Re: Colossus Revealed at official StarCraft 2 website

[goliath]

ahh finnalyyy they have givrn info on it!

[drewcbarnard]

I'm sorry. but that thing is suik....mad props to the designers...Steven Speilberg watch out!

[Inside Sin]

I can see this is going to be a great succesful unit for defence, and offense of course.

[Piretes]

Love this unit, can't wait for the extra tactical options.. But I'd like to bring something else up: did any of you see the double ledge there, in the animation for the sounds? Looks like a nice terrain feauture. Please check it out.

[zeratul11]

this (collosus) is the most exciting new unit so far. the collosus excite me more than the mothership. 8)

[for-glory]

so the Colossus will only be able to attack ground units?

[FlyingTiger]

so the Colossus will only be able to attack ground units?


Yes, it looks liek this is the case. Which is kinda stupid as the ones standing on cliffs look like they should be high enough to attack anything!!


eh it depends on your perception in how high the air units go. It could go higher than the colossus' beam. Plus they beams could be pointed downward only.

[paragon]

so the Colossus will only be able to attack ground units?


Yes, it looks liek this is the case. Which is kinda stupid as the ones standing on cliffs look like they should be high enough to attack anything!!


eh it depends on your perception in how high the air units go. It could go higher than the colossus' beam. Plus they beams could be pointed downward only.

All that technology and they can't make a motor that turns the beam upwards? Nice...

[drewcbarnard]

Maybe they will eventually include an upgrade for it to have missles that attack air. But yeah, it is pretty ridiculous for it to not have any type of air attack ability for it's size. All of that machinery is nothing if the enemy comes at you with a bunch of air units.

Congrats on the 1000th post by the way paragon :good:

[paragon]

I guess the poor people they slaughtered didnt have any airships so they didn't need to attack air when it was first designed. Also, balance.

[zeratul11]

I guess the poor people they slaughtered didnt have any airships so they didn't need to attack air when it was first designed. Also, balance.


1000 post already. wow. good job. anyway i always knew you were the chosen one. a prodigy. hey beat _______ for me. and for your 1000 post here take this gift :powerup:

maybe they should put some tentacles to it too. war of the worlds copy cat.

[paragon]

Well I imagine there will be a War of the Worlds map just because of this unit. Probably will just be a gimmick map too... and therefore be bad.

[zeratul11]

and what would the war of the world map looks like? what part in the movie. you mean the land filled with fertilized human bloods?.. now thats awesome. an all out war would look cool on that setting.

i hope they will have a collosus in one of their cinematics in starcraft 2 with a tom cruise look alike cameo on it by the way.

[paragon]

and what would the war of the world map looks like? what part in the movie. you mean the land filled with fertilized human bloods?.. now thats awesome. an all out war would look cool on that setting.

i hope they will have a collosus in one of their cinematics in starcraft 2 with a tom cruise look alike cameo on it by the way.

I was actually thinking of the classic war of the worlds movie because that one was actually good (7.2 on IMDb)

[zeratul11]

I was actually thinking of the classic war of the worlds movie because that one was actually good (7.2 on IMDb)


never saw that one. ok i'll search about it. thanks. i just love new informations.

[[LightMare]]

i have an idea. just let senator post the news. instead of other people, because it's annoying having 2 of the same threads.

[paragon]

i have an idea. just let senator post the news. instead of other people, because it's annoying having 2 of the same threads.

Well the other one was up a day or so before.

[Shockwave]

Looks awesome...

Seeing has the game has to be balanced for all three races... what in Terran and Zerg will be their answer to this?

[paragon]

Terran - lockdown
Zerg - mutalisks or some other air

[burkid]

Terran - lockdown
Zerg - mutalisks or some other air

or scourge. do 70 more damage than banelings if they are still in and unchanged (doubtable)

[paragon]

Ah i hadn't thought about scourge. That would be a deadly thing against colossus indeed because they are slow and cant hit air. Only other air thing that can't hit air being the guardian.

[paragon]

Banelings are pretty slow. I think scourge are faster.

[burkid]

Banelings are pretty slow. I think scourge are faster.

yeah scourge are pretty fast.

Ah i hadn't thought about scourge. That would be a deadly thing against colossus indeed because they are slow and cant hit air. Only other air thing that can't hit air being the guardian.

i wanna see a guardian kill a colossus, and when it does, it shoots off one of the legs and the whole thing crashed... that would be cool.

[paragon]

i wanna see a guardian kill a colossus, and when it does, it shoots off one of the legs and the whole thing crashed... that would be cool.

That would be pretty cool. They've already got the different deaths for when marines are killed by zealots so maybe they will do it.

[burkid]

i wanna see a guardian kill a colossus, and when it does, it shoots off one of the legs and the whole thing crashed... that would be cool.

That would be pretty cool. They've already got the different deaths for when marines are killed by zealots so maybe they will do it.

well its like, what else are ground only attacking units going to hit? imo its the only death that makes sense from them.

[generalrievous]

ya the death animation for tha colossus is teh pwn

[paragon]

I hope they have different death animations for different attacks. Like in warcraft three they had regular deaths and explosion deaths from siege. But in this they could really take the idea and run with it.

[burkid]

I hope they have different death animations for different attacks. Like in warcraft three they had regular deaths and explosion deaths from siege. But in this they could really take the idea and run with it.

like the hydra, rather than splitting from every attack, it could kinda writhe and coil up from a marine or ghost or stalker, but they get cleaved in half by a zealot or tempest.

[paragon]

And if a tank gets destroyed by acid it could start melting then explode rather then just exploding as if were hit by another tank.

[burkid]

And if a tank gets destroyed by acid it could start melting then explode rather then just exploding as if were hit by another tank.

i like that one.
if a tempest (or any other capital ship) gets killed by scourge, it should have explosions all around the hull and crash to the ground.

[paragon]

i like that one.
if a tempest (or any other capital ship) gets killed by scourge, it should have explosions all around the hull and crash to the ground.

Kinda like when the gantrithor crashed except without the psi energy going around it.

[burkid]

i like that one.
if a tempest (or any other capital ship) gets killed by scourge, it should have explosions all around the hull and crash to the ground.

Kinda like when the gantrithor crashed except without the psi energy going around it.

that or the video of duke crashing the norad II

[paragon]

as long as they don't damage anything on the ground and are purely cosmetic details.

[burkid]

as long as they don't damage anything on the ground and are purely cosmetic details.

oh, of course
except it would be cool to se a tempest crash into a swarm of zerglings and crush half of them.

[generalrievous]

aye they should have calatrial damage for the debri

[paragon]

collateral damage*

and no, that would be very imbalanced.

[burkid]

collateral damage*

and no, that would be very imbalanced.

they should have something like that in a cinematic, but not the game.

[paragon]

Oh I hope they have lots of cinematics with a lot more in game units than they had before because they will be crazy good.

[[LightMare]]

i thought colossus might be able to talk, but their sounds are somewhat a bit similar to the probes =]

[paragon]

i thought colossus might be able to talk, but their sounds are somewhat a bit similar to the probes =]

Well it's a robot just like the probe is, it's just bigger and built for war. Not much of a conversationalist really.

[drewcbarnard]

If he did say much though, what would it possibly be?

[drewcbarnard]

Oh I hope they have lots of cinematics with a lot more in game units than they had before because they will be crazy good.


I was re-playing SC the other day and my eyes hurt the graphics were so old. Still brought back those good old memories though....

[paragon]

Yeah I just looked at the StarCraft cinematics on youtube and they looked a lot worse than I remember

[Tym29]

Yeah I just looked at the StarCraft cinematics on youtube and they looked a lot worse than I remember


Yeah, i was surpirsed too when i re-watched them the other day. Do you remeber how cool they were when they first came out though? They looked awesome! Things have changed so much.

[paragon]

Yeah that was cutting edge as far as I knew. I didn't really play video games before starcraft came out except for sim city 2000 and sim tower. Now this is cutting edge... imagine what it'll look like in 10 more years.

[burkid]

except, in 10 years, 5million polygons is probably still gonna be a lot

[paragon]

i doubt it. try 5 billion.

[burkid]

ooo... i dont think my computer would be able to handle that...

[paragon]

Well it won't have to, their super rendering computers will do that for the cinematics. But your new computer will be able to handle whatever StarCraft 3 will have.

[burkid]

haha its gonna be a while before i get a new comp. we got 2 and a laptop in the past year.

[paragon]

I think in 10 years I will still have the shell of my alienware but everything inside of it will be completely different.

[Tym29]

Nice! What kind of Alienware do you have? Those are some sweet machines....

[paragon]

It's not the newest case but the one right before that one came out. It's black with blue lights. There are 10 fans inside of it and if you put your hand behind it the air is quite cool. Other computers that my friends have have like 1-3 fans and run pretty hot which is very bad for the computer's internals.

Like this except blue lights instead of red:
http://www.flightsim.com/review/mega3/Space_Black_playsbest-300%20copy.jpg
And my mouse is a logitech MX518 instead of that one.

[[LightMare]]

rather get a mac:
http://www.mp3-music-player.com/news/05_05/images/Apple_iMac_g5.jpg
with:
http://www.ulva.com/images/natural-keyboard-4000-400x400.jpg
and this:
http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000HCT12O.01._SS400_SCLZZZZZZZ_V40457704_.jpg

[Tym29]

Actually this year I sold my alienware area 51m for MacbookPro and I've been very pleased with the trade. Being able to run osX and Xp is so nice. Made the switch easy.

[paragon]

I hate macs a lot.

[generalrievous]

I use to have a mac seemed good but back then there were no games at all for it soo it sucked lol

[paragon]

i dont even play a lot of games (i haven't played any in about a month) and still hate macs

[Tym29]

I hate macs a lot.

I used to feel that way too... then I got a great deal on one and comparing specs back to back with any other pc and I was saving $ so I bought one thinking I’d only ever run it with windows then OSX just grew on me and now I hardly ever use the Pc side unless I have a 3d model to make/ render. There are still more programs for PCs. OSX is just so much more stable and has less security problems etc. than windows. Unix rocks. I've been in both camps there are advantages to both. Being able to run both systems is just too cool.

[paragon]

I hate the user interface. I hate not being able to run most programs. I hate those stupid graphics that occur whenever you open/close something. I WANT THE WINDOW GONE I don't want it to fly around doing flips and ****

[Lemmy]

Colossus should be able to shoot at 2 small units at the same time, at one w each of its lasers. Or focus both on a large units or a structure.

[Tym29]

The folder settings can be changed in the preferences. Some people like the folders to do weird crap but I just like being able to run whatever OS I want on one machine. Saves me lots of time. Some programs run better on a Mac like all adobe products. Some run better on Pc so I’ve got both. :thumbup:

[Protosscommander]

ya im agreed colossus are really realy great and they are so powerful agianst small units.........