What is your favorite new Protoss unit?

Yeah YCH9, Im not a huge fan of the colossus, I think it looks cool but it has some flaws such as being sooo tall that it can be hit with ground attacks and air attacks!!! And its kinda slow, and it cant hit air targets.

In the video at the starcraft main site its twin laser things kill three marines per sweep
That isnt bad, but i have a cool idea, what if they make the beams a bit more powerful and they can sweep in different directions after different targets!!  That would look really cool and be more effective than just killing one little unit at a time.

Compared to the Archon, which is fast, deals spread damage, can(hopefully, the original one could) attack air, and kills a marine with every attack, and cant be hit by anti air,  The colossus kinda let me down there

 

Couldn't of said it better myself Gah345. I was never too big a fan of Colossus. With it being vulnerable to air and ground attacks and the bulk of its power limited to swarming units, I never was that excited over it.

Also with the recent knowledge that its gonna be more expensive than Reaver, I personally think Twilight Archons will do its job better. Archons can attack air, have insane attack, have massive shields, and you can make one more easily now since you can pick between making it out of a DT or a HT depending on wether you have more gas or more minerals. Also there's still the possibility that Archons even have a special spell.

My love still goes Stalker first and Archon 2nd.

 

Ummm.. So many nice ones .. Colossus, Stalker aaaand Tempest..

 

Thats exactly right Itsmyship, owerup:

the only really good thing that the colossus has right now is its ability to climb up walls
the archon will be a much better weapon
i do hope that they make the colossus stronger because it is very unique and i dont want to see it go, but at the moment it has so many weaknesses its just not worth it when you can build an archon or a reaver for less. Its not turning out to be the almighty war machine that it was said to be.

my order is stalker 1st then archon 2nd

 

Well, if they could just change the Colossus to attack air, i'd place it 1st. However, as things are, i'm placing Stalker first, then Colossus...

 

now with all we know about the star relic i do believe it gets my vote

its no Arbiter but i love the detonate and it still has cloak

colossus looks like it would be a good support unit early on, however its high price could easily deny it of that role as well

 

Well, one thing we know for sure that the Collossus will get that the Archons won't get is the HP. Collossus, if I recall correctly, have well over 700 HP including shields. That is even more than the BattleCruisers (and we know how hard it is to take down BattleCruisers). Even though anti-air weapons can damage it, it is still going to be 1 tough cookie to take out because of the 700 HP. And of course, the ability to climb walls, which most people know about.

Collossus will be better support unit then the Archons because their attack is ranged. They can stand back and let it fire, while the Archons basically need to walk up to the enemy. If you enemies target the support units, the Collossus will wipe them out. If they ignore the support units and aim at your Collossus, it is going to take forever to take out that huge 700 HP of robotic body and therefore, the support units are going to rain you down before you even take out 1 Collossus.

 

The Colossus had 400 hit points and 325 shield in the original gameplay video, but it could very well have been changed by now. That's a whole lot of health, but the problem is that it can get hit from everywhere. I love the Colossus' look personally, and I do find it to have an intimidating aura about it, but that's just me. We can only speculate over its attack damage, but I am praying that it will be able to do a lot. If it doesn't, I'm worried that for its cost and how vulnerable it is, it won't be worth it. If it could attack air, however, that'd be superb.

 

i think the culusus r pretty cool im not a big fan of the stalkers thou should put the dark templar back but watevers i do like the look of the twilight archon though they look pretty frekin cool but ive never herd of the sould hunter and the star relic could somebody explain those 2?

 

I love the warpray mechanic.. Its so cool and yet so simple to understand. Also it adds alot of flavor to balance. Making a unit very good vs large targets and weak vs small ones. owerup: blizzard

 

The immortal seems to be the most useful new unit and has a specific purpose (to beat back seiges and break defences), plus it fits the game aestheticly unlike the soul hunter and colossus from war of the worlds both of which as anti infantry are useless we already have reavers

 

I actually think the Colossus looks very Protoss in design, but to each his own. But I agree, it really does seem like the Protoss have a whole lot of units that can own infantry. Reavers, Colossus, Archons, Tempests should all make quick work of them.

 

Do the Tempest shurikens do melee attack or do they shoot

I think melee would be interesting, their shape would work for it and they could have like a psi blade on the curved outer edge, but i dont think it would give you as much sense that they are doing anything. The old interceptors would swarm out and then you would see all their little shots go. If shurikens do melee, they need something that shows that they are doing sumthing, like their cruved psi edge blades light up when they hit an enemy or sumthing like that

otherwise its like shooting a gun with no kickback or smoke and the enemy shows no sign that you hit him, you just have to know that hes taking damage

 

its melee. and the difference is a 'shuriken' isnt gonna miss under darkswarm.

 

You know, I still can't get over the fact that Stalker is being beat out by Colossus and that MS is almost as liked as the Stalker.

What's the point of me making this topic if you don't have my opinions!!! It's heresy!!!!!! hehe jk

 

its ok, i voted for the stalker too.

 

I love the Stalker as it is a really useful and powerful unit, but I'm not a huge fan of its looks. I hope they make it more detailed so you can really tell that it looks like the concept art for it, because I love the way it looks there. I have trouble picking out its face as it is right now, which is a problem I don't have with my big amigo, the ever sexy, all powerful Colossus! ;D

 

i like the colossus. and the zealot because of their new charge ability.

 

I think the soul hunters are very effective and useful and they will cause more destruction and nuke!!! mwhahahahahahaa

 

except for the fact that soul hunters got scrapped and wont be in the game.