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Recently, the official StarCraft 2 website has been updated with four beautiful new screenshots. The images tell stories of epic battles, serving as great reminders that StarCraft 2 is not just a micromanagement fest, but also a game of great wars and battles involving huge armies.
Without further ado:
This screenshot features a bona fide Terran siege, stationed on a cliff overlooking a lightly defended Protoss base. The few Phase Cannons and two Colossi are no match for the devastating fire power the Terran have brought in for this assault.
The next screenshot is all about the Zerg. Although this Protoss base is better positioned to handle an attack and has more weapons in place to defend it, the swarm engulfs it from all sides, leaving little room for the Protoss to maneuver.
This one shows the Terran Defensive Matrix ability for the first time. The Matrix, previously a Science Vessel spell, is now an ability that Battlecrusiers possess – however, it can only be used on themselves. Two other Battlecruisers, which have elected to go with the Yamato Cannon ability instead, are also seen, and the difference between the design of the different Battlecruiser types is visible as well.
Lastly, this beautiful screenshot shows StarCraft 2′s newly discovered quality – the night time scene. In this one, the Terran army is holding a heavily defended choke point against the Zerg attack. Since the attack is not coordinated and the Terran forces are well-positioned, this one isn’t likely to break through.
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The new screen shots are awesome.
but the pheonix is still an eye sore…
I will be thoroughly disappointed if this plane makes it to the beta without ANY improvements… I would prefer to have a corsair or scout back.
and I was thinking for an improvement for the colossus. How about give the colossus a spell attack. cost minerals too with a decent cooldown. But it is essentially a heavy splash attack, you see a lightball charging infront of the colossus and then FOOM it blasts on the enemy with 150 damage with splash. I mean, as big as the colossus, it SHOULD have more things on it’s ‘head’ then just two small thermal lance right?
That sounds incredibly overpowered. Making super strong abilities, even if they cost minerals, is rarely a good idea. Use it effectively once or twice to gain the advantage and then the mineral cost won’t bother you anymore and the other guy is screwed.
@ John Mo
Really, you don’t like the phoenix design? I love it! Also, it has been improved, it looked dramatically different in the original protoss announcement video.
As for your idea of the Collosus having a huge splash damage spell which costs minerals, that would make it a reaver, the very unit it is meant to replace! I think you are really underestimating the power of the Collosus tbh. You should watch that earlier battlereport, and how fast they can take out an opponents economy if their workers are not sent away quickly enough! Sure its easy to kill, but that’s why you have to micro it with shuttles (Warp Prisms).
I think there’s nothing a cool down can’t balance… the idea above is no more than giving the colossus a sacrab from a reaver. just with a different animation and changing from auto target to manual targeting. Properly balanced it be less powerful than bringing the Reaver back. and JUST might be what’s needed.
but if we know blizzard. that won’t happen. -sigh- I should start a support group on the net for ‘people sad about the colossus’, I think I will get a million people in no time.
btw.. on the phoenix being ugly… I happen to second that.
some polish.. can be done there.
The previous battle report was why I thought the colossus utterly sucked. It raided an economy line, with like 20 seconds to do whatever it want with it. and in the time frame… it killed ONE SCV.. ONE…… then a group of 5 maraurders popped the colossus in 4 secs.
And when I gave my idea above, I wasn’t thiking HUGE splash damage.. just yea, like a sacrab, maybe even small radius of damage, just to give the colossus, an unit with impressive animation a bit more fear factor.
The siren towers in the last screen shot seem to be going off. I wonder if this doodad activates whenever enemies come near.
“LAZER” haha!
I think the 2nd screenshot (the one with a lot of Zerglings and Hydralisks) have a new unit. It looks like a worm and hangs at the bottom-right corner, below the Cannons and above the Zerg. Is that a critter?
That;s a doodad… but funny how it looks like a good idea for a zerg unit eh?
yes looks like real but like you said is just a doodad nice pictures i liked batllecruizer new skill like that picture there is a mothership attacking too very nice too and 2 batllecruizers using yamato cannons amazing animation very great job blizzard.
@N00c4nnon:
It’s not so much that I don’t like the Phoenix’s design, it’s more that it’s a completely useless unit.
The unit it’s replacing, the Corsair, had splash damage and the Disruption Web ability. Even so, it was seen only in PvZ match-ups in pro games.
The Phoenix on the other hand, doesn’t even have the Overload ability anymore.
It’s possible that air-to-air warfare will be a bigger part of SC2 than SC1, but right now the Phoenix seems pointless.
I was thinking about the zerg transport idea a while back. Having the nydus worm being shoot out into orbit and crashing down with zerg units… if that same unit is that doodad like thing that can crawl cliffs if not shot out of the nydus buildings.. I think that can work !
I’m not sure I like the battlecruiser having to choose between so many different versions – it could start to get confusing, even though they do have different visuals. Plus, only being able to cast defensive matrix on itself seems quite limited.
I love the visual fx of these shots, though; especially the night-time and the rain. For someone who mainly plays single player and casual matches, these things look very impressive to me.
The Interceptors still look ugly as hell…
“Terran LAZER” = Colossus attack animation
OMG I don’t know how you guys mistaken it for Terran LAZER. O_O
What Terran LAZER?
Sorry, I rushed with the conclusion. Still, the cheesy alt text coupled with the description *could* suggest the screenshot displays a new Terran campaign unit.
Dear God, Strajder, you must be a mighty slow one.
There is a Colossus. Shooting a Laser. In the Picture.
There is a reference to a silly movie in the text.
All of the above went whooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh above your head, and you have concluded that what you are seeing, is indeed, a NEW TERRAN CAMPAIGN UNIT ?
This is the conclusion that your mind has reached upon processing the above information ?
do u guys see a red pylon?
is it being warped in? or is it just me?
Anyone else notice the Thors heavy cannons are different now or is the new art old news?
@20: Yeah I think it’s a pylon being warped in. And the player’s color is red too
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In the 4th screenshot there is a weird building at the bottom-right corner
The “red pylon” is a building being destroyed by the nearby siege tank.