1up. 4 hour gameplay with Protoss

Holy sh*t!!1 AWSOME FIND! powerup!

 

As long as they boost up the hp and shield of the warp ray, i have absolutely no problem with it being the capital ship.

One thing I want to know, in the video in the beginning, they were talking about the firebat, when he was naming all the infantry units they had in, he said something about the Medic but I can't tell what. Anyone know what he said?

 

I cant find the video. ( If there is any ).. *Confused*

 

i think he said they're taking out the firebat maybe, but it's not certain. i dont really mind it though.

but really i am pissed that the warp ray is the protoss capital ship. In SC1 the carrier spread fear into the enemy, but in sc2 it's just like a normal ship, let's take it out. Even if it is more powerful than a tempest or carrier, i still woudn't want it to be the capital ship for the protoss.

 

very nice!

 

Could i get link for the video? I cant find it.. ( If its video, movie w/e im confused -.- )

 

omg. so many people just joining and posting spam.
also, the video is on the front page of the link.

 

well you can't help it. actually i love newbie posting spam. welcome folks and spam all you want on your first week. lol

firebats are gone. if you notice the two guys don't really care about the bats. its like they made a huge mistake including them even in starcraft 1. valuable or not i think the farbats are one of the coolest character in starcraft. but reapers are way cooler. 8)

 

I was excited to see in the video that they are considering having Female Ghosts, like Nova. I'm hoping that happens, either as a character for a campaign or maybe even as having to choose between building female or male ghosts with slightly different attributes between the genders.

It did sound like firebats are gone. It sounded like they didn't feel they weren't replaceable in the strategies that used them. However, they did say they have some awsome art done for them, so maybe they'll give them a try again. I'd love some art with them that involved smaller units, like 'lings being caught on fire by them and running around flaming and smoking before they collapsed in a goey mess.

 

if firebats will be back. i like to see them shooting great balls of fire that explodes when it hits the target rather than the flame thrower, reapers have flame throwers now.

 

no, reapers may have flamethrowers now.

 

oops. yah, but i hope they finalize it cause its cool switching to two weapons, use pistols for mechanical units and flame throwers against organic. burn zealot burn.

 

i also noticed that reapers do more damage than marines... Wtf? first of all marines have these powerful "gauss" rifles and shoot like 4 shots each burst for 6 damage. The reapers have puny pistols that they shoot like twice for 8 damage. Puh-leeze. Those puny pistols can't do more than the marine's impaler.

 

Yeah, but you're forgetting about the fire rate. Marines may have a lower attack power, but if they shoot twice as fast they are ultimately stronger than the reaper. I trust blizzard to even things out.. there wasn't a single "useless" unit in SC1, there probably won't be one in SC2.

 

I use the queen online for harassment all the time. Nothing beats spawn broodlings on a couple SCVs. I've gotten more than a few people mad about that one.

 

Nope, they shoot about the same. the marines take short bursts and the reapers do too. Basically the same rate. I'm pretty sure the reapers are going to be stronger than the marines, but i was just pissed becuase they have pistols.

btw i wouldn't even invest all those minerals and time in getting all that queen tech to make it semi usefull. If you do that then you're mutas are late and you're just slowing urself down. oh wow 3 killed scv's ! i'm sure i could do more with muta rass.

 

Me too lol, I did that to a friend is first game and he got hella pissed off. I use the Queen a lot, I don't think I used defiler as much as a queen, although I usually use queen when enemy is about to die and try and grab a CC

The pistols the Reapers use are Gauss Pistols...which do just a bit, a bit less damage than the rifle but you got two so..

 

yea but they shoot pretty slow. Even if they're gauss, the marine is shooting automaticly. I guess they have super pistols or something.

 

oh no not the "queen is useless" topic again! we've already discussed useless units so much in the past.
and dont get me started with how good queens are =P

 

They might attack at the same rate, and reapers might have a better attack power but:
a) marines have better range
b) marines can attack air (reapers probably cant, as they ignored the phase prism in the gameplay vid.)
c) if stims come back, marines will have them, but reapers probably wont, as they already have jumpjets and timed bomb.
d) marines can get a health bonus
e) marines can get bayonets.

so just because reapers do more damage, marines are still pretty useful.