Can anyone tell me where this info is from and if it's canon or not?

[Pandonetho]

Ok wtf? Flying vultures? What the hell?

[Shadow Archon]

Ok wtf? Flying vultures? What the hell?

Okay, since thats canon, than 120 mph Goliaths are that far fetched.......

[Norfindel]

You don't even need to consider physics, a mecha that runs at 120mph on two legs isn't likely to be very nice to pilot (jumping, vomiting, you get the idea).

Sure do
Here:
Vultures
More Vultures
Even more of them
They are everywhere!
Nooooooo...last one

God, that's retarded. Why the hell do they call them hoverbikes?

[Kimera757]

And in Heaven's Devils (the preview) they don't fly.

Oh, this is rich. Info from that Palladium site, on the creep colony: "The tentacle has a range of 6 miles (9.7 km)".

Ohkay...

[Visions of Khas]

Oh, this is rich. Info from that Palladium site, on the creep colony: "The tentacle has a range of 6 miles (9.7 km)".

Ohkay...

I see your ridiculous tentacle range and raise you a flying dragoon:

- Atmospheric Propulsion: Maximum cruise speed is 93.2 mph (150 km/h), with a maximum ceiling of 2000’ (610 m). The Dragon can only fly for two minutes before the engines need to cool down for five minutes.
- Sublight: The cyborg is not really designed for sublight travel, but it can accelerate at a rate of 5 miles per second (8 km/s).

[PhanttoM]

Also... The cheetah runs at half of the supposed goliath speed, I am sure fine tuned hydraulics and a superbs sensory system can push the goliath up in quite the impressive speeds.
The jump 3 meters high should be doable... we have 4 legged robots that can jump almost half that hight with todays technology:
Meet: Big Dog
SC is afer all 200 years in the future.

The jumps are more credible as they are a downward force pushing it up, ie. opposite direction - the kinetics for running are different.
A cheetah has 4 legs for better traction. Closest animal to the goliath would be the ostrich, which runs up to 45 mph.

But all the technical believabilityaside, anyone played Earthsiege 2 or Starsiege? Mechs in that game had a turbo add-on, but it looked horrificly stupid seeing a mech run at even only 150 kph, because it begins bobbing up and down as if it has serious spasms.
Which brings us to the points Norfindel mentioned...lol

[Norfindel]

I see your ridiculous tentacle range and raise you a flying dragoon:

8 km/s ??? Why they let junkies write specs?
At that speed, a crashing Dragoon could destroy an entire enemy base... probably more.

[Sheliek]

Okay, since thats canon, than 120 mph Goliaths are that far fetched.......

Since it's canon, I think it should appear in the campaign as an upgrade or something. Anti-infantry air scouts would be a nice niche, I think.

[Kimera757]

Since it's canon, I think it should appear in the campaign as an upgrade or something. Anti-infantry air scouts would be a nice niche, I think.

In Fear the Reaper, reapers temporarily become air units (and can shoot while "flying"). Very much unlike the game. They can also throw their charges from mid-air. Scary.

[Shadow Archon]

You don't even need to consider physics, a mecha that runs at 120mph on two legs isn't likely to be very nice to pilot (jumping, vomiting, you get the idea).

Inertial dampeners could take care of that. Terrans should have at least some form of it.