Marine

many types of progressive gunpowder used in gun's atm (present time) also gives a bluish flame...

(i remember this from when i was shooting with a hecklar & hecklar mp5 in the military)

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i bet its this picture ur a talking about btw, the marines in the back are just shooting normally and the because gauss
rifles use railgun technology the smoke follows the projectile along way due to the draft from the bullet

 

if ur refering to the dark swarm thing thats because ranged units "miss" under the swarm (etc firing into it)

bayonets could maybe be used in formation with shields, form a shield wall and walk backwards or out of things like swarm...dunno

 

Problem with comparing a zergling to a human is they are built seperately. I would imagine an insect zergling was bioengineered to hack and slash into hardened objects. However, 2 zerglings rarely psoe much of a threat to a single zealot in straight up non micro attacks.

I would imagine zerglings have over developed muscles and the sharp parts have been bioengineered to cut thru the toughest metals. I would also imagine that the zerglings might even use a knife approach to attacking versus jabbing. A knife aproach means, basically, that the zergligns uses motion to cause a tear in an object versus a piercing jab attack. A knife or chain saw type attack. As a result, a thrust or two may not do much damage; however, as the metal starts to break down it will tend to catch on parts causing an increase in tearing. This is all theory on a make believe sci fi fantasy game.

As for the dark swarm making people "miss" can you miss a large building/unit infront of you if you are in a protective armor unit from insects? How do insects cause a Goliath to "miss" if goliaths are sealed for vacum (space) battles and somehow bullets do not breach enough of the Goliath in space type missions to cause the oxygen to explosively leave the mecha. The mechanical protoss defense cannons are probably automated and they are effected by useless bugs flying around? In another post, I posted that we should not over think some of the game mechanics. It is, afterall, a game based on sci fi fantasy that Blizzard is making up. As a result, we will just forget all of the swarm physics and just accept that somehow those pesky insects make you MISS.

 

i thought the idea behind swarm was that thousands of tiny insects fly around causing no los into that area, this would also cause all automated defenses to be useless becuase they wouldn't be able to detect a units lifesign.

 

mainly all want to put some color on the legs and arms like they had it in the trailer, and change the gun to make it closely resemble the gun the trailer.

 

^^^ Like you'd actually notice when playing the game :

Do you guys have any idea how far you'd have to zoom in to see it, not to mention how lagged it'd be with hundreds of units on screen?

 

I know! You'll be like "I'ma 'ling rush! OH WAIT! I forgot that I can't have more than 5 zerglings on the screen without LAGGING MY BALLS OFF"

 

Yeah, I do it often.

 

Oh come on stop being ridiculous. Those are blue lasers. Cut the crap.

 

Just because you see it in a picture doesn't mean that it will be introduced in the game. Has anyone actualy seen marines using lasers? If anyone does please post a link. And if anyone should get laser guns then they should go to the new reapers. ;D

 

I would imagine its not a laser as a weapon but a laser scope? I dunno.... It does make sense. However, are bullets deadlier?

 

there nothing cooler than zooming it and watch the battle unfold as if its was an epic battle in a movie. That why i loved playing warhammer 40k

 

A laser scope would make sence.. Add some aiming effect etc

 

Interesting, but I think a lot of the appeal of the marine comes from the rifles. I doubt they'll be using lasers.

 

With marines, not so much bullets as needles.
But anyway, a rousing YES. A laser weapon would instantly cauterize anything it hit. Clean, no blood, no infection. A bullet, on the other hand, is messy, has impact trauma, causes massive bleeding (Internal and external), and causes infections with sickening ease. As a character in one of my old fave books says "Nothing beats human guns for blowing large messy holes in things."

But a laser scope would make perfect sense, just not blue. Blue lasers are generally used for measuring things, but rare even then. Red is the number one choice for visibility, while green is the top option for distance.

 

DoW is a much different scale and not practical when actually playing the game. It's like with Homeworld 2 for example. Sure you can focus on the ships and follow them around close, which does look nice if you're just watching a trailer, but if you actually want to play the game then 90% (or more) of your time will be spent much farther out or from the sensor view.

The models look fine and will keep the game from lagging with all the units on screen and be playable on not just uber gaming PC's

 

i still think the origial marine should come back, i love marines

 

i dont even see a difference... at all.

 

there more i look at the picture the more it remind of railguns


and hey, wth did i get -1 in power level...

 

it isn't their style to go pew pew pew, they go more like ratatatatata.