Banshee

It's great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

 

Lurkers attack did hurt allies it just didnt hurt your units, tanks splash actually does hurt your own units.

 

i thought that tank splash only hurt your own buildings

 

It has counterrotating rotors yet they still felt the need to put a tail roter on it. What the crap is that

 

All Terran Splash will hurt "themselves" that is the actuall benefit of Melee for the Aliens. In the best case scenario it doesn´t matter as every Terran combat unit is ranged and every enemy dies before he comes close enough to attack (as I said BEST case scenario).

 

whats a banshee lol

 

some crazy flying machine

 

is that the new wraith?

 

why are they renaming terran units

 

So far I've found most Starcraft 2 units original and cool. Starcraft 1 re-used units and most new ones. The ones I can tolerate are the cobra and the colossus, one a bit too c&c'ish and the other copied from War of the worlds, they're still cool SC units though .

But

The Banshee, I don't like it, not one bit. Where the cobra is somewhat c&c'ish, the Banshee is way over the top

Soo, heres a Banshee and an Orca
[img width=200 height=198]http://images.wikia.com/starcraft/images/thumb/6/6e/Banchee.jpg/200px-Banchee.jpg[/img] [img width=145 height=109]http://pnmedia.gamespy.com/planetcnc.gamespy.com/images/oldsite/clusterimages/orca1141706617.jpg[/img]


Not only does the Banshee resemble the classic orca in appearance, it also has a similar fast rate of fire missile weapon system.
Even the banshee -name was taken from a Nod bomber in C&C Tiberian Sun.
The only thing that sort of makes this unit a Starcrafter is its cloaking ability, since the wraith had it.
- But if im not mistaken, the first C&C in 95 invented RTS stealth units with its "Ezekiel's Wheel" tank. In the first SC the wraith was a unique RTS unit, and its cloaking abilities was perfect for its role as a fragile hit n run unit. But with the Banshee already having C&C written all over it, I just find it even more Nod'ish :bad:

So, all in all, Blizzard made a Nod Orca ???



Anyways, if we're going to keep this unit in the game, the graphic for its rotors should be better. There should be more blurring of the blades to make them seem like going too fast for the eye to percieve, like on a genuine helicopter. At the moment I'm surprised that those Banshees can stay airborne :S

 

Things use lots of things as reference. The Orca was probably copying off something else (actually I know it was but I don't want to go find the thing yet again). There are not very many completely new designs anymore. Marines look like Space Marines but most people don't complain about that anymore.
Besides, it looks like it fits in StarCraft 2. It's not like it was a direct copy.

Though I do agree about the propellers

 

it looked just like a wraith to me

 

then you dont know what a wraith looked like

 

haha yeah paragon is gonna cream...

 

It looks like a fucking helicopter with two enclosed rotors on the top to give it lift. Not a terribly unique concept that anyone or anything can claim to have thought of first. As for the name Banshee - a banshee is the name for a spirit in some old folklore, not invented by Tiberian Sun.

 

The only thing I find amiss is the fact that it has two counter rotating rotors yet thy felt the need to put a tail rotor in which is only needed on single rotor craft. That makes it looks stupid

 

it also reminded me of the Manta or something in Unreal Tournament. i think they should move the rear rotor back a lot. the spinstas are too close together.

 

All this topic does is show that people can (and will) **** about anything.

 

+1

Thats the first thing I thought too when I saw the tail rotor. And its not going to make sense when its flying about on the space playforms. I dont think rotors work in space the same way they work on a planet.

 

I agree, the first time I saw the banshee which was like 5minutes ago hehe i thought it looked pretty crappy