Most of it looks good. However, I think the zealots look kind of silly, mostly the running/fighting animation. Mothership seems weak and extremely slow, but its vortex ability looks useful. Cannons look kinda lame, especially since they removed their moving ability.
I really hope they remove that damn engine sound from the hellions as well. Damn annoying hearing them driving around.

DeCoup

Australia1933 Posts

June 29 2009 21:32 GMT

#43

Yeah, Dustin is going on about the spectators ability to tell whats going on more in SC2, but it's kinda hard to tell who specifically the cannons are attacking because you keep missing their firing point without the movement animation while everythign else is going

danieldrsa

Brazil523 Posts

June 29 2009 21:50 GMT

#44

On June 30 2009 05:38 7mk wrote:

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Those were corrupters but i dunno what makes it seem like they were one-shotting since that was a big ass bunch of them.
But they are supposed to be very strong anti-air - but I did wonder why the void rays didnt turn into stationary defense?

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Mh thats probably true, sounds like a blizzardish thing to do, since Ultralisks do extra dmg (-> special attack) vs buildings

hum, they turned in stationary turrets... No really a turret, but a small goo that shoots.
Have you seen the video on HD? See when corrupters kill the void rays again.

despite

Bulgaria105 Posts

June 29 2009 22:03 GMT

#45

Three things caught my attention more then everything else:
1. What the bloody hell was that mothership whirlpool???
2. The attack animation of the zealot looks decent now. Running is still bad imo.
3. Forget about zealot movement, ultralisk movement is the worst I have seen in the game so far. In BW when you saw the ultralisk running towards your marines you thought "that thing will soon be smashing them" while now it looks like it's never gonna reach its target. It barely moves its legs and i think it will look even funnier when speed is researched. A giant behemoth with tiny legs. T_T

Krikkitone

United States1451 Posts

June 29 2009 23:03 GMT

#46

Actually, Its quite possible that speed upgraded ultralisks (if they have a speed upgrade) would have bigger legs (like zerglings get the wings)

CROrens

Croatia1005 Posts

June 29 2009 23:05 GMT

#47

Did anyone notice that those corruptors (?) - the units killing prottos air force, also do 2 kinds of attack - one like small green spits, and another a bunch of green stuff being shot at an enemy ship at once..

anyone know anything about that?

onmach

United States1241 Posts

June 29 2009 23:13 GMT

#48

When a corruptor kills a unit, it spawns a little turret that floats in the air. The corruptors are firing the little dark green pellets, the big bright green swooshes are the turrets. It is nice to see that they completely face stomped those void rays but I still think it is no replacement for scourge.

However, am I the only one that is bothered by the command center lifting off? It just bounces into the air, like it has a spring under it. I keep expecting a "boing" sound effect.

Also the ultralisks swinging around at 120 rpms. Maybe they should turn down their rotation speed to about a third and then widen their attack arc so that they don't need to directly face whatever they are attacking.

RedTerror

New Zealand742 Posts

June 30 2009 00:38 GMT

#49

-Ultralisk movement is a bit spastic
-If you look closely one of the immortals has a movement bug (around 5:00 in the first vid)
-I like the burning death animations from dying in flame.
-The sound of buildings cloaking and uncloaking could get annoying
-I love how banelings roll again (they didn't in br2 and br3)
-Corruptor ability is a gimmick
-Mutalisk animation looks cool, it will be a shame when they are all clumped together though
-Warp gates are a bit visually distracting, maybe the blackhole could only appear when units are warping units in
-Antigravity is a bit too distracting
-Spine crawler attack is less ambiguous now, better for the audience
-Broodlord looks really pathetic when it flaps
-Immortal attack animation looks cool

Overall the game looks great

DeCoup

Australia1933 Posts

June 30 2009 01:33 GMT

#50

The baneling only roll after you get speed upgrade. which is cool.

Suc

Australia1569 Posts

June 30 2009 06:10 GMT

#51

One little nitpick I found was that at the start, when the zerg was attacking the toss base, it was kinda hard to distinguish all of the zerg units, being that they are so dark.

Edit: watched in HD and you can see the units easily, although this may be a problem for future vods of games if they are not in HD.

Tsagacity

United States2124 Posts

June 30 2009 06:49 GMT

#52

A line of spine crawlers killing a single marine with that animation is probably going to be the best part about this game

MrHoon

10183 Posts

June 30 2009 07:05 GMT

#53

On June 30 2009 15:10 Suc wrote:
One little nitpick I found was that at the start, when the zerg was attacking the toss base, it was kinda hard to distinguish all of the zerg units, being that they are so dark.

Edit: watched in HD and you can see the units easily, although this may be a problem for future vods of games if they are not in HD.

yeah same here

I know in HD everything looks crystal clear but chances are we'll be watching games on youtube anyways.

nataziel

Australia1455 Posts

June 30 2009 08:29 GMT

#54

Must a question about oversky's vid, where the hell does the cinematics at the end of it come from? How did I miss that trailer? It looks epic!

DeCoup

Australia1933 Posts

June 30 2009 11:17 GMT

#55

On June 30 2009 16:05 MrHoon wrote:

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yeah same here

I know in HD everything looks crystal clear but chances are we'll be watching games on youtube anyways.

I'm hoping we will be watching most vods as actual replays in-game with real time rendering. 10000% better than a vod. (As long as they decide to add sound recording) (Also.. will probably require blizzard to allow replays to be 'locked' in some way to only allow playback from the observers chosen view with no stats shown or pro's will not allow their replays to be shown because their build orders etc will be too well analyzed by people).