What's up with the Twilight Archon feet?

So, looking at someone's avatar took me back a few months to the time when Blizzard announced the Twilight Archon as an official unit. And, I thought, "wow, that's really cool."

I do wish that the archons would have abilities that differ based on whether they were built from two high templar, two dark templar, or one of each.

But, WTF with the archon's FEET? It's like he's a little wind-up toy, marching around with a huge long torso and little short, stubby legs. Like the archon meld encountered a bit of a developmental disorder and resulted in a sort of posterior dwarfism.

Anyone else notice that?

 

Yes:
http://www.starcraft2forum.org/forums/index.php?topic=1205.0

http://www.starcraft2forum.org/forums/index.php?topic=1223.0

 

I like the Twilight Archon whit feet. It is better and crazy said "CLEVER"

 

im not sure but i believe that blizzard said that they removed the feet. but im not sure where i read that.

 

why would u post something about this?

 

If you look at it, It vaguely of reminds me of the firelord from WC3, not much the upper body design is different, and well its blue, and the walk also seems like it, but just barely.

Over all I would agree that It should float, It just radiates power that way.

I could look at the action shot on the site forever.

 

I think that all of that power emanating from the Twilight Archon needs to surround it more. At the moment it just seems to be a bit of a ring around its middle. I love Samwise's concept drawing of it. It looks freaking insane!

 

Lol, was it my avatar?

But to the point: I don't really like the walking to. It should float, I mean, it's a spirit thingy right? I don't think I have ever seen a spirit that has to walk.

And ItzaHexGor has a good point here. It should be more like a cloud or something surrounding it. This looks a little weak, but it's still my favourite unit. :thumbup:

POWER OVERWHELMING B*TCHES! (that should be what it says after clicking on it for long enough )

 

The power emanating from him is more then enough - he is a damn unit not a star. As for the feet - as long as the artwork has no feet ( and as we can see the archon looks like the one in the artwork ) i don't see why it should have a walking animation. Plus walking kinda looks verry stupid for a creature made of energy. Overall - awsome design but fu**t up animations. Even the attack animation sucks- in the first SC he combined bouth hand and unleashed a pisonic wave. Now he fires that lightning from only one hand as if he had a weapon on that hand ( kinda looks like the grey knights range attack in dark crusade ). New animations are a 'must have' for the archon.

 

Remeber this is an old animation and they have said it will be changed.
They just never update the old unit on the site. The warp ray is still golden on its page

 

Also what about adding a close range dmg abillity like the war3 imolation to the archon - i mean the damn unit emanates energy - that's gotta hurt. It would only make sense for that energy to burn a poor marine that got to close to the archon.

 

I think that the Archon should look more like it does in the original Starcraft. It looks too buff right now, in addition to the crappy feet. I really would like to see energy come arching in and out and flaring, basically it would look like how a sun looks, minus the sun spots.
http://images.google.com/images?q=s...uggestions&resnum=0&ct=property-revision&cd=1
The Archon should emanate power and what better way to do this than look like a flame blue sun?

 

The power emanating from the Archon definitely isn't enough. You can see his whole torso poking out the top, and see his legs poking through the bottom. At the moment the power seems to just be in a ring around its waist. I don't want it to end up as a sphere of energy, but it should have more energy around its torso. After seeing the StarCraft2 Archon, I realized that I didn't like how the Archon in StarCraft1 was so thin and frail. The StarCraft2 Archon looks so much more buffed, but it needs more of that emanating energy. I like how its attack only uses one hand. It gives the feeling of it being so powerful, that it doesn't need to put in any more effort. In comparison the StarCraft1 Archon looked like it was trying too hard.

 

Indeed, the attack with only one hand lets the Archon seem so more powerful then it was in Starcraft 1. I like that, however, it could be even better in some ways.

Maybe there should be some kind of surge going through the energy around it's body while it "fires". Reason for this? Well, there isn't a real reason for it, it just looks cool. But if you really want it to have a reason you could say something like: "Yeah, it has to focus all of its energy at it's hand and draws power from the energy in its whole body." Or something like that.

 

Is the normal archon and the dark archon still in the game as well? Or did they scrap them?

 

They were scrapped due to the storyline, since the Zergs has took overt he shrine

 

Thats the dragoons Marine

HA and DAs are not in the game because the twilight archon replaces them. Storywis it represents the newfound unityof the 'toss

 

IMO archons with feets looks powerful and archons that float looks gay. =p

 

That's a lame point you have there.
Why do they look more powerful if they have to walk. It's like: "I'm walking, it makes me strong and I feel good about myself because of it." That's even more gay... Floating kicks ass, why do you think everyone likes sci-fi, not because of the walking aliens.

 

He is a SPIRIT. An essence. Pure Energy. Don't be suprized that he is swirling sphere of energy. He don't need to walk. It floats. Quickly. One handed attack truly shows his power and majesty. But it also should show WRATH. Madness in every move. Great Passion. Damn. It's Archon. Most freaking unit in SC (and One of my favourites).