Starcraft reboot ideas discussion thread

[sandwich_bird]

Well, you're certainly not the first to announce your departure but eventually come back

I'm curious as to how exactly does Zeratul kill the overmind? Seem like you'll have to retcon even more stuff in vanilla to make this work.

[KaiserStratosTygo]

Like I said in the original thread, I like this quite a bit, keep working on it, you've got some good stuff here.

[Gradius]

Agreed. It looks good.

[Nissa]

Interesting. If it every turns into a story, I'll read it, but for the moment it's a bit too generic to critique.

[Visions of Khas]

I'm not sure I like Zeratul and Tassadar trading places. Tassadar's character arc is closed out in The Fall pretty satisfactorily. I also feel that Zeratul should have felt more blowback from his role in the Zerg invasion than he did in SCII. Having him sacrifice himself to kill the Overmind feels too "neat and tidy;" he'd too easily find redemption, rather than having to feel the consequences of his actions. I always imagined there would be a warrant for his arrest.

[Nissa]

But how do you arrest someone for having his mind read by the Overmind? Probably nobody had a clue that was even possible, and given that the Overmind wanted to find Aiur, he probably would have found someone sooner or later to figure out where Aiur is.

Unless Enumerate changes how that happened, of course.

[Visions of Khas]

Sorry, I think I was subconsciously considering his murder of Raszagal too. I just always figured Zeratul would have been met with more blow back.

[KaiserStratosTygo]

I personally like the idea of Tassadar being the de-facto leader of the Protoss later on, perhaps slowly getting them out of their state of total failure.

[Turalyon]

I'm curious as to how exactly does Zeratul kill the overmind? Seem like you'll have to retcon even more stuff in vanilla to make this work.

How would this be a problem? The Overmind is vulnerable to Void powers, so any DT could do the job really. Having Z trade with Tass in the sacrifice role would need some tweaking in that Z would probably be doing it in a less flashy way than what Tassadar did but I think it'd work. Maybe it could be rewritten as Z not doing it as a knowing sacrifice but as a means to gather some more info by interfacing directly with the Overmind one more time but is then subsequently killed by all the Zerg going haywire from the killing blow.

[sandwich_bird]

How would this be a problem? The Overmind is vulnerable to Void powers, so any DT could do the job really. Having Z trade with Tass in the sacrifice role would need some tweaking in that Z would probably be doing it in a less flashy way than what Tassadar did but I think it'd work. Maybe it could be rewritten as Z not doing it as a knowing sacrifice but as a means to gather some more info by interfacing directly with the Overmind one more time but is then subsequently killed by all the Zerg going haywire from the killing blow.

Well it wouldn't work if Z just leeroyed on the overmind with his voide blade. Presumably he would have had to also crash a ship on the Overmind or do something similar. So was he piloting the Gant? Did he have his own ship? What about the fact that tass combined both psi and void energies together? Was that mandatory to kill the overmind or was that just overkill cause it sounds cool?