Starcraft II Battlecruiser Video from ESL Finals.

Battlecruiser Gameplay video has surfaced from the ESL Finals.

Though its a horrible quality and doesnt showcase the new abilitys its still worth watching

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfUi...=271&goto=newpost&feature=player_embedded

Enjoy,
Seradin

 

lol, I love how people are compaining about stacking, especially the comment saying they should act like air units in WC3. Wasn't the complaint that SC2 looked too much like WC3???

Also, could you imagine how weak zerg air would be if it couldn't stack, mutas are only powerful when stacked. They'd get obliterated even is sizable numbers without it.

 

It does look a little awkward what with them disappearing into eachother :\. It's not a big deal to me as long as it doesn't look distractingly awkward.

Other than that, just watching this video makes me pretty sure I agree with nony. This is going to be the greatest esport ever. Eventually. After patching. Lots of patching.

 

Wow the mothership is slow I really like that. Nice footage, although somewhat boring.

 

Stacking is Psi storms best friend...mwa haa haa!

 

lol the video was kinda boring...but i did see a BC use his air thorpedo ability thingy...i cant remember the name of that ability.

 

Wow... @ 0:42 you can see the Siege Tanks fire in Assault mode, and they fire fast.


AcE, are you sure it wasn't just several BC's attacking normally at once? Because when they did, it looked kinda clustered.
Never saw anything that looked different from the lasers though, and the ability, 'Missile Barrage' (or something like that) would have slower projectiles I think.

Where in the video was it?

 

Wasn't that removed in exchange for defensive matrix?

 

No, Defence Matrix was added in addition to Yamato Cannon and Missile Barrage.

 

i did see one BC use its missle barrage on the mother ship, or that was some vikings but i dont think so.
tanks are actually good out of siege mode. it doesnt take 5 seconds between each attack now.
much more of a threat IMO.
why didnt the guy who was playing use the yamato on the mothership though.

 

Can't believe I forgot to post this here I posted it everywhere else.. silly me

http://www.warboards.org/showthread.php?t=39527

Also, this video isn't from the ESL. Check the menu at the end. It clearly says Leipzig 2008. Furthermore, the Mothership has been horribly gimped since Leipzig so you most likely won't see a Mothership lasting that long in the final game or in current builds. It has roughly half the health and shields now than in the video.

 

warp rays, mothership, carriers nothing helped to take down even 1 of these guys so how do you take down 7 multiple battle cruisers in sc2 its like facing multi carriers from sc on crack (the multi attack from one deals 64 damage all together not to mention its other abilities)?

It seems blizzard still has a good amount of balance ahead of them for all the races.

 

Jeez, either Battlecruisers are freakin' OP or that Protoss player didn't know how to focus fire. At least one of those BCs should have had HP in the red after the first run-in with the Carriers.

I doubt that was the Missile Barrage. the projectiles hitting the Mothership flew straight and fast (lasers) and it was only hitting the mothership, not that Carrier behind it.

Also, yay Siege Tanks! they're actually useful out of Siege Mode!

 

It probably would have been more prudent to start amassing warp rays and focus firing all of them on the battlecruisers.

 

true the warp ray dosen't cost much but still the carrier costs too much and is too weak for its role,

phoenix- smallest of the units cheap cost good at takeing out smaller units bad against larger heavier units

warp ray - interesting units good 1v1 but vunurble to multi units

carrier - interesting unit that has a hard time fitting in because of its type of attack this units just doesn't seem to fit very well and i never really like the interceptor idea my conclusion give it a different type of attack or function.

mother ship- should be the protoss battle cruiser same type of attack but different types of abilities

 

im not too sure gaskmaskguy, the quality is really low. But, when the mothership comes in, it looks like on of the BC is firing alot more lasers/missiles/wateva at it.

 

Well the mother ship attacked once but because it was moving most of the time it wasn't attacking.

 

since the mothership moves so slowly i think it should be one of those "attack while moving" units.

plus it would look epic and give it a edge.

 

@AcE. I rewatched it and I can see now that a Missile Barrage clearly is fired @ 0:48.

 

yeah i thought so...but that barrage is really fast, shouldnt missiles go abit slower?