Karune's Q&A Batch 9!

Why is everyone disappointed that the Planetary Fortress can't lift off? It would be really stupid if it could.
For one, when it gets armed with big guns to defend itself, it's weight would get too high for the engines to raise it.
Two, if they could lift off, what would stop people from making a bunch of them and sending them off to someone elses base and cleaning house? It'd be kind of cheap if you ask me.
Finally, the point of it is to save your SCVs from a harrasser or someone trying to cripple your economy, not to be used for offensive. That's what an army is for.

 

Wait... the UI turned off when the Thor used his big shoulder-blaster power thing, so does that mean that it is a cinematic when ever you use them?

 

I don't think so. I bet they just did that for effect since they were demonstrating that ability at Blizzcon.

 

Um... no. They also turned off the UI and went into letterbox mode half a dozen times during the first gameplay trailer.

 

Didn't think so. That would be cool in a way, but it would mess up the replays. (which I like) No matter why they did it for Thor, it sure was dramatic!

 

I know this is never going to happen, but it would be cool if all the WC3 races were in the editor. I want WC vs SC, damnit!

 

Well I'm happy about being able to enable some old/scrabbed units, but I would be more happy if they include the UI switching mechanism. The gameplay video inspired me of what Blizzard come make map making (especially RPG) much cooler... It would be super cool for story telling, including camera control with the slide and angle management.

I would like to see how much flexibility Blizzard will put into SC2, in particular per-units settings such as disable ground/air attack for a type of units, append spells to different units (ie: trigger-based making zealot to have Storm ability), etc...

 

Awwww.... You stole the avatar that I stole darkphantom02!!!!!! Anyways, thats good that they put a few old units into SC2's map editor. I wonder what they will look like in 3D???

 

Crazy awesome. They should show some of them to us before it comes out, just because we're so cool. We could always hope, right?