Should the terran have a unit that can bypass the protoss shield?

i don no... ideas? :good: or :bad:

 

They already do. It's called Nomad, using EMP shockwave.

It works in an area, so all Protoss close to it will be affected.

 

hmm... i dont think so. it would be a little imbalanced. And as said already, they have emp. i'm not sure but i think snipe ignores shields.

 

maybe the predator's attack should bye pass protoss shield, making it even more unique, since it's attack is weak and it can only target air, i don't think it would be OP

 

that would make it kill big units with lots of shield to ignore much easier, and that would make vikings AA less used to take out big shieldy protoss capital ships etc, i guess. Which is not good

 

i was thinking of a very weak AG or AA but not both
good for support but not something you can just mass... like the vulture

 

have you noticed that Protoss units actually have lest HP than their counterparts in the other races? It is already bad enough that EMP can get rind o your only advantage. Zerg already have plague so they don't need another either

 

we dont know if plague will be back, and i dont think it will. just like mind control, it gets to powerful when you can throw em at thors, buffed up BC:s etc.
it will atleast be tweaked, so that it perhaps "only" does a total damage of 400-500 or something.

 

most air units don't have much shield, even the carrier only have 150, and the predator's attack is weak anyway. the reason i suggested predator is because it can only attack air, if a ground weapon can penetrate shield then it would totally pwn archon

 

owerup: 4 u Reaker! That seems 2 b a good idea without apparent flaws!

 

OK, i agree with you Reaker. but, WHY would it ignore the shields, storywise? And why wouldn't they give those kinds of lasers to battle cruisers? Battle cruisers got longer life spans, so it is more economical to put that kind of technology on them instead.

 

Well, why don't they give interceptor mode to BC as well?? They "got longer life spans, so it is more economical to put that kind of technology on them instead."

Perhaps the sort of laser used to bypass the shields does little damage, not suitable for BCs purpose. But suitable for interceptor mode and a quick firing small craft such as Predator.... how about it? ^_^

 

This would be bad idea simply for the fact that no team should EVER have an ability that only works on one race. While emp does seem to lean that way it also does have another property that makes it useful against any race but more effective against the Protoss.

And if you think my opening statement is wrong show me an ability that can currently be only used against one race? (SC1 or SC2 abilities)

 

well it is a passive ability so it doesn't matter

 

I'll name you one: vulture's floating and escaping of spider-mines! Their only use in being floating was to not trigger the spider-mine's sensor. Which never left being cool. However, only useful versus Terrans. How about it? ^_^

Predator's attack wouldn't be Protoss intended, however, with a little plus that could be used somehow we don't know of yet.

 

eerrmm... i dont know.. you have to ask blizzard. yup.

it could be because predators are faster and its interceptor-mode is meant to be quicky deployed when needed, when you are under ms-attack, for an example. Then you quickly need to intercept its "blue rockets", instead of waiting for your bulky cruiser to arrive.

 

nice try overling, but archons do it too

 

But he asked versus one race only. It is only useful versus terrans. Even if the archon has it too. We're not saying that there shouldn't be a zerg unit capable of 'air shield piercing' too, are we?

 

?? i'm confused. you say that vulture don't trigger spider mines, archon don't trigger it either

 

he's saying that the ability to hover is only useful for avoiding spider mines.... it only has usefulness in countering a Terran ability

dunno if I agree... but that's what his point is