StarCraft II Q&A Batch 51

[Nicol Bolas]

Not throwing, but like in the original SC; shooting.

It looked like throwing to me. It waved its arm and a projectile launched.

According to the lore on the Hydralisk, it uses muscles to fire spines. There is a sea creature (I don't recall the name) that can essentially "fire" a ram at near-bullet velocities with muscular movements. But the ram is still attacked to the body; it doesn't break off. So the question of "throwing" really doesn't limit the velocity of the attack.

I find the Hydras attack submissive and ridiculous. How are we supposed to believe a normal speed traveling arrow can penetrate armor ?

How can you believe that a Zergling can scratch armor with its arms? Or that the Glave Worm thrown from a Mutalisk can damage a BattleCrusier?

It's StarCraft; it doesn't have to make sense.

melt it down

Right, because Hydralisks naturally produce spines that will melt and be molded into different shapes, rather than what happens to most life-produced materials when you put fire to them (chemically react and become something else).

[DemolitionSquid]

According to the lore on the Hydralisk, it uses muscles to fire spines. There is a sea creature (I don't recall the name) that can essentially "fire" a ram at near-bullet velocities with muscular movements. But the ram is still attacked to the body; it doesn't break off. So the question of "throwing" really doesn't limit the velocity of the attack.

I'll give u a better example to use: the pistol shrimp.

[The_Blade]

I find the Hydras attack submissive and ridiculous. How are we supposed to believe a normal speed traveling arrow can penetrate armor ?

i can answer your question with other ones. How can Spiders produce a biological material that is much harder than any aliation of metals known by man kind? How can water and sand go through 10 inches of titanium?

and its starcraft nothing has to make sence in real life, it just needs a good lore

[Nicol Bolas]

How can Spiders produce a biological material that is much harder than any aliation of metals known by man kind?

When did that happen? If you're talking about Hydralisk spines, they don't have to be particularly hard. Depleted uranium isn't very hard (comparatively) either; what it is is dense. F=ma, so greater mass means greater force, and greater density means greater mass per unit volume. And if you use it in an KE Penetrator, then you focus that force on a small area.

How can water and sand go through 10 inches of titanium?

Again, when did that happen? I don't recall the Zerg fighting with sand and water.

[DemolitionSquid]

When did that happen? If you're talking about Hydralisk spines, they don't have to be particularly hard. Depleted uranium isn't very hard (comparatively) either; what it is is dense. F=ma, so greater mass means greater force, and greater density means greater mass per unit volume. And if you use it in an KE Penetrator, then you focus that force on a small area.



Again, when did that happen? I don't recall the Zerg fighting with sand and water.

Spider silk is stronger than steel
Water and sand blasted with enough pressure will borough through steel.

[SpiderBrigade]

Again, when did that happen? I don't recall the Zerg fighting with sand and water.

Nicol I don't see why you're picking his points apart considering he's agreeing with you...

and also:

Spider silk is stronger than steel
Water and sand blasted with enough pressure will borough through steel.

Exactly, they happened in real life which means the Hydra spine thing is not that implausible.

...I mean, okay, it's still pretty implausible, but they're Zerg godammit, they can do stuff like that. They're monomolecular spines or something

[Equiliari]

It looked like throwing to me. It waved its arm and a projectile launched.

Yeah in SCII, but in the original they shot spines. And that's what I want to go back to

[Nicol Bolas]

Yeah in SCII, but in the original they shot spines.

No, they didn't. They waved their arms and little green bits hit enemy units.

[Equiliari]

No, they didn't. They waved their arms and little green bits hit enemy units.

Doesn't look like that for me, both the animation and lore in the SC manual imply that they shoot spines...

[RamiZ]

Doesn't look like that for me, both the animation and lore in the SC manual imply that they shoot spines...

Yeah they shoot spines in SC, but as Nicol said it doesnt look like that, it looks like some sort of acid or something.