Re: Starcraft 2 forum .org presents HD screenshots and video of new leaked units!

[PowerkickasS]

yay yummy!

[gr3ykn1ght]

wow. you guys are good. where do you go to find all these stuff? man, the admins are DAMN resourceful... wow...

[generalrievous]

great stuff all except tha soul hunter which I dont like

[paragon]

From these new HD screens it looks like a High Templar was responsible for freezing the bunker. All other units are busy at that moment and the High Templar below the Tempest is facing that bunker when it happens. Perhaps if the Arbiter is indeed gone, the High Templars took the Stasis Field power thing from it considering it was their ship.

Also, there appears to be gold colored minerals near a vespene geyser in the screen with just the Tempests in it (tempest screenshot 1)

[Associate]

thanks for the files I'll try to download them right away.

in reply to the image above, I think those are special type of minerals that gives additional resources. just an idea though

[iriasu]

I like almost all units except that soul hunters.their looks are like my 6 year's brother's plastic games :powerdown:.
as it comes to the others temtest seems ok.But those phase cannons are kind of just GREAT!!!
Now all we need to see is those zerg units ::).

[Zeratul]

One reason why I imagine I'll b on sc2forums for a long time is the things ppl find ^_^.
Gold minerals.. don't think they'll add another type of resource. Maybe a faster gathering mineral area though?

[Associate]

I like almost all units except that soul hunters.their looks are like my 6 year's brother's plastic games

they also appear to be somewhat overpowered, a fast unit with an extreme rapid fire weapon, they need some serious reconfiguration

[Mauer]

How about the Reaver-like thing in the last scene?(Just to the right of the Tempest) My immediate thought is that its too small compared to the classic thing. But Im glad Blizzard are considering this unit - a real favorite from the original game.
http://www.starcraft2forum.org/gallery/10_14_06_07_7_32_43.jpg

[Associate]

perhaps blizzard is revamping most protoss units and giving them a relatively different appearance from the original sc with additional abilities and upgrades

[zeratul11]

thanks a lot. im downloading it now.

[10-Neon]

Another version? Oh great, I get to wet myself all over again.

[mc2]

Great video! I like it :D

[zeratul11]

i dont like the soul hunter, they are skating, they are big, and looks like they are too strong for a ground unit, and they dont look good when skating in groups. this is not creative.

[Tarantulo]

Yup sould hunters look really kinda of the game... It might be old SC taking, but hey in SC we didnt had any land hovering unit :)

But if Blizz says it is OK, then is suppose it is :)

And guys youve could uploaded video yo a better site, I am only getting 40 KBps... And I am downloading it second time. www.rapidshare.com is one the more popular sites.

[Tarantulo]

Really? I d/led at over 100kb/s, maybe it's saturated now. I'll upload it to rapidshare and put a link here. Might take a while though, my upload is capped at 20kb/s


I suppose it may depend on country you live in. Anyway.

Great quality, I LOVE HD video :D

I uplodead it to Rapidshare, add the link to main post that ppl could choose:

Mirror - http://rapidshare.com/files/37508428/Sc2HD_sc2.wmv.html

[Gold]

i think they should make te platforms smaller, have like to little thrusters underneath there feet, bot a surf board, anyone else notcie that they have tentacles on thier face, maybe these are hybrids?

[Gold]

soul hunter, there two silly, and they dont look nice in a group

[Associate]

I'm having problems with the first download link, maybe I'll try the other mirrors thanks for setting them up hope they'll work for me

[mc2]

For those who always complain that the siege tanks looks weak and fake, well there's some good news for you. The protoss's reaver looks even weaker now with it's catapillar shape and features. And the tempest, which is meant to replace carriers looks like a mouse. So don't worry guys, lots of units look cheap and fake in SC2 :P

[wuffle]

I like almost all units except that soul hunters.their looks are like my 6 year's brother's plastic games

they also appear to be somewhat overpowered, a fast unit with an extreme rapid fire weapon, they need some serious reconfiguration


Why is that? They attack fast? Look, just because they are fast doesn't make them need reconfiguration. Think about cost and vunerability. These units appear to be weak. The only reason they did so well in the video is that they were massed. They arent going to cost the same as a zergling either =P.

[Associate]

I just tested the first link it works fine... you have to select "free" if you are not a premium member.

thanks man I just finished my download and the video looks great

anyway I noticed something different about this templar/archon ability that was used against a terran bunker seen in this video, while the bunker appears to be under a stasis field like spell, you can still see them firing against enemy stalkers which means that the structure's attack function was not affected at all. I wonder what effect this mysterious spell truly does

[kingstuart]

It seems to me that this leaked stuff is quite possibly part of there development process, and is very unlikely to be anywhere near what the final units will be. Firstly the Phase Cannons look wrong, in the video they just sit there where as they normally drop down and pop up only to fire. This might be because they have genuinely changed the Phase Cannons but more likely it was a simpler model they used to start play testing before the programmers had finished the final model. Also as people have mentioned the names do seem a bit, well, bland. which also suggests they might have just been working names. Thirdly the Soul Hunter does look a bit unimaginative, many games have floating platform based units. Too me this seems to suggest that this video was just made as part of the development process and was not ment to be seen by the public. I'm sure Blizzard won't release the game with these sort of problems.


Okay... moving cannons?? Look at the range on thos things too!!!

Cannon rushes are gonna be so annyoing now. This isn't looking good...


cannon rushes?? you did see how slowly they move! it would be more of a rush to just send Probe's to there base and build connons and pylons there seeing as you'd have to build a pylon anyway.

[Light]

its obvious it would look like this, i mean, it looks like shakuras and dark templar tech...its so weak! u can just see it getting destryed by 1 yamato cannon and by 1 AA tower, lol.

its funny how the changed the 'photon' cannon to 'phase' cannon... well, its true, 'photons' are just particles of light...they dont kill stuff...

[paragon]

Photon Cannon is a completely different thing and still in the game. The gameplay video has photon cannons, the leaked video has phase cannons.

[bleuchill]

An upgrade I guess of the photon cannons? Or maybe you initially build a cannon "dock" and you choose to upgrade it to either photon or phase cannon. *shrug*

[gr3ykn1ght]

Photon Cannon is a completely different thing and still in the game. The gameplay video has photon cannons, the leaked video has phase cannons.


but who knows? the leaked video came in AFTER the gameplay video, you never know whether blizzard is replacing the photon cannons totally. also, the phase cannons seriously look as if they'll replace the photon cannons. at least that's what i think.

[paragon]

Every other race has more than one defensive building. And having the mobile cannon right off the bat might not be the best thing to do.

[Light]

hm...can they really move building or, i think i read somwhere about the new toss ability of building anywhere on the psi field where they choose without a probe or something, maybe it was that....maybe im whack but it didnt look like they were moving, more like buildding like i said. odd. btw, i havent seen the HD vers..

[paragon]

No, you need a probe to build something still. Phase Cannons go out of phase or whatever and move to a new location.

[madaaa1]

The video look so hawt. I guess carriers and archon got new looks?

[paragon]

supposibly
There may be more archons, there may just be the one.

[gr3ykn1ght]

No, you need a probe to build something still. Phase Cannons go out of phase or whatever and move to a new location.


anyway, would like to clarify one thing, cos i heard that you CAN build units anywhere in the pylon field, just that if the pylon blows up, you lose your unit and the cost of building it. you're right about the phase cannons though, they do go in phae mode, and they move around in that mode. i don't think they can attack in that mode though.


Every other race has more than one defensive building. And having the mobile cannon right off the bat might not be the best thing to do.


every other race in starcraft has TWO defensive buildings, only because they have different capabilities. zerg has the spore colony and sunken colony, one for anti air, the other anti ground. terran have missile turrets and bunkers, both are anti-air, only the bunker is anti-ground... but the missile turret is a detector, they need to have a detector as base defences. protoss, however, have the only one photon cannons because they're already anti-air and anti-ground, and they're detectors. who needs the extra phase cannon? i'd rather they replace the entire thing.

anyway, in wc3 nightelves also only have one base defence, the ancient protector. who's to stop blizzard giving the protoss only one multi-purpose base defence? after all, the closest resemblance in wc3 to the protoss are the nightelves.

[Frost]

I really hope they don't implement those gold Minerals as anything more then a doodad/increased mineral resource, having another thing to mine for certain units in this game would be really stupid

[burkid]

with the phase cannons, if they are in phase mode and the pylon is destroyed, the cannons are too

[Ishe]

Im not going to make to many judgements yet the game will change a lot before it comes out. im just downloading the video now.

Alls im going to say is blizzard havnt made a let down yet and i no this wont be 1 considering its not even finshed yet its looke awesome already. Its only going to get better and things will only improve.

I just hope they dont change the basic elements of the orginal to much because thats what made SC the best.

[Gah345]

burkid, what is phase mode ?

[Nikzad]

it is when the phase cannons can move within the range of a pylon and look like a little warping ball

if the pylon that is powering it is destroyed when it is in phase mode, it will die, however


or be lost...whatever

[burkid]

@ gah, what nikzad said. the phase mode is when the phase cannons turn into the balls of energy so they can move. if they leave pylon power or the pylon that is powering them is destroyed, the phasing cannons are lost.

[Gah345]

That could be a useful choke point strategy...depending on how long it takes to go between modes, you could block a choke point or ramp completely and when you want to allow units throught, put them into phase mode and move them outa the way! Then move them back we'll see

[im a roc]

That could be a useful choke point strategy...depending on how long it takes to go between modes, you could block a choke point or ramp completely and when you want to allow units throught, put them into phase mode and move them outa the way! Then move them back we'll see


Same things with terrans and their hideable subbly depots. Look at this pic that uses that stratagey:
http://www.multiplayer.it/show.php?id=18744&img=36

[Gah345]

hey what is that shield like blue blurr over the left most bunker. in that pic????

I hope terran bunkers dont have shields, shields are protoss

it would be like giving zergs guns

[burkid]

i think thats from an immortals attack, just the effect of the bunker getting hit. it isnt shields.

[Gah345]

okay thats good, because it looks like it kinda follows the contour of the bunker as though it were a shield

nvm

[GrahamTastic]

you could block a choke point or ramp completely and when you want to allow units throught, put them into phase mode and move them outa the way! Then move them back we'll see

Yes, sort of like the Terran Supply Depots. I wonder if the Zerg will have moving defense/wall buildings. That would be interesting to know...

[WuHT]

The zerg's buildings are alive! (mutated drone). Wouldn't be surprised if they would ooze towards a destination.


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[venado]

Now that is confirmed (at the moment) that reaver wont be in SC2, maybe it still as a unit in the map editor