EPTMICRO: COllosus LOSES BIG TIME against reaver
SPECTATORSHIP: collosus sucks big time and loses again vs reaver
Colossus attack buffed! - Page 4
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Polyphasic
United States841 Posts
MICRO: COllosus LOSES BIG TIME against reaver SPECTATORSHIP: collosus sucks big time and loses again vs reaver | ||
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Doctorasul
Romania1145 Posts
On April 18 2009 17:21 latent wrote: I heard that in very early builds of Starcraft 2, specifically before Blizzcon 2007, Blizzard had implemented reavers into the game. Just because I salivate at the thought of seeing a 3D version of the reaver, does anyone know where to find a video of such an early version of the game? At 2:00, in the upper side of the screen. | ||
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scwizard
United States1195 Posts
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shimmy
Poland997 Posts
On April 18 2009 05:20 Osmoses wrote: The way the reaver works is just more fun. This. I liked the buffed Colossus though. | ||
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Unentschieden
Germany1471 Posts
On April 18 2009 17:32 maybenexttime wrote: There's a way to get rid of all the randomness while retaining the excitement factor! Why not make the scarabs work like Hunter Seeker missile? They would be able to travel an equivalent of 1.5 of Reaver's range and then blow up without dealing any damage if they don't reach their target. That way micro matters on both sides, there's no luck involved and the excitement is still there: will he react and escape in time? will he scatter his units properly? The actual idea behind the HS Missile ISN´T to dodge it for 15 seconds - you are supposed to guide it into the enemy ranks. In BR2 at about 16 Minutes in we see a Nighthawk destroy itself by dropping a HS right under itself - there was no Air Targeting Zerg unit at the time. | ||
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maybenexttime
Poland5522 Posts
On April 18 2009 18:48 Unentschieden wrote: The actual idea behind the HS Missile ISN´T to dodge it for 15 seconds - you are supposed to guide it into the enemy ranks. In BR2 at about 16 Minutes in we see a Nighthawk destroy itself by dropping a HS right under itself - there was no Air Targeting Zerg unit at the time. Yeah, what's your point? I'm talking about the fact that they can make scarabs work even with good pathing, not about the implications (since scarabs don't deal damage to friendly units, unless I'm mistaken). | ||
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raga4ka
Bulgaria5679 Posts
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Plexa
Aotearoa39261 Posts
On April 18 2009 18:16 scwizard wrote: lol I can't believe I didn't know the phase canon could move until I saw that video. They removed this ability  Tempest's were pretty cool  I wouldn't have minded losing the carrier for that... | ||
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Fen
Australia1848 Posts
The collossus is just a generic unit that does good damage with the ability to scale cliffs. Maybe a change in how it attacks would be better to make it more unique. | ||
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Lag
Serbia22 Posts
reaver is shuttle dependant to do the high/low ground switch, colossus isnt. i can see people having loads of fun with it | ||
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Hammy
France828 Posts
On April 18 2009 19:55 Plexa wrote: They removed this ability Tempest's were pretty cool I wouldn't have minded losing the carrier for that... Yeah, and I don't get why it's still called a phase canon since it can no longer phase in/out. Unless it's back to photon canon, they're just changing the name for the sake of novelty. Though, of course that's a very minor detail. | ||
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Hiicantpk
Canada72 Posts
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da_head
Canada3350 Posts
though i will miss the reaver. had some good times with that little guy. | ||
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CursOr
United States6335 Posts
reaver is cool, i wouldnt be opposed to him making an appearance. but Colossus all the way. thats my favorite SC2 unit. | ||
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FragKrag
United States11549 Posts
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Archaic
United States4024 Posts
On April 18 2009 06:22 Darth_Ihsahn wrote: I just can't imagine a "colosus" version of this: + Show Spoiler [Aphelion beat me to it] + Easy, KOLOSEEKOLOSEEKOLOSEEKOLOSEEKOLOSEEKOLOSEEKOLOSEEKOLOSEE KOLOSEEKOLOSEEKOLOSEEKOLOSEEKOLOSEEKOLOSEEKOLOSEEKOLOSEE KOLOSEEKOLOSEE!!!!!!!!! Though REEBOH is 100x better. | ||
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Klockan3
Sweden2866 Posts
On April 18 2009 06:21 Aphelion wrote: This is an extremely negligible factor. The Colossus is definitely much more expensive. You do need to account for the shuttle cost (and subsequently greater micro possibilities and mobility) the reaver requires though. Also Colossus doesn't have this :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msSvZPZXwJU Watch that without sound and you have how exciting the reaver would seem in sc2 if it was a new unit. | ||
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Insane Lane
United States397 Posts
I can really imagine them being the new reaver/lurker, in terms of the fact that they deal heavy aoe damage and force the opponent to micro against them. And how will the tech timing compare for colossus vs. marine combat shields? | ||
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da_head
Canada3350 Posts
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MoNSteR_K4iSeR
United States46 Posts
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