The Actual Size of Units

While playing the campaign I realized how much larger Marines were than an actual human. I never noticed how much bigger that armor made them. Then I started to think about it more, and realized that Stalkers and Hydralisks must be huge. I mean, a Zergling has to at least be the size of a tiger or a bear. A Stalker or Hydralisk would at least be the height of a two-story house or so. And then Ultralisks and Thors? Do you think these sizes seem correct? Or am I wrong?

Now that I noticed this, it makes the rest of the game seem so much more to scale. The building sizes actually seem appropriate for the size of a human.

 

imo nothing is too scale in the game
the cinema's and in-game cut scenes are more representative
look at the battlecrusier, then think about all the personal and units onboard during the campaign (like the armory for example)
the battlecrusier needs to be much bigger in-game to reflect the size it's represented in the cut scenes
another thing i would like to bring up...
the air units don't seem to be flying very high off the ground
something to think about

 

If they scaled everything correctly in game, (as in the cinematics) you'd have to play zoomed out much further then now. That would make the game unplayable.

 

Well the air units are probably the only thing that is off scale, but they need to be. Banshees and Vikings are probably okay because they only need to fit a single/couple human(s) in them. If Medivacs and Battlecruisers were to scale they would take up too much room, but that's probably the only unit that is off-scale.

 

Yeah all the zerg units are gigantic compared to what I thought they would be. Even the weakest unit, zergling is freakin gigantic and seems like itd be impossible to kill in real life haha

 

Vikings are also not on scale. They appear much bigger in cinematics.

 

Well apart from having to play zoomed out people need to think about the balance when they are talking about battle cruisers.

12 battle cruisers that in the game might fall against (i dunno hydras etc) "in real life" would lay them to waste without even getting scratched .Plus there`s the fact that it would cost a hell lot more to make a ship like that.

 

i dunno, hydras can shoot them little spines nice 'n' hard..

 

There's a lot of info on scale in cinematics(also back in starcraft 1)

A zergling is about the size of a very big dog, Dragoons are huge, almost twice as high as a human, marines probably gain an inch or three due to their suit, Hydralisks are big, but not huge, Ultralisks are massive(can be seen in the starcraft ghost opening), mutalisks are slightly bigger than they appear in game. Battlecruisers are pretty large as well, with a single battlecruiser carrying hundreds of troops in addition to wraiths and dropships, science vessels are even larger then that

 

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Just chiming in, but you got to remember that the Hyperion is a capitol ship and, as such, can be assumed to be larger than the average Battlecruiser. This is supported in the cinematic where the Mobius Battlecruisers exit warp and Jim believes that he can destroy them instead of turning his back and running like any apt commander would do if it was a true 1v2 fight.

 

you do realize that, in the single-player when you go down to the "armory" you have a medivac, seige tank, and viking parked inside jim's battlecruiser, right?

no, units are not to scale.

 

plus, if it was to scale then all SCVs would have to be midgets

 

I like to pretend the battlecruisers in-game are just gunships modeled after the actual capital ship design.

 

They used that in one of the novels actually(shadow of the xel'naga), with mini-battlecruisers attacking the protoss. I'm not sure how canon mini-battlecruisers are however.

 

Yeah, it's best not to get too hung up about the sizes of the units in-game. You'll just go crazy. I think the cinematics are the real authority on scale. The teaser video for SC2, showing the marine being assembled gives a good sense of scale for marines.

 

SCV's shouldn't really be midgets, at least compared to marines. They're both humans inside suits and the svc's one seems more like a robot driven by a human.
I'm pretty fine with size appart from a few units that are too small compared to what they should look like but if they were closer to theor natural size the game would be unplayable, lolz.
I mean the size of a battlecruiser is that of a small town(my hometown could fit inside the hyperion as it shows from the videos, population-wise). and I wouldn't even like to imagine the size of a mothership, that thing should be freaking huge, lol!

Imo it would help if you thought of each unit as a group of units instead. Like each marine as a marine squadron, each SCV like a whole department of SCVs, each siege like 3-4 sieges. That would help with each bc being 1 single bc instead of a minature version, plus it would give a more epic feeling to every fight


I mean, you freaking assault char with only like 5 cruisers or so! And achieve victory(well, there's the artifact involved, but still you survive a whole char-ish onslaught with like what? 200-300 loses total?{all char missions} It would help if these were some thousands, lore-wise

 

i think zerglings are the size of a great dane/dog hydras are twice as tall as a human no suit and marines are about 2 feet taller then a human[look in the back of strategy giude] and ultralisks are as big as a big house and battle cruisers are as big as 100 rockets and vikings are as big as a small jet banshees the same and mutas are the same as hydras corrupters a little bigger then mutas and protoss people zealots high templars and arxhons are twice the size as high templars and carriers as big as battle cruisers and void rays sames as vikings and pheonixes same andcollusals same as carriers and immortalls are twice the size as a dragoon and dragoons are twice as big as a zealot
thats all i got

 

Yeah. That still doesn't explain why a bunch of Marines can shoot down huge spaceships with their Assault Rifles though

 

Or the other way around: how the hell can marines withstand the blast of huge plasma bolts fired from orbit, impacts of heavy siege tank ammo, ridiculous amounts of roach acid, or even a single shot from the massive sweeping laser beam fired by a colussus? >_>

Ah well, for Starcraft it's always been gameplay > lore.

 

that's why marines have ARMORED SUITS. To resist attacks that would kill normal humans in an instant.