A Terran Building Add-On Confirmed. My Ideas

Blizzard made a huge Q/A post at their site.
You can check it out here.
http://www.battle.net/forums/thread.aspx?fn=sc-general&t=189366&p=1&#post189366

One of the questions that people have been wondering was this.
Copy pasted directly from his post:

"What is this: http://temporal.pr0.pl/varia/SC2/ss1-hires.jpg - http://temporal.pr0.pl/varia/SC2/addon2.png ? It appears to be a drop ship of some type maybe, can we comment on this unit?

The unit seen is a building add-on, and well be revealing more on the Terran building upgrades in the future. "

As many people have guessed, it's a building add-on. Since Blizzard didn't explain what it is, I have some interesting thoughts for the Terran building add-on upgrades.
The one shown in the screenshots looks like it's made for battle. My thought is that, maybe it can act as an attack unit, but needs mana just like the comsat station in SC1. For some mana, maybe you call up this thing and it would fly and circle around an area (area around as big as your base)and sweep through the enemies for a certain damage. Enemies that are in line of sight of that area will take damage from this add-on thingy. Once it finishes flying around the area, it goes back to the add-on place and sits there. You can continue doing this anytime when you have mana.

I think it would really distingush the Terran from other race, and I think it would make the Terran a much better defensive race compared to the other ones. Since we know that Protoss is getting their new Warp in abilities, and Zerg is getting the Nydus Worm, it seems like they both are more capable mobile around the map. Why not make Terran not be as mobile, but more of a defensive race? With that add-on, it would make the Terran's base much harder to crack down, because whenever they are under attack, they can just call that thing up for defensive purpose, given that they have enough mana.

Thoughts?

 

Sorry to burst you bubble.

But looks like it's just a Physics Lab.

See for yourself.

EDIT: This is Inside Sin's find, rest of us are just messengers. :good:

 

Yes I heard people were saying it looks like a Physics lab, which I agree too.
But I made that just as an idea, maybe it can work out like the way that I posted.

Just my 2 cents. Maybe Blizzard will do something like it.

 

ahh i see it now, i always thought the physics lab had a radar dish on it, so i never made that connection.
but i was cleary imagining it.
well at least we know that there will be a science building returnning

heres something about the protoss mothership
this is a little bit different to you can only build 1.
i think this cahnges a few things for multiplayer games with multiple protoss

"and of course only one is allowed to be on the map at any one time."

 

I read that too and it kinda boggled my mind a bit. But I'm guessing it's just bad wording. The whole FAQ has really bad punctuation, looking like it's typed up by a third grader.

I can't imagine multiple Toss players all teching up to the Mothership, then when the first player builds it, all the tech that went into it goes to waste for the rest of the players. Makes no sense.

 

ROFL. Dam them.... they stole my find. I found that ages ago. And we said it looked exactly like a physics lab and it was lifted off

In exact same picture

MY FIND :upset:

 

maybe we underestimate how strong the mothership is going to be, if blizzard thinks that only 1 toss player at a time should ahve one then i think we are probably in the wrong.

 

^ We'll see. Hard to tell at this point. I just wish they release some Zerg info already, what the heck.

^ ^ Inside Sin, I didn't claim credit for anything. It might as well be your find. ^_^

 

i wish they would as well, i want to thoerize more about balance and things, but i think terran will be next, zerg are by far the hardest race to get right (due to everything being organic) so we shoudnt bet on them being right soon.
so sad and junk.........

 

Liar, u thought it was a covert ops, I was the one who said it was a Physics Lab.
(hehehe, now that your busy claiming its your find, you found the picture, I was the genius behind the theory http://www.starcraft2forum.org/forums/index.php?topic=259.0 )

 

really well i was the one who got that close up of it,
so i want all of the credit for none of the work

 

Ummm... I quit.

Whoever really deserves the credit, good job.

 

Hehehe, I actually don't care ;D

 

Coalescence, why is your power level fluctuating between 0 and 1?

I could've sworn it was more before...

Maybe I'm imagining things. ???

 

Whole stealing item debacle lost all my power points in that And because Zeratul11 hates my guts ;D

 

lolk
i think if you disagree with people then they put you down, its not a messure of your intelligance or how good your posts are or anything, its jsut how people like you (i think remy said this before actually)

 

I think your right, but its stupid, it goes against the whole idea of a form ;D

 

No Gold, I've never said that!

Power down!  Way~ down!  All the way down~!  Power level:  -9999

...jk 

Too bad we'll always have that kind of people on every forum.  Sigh~
*cough*cough*Gold*cough*  ...jk again

I guess we gotta help Coalescence power back up after the whole steal item fiasco.  I can't do it again til tomorrow though. 

 

I agree, Remy!
*power up*
I really like this power system, I wonder if it can be implemented for my own board...
Anyway, on-topic, I think a building add-on for the Barracks would be an interesting step...
~Pix~

 

Just to make Terrans distinguished from Protoss and Zerg. All terran's upgrade and tech tree buildings should be add on. here's how it should go:

Barracks + Engineering Bay
Barracks + Academy
Machine Shop + Factory
Machine Shop + Armory
Starport + Control Tower
Science lab + Covert Op
Science lab + Physics Lab
Command Centre + Bunker