Admittedly, the basic functions of each unit are easy to understand, but the instant one player masters a particular unit ability it'll give an unstoppable advantage over a player who just uses their units as disposable cannon fodder.
In fact, if there's one major issue we've found in all the times we've played StarCraft II it's that this doesn't seem like a game that'll be kind to newbies. Indeed, it seemed to us that the speed boost on creep ability might actually have badly overpowered the Zerg, as during all the games we played with it we found it made our base entirely too easy to defend. We've also taken a shine to the new Roach unit, which has become our go-to bug for holding choke points and guarding ramps. The new Nydus Worms, for example, led one opponent on a merry chase as the Zerg player proceeded to pop his units between three Nydus tunnels, moving it back and forth to avoid whatever force the Terran player was sending out and hitting valuable buildings any time the Terran player didn't take the bait. Indeed, the more we dug into the Zerg, the more strategic richness and possibilities opened up. In our multiplayer games, we had great fun linking up a main and subsidiary Zerg base and using the upgraded Queen's ability to tunnel between buildings and create Mutated Larvae (Larvae that almost instantly evolve into any unlocked Zerg units) to inflict untold misery on players who attempted to take out our bases. When combined with the powers of the new Queen, and the Overseers' ability to vomit creep onto the ground, it allows the Zerg to create much larger and more spread-out bases than they could before and still be able to defend them effectively. Increasing the speed of Zerg while on creep has turned the most aggressive, quickest-moving force into the game into a defensive powerhouse. It's the simplest change of all, however, that had the most profound impact on the way the game plays. One thump and this already fragile unit is little more than Zerg sushi. A Nighthawk near a Terran base then becomes the Infestor's (who travels while burrowed) worst nightmare. Since the Nighthawk makes burrowing impossible, when it's combined with unlimited spider mines it tends to make short work out of lesser Zerg units, especially Zerglings. One of the new Zerg's key abilities is to burrow, to go underground and get out of harm's way. The new "Seismic Thumper" ability makes the Nighthawk a game-changer for the Zerg player. Their key ability previous to BlizzCon 2008, though, was simply their ability to detect hidden units and drop spider mines that dig into the ground and hit enemy units when they come near.
WINGS OF LIBERTY UNITS HOW TO
I imagine that the Protoss mini-campaign might act like the Orc prologue in Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos wherein the player controlled Thrall and learned the basics of how to control the game and the user interface.The new Terran "Nighthawk" is an air support unit that already boasts a number of valuable skills, including the ability to drop turrets and shine a targeting laser that ups the damage done by other units by 50%. The Challenges, mini-missions, that ask you to complete a very specific task, are more suited to give players the opportunity to learn how to use the units and how to play the game. In general, even for Terran, it is not the objective of the singleplayer to show how to play the game effectively, it is to tell a story and do a lot of fun things, that would not be possible in multiplayer. You won’t be using all units or getting to know buildings and upgrades. The minicampaign is not a preparation for jumping into multiplayer as a Protoss, Xordiah stressed: I am sure every Protoss fan will love this part of the Campaign!” This part of the campaign mode is of course way shorter than the Terran part, but it is very fun to have a very different playstyle to add even more variety to the game. Xordiah said, “I can confirm that there will be a Protoss mini-campaign that lets you control Protoss units. The “mini-campaign” will be much shorter than the Terran missions, but will give the player a taste of the different units and playstyles that the race provides. Xordiah, an official Blizzard moderator on the forums, said that while StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is the Terran chapter, there will also be a Protoss section. The subsequent chapters are called Heart of the Swarm and Legacy of the Void which will focus on the Zerg and Protoss races respectively. The first will be Wings of Liberty, which follows the Terran and is expected in Q1 or Q2 2010. Starcraft II will be released in three iterations, with each focusing on one of the three races: Terran, Zerg and Protoss. An official blue poster on the forums has revealed that the first StarCraft II chapter will contain a mini-campaign using Protoss units.
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