Starcraft2Forum.org Featured Article! (Unit Predictions)

http://www.starcraft2forum.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=70&Itemid=60

 

The Succubus was just a rumor and it was confirmed as false by Karune. With that we could assume the defiler will be back, or some other unit.

 

A very good article, nice with a summary
The Zerg part seems to guessed, thats the only thing i dont like.

 

Seeing as how the Zerg haven't been released yet, I had to guess. But I think at minimum in the returning units department it's an educated guess.

As far as the Succubus goes, can you point me towards Karune's confirmation that it was just a rumor, Wick? I haven't heard of Blizzard acknowledging OR denying anything about it.

 

I think It was someone's imagination gone wild just like in the case of the pic featuring the terran scout and the protoss whatsitcalled.

And I agree that the Zerg bit is really dodgy. You're saying things about topics we haven't heard about at all (like the mutalisk mutations). Or maybe I just missed the piece of news but if that's not the case then you shouldn't speculate with things like "[...] the Guardian and the Devourer, both of which will most likely be replaced in Starcraft II. [...]".

 

The succubus was such a good concept though with a lot of potential for both lore and gameplay, DOH.

 

so does a flying shoe. i could think of milions of awesome tactics with a flying shoe.

 

Interesting article but seriously dude blue text. WTF dark colors are hard to read on dark backgrounds. (cyan is also out since thats the color of hyperlinks)

 

I really prefer the Defiler to the Succubus - The thing that comes to mind is an Infested Kerrigan sprite running around casting plague, which just doesn't sit right with me. The temporary infestation ability does sound somewhat interesting, though. Maybe it could be like the Broodling ability, being castable only on fleshy units, with the 180 second timer before death.

 

Thanks for the info ninerman13!

 

You guys are funny.

Of course the Zerg section is "dodgy" - it's a total guess based on my opinions! The ONLY part where it's not a total shot in the dark is the part about returning units. Other than that, I simply have ventured some guesses on where we might see changes. I can't possibly do anything more accurate seeing as we haven't seen the Zerg officially released yet. The main point was to put an overall estimate (aka guess) out there about what we might see.

 

Yes, but when writing an article you should try not to be too opinionated, and if so keep it to a minimum. You also basically created a few units from the top of your head which made the article lose some points. It was a very nice article but next time just address the points people are making right here

And on the actual guesses it should have been a compilation of the communities guess on a whole, not your guesses.

 

If I hadn't included so much opinion in the Zerg section, there wouldn't have been much of a Zerg section at all. My goal wasn't to summarize the community's guesses as much as to create my own based on what we have seen so far. Naturally, since we hadn't seen nearly anything, it was extremely difficult to keep the Zerg prediction as fact-based as the other two races.

That said, I appreciate all your guys' input on this and will keep your suggestions in mind when I write my next article. I might actually do as Zergalicious said and take the entire forum's Zerg ideas and create a better prediction. However, that's no easy task (partly why I didn't in this article), so don't expect to see it soon. Plus I am burnt out from writing this one, haha.