Predator

I saw this in somebody's blog,who just returned from the blzcon yesterday


Wraiths are back as an anti-air unit called the Predator. They can switch between a form that attacks air units and a form that intercepts incoming missiles and destroys them. When it transforms, the lasers switch positions. It is a three-pronged aircraft just like the Wraith, but cannot stealth.


anyone know how does it works??Or is it true???

 

where did u find this??

 

here:


http://sc2spot.com/content/view/43/1/


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nobody knows...?

 

no idea.

we haven't seen the unit yet in any terran gameplay demo.

 

u can see a sketch of it in the campaign demo, when Jim goes to the armory , on that screen there ,when he uses it,scrolls down a bit, u can see a picture of the model if u look closely

 

Yea its on the campaign demo and it seems to be some form of a double delta wing fighter, anyway its to unclear to judge what it looks like fully but try watching the campaign demo again and freeze it at 7:00 then look on the unit selection bar to find it. Hopefully images will be posted later on to give us a better view of it.

 

Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Wraiths are back. And in a better anti-air form. Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

 

The blocking and reflecting form is not just for enemy missles as well it said enemy "attacks".

 

Where did it say attacks Pancake Chef? A different source? The article otherguy pointed at said:
"Wraiths are back as an anti-air unit called the Predator. They can switch between a form that attacks air units and a form that intercepts incoming missiles and destroys them. When it transforms, the lasers switch positions. It is a three-pronged aircraft just like the Wraith, but cannot stealth."

As for intercepting missiles...sounds remarkably useless. Maybe it will be ok against the terran, but against the protoss and zerg..? I would prefer a form that increases speed but halves attack damage or something like that. Otherwise, it seems more like a waste of resources. After all, it can't cloak.

Than again, if it really can intercept attacks, maybe it'll be ok for guarding fleets.

 

Alot of other sources I have seen have said "attacks". Also the Predator will be a good anti-air unit against enemy air forces.

The Viking has anti-air capablites but is not the main Terran anti-air ship, as Blizzard has said in their demos "it is a verastile unit, that has good anti-air against Captial ships"

 

Can you link a few sources that state it's function? That would be quite usefull. I would love to know more about it, because right now, it sounds like flying trash.

 

Why do you say that? We havn't seen it in action yet, and only know it is anti-air with blocking/reflecting enemy attacks form. In my opinion that sounds pretty good to me.

www.sc2armory.com
- Predator is an Anti-Air ship
- Predator can transform into an Interceptor which blocks/reflects enemy attacks


The front page news report post on this site also says the same thing about "attacks" rather than missles.

 

How is that even remotely enough?

 

its been labelled as the replacement for wraiths, and they only had 120hp

 

... and it is pretty specialized which serves different functions than the wraith. I don't exactly think it really replaces the wraith. The banshee seems more like the replacement or even more so a combo of the banshee and the predator.

100 hp is fine with me. Plus its a lot cheaper (100 minerals 50 gas, compared to the more expensive wraith of 150 minerals and 100 gas --> Banshee has the same cost as the wraith) (Thanks to the screens found by GuiMontag ^_^)

 

100hp is fine by me and i don't think the Predators are the replacement for the Wraith, to me the Banshees are the replacement for the combo of Wraiths and Valkyrie, to me the Predators are just new units like the Warp ray

 

I hope predator > small units since viking > capitol ships or so it seems

 

Predator must be made to beat interceptors. Why else would it have that strange missile intercepting skill? To beat other Vikings and Turrets? A terran anti-terran unit and that's it? Because I didn't see any missile protoss, and can't imagine zergs shooting missiles aswell, lol!

 

Where can I find the screenshots found by Gui?

 

http://www.starcraft2forum.org/forums/index.php?topic=1665.msg41213;boardseen#new

or this for a direct link

http://www.shacknews.com/gallery.x?game_id=4110