LotV Data Hidden in Patch

[Alex06]

As you wish. There's also the Cyclone, but that's it and we've seen that in previews.

Care to reupload this pic? Looks like it went down for using too much bandwith. x)

[Drake Clawfang]

Hang on, I'll make a full master image of all of it.

Also for fun, included the Nullifier, the prototype Sentry during beta.

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[Sheliek]

Hang on, I'll make a full master image of all of it.

I'll make a backup for ya once it's up, just in case.

[Drake Clawfang]

As I work on Kerrigan's AC abilities for the Wiki... the devs were really lazy with her. Almost half of Kerrigan's AC abilities are upgrades for her personally, and most of them are ripped right from HotS - Leaping Strike, Fury, Psionic Shift, a variant of Crushing Grip, Malignant Creep, and two separate abilities that power up Leaping Strike and increase her energy regen. Everything else is an "Unlock new unit/upgrades" thing. The only new abilities she has are Assimilation Aura, which is an activated ability that causes killed enemies to drop resources for a short time, and Mutating Carapace, which gives her temporary HP buffs as she attacks.

Looking at it all, not only did they just recycle her HotS abilities for AC and then tack on some "unlock new unit" stuff, but they didn't even pick good/fun ones - Leaping Strike and Psionic Shift suck, Malignant Creep is meh, the Crushing Grip stun is meh, and the passive power-ups are boring. Where's Apocalypse? No Improved Overlords or Automated Extractors? I've even give her Chain Lightning and Infest Broodlings. Zagara got all the fun stuff, Spawn Banelings, Mass Frenzy (her take on Wild Mutation), drop pods.

[Sheliek]

Hey now. Malignant creep is great in certain contexts. They weren't gonna completely redo her abilities for this, obviously. Still, a little better choice wouldn't have hurt. Ah well, at least aberrations finally get the upgrades I've been lusting after if you choose Zagara.

[Drake Clawfang]

I was actually hoping we might get some of her original abilities back that were gonna feature in her Battle Focus mechanics, where you chose between different locked skillsets.

[Drake Clawfang]

One more thing to share, dunno if this has ever been noticed - the old Nomad had a portrait done, and its portrait textures have a funny thing in them.

[Drake Clawfang]

Found this model in the editor. Spoiler tagged it: it's visible in the trailers, but isn't immediately obvious.

Hidden Content:

So yeah, Artie's nerve cords are severed (another model has them intact) and he has Zeratul's gauntlet. He's turning to the dark side.

[The_Blade]

Holy fucking shit!

Spoiler:

Hidden Content:

Zeratul dies when he fights Artanis after the Khala Protoss go insane!

[Undeadprotoss]

Holy fucking shit!

Spoiler:

Hidden Content:

Zeratul dies when he fights Artanis after the Khala Protoss go insane!

FUCK ME, WHY DO I ALWAYS HAVE TO CLICK ON SPOILERS.


Also wait how do we know that for sure?