Battle Report #4 is OUT!!!

[Nicol Bolas]

By the way, it's kinda weird that one of the best shows of micro in the game went overlooked by the commentators -- when David Kim plops down a Hellion so the Stalkers will auto-attack it, instead of the Medivac, keeps going with the Medivac, catches up with the Hellion, and 3 Hellions and a Medivac survive.

Yeah, all of David Kim's Medivac micro was pretty damn sexy, but that was the best part.

[Wankey]

So officially, BR4 still isn’t out.

[ArcherofAiur]

Only with Blizzard could I have seen something and still wait for it to come out.

[n00bonicPlague]

The Nukes and Psi Storms were awesome. Most of the game was scouting, skirmishes, and "sneaky shenanigans" — but that last quarter just exploded with huge battles and crazy awesomeness.

[Pandonetho]

lol Browder said for the win.

[Blazur]

Only with Blizzard could I have seen something and still wait for it to come out.

Haha, bravo. Although we've pretty much all been acting in this fashion since the first Protoss demo surfaced on May 19th, 2007.

[TheEconomist]

Was actually hoping, "sneaky shenaniganz" would take off, (and I think Browder did too) but it doesn't look like it's happening.

I didn't even notice he said that. Damn!

Quick everyone, we must turn this into another internet phenomen!

[Kacaier]

I may be out of the loop a bit, so of it may be a dumb question (and so apparent when someone points it out), but I noticed something that I can't account for when the Cybernetics Core finished building.



The first two are obviously Air Attack and Air Armor. And of course the very bottom is to transform Gateways into Warp Gates. However, the one that concerns me is between the two, being the eye. Normally that shows up on units like the Observer to signify it has the passive ability of being a detector. However, that is innate and not required to be upgraded (or so I think).

And I'm not aware that the Stalker or Immortal requires any sight upgrades. Though it is odd that they would use the detector symbol to symbolize the upgrade for sight range, but it might as well be a placeholder.

EDIT: Actually, the two symbols are different (Detection & w/e that is). It might be Blink, but it's got a different symbol.

[Islandsnake]

Blink?

[Kacaier]

Blink?

At first, I was "Aha! That's so obvious!" But continuing to watch, I saw that Browder pointed to the Blink symbol as it was being upgraded. Of course, they could just be mismatched symbols, so Blink is still a high and obvious contender. But I don't want to make assumptions.



This image also has the passive detector icon on the observer. Also, a bit further on, when Blink is finished researching, the Stalker has the exact same symbol for the Blink ability. So, it's highly weird that they would have an eye for the upgrade picture, but look different for it upgrading for the observers and for the finished ability.

EDIT: Further research states that Blink and Hardened Shields are both researched at Twilight Council. So the best bet now is just a range upgrade, most likely for the Stalker. Meh, nothing important there.