Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Pre Beta History 7: Pre-Zerg Reveal

This covers the time in the run up to the Zerg reveal in March 2008.

Terran Units:
  • Viking: Moves back to Factory. Gains the ability to shoot air units while in ground form. Loses the ability to shoot air units while in ground form.
  • Thor: Becomes a ground pounder again.
  • Marauders: Replace Firebats. Produced from Barracks. Have a slowing attack.
  • Nomad: Gains Mine Drone, which places and cloaks mines in an area.
  • Jackal: Fast vehicle that has flamethrower.

Terran Buildings and Mechanics:
  • Bunkers again allow unit abilities (except repair) to be activated while in them.

Protoss Units:
  • Colossus: Attack becomes a linear AoE effect, rather than single-target. The visual effect for this is firing a very wide beam.
  • Nullifier: Null Void gains the ability to decloak units cloaked via energy abilities, and reveals burrowed units. Gains Anti-Gravity.

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