StarCraft 2 Community Q&A
Battle.net has published a new Community Q&A for StarCraft 2. Word is:
1. Do Protoss warriors actually die? What is the blue flash when they die?
In the chaos of the
battlefield, Protoss warriors fight with tremendous power and grace,
but even so, they can be mortally wounded. Then the Protoss' foes often
bear witness to a startling sight: the injured Protoss disappears in a
bright flash of light. Such a vision has caused primitive races to
quail in superstitious fear, and yet it has no supernatural cause. On
the contrary, it is merely the result of teleportation, which is one of
the chief strengths of Protoss technology. Protoss warriors typically
have teleport mechanisms built into their armor. If the warrior is
sufficiently injured, a properly functioning mechanism will
automatically teleport the body to the nearest safe haven.
A Protoss warrior who is badly
injured but still living may be placed in a dragoon--or latterly an
immortal--shell to continue to fight. This is the choice of the
individual warrior. Some warriors elect to shoulder the burden of
remaining among the living instead of joining the sum of Protoss lives
embodied in the Khala. It is worthy of note that the lives of
individual Protoss that have passed into the Khala are no longer
coherent entities, and the Protoss cannot speak with their dead per se.
However, there are memories and strands of experience that can be
accessed. Only the most skilled Protoss preservers can locate and
follow specific desired strands of knowledge. The tremendous value of
preservers comes from the fact that they carry within themselves and
can access the sum total of Protoss experience at an individual level.
2. Will there be more ways to give energy(mana) to a caster?
Protoss casters will have an ability
to transfer energy from one caster to another. This ability will allow
for a lot of micromanagement opportunities to maximize the amount of
energy to a single caster, for the maximum number of special abilities
casted.
3. On what kind of energy are
based Protoss shields? If they are based on PSI energy, how can be
possible for a Terran EMP attack to drain their energy?
Protoss energy sources are
highly esoteric because their starting point was the Protoss' use of
their own psionic powers to protect themselves; to charge their tools
and weapons; and to make, manipulate, or meld matter. Over time
technological advances have enabled the Protoss to mimic these psionic
processes to the extent that the Protoss can now construct inorganic
devices to tap into the same universal processes to power shields,
drives, weapons, and robots. Thus, for example, the energy field
projected by a pylon that powers Protoss structures cannot truly be
called psionic in nature, just as the shields protecting a zealot are
not purely technological constructs. Rather, the two processes are so
closely interlinked that they are almost the same. As a result, Protoss
power sources and particularly their shields are vulnerable to
disruption by technological means such as EMP weapons. Similarly such
power sources can be restored or recharged from artificially stored
energy.
Are you planning to make another statue, for example, statue of Kerrigan?
We are planning to fully explore the high end
collectibles realm with plenty of StarCraft II merchandise, and yes,
there are projects already in the works.
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