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    StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm

    Game » consists of 6 releases. Released Mar 12, 2013

    The second chapter in the StarCraft II trilogy, Heart of the Swarm is a science fiction-themed real-time strategy game for PC and Mac. Players take control of the vicious Zerg faction in an interstellar war against the hard-nosed Terrans and psionic Protoss.

    Blizzard Teasing New Units

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    #1  Edited By CountMacula

    So Blizzard have started teasing new units over on their Facebook page. First up is a silhouette of the Terran unit, with silhouettes for the Zerg & Protoss units coming soon. Presumably these units will be revealed at Blizzcon?

    Here's the unit:

    New Terrain Unit Teaser
    New Terrain Unit Teaser

    So what do we think it will be? Personally I'm thinking some sort of hellion transformation based on the wheels on the legs and what appears to be a flamethrower on top.

    Edit: Totally forgot to add the Zerg Unit:

    New Zerg Unit Teaser
    New Zerg Unit Teaser

    Edit2: Here's the Protoss unit:

    New Protoss Unit Teaser
    New Protoss Unit Teaser
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    #2  Edited By Vexxan
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    #3  Edited By Hameyadea

    @Vegsen said:

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    Confirmed!

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    #4  Edited By mano521

    @Hameyadea said:

    @Vegsen said:

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    Confirmed!

    let the cries of "terran is op" commence.

    now more than ever

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    #5  Edited By CountMacula

    @Vegsen said:

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    Well they've got my money

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    #6  Edited By Spectreman

    I already see Idra complaining.

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    #7  Edited By groin

    It's a Super Mule which can attack with blue flames. It can called down for 10 energy instead of 50.

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    #8  Edited By TehFlan
    @Vegsen said:
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    Perfect.
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    #9  Edited By Rayeth

    The photo edits in the team liquid thread on this are amazing. Shamelessly stolen from MrHoon on teamliquid.

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    Clearly it is Banjo-Kazooie.

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    #10  Edited By Ben_H

    @Rayeth said:

    The photo edits in the team liquid thread on this are amazing. Shamelessly stolen from MrHoon on teamliquid.

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    Clearly it is Banjo-Kazooie.

    I said it on the TL thread and I'll say it again: Banjo-Kazooie jump attacking a battlecruiser would be the coolest thing ever.

    Hopefully whatever this is replaces the marauder and is built at the factory, like the marauder originally was supposed to be in the alpha. That unit breaks Terran and doesn't feel like a Terran unit. It goes against the idea of Terran from SC1, which is either slow, methodical pushes with powerful, yet vulnerable units like siege tanks backed up by cheaper mech units, or harrassment with marine/medic drops. The marauder is neither, it is fast, powerful and hard to kill. A unit should only have two out of those 3 traits at most.

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    #11  Edited By CountMacula

    Has probably been said before, but if you look at the icon for the counter proof achievement it looks exactly like the silhouette for the Terran unit:

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    #12  Edited By TheJappernaut

    Tomorrow is going to be the Protoss unit right? I'm excited, I'll post it as soon as it shows up on Facebook.

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    #13  Edited By TheJappernaut
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    Here it is, it looks like a stargate unit. Looking forward to blizzcon to find out what it is going to do.

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    #14  Edited By Panpipe

    I'm actually a little excited about all of this.

    Not a mega-fan, but I've watched my fair share of SC2 games, and I know how much it'll change the game having new units. Didn't expect a new Terran unit though.

    EDIT: Are people suggesting Lurkers as the new Zerg unit? Looks a tiny bit like this:

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    #15  Edited By lord_canti

    @TheJappernaut said:

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    Here it is, it looks like a stargate unit. Looking forward to blizzcon to find out what it is going to do.

    my guess is a new type of batarang

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    #16  Edited By TheJappernaut

    @lord_canti said:

    @TheJappernaut said:

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    Here it is, it looks like a stargate unit. Looking forward to blizzcon to find out what it is going to do.

    my guess is a new type of batarang

    So you're saying that Protoss is going to be imbalanced when heart of the swarm comes out?

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    #18  Edited By CountMacula

    Is that lightning ball in the middle of the Protoss teaser part of the unit or the background?

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    #19  Edited By TheJappernaut

    I think it's a lightning ball. I think it kind of looks like a smaller version of Zeratul's ship, the void seeker I believe its called.

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    #20  Edited By CountMacula

    I think Zeratul's ship looks a bit more like the Jedi Knight 2 logo especially the way it lands vertically. Zerg creature looks a lot like the silithid scarabs from WoW.

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    #21  Edited By TheJappernaut

    But the teaser and Zerathul's ship do share that lightning thing in the middle.

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