Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm

The new Zerg unit silouette, incase anyone hasn't seen it yet.

Yeah been up for a while now. I guessed it was the new design model for the lurker since its head is similar to a hyrdras. There's the possibility it could be a new hydra evolution into a new artillery type zerg with that huge abdomen.

A Link to the Past: SC2 Edition Too awesome

MLG Orlando has started. This time there are 4 SC2 streams. Altough the 2 extras are Gold Members only

Watching Bomber vs Sheth right now, epic match.

Idra vs MC right now!
http://pro.majorleaguegaming.com/live/starcraft_2?slug=scRed

Gonna be fuckin awesome, Idra vs Bomber was also a real nail biter.
Epic games all over this place.

Damn missed the rage with idra.

Jizzed in my pants

Man, Zerg OP.

Stats released on Blizzcon:

US: even
EU: Zerg OP
Korea: Terran OP

go figure

New Units

Protoss:

Replicant
Cost: 200/200 (Robo)
†¢ Copies a non-massive targeted unit (gains all abilities).

Oracle
Cost: 150/200 (Stargate)
†¢ Preordain - Reveals what enemy buildings are producing.
†¢ Entomb - Shields a mineral patch, making it unaccessable until the shield bubble is killed.
†¢ Phase Shift - Temporarily "warps out" buildings, making them invulnerable and freezing production/weapons.

Tempest
Cost: 300/300 (Stargate, Requires Fleet Beacon)
†¢ Anti-Air Attack: Large Splash Radius, Slow Attack Speed, Bonus vs. Light
†¢ Anti-Ground Attack: Beam-Style

Terran:

Warhound
Cost: ???/??? (Factory)
†¢ Anti-Air Attack: Small Splash Radius
†¢ Anti-Ground Attack: Short-Ranged, Bonus vs. Armored

Battle Hellion
Cost: 100/0 (Factory)
†¢ Transformation of the current Hellion.
†¢ "Battle-form" is slower but with more health. Attack is short and cone-styled.

Shredder
Cost: ???/??? (Factory)
†¢ Deploys into a mobile AoE turret (constant damage to all units in radius).
†¢ The high DPS field disables if friendly units enter it's radius.

Thor (Revamp)
Cost: 600/??? (Factory, Requires Fusion Core)
†¢ One Per-Player Limitation
†¢ Increased Size, Health, and Damage.
†¢ Bombardment (WoL Campaign Ability from Odin)

Zerg:

Viper
†¢ Ocular Parasite (Single Use) - Grants permanent detection to allied unit.
†¢ Abduct (100 energy) - Pulls a unit to it's location.
†¢ Blinding Cloud - Reduces range of all units in the cloud to melee and prevents energy-based abilities.

Swarm Host
†¢ While burrowed, spawns two (~18dps) units every ~15 seconds.

Existing Unit Changes:

Protoss:
†¢ Carrier Removed
†¢ Mothership Removed
†¢ Nexus Ability: "Arc Shield" (25 energy, Requires Gateway) - Grants structure bonus shields/armor and an anti-light attack. Lasts 20 Seconds.
†¢ Nexus Ability: "Mass Recall" (75 energy, Requires Fleet Beacon) - Additional delay before warped-in units can move.

Terran:
†¢ Ghost "Cloak" is no longer toggleable, cost and duration are set.
†¢ Battlecruiser Ability: "Redline Reactor" - Increased Movement Speed
†¢ Reaper "D8 Charge" Weapon Removed.
†¢ Reaper's passively recover HP.

Zerg:
†¢ Overseer Removed
†¢ Hydralisk Upgrade (Requires Hive): Increased Movement Speed
†¢ Baneling Upgrade (Requires Hive): Burrowed Movement
†¢ Ultralisk Ability: "Burrow Assault" - Quickly Burrows, Charges at Enemy, and Unburrows
†¢ Corrupter "Corruption" Ability Removed
†¢ Corrupter Ability: "Siphon" - Channeled, deals 1 DPS. Damage dealt converted to minerals.

Terran Preview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWZ21m53JWw
Zerg Preview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZdTpbbWUNY
Protoss Preview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OudzcVWpVoA

shredder unit has me hype

Can't wait for this and Legacy of the Void DLC later on

Awesome...

The GSL Finale was awesome!

best games I have ever seen

Base race all the way.

waiting for the heart of the swarm. but its still in 2012

stupid map pool for blizzcon, seriously disappointing. Still happy for MVP though.

Besides knowing your build orders to heart what are some ways to increase your apm?

Can't wait to play it Again...and does that mean if the Heart of the Swarm Comes out,does it mean it changes all the line-up of characters in Custom game?