Dark Templar: Cloak or no cloak?

as seen in the home page of sc2, the dark templars became invisible and not invisible

can someone explain this to me?

 

I'm not 100% sure what you mean. In the Terran action shot, they're cloaked the whole time. In the Protoss action shot, they only become "uncloaked" because an enemy Observer flies over them, acting as a Detector.

If you're talking about the picture where they just pan around an immobile Dark Templar, I'm 95% convinced they only cloaked and uncloaked him to show off the mechanic and the unit model, and they will be permanently cloaked in-game, as they were before.

 

if u wait till the end of the gif image, u'll set an observer coming into vision. That's what made the DT visible. So to answer your question: DT's have cloak

 

wait...lemme rewatch it i didnt catch the observer

edit: ohhh..i see it! i thought it was a probe and it was cloaked so i was like what..?

 

Does this even need an answer? A DT without a cloak is not a DT

 

it could be...just to balance it out a little more?

 

Lol a Dark Templar wouldn't be "dark" if i didn't have cloak.

 

then it could be light templar...wait...

 

maybe they could either cloak or uncloak. uncloak dark templars gets high hp(tank), while the cloak one gets increase movement speed. ^^

 

lol, you could just use lots for tanking.

 

tanker dts? uh...id think not

 

Umm... I don't see any real reason or advantage for having the Dark Templars lose their cloaking. They're not designed at a high HP unit so giving it to them would be a little imba.....

Their entire purpose is to bend the light and be a powerful cloaking unit.

 

Pretty high-risk high-reward unit. Absolutely dominating and unstoppable if the opponant has no way to even target them. Their low hp makes them cannon fodder when revealed. Still looks like 1-hit kills on human infantry though, so thats nice to see (protoss wise).


-- looking at the clip..is it just me or does the groundform viking has a pretty long death animation?

 

just try to view the footage in the www.starcraft2.com and you will see that the dark Templar become invisible and not invisible..

 

Well i thought both ? not sure :-/

 

Dts are perma-cloaked

man i love dark templars!

 

@ slugonice , they're talking about the potential of DTs in SC2 to be uncloakable but I still don't see the benefit. If you uncloak they can see where you and thereby put scanners in place.

If they've ALREADY seen you and you can uncloak and have more HP, that's just imba.

Meanwhile, the Viking ground death is just an explosion from what I've seen.

 

Guys its still in the process. However they better be permacloak !!!
i mean come on guys this are DARK TEMPLARS master of the void SO Masterred that they forgot to uncloaked and better be like that !!!

 

there are lights in the SC2 Environment, when the DTs passes the lights it becomes revealed. just a theory

 

Nah. it's just blizzard showing of the DT. The Dt is still the sme old DT!