StarCraft II Artwork Thread

[DemolitionSquid]

I thought both sizes were canon.

Only the 50 HP, 16 concussive damage Firebats are canon until SC2 is released.

Unless there is evidence against that in a published book.

[n00bonicPlague]

Original Firebat concept for Starcraft 1

Artist — Samwise

Year — 1997

[Zero]

Only the 50 HP, 16 concussive damage Firebats are canon until SC2 is released.

Unless there is evidence against that in a published book.

True, but seeing as how the newer Firebat has survived since the single-player was first shown to people outside Blizzard til now, I'm pretty sure the new, bigger Firebats will remain. When you talk with the Hyperion's chief engineer, Swann, after obtaining the Firebat in the single-player, he tells Raynor how this Firebat model is a newer, bigger, and more heavily armored combat suit in comparison to the earlier model, the one you see in SC/BW.

[DemolitionSquid]

True, but seeing as how the newer Firebat has survived since the single-player was first shown to people outside Blizzard til now, I'm pretty sure the new, bigger Firebats will remain. When you talk with the Hyperion's chief engineer, Swann, after obtaining the Firebat in the single-player, he tells Raynor how this Firebat model is a newer, bigger, and more heavily armored combat suit in comparison to the earlier model, the one you see in SC/BW.

Nothing is canon until it is shipped.

[Zero]

I didn't disagree with you. Thus why I said "True". I'm only saying that based off of what we've seen thus far, it'll most likely remain.

[mr. peasant]

Nothing is canon until it is shipped.

In that case, does this mean you do not consider characters such as Rory Swann, Ariel Hanson, Gabriel Tosh and Tychus Findlay as canon since they have yet to make an appearance in any released products?

[DemolitionSquid]

In that case, does this mean you do not consider characters such as Rory Swann, Ariel Hanson, Gabriel Tosh and Tychus Findlay as canon since they have yet to make an appearance in any released products?

You bet your ass.

[electricmole]

but i bet blizzard wants a bigger firebat now in sc2 thats why they made the concept art and actually included in it the single player. good decision there.

[Kimera757]

Also, they have to make the suit bigger so the higher hit points make sense.

(If you look carefully at one of the HD Wings of Liberty videos, you can see the firebat has 125 hit points. The marauder had 120 hp at BlizzCon 2009.)

[mr. peasant]

You bet your ass.

What is the magic behind the actual release when the content in question is already well established? Are you afraid that Blizzard might suddenly decide to cancel the game? To date, Blizzard's done this twice (Warcraft Adventures and SC: Nova) yet both games remained canon as far as Blizzard was concerned.