StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm, Blizzard DOTA teasers evoke some emotion

Please, please, please, let us kill Nova!
They took away Fenix, they can take away her.

I know somewhere out there, there are people more excited for Blizzard DOTA than the new expansion pack. I find this sad.

I swear to god Captain Quark from Ratchet And Clank is narrating this trailer,,

I keep thinking that a lot of what Blizzard is showing this BlizzCon is a giant troll.

Such as a point-free WoW expansion that is changing things for the sake of changing things (see: talents) to the Blizzard DOTA trailer to apparently showing completely noobs on their StarCraft 2 tournament rather than the matches people actually want to see (or so I've heard).

I'm beginning to think SC2's expansion and Diablo 3 are the only real games they're showing.

I get the distinct impression that this expansion is going to have a lot of banelings in.

Hard for me to get back into the SC storyline after SC2 pretty much retconned most of Brood War.

Brood War, direct quotes:
Jim Raynor: I'll see you dead for this, Kerrigan! For Fenix, and all the others who got caught between you and your mad quest for power!
Kerrigan: Tought talk, Jimmy, but I don't think you have what it takes to be a killer.
Jim Raynor: It may not be tomorow, darlin', it may not even happen with an army at my back. But rest assured; I'm the man who's gonna kill you one day. I'll be seeing you.


Cut to Starcraft 2:
Paraphrased:
Jim Raynor: Oh Kerrigan, my long lost love! I must save you, for I love you! You are wonderful, and if anyone disagrees, I'll murder them!
Tychus: I'm going to kill Kerrigan
Raynor: *shoots Tychus in the face*


Great job Blizzard, I'm really hooked on this story now.

As a Protoss player, seeing a new Zerg unit that pulls Colossi over is terrifying.

Firstly, I'm looking forward to some good modder implementing these units already now. Shouldn't present great problems with all the videos showing speed, range etc.

Secondly, Protoss can obviously copy any of the new units with the 200/200 cloner. Might even see Viper "pull battles" where a Protoss viper pulls a Zerg viper towards stalkers - then it gets pulled back by another viper etc. Also I really doubt if colossi end up being pullable, it would just be totally insane. All roaches with 2-3 vipers to pull colossi out of the death ball = instant win.

I suspect that the new Terran walker is really because they didn't anticipate magic boxing on the thors - so most likely it'll have a much bigger damage area. Terran are really the ones who got shafted here with no potentially game-breaking units.

So there's now a Starcraft 2 Custom map that someone made that implements all the changes that we've found out about Heart of the Swarm.

http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/lu0j6/hots_custom_is_here_every_modification_seen_in/

I'm really excited to see the gameplay options for the replicant. It might be one of the hardest units to balance, but to eventually watch the starcraft pro-players who are protoss make their 3rd/4th bases as command centers and hatcheries seems like it would be immensely entertaining and would knock my socks and shirt off.

http://necessarysufficient.net