe once i try it I will think differently

On March 13 2008 04:13 Zzoram wrote:



Ya, the FPV looked good and seemed to play like Starcraft Broodwar. The only thing that concerns me is that Terran seems to have had the most boring changes, and this Medivac crap. Also, the Thor seems to be a bad idea, but it's too late for them to replace that unit now.

On March 12 2008 23:52 naventus wrote:


Maybe if you weren't such a troll you'd realize that even the smallest changes would fundamentally change the game. The game already is way different from SC and the outcry isn't about that - it's about additions that seem dangerously close to failed RTS concepts (seen from AoE3, DoW, RoL, SupremeC, CoH).

On March 13 2008 07:17 DamageControL wrote:

CoH? And do you mean all those RTSs themselves are unsuccessful or include failed concepts