Medivac Dropship IN ACTION!

The beam doesn't look right, but I really don't want the Medic to come back. M&Ms were to OP'd.

Perhaps instead of of a healing beam, the medic should spawn Medic drones. These would work like the various build able structures that the Nighthawk/Nomad has. Or perhaps closer to the Vulture/Spider mine mechanic.

The Medivac comes with 2 deployable medic drones, which would follow a targeted group of infantry, healing as needed. They would be recoverable, instead the Medivac would have spend x amount on buying new ones.

 

My opinion is that this unit should heal only the units it currently carries, like a kind of mobile hospital.

This would add more realism, more fairness and require the right level of micromanagement in my opinion.

That healing beam is really teh suk to me: is it still Starcraft we are discussing, or some trekkish game?

 

I vote for AoE healing aura for the dropship

 

Wth a beam? Doesn't that belong for the protoss? Thats like pointing a flashlight at an injured person to heal them.

 

it would make more sense if droids came out of the medivac that should be individual purchase ltems like the reaver or carrier. cmon i mean we already have targeting drones for the nighthawk why cant we have healing drones??

 

I don't see why a beam is so amazingly bad. It's not like the Medic removed shrapnel, sterilised and bound the wound, put it in a cast and allowed six to eight weeks for recovery. Realistically Terran's 'healing' would just be welding shut broken armour, as it's not like they'd be able to survive however many personal hits from a psiblade or Zergling. It's their armour that takes the beating.

 

you know, i think we should stick with the beam. Itza has the reasons.

 

You are playing a game where you fight aliens that spit acid, shoot spines from under the ground, cast bizarre spells, use psionic charges, teleport, channel energy, and all this through different inhospitable planets and you're whining about a healing beam not looking real?

 

Well thats because healing from a medic was a laser that would heal marines during combat.
Thing is that was man to man, not a very high dropship healing you from the sky with a perfectly placed laser.

Can you imagine that?
You brake your arm, and some plane sends out a laser from like 100m away. Then you get healed.
I mean I understand a medic coming up to you with a futurisitic healing laser to heal you, but a freaken plane?

Also Zero. I understand all that, but thats all zerg and protoss. NOT terran. When do you see a terran cast some spell? They use pure technology not fantasy like spells. Besides it just doesn't even look right, and doesn't fit in with everything else of the terran. You have these tanks,guns,robots,gigantic ships, and thick armor. Where does a beam of light fit in?

 

I feel like I am living in some kind of Twilight Zone alternate universe. Am I the only one here that seems to notice that the healing animation for the SC1 Medic is a beam of white light? How can we possibly be complaining about a unit animation that is the exact same thing, but with more range?

While we're at it, how about Restoration? An ability that makes magical sparkles appear all over a unit? How come nobody is crying about that?

 

The Sparkles was just an affect to give the player an idea of whats going on.
Also were talking about a ship!!! How is a dropship going to heal you from that range? I just cant imagine that. I feel it doesn't fit with terran. I just don't. Every spell for the terran is technology. Somehow a beam of light doesn't make sense for humans filled with mechanical weapons and vehicles. If they could use lasers all the time why cant they use it for combat?

 

they did, what do you think the wraith and battlecruiser used?

 

Okay you got me there I wasn't thinking, but those were laser blasts. Not ongoing lasers like the protoss have.

If this is the only they can think of healing then fine I'll go with it.

 

I simply look at this situation and see two options:

a) Have an excellent and efficient healing unit that looks unreal
b) have a less efficient healing unite that looks real

I personally chose efficiency...

 

*La Bamba theme plays*

 

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lol i love that add. Infact im eating some for lunch today!! yay!!

 

You lucky little ****!

But seriously, the efficiency basically has to remain the same regardless of whether we've got Medics or Medivacs. If they reimplemented Medics and they were less efficient than the Medivacs, then it'd be imbalanced, provided it was balanced to begin with.

 

i wonder how the medivac's ability would look in the cinematics..

 

Im still in favor for healing drones coming out of the medivac.

Each drone is the same cost as having a medic and costs about the same supply. It's just, they are produced from the dropship and follow the dropship around. There we go, ******* flying medics + your need for the dropship's presence around units.

Cause honestly, efficient or not, I think the beam of light is really ugly for terrans. But that's just what I think.

 

Well that makes plenty of sense. Just wonder how the drones would look like. A smaller version of an SCV???