Mysterious new HotS unit

[celerisk]

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150414630507457&set=a.10150414625217457.406451.178337772456&type=1&theater

Presumably a new multi-player unit...
As to what exactly that thing is, your guess is as good as mine.


Also here, with some more random speculations:
http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/3279043802#1

 

[Jedimindtrixxx]

I thought it would be a new Zerg unit.

thought they said t will prolly stay the same D:

 

[Siretu]

I think it's going to be something like this:

(Found somewhere on reddit)

Edit:

I thought it would be a new Zerg unit.

thought they said t will prolly stay the same D:

No, it's a terran multiplayer unit. Currently they think of adding 1 more unit to each race.

 

[Cornface]

It looks like an evolved version of a hellion. Since it's clearly no bio unit, it might be something tier 2ish to assist mech?

 

[Bloodcount]

armored baneling xD

 

[GFreak45]

thats a terran unit and not zerg? WTF? it looks like something that gives birth to larvae... and has a hard exoskeleton... is it a tamed zerg?

 

[UndeadDragon]

thats a terran unit and not zerg? WTF? it looks like something that gives birth to larvae... and has a hard exoskeleton... is it a tamed zerg?

The top one is the terran one and the other one is the zerg one.

 

[Jedimindtrixxx]

armored baneling xD

thats actually what it looks like but i dont think all its going to be is just an armoured baneling. from the looks of it itll move the same way and has the same leg structure, but that armour doesnt look like itd allow and storage for explosive green goo. sort of reminds me of that bug that rolls up into a defensive ball. although not as creepy as a bug.
i want one instead of a turtle :>

Which just now made me think after posting this... maybe a non-offensive, but a defensive unit that works as a better defense for ur hydras and festers than ling/roach?

 

[Slapshot136]

it's a bane-ling catapult - can target air/ground, and comes out of the roach warren, and may require a partial burrow/siege mode in order to fire

 

[celerisk]

While the front part clearly looks like a Lurker, that... ehm, "backpack" is more like... a former Siege Tank?

 

[Bloodcount]

Ling- Bling
Roach- this unit

 

[Jedimindtrixxx]

While the front part clearly looks like a Lurker, that... ehm, "backpack" is more like... a former Siege Tank?

lurkers look more like hydras than anything, with a spiky head

EDIT: the Sc2 lurker looks even more different than that silhouettee

 

[Cornface]

Zerg gameplay are already revolving too much around roach usage, and roaches already got 2 types of upgrades. And take a look at those head and arms, doesn't they remind of Hydralisk ones? Wouldn't it be possible that this is some kind of evolved Hydralisk? Also, this might be some kind of compromise, people want lurkers back but Blizzard doesn't want to use old Brood War units.

 

[Accname]

Zerg gameplay are already revolving too much around roach usage, and roaches already got 2 types of upgrades. And take a look at those head and arms, doesn't they remind of Hydralisk ones? Wouldn't it be possible that this is some kind of evolved Hydralisk? Also, this might be some kind of compromise, people want lurkers back but Blizzard doesn't want to use old Brood War units.

To be honest when i play zerg i barely use roaches. They are not cost-effective in my opinion. Lings, Banelings, Mutalisks, Infestors, Broodlords and Ultralisks are more likely to be used by me.
I agree, that it will hardly be a roach evolution since the roaches are already pretty far evolved with high regen, move while burrowed and the speed upgrade. Hydras are rarely used in pro-level games and might get a boost therefor.
But i would really like some more early game anti-air. (yes, there are queens but you wont ever use them to attack.)

 

[GFreak45]

lurkers look more like hydras than anything, with a spiky head

EDIT: the Sc2 lurker looks even more different than that silhouettee

he was meaning only the front, which does look very lurker-ish

 

[GFreak45]

and its clearly a terran unit named quasi-moto

 

[celerisk]

And, finally, as expected, the new Protoss... "thing":

 

[Nigerianrulz]

a phoenix and a void ray had sex and gave birth to that?

 

[GFreak45]

Nah its a hydralisk shell with protoss technology inside

 

[Siretu]

Looks like this to me: