Starcraft II Q&A 6 + Swedish Scans

Wooooot! They used my idea in a form of a question...

XD

( The one with the colossus attacked by air turrets and stuff like that )

Hehehehe..

That doesn't matter, they could have 10 energy instead of 20 out of 200

 

I actually stared those pictures about 15 minutes. Great job Blizzard :good:

 

I dont buy the Thor thingy, they said the terrans wouldnt get a ultimate unit but something more badass then a battlecruiser looks kinda ultimate to me.

 

it will be the same as the ultralisk, huge unit with lots of hp, not a game ender though...

 

Yeah, it won't be too strong. But a gay name... Man come on.... its space, it should be like named.... errrm

Striker. or MechAlots.

 

But the Thor looks wicked. It's a bit similar to warhammer Dreadnoughts.

 

yea it does look like the dreadnought a bit.

i'm wondering if Thor and Viking are the real names. I mean they are both Scandanavian names and this info is coming from a Scandanavian magazine.

 

it could be vague translation?

 

Ok, here are my two cents:

I'm not happy with the look of the ghost; he looks too short and husky. He needs a leaner, more agile look in order to translate from SC1 well. I hope the gun is nice and big - at first, I was appalled at its size, but then I realized the screenshot cut off the rest of the barrel.

The new Dark Templar remind me of those pain-in-the-ass, good-for-nothing satyrs that jump up and down and do gymnastics like fairies from God of War. I like the double sickle though....verrrrryyyy sinister. I am also not going to comment on the lack of a cape (blasphemy) as I'm sure it was just edited out for the screenshot.

The sensor dome looks rather piddly for something that tells where enemies are, even in undiscovered territory. My guess is that it only has a certain range around which it can detect enemies in undiscovered territory. It just looks too small for something that basically reveals the whole map, and it was placed in a forward position/choke point in that screenshot with the ghost and the tanks on the cliffs:
[img width=670 height=502]http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/3774/34959795ze1.jpg[/img]
It wouldn't make sense to place it in an area that you were certain would come under heavy attack if it could prove such a valuable reconnaissance tool. But maybe it's just a random screen that Blizzard wanted to show off...who knows?

I'm waiting on more detailed pictures to come to a verdict on the Thor and the Viking - they sound great but they look a bit bulky. Can you tell I like stuff to be aesthetically pleasing?


PS - are those rocks falling from the cliff over the heads of the stalkers on the right of the screenshot? it would be cool if you could tell if there were troops getting ready for an ambush on a cliff from falling rocks, like an environmental clue - or maybe it's just because two ginormous siege tanks are pounding away from the top

 

actually the pics could be more artwork than ingame, the darktemplar visible in one of the ign screenshots looks fine.
Also the ghost at the end of the 20min gameplay vid looks alot more like the sc1 version than the one in the swedish scan.
With the placement of the detector, it probably provides a large LOS with detection, but also has the comsat ability like in sc1.

lol, those arnt rocks, there mushrooms

 

awww what a let down! 'shrooms?!

yeah I like the DT in the IGN shots

you'll have to excuse the posts or comments I make from time to time that rely on seeing the videos - I've only seen them once or twice since I post while at work and streaming radio/video is blocked for the most part, so I'm operating from memory most of the time

 

i would think it is more in game than artwork.

For my opinion on the sensor dome... I think it works as a comsat station, a detector, and also increases the range of sight. So I think its strategically placed in that screenshot rather than for showing off that it exsists.

 

yeah if I had a building that was as valuable as the rough translations made it seem (not bashin' ya, Fenix), I'd put it in a place that was a little less full-scale-attack/planet cracker/nuke prone

 

lol, if you look at the high res version you can see the little green stems
http://au.media.pc.ign.com/media/850/850126/img_4704596.html

heres another with mushrooms at bot middle(next to turret), and top right
http://au.media.pc.ign.com/media/850/850126/img_4704594.html

BEHOLD THE MUSHROOMS!!

 

ARGHHHH &*)#$_*!&@$#*(&%^!#(*$& WORK FILTER I CAN'T SEE _!@#$()*%#^

 

lol nikzad.. just scroll down on the news section and click on the images I posted... they are all high res

ok once you click on it... you can "zoom" (zoom as in making it even high res rather than zooming in for poor quality) in by clicking on the expand on the lower right corner. It's hard to have the button show up on IE so try right clicking on the image and itll appear.

 

awww sweet

now i just gotta figure out which ones he is talking about

 

oh the first link he posted was the screen you posted earlier with the siege tanks/sensor dome/ghost, etc.

the 2nd link is the tempests and warp rays attacking a terran base. (It's on the Starcraft II at E3 Live News, the one with 3 screens below)

 

ahh yes, I see them now, thanks!

 

I think adding the detector dome for the terrans is a great upgrade for the terrans. Each race is getting to be so different that there will always be imba elemts in each race. I see nothing wrong with this. This is where all the crazi strats come into play and I can remember people complaining that sc2 was too similiar to sc1.

I cant wait to hear what the zerg will get