SearchMore Starcraft 2 units revealed
Posted by Mark "Jiminy" K 3 years ago
PC Gamer magazines’ footage of Starcraft 2 shows off several more Protoss units and abilities.
The gameplay focuses on three new units and the
‘Phase Cannon’
, a new photon cannon variant with the impressive ability to reposition itself within pylon power range. The last segment also has a Reaver in the background, confirming what was hinted at in the artwork trailer. The other units are:Soul Hunter:
A very quick, light hover unit with a beam attack. It’s implied they are strong vs buildings, a group of 12-15 taking down a Terran command centre extremely quickly.
Tempest:
The new look Carrier for toss! They look and function very recognisably, with the added bonus of having hardened shields as well. They still produce interceptor-like units (about 6-8 each in the vid), and top off a huge number of flyers so far for Protoss.
Twilight Archon:
Two Archons tank a large group of Marines/Reapers and use a powerful lightning attack not dissimilar to the original Archons of old. A bunker is ‘locked down’ by a psychic barrier; however this may be a new power of the High Templar standing slightly behind the action.
Thanks also to Ryp for posting the forum thread.
| Links |
| Youtube - New gameplay video |
| Gosugamers - Original forum thread |
| ok the soul hunter is hax, thats not cool and archons kinda look goofy |
| :D wc3 parody |
| PENETRALIA13 w8 for the game with such comments but i think 2 that jungle maps look to similar to those from w3 and the tempest unit are a bit... hm well they look like from some shity cartoon;s rest of the game made on my great impression so i cant wait the moment when it will be relesd |
| tempest? what kind of name is that it is a carrier, then its a carrier, its a carrier |
| 'soul hunter' for a building crasher ? isnt it stupid ? |
| In the part showing the soul hunter it looks like a reaver moving around too. The clip however seems to be too short to see if it fires scarabs or not. |
| why they didn't update the site of www.starcraft2.com? |
| #6 you can see a reaver in the last fight where they show the twilight archon :o |
| replacing old good units with this new shit is stupid : | and tempest is just old carrier with new look -.- |
| i'm not really sure about how valuable a unit that has a direct use of destroying buildings will be that useful. In most games, a player will surrender before losing even as many as 5 buildings... he doesnt need to lose his buildings to know he's lost. So who cares if you can take down buildings quickly? I'd rather have units that counter other units, if you can kill units fast, you shouldn't be worried about buildings |
| To be fair I'd expect the Soul Hunter to be great anti-infantry as well (and possibly robotic), but it's hard to get a guage from the vid so I didn't include that in the article. Even if they they excel primarily against buildings, they make an interesting contrast to Vultures IMO. Also #6 the reaver does fire what looks to be a scarab at a lone reaper thats right in front of it in the last segment. #7 PC Gamer may not have synced up with Blizzard on when their mag would hit shelves. I have also read that the vid may have been an unintended leak anyway, so we'll have to wait and see. |
| why u all expect that sc2 is d2 form..its a freaking 3D, stop whining that all units dont look flat 2d style anymore..boohoo cry babys |
| it looks more and more like wc3. and that suxx |
| "High templar: The high templar is back and he'll bring his powerful psionic storm area attack with him. But he's gotten a handy new power he'll be able to create a force field to trap enemy units temporarily or create barriers. Blizzard testing has revealed some extremely effective bottlenecks tactics using him. The ability to say you can't go there anymore will be very powerful." It was indeed the templar according to the comments of the user who posted the vid : \. |
| yeah, the landscape... omg :( wc4 or what.. damnit |
| you can see some firebat on the drop |
| #13 its not wc3, its a starcraft with 3d ... or u all think 3d = wc3 ROFL.... |
| can't u guys atleast make a starcraft 2 section if u gonna keep posting all update on this game? |
| ITS A FAKE i hope so.. |
| These new units are uncreative. Starcraft 2 seems to just be a big disappointment after we have been waiting for so long. |
| #2, #20 +1 new units and design look shitty :( |
| This units look realy good:) Tempest is te best. |
| hhmm what was up with the phase cannons? can they teleport to a new location now? I didnt get that part. |
| http://bildr.no/view/75884 I think we saw all Protoss units. |
| Starcraft2.com was just updated with the Phoenix, jaj :/ :) |
| relax everyone. none of this may stick when the final version gets done. |
| Unit Tempest named after the semi-pro gamer? :) |
| #27 Of course NOT. |
| fuck that lead designer is gonna make the game looks like C&C with 9990907807 deferent units for a race..to be honest i dont like and that new unit design. and the buildings are shitty , the command center the barraks .. i suspect more.. there is no firebats on the drop those are reapers |
| SC2 SUXX ALL THX ? TT Protoss got turned into "Independance Day" "War of the Worlds" and "Mars Attacks" not to mention they look gay and kinda egyptian. Terrans are Warhammer 40k rines now. Tanks look and sound like shit - like most units. Zeals sound gay, look like faggots in yellow pijamas THX. Zerglings with butterfly wings should be called gaylings TT. GR8 THX to WCIII development team for turning SC into another flashy game for ppl who never had sex - all due to the laws of market - u cant release a sequel with just slight changes coz it wont sell right, you have to change every unit, sound and graphic even tough most of those are epic ? Blizz doesnt care about old fans since whatever the games gonna be, still 9 mln morons will buy it TT. Spimplest example of how Blizz thinks - in SC1 u have cors vs light flyers like mutas - and it works perfectly + it gives u the possiility to micro. Now they introduce the Phoenix - it has some new bullshit Overload ability - whitch eliminates any micro against it. TT But wow, instead u have been introduced to a ALL BRAND NEW PROTOSS UNIT with ALL BRAND NEW SUPER ABILITY Tt - and thats how they keep us all occupied TT. SC1 is almost perfect - you cant improve perfection, but still they will say they did coz everything is BRAND NEW. WC III developement team is good for gay games such as WOW and WC, but SC1 was made by pr0s 4 pr0s, Blizz doesnt even realize how big their challenge is... pr0s at Blizz are long gone - SC2 will suck in Multi. :/ "We made a whole new uberengine with ubergraphics and ubereffects" says Blizz - ah for fucks sake for 10 fucking years ppl chose SC1 with 640x480 2d resolution over all new RTS coz the dont care about the graphics as long its anywhere decent - its the gameplay that counts - and SC1 is a class of its own. THE GRAPHIC IS NOT THE MAIN ISSUE. Ah for christ sake .... I cant even look at what the WC III developement team is doing with my favourite classic ... gg NO RE ... : [[[[[ I love how Blizz justyfies replacing epic units with new ones - "Well after the events of brood war the protoss/zerg/terran where forced to adapt..." - Adapt into what - into gay ??? Coz so far seems so TT Adapting doesnt mean u have to copy stuff from few semi budget shit sf movies Tt Im sorry for this overwhelmingly long comment but since i've saw SC2 first im constantly on drugs, coz i can't bare the reality : [ "Hell... its about time." - yeah, its about time to fire half of the development team before they turn SC2 into a total gayparade with no functionality TT If they don't change their approach to SC2 im announcing jihad against Blizz TT |
| #30 relax -_- |
| #31 No way gay ;o |
| LOL #30, i love you, not coz i agreed with your post but because you're cracking me up right now. Great laugh, loved it ^_^ thx |
| #10 imagine a fucking drop into your base with these soul fuckers, the whole fucking thing would be wiped out in like 12 seconds.you wouldnt even have to kill any units, if the fucking guy cant make anymore anyways yeah stfu with the terrain, it looks fucking fine, how else is a fucking green forest supposed to look like? blue? stfu |
| not to mention the soul fucker looks like silver surfer |
| #30 is right i'm sorry to say so but blizzard f-ed up. |
| U all call urselves SC fans.. u all should be playing tetris... U all that complain r embarrasing the fans community... U should ALL relax.. and enjoy... Its a damn sequel.. it must be NEW.. if U want the same units again.. What's the point of making a DAMN SEQUEL..?! |
| #37 good point. |
| It seems most of people want the same game with same graphic and same units under name SC2. |
| i didn't find any thing that would make me buy sc2... Looks shitty, sounds shitty... #37 Soul hunter is something good??? LOL! Ofc there should be new units but omg, sc2 is like w3 in space, brrr. SC BW is something perfect, sc2 is instant profit... It is world today, we shouldn't stop to play sc bw and scene will be here always. |
| Agree with you all. New abilities are so uninnovative. Destroy buildings fast, shields on heavy attacks - sounds like WC3 armor types. Btw does anyone know the youtube vids of the C&C starcraft2 mod? (it's quite old) Blizz's SC2 Looks ridiculously similar to this. |
| cant say the new abilities are uninnovative, the mothership has fucking wicked abilities, stalkers blink is cool (although thats like the wardens blink). but yeah the armor types do sound a lot like war 3, which is fucking bogus because war 3 is so imba. i hate this fucking chance damage deal you know when your unit does between 20-28 dmg. fucking stupid. it takes the math out of the game |
| gl for finding a unit in the battlefield.. thx blizzard xd |
| we don't need a sequel. there's nothing wrong with starcraft. if you like the game the way it is, why do you love this idea so much? the only thing in starcraft the Really needs improving is the the size of the community, maybe the graphics, which would be more ideally helpable by way of keeping the game the same and setting up good ladders and advertising and more tournaments and shit, we don't need new units. they're pretty much replacing or editing every single one. just because it's the same company, not even consisting of all the same people, just because they want it to be good and they have good intentions and they say it will be good, doesn't mean they're capable. i don't know where your faith comes from, or why you feel the need to have faith. this game is just fine, and if sc2 fails, broodwar should continue on just fine, because it's a great game that hardly requires improvement, assuming that's possible. i hope if the game isn't as good as it's highly expected to be, people will have the good sense to be aware of it and come back to bw so that it doesn't put any dent in the current userbase. |
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