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Starcraft 2 community Q&A
Here's batch 40 of the Q&A Battle.net did with the Starcraft 2 community.
--StarCraft II Q&A Batch 40---
1. By the current look of the game with spectacular death
animations you could worry that you can get slightly distracted by dead
units while playing. You could for example waste precious APMs (Actions
per minute) trying to click on a spliced Space Marine that you thought
was still alive. The wrecks of some larger units or deaths for some
others could block your sight in-game too. Could this fear be a real
issue and will there be the option to toggle down these model details
in the settings? (gamereplays.org)
Yes, this is an issue we are looking into. For multiplayer, we want
to make absolutely sure that players can clearly see visually what is
happening on the battlefield. Currently, we are looking to have
different types of death animations available for multiplayer than will
be present for the single player campaign. A lot of people do still
love watching intricate death animations when not in a competitive
scene.
2. Battlecruisers do employ more than one gunner right? So will they be able to attack both air and ground at the same time? (sc2pod.com)
Battlecruisers will only be able to attack one unit at a time.
3. What happens with the units inside a Nydus Worm if it gets killed? Considering it can carry 255 units, would they all die? (sc2pod.com)
Units inside the Nydus network will only die when all
entrance/exits are killed. This includes the Nydus Warren building, the
prerequisite to build Nydus Worms, as it also acts as an entrance and
exit to the Nydus network. Nydus Worms that are not deployed as an
entrance/exit will not count as an entrance/exit to the network.
4. So far the map editor seems to be a very powerful tool which
doesnt constrain the map makers creativity at all. Will it even be
possible to edit critical abilities like path finding? If so, there
would be really no limits, or at least none we can imagine at this
point. (starcraft2.4players.de)
Pathfinding, the method in which a unit will determine how to move,
is handled by code, and will not be able to be edited within the map
editor. Nonetheless, map makers will be able to edit things such as
footprints, speed, and the size of units, which will affect the
movement rates of units.
5. Why were Plasma Torpedoes added to the Battlecruiser when the Banshee has virtually the same attack? (starcraft2.com.au)
The Battlecruiser no longer has Plasma Torpedoes that hit ground.
Instead, they can be equipped with a Missile Barrage which will be an
air-to-air area of effect attack ability. This ability will make the
Battlecruiser even more effective against lightly armored air units, as
the attack also gets additional damage points versus light armored
units.
6. In SC: BW we have terrain bonuses for units, for example
standing behind a tree or being on higher ground while shot from lower.
Are you keeping or maybe even improving such this feature and what
happens with large units that are more massive (Thor) or simply larger
(Colossus) than a tree or even a cliff? (broodwar.de)
Terrain bonuses are no longer present in StarCraft II. Instead,
line of sight will be vastly more important. For instance, units firing
from a higher ground will not be able to be seen by ground units
without line of sight vision, and thus the ground units will not be
able to fire back.
7. If a Zerg player corrupts a Dropship/Medivac, will they get control of the units inside? - Luddite (teamliquid.net)
No, the unit's contents will be destroyed when it becomes corrupted.
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