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Well, they look more like they could be from Asmodeus, if you've seen the new trailer. It's too early to speak about an amalgamation of the Prime Three, though that isa popular theory these days, and ties in nicely wit theories linked to the Black Soulstone.Quote:
Originally Posted by ManjiSanji
Diablo spawns from Leah this time, also. You can tell cause birthing hips.Quote:
Originally Posted by Visions of Khas
http://diablo3champion.com/wp-conten...g-Blizzcon.jpg
http://eu.media.blizzard.com/blizzco...-1920x1200.jpg
You can't let this beauty be low res!
I chose my pic cause it cropped out Thrall and Kerrigan who were unneeded for my post.
A video made by Blizzard sometime last year or the year before revealed D's new look. It was an inside look at the cinematic and art departments, and a wip of Diablo was leaked.
I think it could still be Adria, but all signs point to Leah. Can't wait 'til he/she pops out a clutch of eggs. Baby terrors for everybody!
I dont mind bipedal, but I voted no, because I think the warhound as it stands is fairly ugly to me. Reminds me of an SCV on stilts almost, and im hoping they go over the design a bit more before release.
I would go with a revamped version of Goliath or the original Diamondback - Have there been any updates on the units so far? - Anything cut yet?
Seems like the Marauder may not have a spot when all this is done, I think. (?)
Why not? Marauder is definitely great unit, I don't see why It shouldn't stay in the game. If you think that Marauder can be replaced by Warhound, well it has one of the most Important things that Warhound doesn't have, and that is mobility with stim.Quote:
Originally Posted by Caliban113
Don't forget early game availability. If you take Marauders away, Terran players will get screwed early on against Protoss. Marauders are their bread and butter against such heavily armed units. :\Quote:
Originally Posted by RamiZ
Blink stalkers could probably eat marines without marauders (or medivac).
Isn't the battle hellion a thing on two wheels, like from that anime 'ride back'?Quote:
the battle hellion
http://ironhammers.org/wp-content/up...tleHellion.jpg
Oh fuck, yeah okay, that looks ridiculous. There's no reason the hellion should grow like... four sizes when it transforms (or the cockpit should shrink, crushing the driver, and the wheels should inflate like cartoons). Jeeze louise, wtf is that thing, it's horrendous! It's horrible. Oh god. It's like the giant floating, blow-up monkey things that are hung up at used car sale depots.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uhAVIQRB_8...Rideback_1.jpg
The above anime-mech (#101230128381290) is trimmer, but c'mon. the hellion needs wheels on its bottom. It just makes more sense. Maybe it sprouts extra wheels, and becomes top heavy (using the wheels as a balancer; reduces speed, gives it less hp, but it makes it an AoE beast against units that don't equip flame retardent). Maybe it's original form has different wheels that go away.
Ummm, it doesn't?Quote:
Originally Posted by solidsamurai
You can tell it does though.Quote:
Ummm, it doesn't?
http://images.wikia.com/starcraft/im...2_DevRend1.jpg
Which one looks bigger?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcUqvaBNpEg
The above makes no sense. Where did the arms come from?
You are aware the regular hellion has a new model now, right?Quote:
Originally Posted by solidsamurai
No.
Is it bigger, for no reason?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SjL5nf5JkEQuote:
Originally Posted by solidsamurai
I just gave that link. If you weren't dyslexic, you would've noticed that I just gave that....
Okay, I give up.
Clearly, you are too moronic to even know what dyslexic means.Quote:
Originally Posted by solidsamurai
Don't worry, it's not your fault you were born retarded. It's your parents for mixing their genes.
It wasn't the same LINK <.<
Why is blizzard obsessed about Terran having transformers and bipedal machines? And shields?
Why?
Why, indeed. There is only one reason: rule of cool. Plus, it's in keeping with the current brighter and cartoonier take on SC in general.Quote:
Originally Posted by GnaReffotsirk
I have a feeling that "transformer" vehicles should at least have a reason to have those tech spent upon and designed with. Say, a car would transform to a spider like design to allow for traversing difficult terrain.
Bipedal seems inefficient and require a lot more systems than other designs.
And isn't being armored mechanical supposed to be the "shield" in that the vehicle itself is as a whole a "shield" in itself? It seems giving a robot another part to serve as shield is redundant and a waste. Or is it?
Because there's a generation that grew up when Transformers (dis)graced the television screen. Now that they're old enough to be Art Directors and Project Leads, we're going to see a lot more mechs and transformers crammed into our fiction before it gets better.Quote:
Originally Posted by GnaReffotsirk
I agree. The siege tank was a simple and very effective way of demonstrating a need for an alternative, transforming mode.Quote:
Originally Posted by GnaReffotsirk
So it'd be okay if it had more legs? The Goliath works well on two legs. As you said though, "walking" as a mode of vehicular mobility is impractical (would be very easy to knock over given that stability, mobility and weight distribution is solely dependant on the legs making them very obvious weakpoints) and inefficient (would require more energy to move, create more wear and tear and the sophistication of its mechanics would make it a nightmare to repair). If the aim was to cross difficult/uneven terrain then the Terrans can use the anti-grav/hover tech they already possess in the Vulture and Diamondback.Quote:
Originally Posted by GnaReffotsirk
The shield is possibly part of the vehicular form's chassis. In order for it to transform into the walker mode, it probably has to detach part of itself to do so. Since it has nowhere else to put these parts of its chassis, they then become its "shields".Quote:
Originally Posted by GnaReffotsirk
The thing I'm unsure of is whether this transformed form is supposed to have more health because that wouldn't make much sense given that both forms should theoretically have the same mass and armour no matter what configuration.
Yes. Thus my point. Bipedal robots require more system faculties to maintain balance. Slight changes in it's weight distribution along a vertical plain will require subtle adjustments that can be ignored when using say a quadruped design.
Given of course that we must build a machine with limbs and cannot use anti-grav.
Well, actually the goliath's center of gravity appears to hover in between the 'hips'. And the legs are spread apart with a solid axel in between (nothing like a pelvic series of bones for humans). Goliaths basically move like chickens. If it gets knocked over, maybe one of the legs alone is strong enough to spread out, reverse bend at the 'knee', and lift it up.Quote:
(would be very easy to knock over given that stability, mobility and weight distribution is solely dependant on the legs making them very obvious weakpoints)
I have the impression that terran tech doesn't travel across worlds. That's why different tech springs up in the same battle group. Basically, a technology is received and praised by one world, but another world is paying more money for a different tech - and so an entire different product is produced and incorporated into the new military from different worlds. This even affects the 'multinational' corporations.Quote:
If the aim was to cross difficult/uneven terrain then the Terrans can use the anti-grav/hover tech they already possess in the Vulture and Diamondback.
The goliath was produced in Moria for urban fighting (or something), and then confederate investors got excited and bought into it. So any tech from some confederate worlds that could have provided the same function (maybe, I dunno, a hovering tank with long bolt missile turret attached to it and capable of transforming into a thinner and faster ATV thing for getting through the mean streets), was ignored, because the marines had made their budget decision. And then great war rolls around and factories everywhere are producing goliaths instead of long bolt missile tank thingies.
Engineers at World Y don't know understand the principles of anti-grav, simply because their course load didn't include it. While engineers on world X do, but simultaneously don't understand the potential of something else (ie. a way to incorporate reapers and other mercenaries into a commander's mining base without completely jipping). Technology comes together without any middle man - just 'will it make to/through the assembly line?'. Sort of fits the dystopic universe.Quote:
Given of course that we must build a machine with limbs and cannot use anti-grav.
I understand, but I don't think the Korpulu is as huge as the Galactic scope of Starwars for example. Or, is it?