Which Episode will Xel'naga appear in?

the xel'naga's orientation is still a mystery, i doubt they will be evil - they love the protoss

 

But they also support Protoss/Zerg combinations, as seen with Duran, and they had no contact with the Terran.
What about the sentient Zergs?

I HOPE they will be good, as a race that helps other races become better should be good, right?

 

well to be honest, the hybrids are pretty much what the xel'naga wanted; to make a race that had protoss's essence(or were they form) combined with whatever specialty they saw in the zerg.

but...well as we know there are opposites to everything so why isnt it possible for there to be a race that are the xel'naga's antagonists?

this is going off-topic now...

 

@OP. I'd say we'll get a glimpse or two of them in Wings of Liberty already. Blizzard made the decision to make each game's/expansions' campaign a race specific 30 mission epic. Not including the Xel'Naga would be really bad. Even though the focus lies on Raynors struggle with the Terran Dominion, and the sudden burst of Zerg activity, with 30 missions you can easily include a Xel'Naga encounter.


In case Xel'Naga aren't seen in the Terran campaign...
Each game/expansion is supposed to include a second (short, like 3 - 6 missions) campaign, and the one accompanying Wings of Liberty will be a Protoss one. Maybe Zeratul will be doing some searching and stuff and come in contact with the Xel'Naga in some way or another. Would be great for a cliffhanger. Kind of what the secret BW mission did.

 

would the mini campaign be like the Alan Shezar one or would it be more releveant to the story

 

There's no way to know. Certainly it will be relevant on some level, but perhaps not to the main story.

 

I would say that they would appear in the Legacy of Void, the protoss expansion. Since it is most likely that the protoss will win the game, when they do they will rule the galaxy unless something came to stop them. That would probably be that Xel'Naga.

 

I'm sure there be signs of their return/ creations/uncover lore that appear throughout the campaigns.

Legacy of the Void will most likely have all the Xel'naga/Hybrid soon to be appearance, we're going to have Zeratul as the main char of that campaign, which means he'll survive Kerrigan wrath and live to tell whats to come to their galaxy, ending with the three race banded together to fight the coming conflict temporary.

Then exp will then HAVE TO have the Xel'nagas and there Lts. leading their Hybrid armies to crush their "failed" experiments, trying to bring back the lost glory of the Xel'naga during the the birth of the universe. That how I see it put simply put.

 

As most of the members, I vote for the third proposition : in the Protoss campaign.
We will see some units from the Xel'Naga race during the campaign, and maybe some structures too, but not playable. During this campaign we will be more and more involved with the Xel'Naga. Maybe some Protoss factions will greet the Xel'Naga while some other will hunt them.

Well globally we'll be prepared for the expansion set where there will be a fourth playable race : the Xel'Naga.

What about the Protoss-Zerg hybrids ? Are they the Xel'Naga ? We have debated about this question so long. I think they are the Xel'Naga. Are they good? Are they bad? We don't know. Duran said to Zeratul that the universe will be upset for ever and Zeratul said to Raynor that the Xel'Naga have returned. And he seems scared by them.

 

The Xel'Naga will not be playable in StarCraft II.
I think the trilogy counts as enough expansions.
And there are always patches.

My view - nothing leads to the Xel'Naga being evil. They initially aided the Zerg and the Protoss, but as the Protoss entered the Aeon of Strife, they attacked the Xel'Naga. Leaving was self-defense. Also, they are creating the Hybrids to be the perfect race. But for what reason? If it is universal dominion they want, then they could've had it a long time ago, when there were no other races.

Sure, Duran is seeding the Hybrids through Earth, but it may be that they are there for other purposes. Maybe the Xel'Naga lost the ability to breed, and have been looking for a way to recreate themselves. But that isn't epic enough for a Blizzard game.

I still want the Xel'Naga to be good guys. Duran never said he was working for the Xel'Naga (quote me on this please) and he could be working for someone else. The Xel'Naga may have attempted to create Hybrids, bu Duran may be using them for other purposes.

Maybe we should stop speculating and wait....
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Should the Xel'Naga appear, it will likely be in Legacy of the Void. The game will end on a cliffhanger, not something drastic, but something similar to the end of Brood War, where the Zerg were on top, and the Terran and Protoss were beaten down and you weren't quite sure what was going to happen next. The Xel'Naga appear, and the game ends... and a few months later, the Worlds of StarCraft game will appear as a filler until StarCraft 3.

 

I notice Blizzard likes trilogies.
Probably after SCIII, WoS will come out.
The Xel'Naga may not actually APPEAR in the game, except briefly.

 

I have feeling they will already make an appearance in the 1st game of the trilogy. I'm sure you will run into some artifacts or ruins at least.

 

Each DVD will contain 30 missions. 30 missions ! That was the number of missions there were in Brood War, and see the huge metamorphosis there were in the storyline.

I don't want Blizzard to create a fourth playable game for World of Starcraft (if this game even exist in the future). I don't want to be obliged to pay each month my connection to be authorized to see the following of the storyline.

Before Starcraft 3 there will SURELY be an expansion set. That's classic with Blizzard. Maybe with Activision Blizzard there will be other titles, we don't know yet.

 

It would make sense that the Xel Naga appear after the Protoss. My guess would be that protoss will have predicted the arrival of the Xel Naga, but they would not show up until the protoss emerge from the battle.

 

when they do appear in-game they'd probably come with a force like the UED did, but bigger and if you were to fight them it would as new as the introduction of Yuri into C&C (i don't think he's dead, still), so they'd probably come with some badass weaponry or be able to build faster, have a cool ability right? (like the naga in wc3 with their ability to build on the shore in water and to swin in water. (im scared because they'd have almost unstoppable unit groups ((they're like high-tech to the point they made the zerg, and the protoss the terran and protoss don't stand a chance if they're pissed at the first thing they see, lol))). sry for the long post.

 

Yall got this really wrong in a whole bunch of ways

The Zerg were able to destroy vast amounts of the Xel naga fleet when the Overmind became aware of their presence over Char. ( im not reading from manual just blessed with good memory). They were perfecting the Genetic quest if you wanna call it that because they failed with the protoss due to the inevitable rise of their rise of ego. The Protoss also assualted the Xel naga and killed more than the zerg when their " Teachers" left. So if the Xel'naga have reached a point in technology that is near likened to god like powers i hardly see the Xel'naga killing their creations. The Blizzard team has probably already anticipated and this and dont wanna give their main hook and bait away too early because most of leaked trailers and videos featuring foreshadowed Xel'naga return are vague at best.


If you're god wouldnt you rather create than destroy?

 

The Xel'Naga have always been most extrapolated on in the Protoss campaigns. I'd say Legacy of The Void is the most likely candidate for this.

I agree, but the major issue is, "Which one?" The first product has a Protoss minicampaign and I'd be willing to bet the other products will have minicampaigns as well.

No matter what happens; I hope Blizzard won't destroy the mystery of the Xel'Naga. It's that mystery that makes them so fascinating to me. I'd like it to be kept mostly intact.

 

I think TychusFindlay is correct in the sense that the mystery of the Xel' Naga is a subtle but unanimously powerful driving force in starcraft lore

They shouldn't give it away at all. Maybe in Wings of Liberty finish Halo 3 style, maybe a Xel' Naga ship landing or fleet dropping out of ,hyperspace-warp-superludicrousspeed, what have you and then the doors opens and a blinding light surounds a black figure starkly emerging from the ships doors and then......Heart of the Swarm.

 

They've said that the episodes won't end in a cliffhanger so that shouldn't be possible.