StarCraft II Q&A - Batch 24

the thor really should be built outside the factory
i thought that was one of the more cooler looking mechanics of the terran
for a sec i thought that i was going to try to play as the terran.... i guess not though

i agree and the terran really do need the cobra because the terran need to have one unit that could micro well (the vulture in the first game and the cobra in the second)

 

Blizz never said that it was scrapped, just that Thor took its role. The Cobra might only slow down ground units now, etc. And who, WHO said that the Thor was moved to the Factory? Blizzard never said that.

 

my bad i think i misread this although im gettin the innuendo that they may have put it in the factory

 

i don't think Thor will go to the factory, blizzard isn't retarded. But i thing viking will go back, then predator as starport unit. And the reapers cant be a harass unit, as they come later then the vultures did

 

Reapers better be buffed up, since they require so much tech. Faster perhaps?

 

reapers need to do more dmg and have better speed

predator needs to come back
it looked f*cking sweet!!!

 

I just thought of something now the terrans have no form of early Counter air...... I mean marines and medics are nice yes but are they good enough to drive off mass early mutas???

 

yes they are, at least on brood war

 

With the Merc Haven being built after the factory is built does this mean that the Covert Ops is still after the Merc Haven? This would mean that Ghost is now a tier 2.5ish unit. I really think that Merc Haven should be built after a Tech Lab is built, that would make more sense I think, and still allow the Ghost to be built before tier 2.

I think that Blizzard is going to change the artillerty cannons on the Thor to flak cannons, and just have them always deployed. They should be fairly low damage with a decent splash and fast firing. I think that this would make the most sense for the Thor design.

I don't know how I feel about the cobra being axed. On the one hand I am sad because it was such a sweet concept, and on the other I don't care that much since it had been changed so much from the original design. I thought the idea of an electrical, weak slowing attack was stupid, and defeated the purpose of getting a solid group of cobras to do some serious harassing.

Overall this is a good update that gives some solid stuff to consider.

 

I really liked the Cobra, I'm sad it got axed. We need all the air defence we can get.

 

the cobra is not really axed the cobra just either dosent attack air any more or the cobra is not the main ground to air attacking unit now.

 

if you want the reaper to deal more damage i suggest changing its weapon(pistol). something nice like this http://larcenciel-11.deviantart.com/art/terran-reloaded-71365471. hahah.

 

Weapon design and amount of damage have nothing to do with each other.
All they need to do is to change 4 to 5, etc. The pistols are fine.

 

i think that the pistols are fine, look at halo, the pistols arent really that low tech
the only problem with the pistols though is that you would eventually run out of ammo and that leaves you stranded
but then again in starcraft you dont ever have to reload ;D

 

You can run out of ammo with ANY type of weapon, not just pistols.
Shotguns, high tech lasers, they all need bullets or batteries.

 

i know but that doesn't really matter in sc though ;D

i dont see the problem with the reaper's pistols
when you think of a reaper what do you instantly think of?
the pistols? i do
and they are fitting for 'crazy units' ( except they would be cool with shotguns ) just because if you had crazy units would you give them assault rifles! no! i know i wouldnt!

the terran just lost their micro-poweroverwhelming-crazy unit... that sucks
i thought that was sweet - a fast siege tank! thats sweet!
but no... any time blizzard has a cool unit they decide to take it out!
the predator was sweet! the cobra was sweet! the lack of the firebat was sweet!
seriously blizzard! WTF

 

halo? pistols? i think they were using PLASMA pistols.

any of you here has an idea of how my weapon works. trust me, it will be NEW, GREAT, and BADASS than a a pistol. just imagione the visuals of it in game. bc, colosus, looks great also because of their projectiles attacks (you can see them coming). i suggest another unit for the terran to have this feature, yes the reaper. so why not?

reapers = well my weapon REAPS through enemies while the pistols NOT. so whats better to fit their name. xp

 

you're not giving them miniguns are you?

 

in halo there pistols and energy pistols

 

No offence zeratul, but all you seem to care about is how high tech something is. That's why you like the BC and Colossus. The argument to why Vultures should not come back, why Cobras and Predators should have stayed, why you like the new Siege Tank design, why Reapers should not have pistols, and why Raynors BC should look fancy inside.... It's all the same. You just want everything to be Gundam

I really respect your opinions and I understand that some people want things to be high tech.
I just think that you should see things with other perspectives. Everything can't be high tech, especially not the weapons of some low life criminal that already got an expensive jetpack.