Blizzard released non-silhouette images for some of the new HOTS units.


Game » consists of 6 releases. Released Mar 12, 2013
Edit: Taken from a TL thread(From IPL Caster AskJoshy)
It looks like the carrier and mothership are removed from the game: http://twitter.com/#!/djtyrant/status/127426488495648768/photo/1/large
and here: http://p.twimg.com/AcS9CN1CAAA3mn5.jpg
More stuff from the TL thread.
More stuff from PlayXP(Korean site) Probably some repeats. Bolded ones I think are good!
yeh, they are definitely making protoss the gimmicky race,
you'll probably see a lot of various kinds of cheeses out of protoss once HOTS is released, blizzard is really leaning on that line of thought that brought us Force Fields and Hallucination.
hopefully Blizzard can balance it out well enough that top protoss players are considered gimmicky, but instead are considered like a starcraft Houdini
@Cataphract1014 said:
More stuff from PlayXP(Korean site) Probably some repeats. Bolded ones I think are good!
- Ghost cloak changed and now spends a specific amount of energy, lasting for a certain period of time
- Ghost cloak is no longer an on/off skill
Whaaaaaaat? Please convince me that that is good...this pains me. :(
@mandude said:
@Cataphract1014 said:
More stuff from PlayXP(Korean site) Probably some repeats. Bolded ones I think are good!
- Ghost cloak changed and now spends a specific amount of energy, lasting for a certain period of time
- Ghost cloak is no longer an on/off skill
Whaaaaaaat? Please convince me that that is good...this pains me. :(
I'm Protoss ^_^
@Cataphract1014: Buildings warped out by the Oracle also eliminate that building from their opponent's tech tree for the duration. Warp out a Spire, can't build Mutalisks. It's going to be fucking OP against Zerg.
I could make comments about these units, but I'm not going to bother. The HotS beta will change so many of these units they'd be unrecognizeable from what we're seeing here.
I'm excited though, it looks like they're adding more spellcasters and skill-based units, making the game more interesting to watch and play.
This all seems incredible. While it's less than a month until Skyrim, which I fully expect to be my GOTY, I am far more excited for this than Skyrim. I only wish all the changes were presented better. I mean, I'm not opposed to reading big detailed lists people compile, it'd just be nice if Blizzard had a great big list I could read with visual aids.
@TheMasterDS said:
This all seems incredible. While it's less than a month until Skyrim, which I fully expect to be my GOTY, I am far more excited for this than Skyrim. I only wish all the changes were presented better. I mean, I'm not opposed to reading big detailed lists people compile, it'd just be nice if Blizzard had a great big list I could read with visual aids.
It´s going to be confuse. The pros wanne be training with the new units. The tournaments will be underwhelming if use WoL, because all the attention, new tatics etc are with HoW, even in beta.
@RYNO9881 said:
Forget this, who saw the gsl grand finals?
SO GOOD
The more discussion I read about the Oracle and Replicant, the less I can see them actually making it into the final game, especially the Replicant. The Oracle will replace the carrier as the unit Protoss has that is absolutely useless except in certain situations, since it is so expensive for what it does.
@Ben_H said:
@RYNO9881 said:
Forget this, who saw the gsl grand finals?
SO GOOD
The more discussion I read about the Oracle and Replicant, the less I can see them actually making it into the final game, especially the Replicant. The Oracle will replace the carrier as the unit Protoss has that is absolutely useless except in certain situations, since it is so expensive for what it does.
Don't you mean the Tempest? That's the one that's replacing the Carrier. The Oracle is the mineral line harass/stop tech buildings from functioning-unit.
@FluxWaveZ: I believe one of the 'new' Terran and toss units, are in fact replacement. From the sounds of it, Thors are becoming motherships (you can have one, i.e. odin-ish) goliaths are becoming mini-thors. Carriers are gone (from what i hear)... etc.. etc... most of it is likely to change, but as of right now, i think all the races are getting 2 units 'added' to their total, any other unit is likely a replacement.
@Zor said:
@FluxWaveZ: I believe one of the 'new' Terran and toss units, are in fact replacement. From the sounds of it, Thors are becoming motherships (you can have one, i.e. odin-ish) goliaths are becoming mini-thors. Carriers are gone (from what i hear)... etc.. etc... most of it is likely to change, but as of right now, i think all the races are getting 2 units 'added' to their total, any other unit is likely a replacement.
But Zerg are losing Overseer and gaining the Viper unit.
@GunslingerPanda said:
@Zor said:
@FluxWaveZ: I believe one of the 'new' Terran and toss units, are in fact replacement. From the sounds of it, Thors are becoming motherships (you can have one, i.e. odin-ish) goliaths are becoming mini-thors. Carriers are gone (from what i hear)... etc.. etc... most of it is likely to change, but as of right now, i think all the races are getting 2 units 'added' to their total, any other unit is likely a replacement.
But Zerg are losing Overseer and gaining the Viper unit.
Just found this article, reading it now, but from the sounds of it, it is echoing what was said already.
Shredder: New terrain unit that does aoe, seems like a def unit, new unit
Hellion Battle Mode; Just a new mode for Hellion's, not really a new unit
Warhounds: Like thors, but smaller and good against machines (not bio), new unit (might be a replacement)
Viper: Zerg spell caster, new unit
Swarm Host: produces an endless supply of broodling like troops, new unit
Locust: The new broodling like troop, new unit
Repliicant: Can transform into any non massive unit, kind of fills the old dt mind control role, new unit
Oracle: The best annoyance unit ever (can phase buildings out of existence, prevents usage for production and research), new unit
Tempest: Capital ship for toss, does AoE in the air, new unit
The article didn't mention which units were being cut (other than the thor becoming an unique unit), so i am not sure how it will balance out, but there a lot of time, and things are bound to change, so we'll see.
Wow, I never expected them to REMOVE units from multiplayer. I think it's awesome to see more transforming units, but I am saddened by the loss of the Thor's anti-air.
I'm curious to see what this does for terran mech. Right now I use mech in all 3 matchups, with thors as the real damage dealers and anti-air of my army. It worries me when it says the warhound has a "small ground attack" that's effective against machines. I guess only time will tell, hopefully blizzard can balance HoTS slightly better than they did WoL.
@BoG said:
No more overlords?
YES.
Haha, playing Zerg would be a bit hard without anymore Overlords, I think. You probably meant Overseers, which were going to be replaced by the Wasp, but that Blizzard have recently said remain in HotS (albeit they are trying to find some unique skills to further differentiate them from Overlords).
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