Thor

and a thor upgrade taht allows it to become a battleship. the terran version of the mothership. lol

missiles and HUGE laser beams for the THOR. come on blizzard.

 

Wow, we seem to have same feelings for the thor~
well i personally want the thor to become a super unit! haha bt its quite imposible...

I hope thrs an upgrade that a thor far more stronger, but limit it to only one upgrade,
to sum it up, u have a bunch of normal thors, and a uber powerful upgraded thor, in my previous thread,
I state that there should be an option for the scv to disembled othe units, eg battlecruiser, seige tank...
and use their armor and weapons and abilities on the thor, maybe a different ability...

To make it interesting, with different combinations, different weakness would appear~ after u got a full combination, the thor would be perfect! haha im dreaming too much....

 

Somiao, although a cool idea its way to complicated for Starcraft.

paragon i bet you're a zerg player? Thor is the only big ground unit the terran have, so i raelly think its a very valuable one, and one that i'll use quite often

 

They should have an anti ZERGLING/anti ZEALOT weapon in the THOR
axe the firebats and put them on the THOR

 

ThX 4 saying that my idea is cool...
DKutrovsky, but thats y my idea will stay a concept, blizzard is too conservative to input the idea...
Unless they find a way to make it easy... jz like the archon...
btw, dont the thor have have splash? i mean AoE? y do u need a super late unit to deal with swarms?
banshee ftw~

btw, DKutrovsky i LoLed at ur paragon = zerg player statement, ROFL

 

Its BIG... and propably will be armoured like hell :]

Cobras have anti-armour weapons so thats why they wasted him....

I doubt a swarm of amall units could take him on, just use his AOE and sayonara ground swarm :>

 

the only thing i dont like about the thor is the muzzle flash and the laser it shoots out of its 2 main cannon. its way too small looking

 

yeah, so thats y i think i should be mounted dual seige tank seige mode canons~ missile pods all over it also~
the weapon now looks like flak canons... the damage is so little, take such a long time to take down a supply depot, bt instakill a planetary fortress with its 250mm canons, btw i think the 250mm attack animation should change, it should be able to target air as well...
now it has energy weapons on its chest, jz too small to be notice, watch the video carefully lol

 

Would be cool if thor had 2xSiege tank cannon :> and SPLASH.... SPLASH... DIE ZEALOT SCUUMMM har har har

 

well, the two hand cannons on it do look like the siege tank's barrel, but i dont really mind the attack animation. it looks lovely and powerfull.

 

Ok, so thor's attacks should something like Mondo Bot, from Samurai Jack...im trying to upload it so you guys can see it, its very cool

 

HUH!! paragon= zerg player!!! no one told me the he's a zerg player!!
oh yea i think the thor should have some upgrades and it could be more detailed but it is detailed but i was also hoping it to have better attack animation

 

A few thoughts on the Thor...

As for the model and animation, it's good - but i preferred the earlier concept drawings that have been making their way around the forums - it seems to look a lot wider than the original drawings - and the flak canons that unfold on the top are perhaps a bit much for me. I preferred the concept arts simplicity. Still, that said, it was concept art and I still love the Thor as it is- those are just minor gripes - and i do love the main cannons either side.

As for gameplay, it seems underpowered at the moment, and it's role is nothing that a lot of existing terran units arn't already doing (ie seige).

Id perfer to see the Thor go one of two ways:

1 - gear it towards countering lots of smaller units (lings, zealots, etc). Make the two canons have a faster fire rate, and balance the damage accordingly. An additional flamethrower upgrade would be a nice touch as a backup for close proximity. Still keep the artilery flak attack as an optional upgrade.

2 - give the two main side cannons much longer range and allow it to work much better as a seige unit. (ie longer range than the seige tank). Maybe eliminate the splash damage and up the rate of fire a fraction. Again, keep the flak attack as an upgrade.

With both of these, the unit could use some form of basic missile defense against air (maybe similar to the valks). It would also be nice if it could turn independently on its waist to track units that try and outmaneuver it.

Short burst jump jets would be useful to get it across rivers.

I guess pick n mix from that!

C

 

I have nothing against Thor really. Nothing pro either.

He's just a substitute for the Nuke that can be built in a simpler way; can be feed-backed by Archons; increase the need for anti-armor units like the Cobra and Stalker; serve as tanker for the terran marines, now the main ground assault since it sez on viking's description: "Ground support/Air-combat"; has a better HP per cost than BCs; takes an awful lot of space, so it will get caught in smaller choke points (if there are any); and sort of diversify the looks of terran forces, even though it doesn't diversify the idea of the Siege-tank.

BTW, why have 3 Siege-tanks when you can have a Thor? Doesn't it make the STs kind of obsolete? It REALLY feels like they're sharing the same role now...

 

The walk animation for Thor looks a little...waddle-like. This should be changed a little. Also, in the Terran demonstration from Blizzcon, Thor was having a bit of trouble taking out that supply depot. I think that the Thor should be good at killing bases even without excessive use of his uber-cannons.

 

In the terran gameplay video, thor takes out an unharmed planetary fortress with one strike...

Now is it just me, or does that seem to be obscenely powerful? Perhaps they make up for it being so unweildy by giving it a 1000+ damage attack?

 

I think it took it 8 hits and for the tanks like 2.

 

I just watched the video again. I'm talking about the part where the UI is removed and you can see the planetary fortress from behind the thor. It is still only one execution of the spell 'Artillery Strike,' despite fact that the spell itself included multiple fires of the thor's weapons.

 

I guess dont let thor near you CCC

 

Maybe Blizzard implemented the cheat also for the Thors just so they could showoff the Thors ability? It wouldn't surprise me if Blizzard did that because Blizzard has used it in the past to showoff their units. (Mothership anyone?)