New units in singleplayer mode and in world editor !

[ElemenT]

Hey,

It's the end of NDA so I can write what I'v discovered during the play in singleplayer mode.

After the game crashed (like 5 times during the whole press day) I switched to skirmish mode and suddenly on the build list
I had those units (and also in help mode):

Medic - we know this very well,
Firebat - also very well known but with orginal sounds from sc1,
Spectre - new unit similar to Ghost - can cast lockdown, nuke, halucination (zerglings, hydralisk, mutalisk),
Grenadier - new unit - he throws grenades and are really effective against groups of zergs
Vulture - with great animation of spider mines - orginal sounds from sc1,
Goliath - orginal sounds from sc1
DiamondBack - its a hovercraft that can attack while moving - like Cobra but the model is different
Wraith - also with Cloak
Hercules - really biigggg flaying transporter - you can put there your whole army and there is space left

And ofcourse my favorite new building:

Tech-Reactor - a mix of reactor features and tech lab, so you can build like 2 units in the same time and have all of them unlocked in barracks, starport or factory

Source: http://www.starcraft2.net.pl/portal/...gleplayer.html

[MattII]

Sounds interesting. I wonder about the Firebat, are we getting a SC1 tech (ie, Barracks + Academy/Tech Lab) model or the 'old' (ie, Factory produced) one?

[Sheliek]

Did you, or anyone else who was there, play skirmish as the Zerg or Protoss? If so, can we get any info on their new units?

The moment I read 'Diamondback' in the article, I thought 'Oh, they renamed the Cobra?' I think it is a much better name.

[ManjiSanji]

It'd be interesting to get some screenshots of these new, single-player only units, but I get the impression that there aren't any.

[spychi]

Damn dude, you have an account here? I didn't knew that... nice heh.

[ElemenT]

yep, firebat requires factory

and to the question about zerg or protoss - this races was the same like in multi
so no new units there

and a diamondback is old cobra with upgraded cobra model

[Raisk]

So you played the single player then? I was just watching the single player video for the second time and on that lava rising map I noticed there's these little bugs that scurry up to the terran base and burrow. Can you tell us if these are zerg units or some sort of critters?

[Aldrius]

So you played the single player then? I was just watching the single player video for the second time and on that lava rising map I noticed there's these little bugs that scurry up to the terran base and burrow. Can you tell us if these are zerg units or some sort of critters?

They're critters, lava crabs apparently.

[ElemenT]

to the first question - iv played sc2 single for 5-6 hours
and to the second question :

those are critters, and they are quite cool, always in group

[Perfecttear]

ElemenT are you shure about this units, i havent found anything more on any other site about this.
And when i asked The SC2Armory Admin about this, i got this response:

Um honestly, where the fuck did he hear those? Because I did not hear one single thing about any of that.

I asked even more, showing this thread.

Rofl wtf? I played Skirmish for like 3 hours, still no idea what they are talking about.