Viking

I think it looks alright, although it did take 2 volleys from a large number of Vikings to take one already damaged BC out.

 

The viking air mode will probably be best used as a transportation method, fighting with it will be a last resort. Air to air fighting will probably be left up to preadators.

 

Guess again: Predators have only 4 dmg without any sort of bonuses, and at a normal hit rate. They also only fire once everytime, so no hopes up for them, unless Blizzard pumps them up later. They will be a support ship for the vikings, just like the Nomad, making the transition from the factory units a little smoother than it was with the change between the Goliaths and Wraiths (in which you had to build many new supply depots to fit the new unit's needs).

viking's AA will prolly be the main AA until BCs.

 

The preadator doesnt fire more than one projectile?

 

Yes, that's what their atk box shows: f it did 2 attacks, like the Missile Turrets or the Zealots, it would show 'attacks: 2' in the box.

 

Yes agree. Spamming Vikings is possible as they are produced from the factories. I think a single Viking is not a threaten, but just like Mutalisks, Vikings have good mobility and cheap price. They can be the main AA in the midterm.

 

Well they fired vollys of 2 missiles in the demo.

 

emh..give me link to that demo

 

oops sorry I was thinking of the viking ^_^

 

its kinda stupid if the unit dedicated to only do AA damage does less AA damage than a unit that can both attack air and ground....

 

I don't mean the attack itself I mean the actual graphics of the attack it looks weak. Just two missles, a pause, and another two missiles. The missles should swerve around and there should be more of them. But same damage.

 

terran air-air is SUCKING REALLY BAD RIGHT NOW

we want wraith back, dont we guys?

 

uh... have u seen the battlecruisers ???

 

or the vikings? or the banshees? terrans air is kickin ass right now.

 

Hell yeah, the Terrans are totally into mass killing maybe they can 'pwn' the Zergs ;D... wait what!?.. that's bad for me! NO!!!

 

the preadator will most likly get air-air splash since it's dmg is so freaking low, but if thats not the case they will get beefed up when they start testing the Zerg more. The reson why i think the preadator is going to get an update by blizzard is because they have not tested mass Mutalisk yet. I'v seen terrans own mass Mutalisk with only a few Valkarys.

 

Look at the Battlecruisers attack in the first gameplay demo with the Protoss and then look at it now, ALOT cooler. They should do something similar with the Vikings attack.

 

I think its boring that the Viking fires volleys of bullets just like Marines. It should instead fire lowdamage bullets with a quick rate of fire. And if not that, it should have a small splash damage. Just think about the area a minigun-volley hits! Its atleast bigger than ONE unit. So, whadya say?

 

The Viking should have a constant line of fire. like a warp ray or colossus. but not the beam anamation. it should stay fireing on one unit untill it's dead or it needs to reload and not do the pop shot theam

 

And we would need more ground AoE why?
(I voted fine how it is)
Fast rate/low damage means it would take more penalty from armor and
As implied by my question terran doesn't need yet another unit dealing ground AoE damage.