New Colossus Attack

No. Cuz the old beam did 144 damage. You saw in that Protoss show case video with the 2 Colossi attacking a huge mass of Zerglings how fast they cut thru them.

 

zergling have 35 health. it doesnt take a beam doing 144 dmg to cut through them.

 

So the Colossus is specifically designed to kill Zerglings?

 

no. its specifically designed to kill masses of small units.

 

Alone yes. In numbers it can take out much larger targets.

 

the same can be said for marines.

 

Old animation for sure. But the idea of multiple targets is awesome. I propose the old animation, but able to sweep its beams across mobs. THAT'S more realistic + awesome.

 

The old animation was able to sweep its beams across enemy units.

 

It was? To me it seemed like it just shot and one thing. Well that changes everything then. Does the colossus' attack function the same way as before? If so, I don't really see the point in changing the attack animation. It just seems like it's masking more units than before due to its large spread.

 

With the old attack, the Colossus would fire on one enemy and if it died before its firing cycle was over it would move onto the next target. This time around it has a plain old AoE attack. So technically it is hitting more units.

 

Then would keeping the same AoE function as now just with the old laser animation work? Instead of focusing on one unit, it sprays its uberness back and forth or around on a line/mob of units.

 

I don't think so. The Colossus had a different damage system before. They used to do 144 damage per firing cycle, which was ~6 seconds, but now it does a "burst" attack similar to a marine's. It could work, but it might look a little ridiculous.

 

Ah I see. Wow, you've responded to like 5 of my posts. Are we the only ones active right now?

 

Well, pretty much. I hate how there's like no one on at this time frame.

 

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Anyways, I voted for the old beam, since that one looked cooler, and the new beam seems to make the Colossus rather overpowered. If you place a Colossus right behind a mineral line, you can practically kill every worker unit there is, at the same time.

 

Why does everyone keep on saying that the old attack did 24 damage per second? I've already stated and sourced that it dealt 144 damage, and have also posted this earlier.

I can understand if I'm wrong, but can someone actually prove it rather than just ignoring it?

 

Two small sweeping beams from both sides would look and act, AWSOME.

btw, what are those things below it?

 

It wouldn't have to be 144 damage to everything. Looking at the video (yeah I know they're unreliable) but the Colossus takes longer that it otherwise would to take down the Nydus Wyrm, and that's with Zealots attacking it as well, but for the rest of the video, any Zerglings or any Banelings that the beam passes over dies instantly. If it had a mere 24 damage per second, it would take three seconds to take out one Zergling or Baneling. As I said before, I can understand if I'm wrong, but I've shown with cited info, that the Colossus deals 144 damage per second. No-one has responded, yet alone mentioned, this except when they just say 'it deals 24 damage per second.

 

Hmm.. I don't understand where the confusion comes from so I'll state what I know.

Regarding the old beam; It dealt 144 total damage and lasted for ~6 seconds. So calculated - it did 24 dps.

Regarding the new beam; As I understand, there has been no official statement about damage for this attack. The only clues are how many hits units have sustained before dying in the released footage.

 

I would like the colossus to have an AoE attack.