Wow, first time I read this. "In Ressurection IV, a Protoss ship that may be a carrier is seen firing an immensely powerful beam from its underside as a planetary bombardment weapon, burning the surface of Braxis. A Protoss vessel, possibly a Carrier, was also seen in the introduction cinematic for the original Starcraft game, obliterating a Terran salvage vessel with a similar weapon. While such bombardments were used against Chau Sara, Mar Sara and Antiga Prime, it's not clear if Carriers fired upon those planets as well. Rumors indicate that the weapon fired used by the carriers on those instances was planned to be included in the game as a counterpart to the Terran Battlecruiser's Yamato Cannon, but later, this idea was scrapped due to the power given to the Protoss in the form of Psionic Storm."
Think my Korean friend mentioned this once.. a lot of things change while in development, queen used to be able to attack I believe.
sorry, have a habit of saying certain things over and over again when its not neccessary but im sure I had a list with all these changed features somewhere.. maybe I deleted the document tho :S
Also just remembered I had a few pics of oddities in starcraft, not sure if tey were hacks or glitches from old versions, but I remember an SCV mining gas from a Gas Geyser (no refinery or anything) and an archon that was attacking a BattleCruiser while under stasis field EDIT: Deleted pics/documents, if I find my korean friend online I'll see if he still has them and post them up ASAP
The Carrier's super gun was removed. But in SC2 the carrier is removed altogether. And apparently as far as we currently know the mothership is the only replacement, so it's a very good counter for yamato.
