Opinions and effectiveness of Medivac?

[Iceman_jkh]

For people who have played the game: how effective/good/bad are Medivacs?

I've only seen a couple of shakey vids, but they didnt look all that great to me.

Few questions:
Does the healing (paladin) beam upgrade as you upgrade weapon tech?
Can you upgrade the healing (paladin) beam at all?
What do you think of the current healing mechanic? (Granted its different to medics, but rather than goin back to medics, if its not as good, how can it be improved?)
How do Terran need to change their playing style to properly utilise Medivacs?

Could Medivac be given any (probably only 1) offensive/misc spells to increase their usefulness?

[Islandsnake]

Medivac is amazing.

Its a dropship, a already heavy used unit and a deadly one at that.

PLUS a super medic.

And you can make 2 at once.


I feel that its in the place it needs to be, also not sure bout the upgrade questions...but I don't think it changes at all

[spychi]

I had an army of: 9 rines 7 rauders 7 ghosts and 4 medivacs were enough for support.
I was unhappy about the medic for some time, but when I actually build some Medivacs my thoughts were clear.

[Caliban113]

Does the heal stack? Can you tell say, 3 Medevacs to focus heal 1 Marine being focus fired upon and get faster heal?

[Triceron]

Well the current problem is medivacs don't heal themselves, so if you target them or hit them with any sort of splash damage, the rest will crumble.

This could be a big lategame concern considering medivacs aren't early tech.

[Iceman_jkh]

Does the heal stack? Can you tell say, 3 Medevacs to focus heal 1 Marine being focus fired upon and get faster heal?

That would be awesome if it stacked. Specially if the Medivac AI was told to autoheal/switch to the most damaged unit in range.

[PsiWarp]

Well the current problem is medivacs don't heal themselves, so if you target them or hit them with any sort of splash damage, the rest will crumble.

This could be a big lategame concern considering medivacs aren't early tech.

The thing's a transport, bring an SCV per Medivac

I don't care if someone's transporting a Thor, bring another!


-Psi

[Rogueleader89]

didn't play with them much, they seemed a bit expensive for healers, and I rarely needed dropships, though I certainly see their uses for infantry drops. I guess my main problem with them then is that you kind of have to reach a "critical mass" number with them to have the same usefulness of medics. It was very hard to go from using medics in the singleplayer demo to medivacs in multiplayer, medics just seem so much more useful to me, you could throw in a few medics without too much trouble, the same really can't be said for medivacs... And yeah.. them not healing each other is certainly another issue worth mentioning.

[Triceron]

It's the convenience of healing vs scv repair. The good thing is they're air units able to dance around the infantry, but no in combat repair while infantry stays topped off means more baby sitting.

[Sheliek]

It's the convenience of healing vs scv repair. The good thing is they're air units able to dance around the infantry, but no in combat repair while infantry stays topped off means more baby sitting.

Would giving an air unit auto-repair for energy be too overpowered a solution?