{"id":15174,"date":"2011-10-31T09:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T07:22:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"starcraft-ii-heart-of-the-swarm-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/15174-starcraft-ii-heart-of-the-swarm-what-you-need-to-know","title":{"rendered":"StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm – what you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blizzard has released an official fact-sheet outlining some of the core features gamers can expect from the follow up to last year’s critically acclaimed sci-fi RTS, StarCraft II.<\/p>\n

The publisher announced a few years ago that StarCraft II would be released as a trilogy, starting with the Terran single player campaign, which hit shelves last year. Next up is the Zerg Campaign, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, which is anticipated for release sometime next year.<\/p>\n

Blizzard has released a fact sheet detailing some of the stuff to expect from the next chapter in this beloved franchise.<\/p>\n

Features<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

•    Continues the epic story of StarCraft II from where Wings of Liberty left off.
•    Approximately 20 new campaign missions.
•    New campaign gameplay mechanics, allowing players to evolve new abilities and units for their zerg army.
•    Go into battle with Kerrigan as she tries to restore her strength and regain control of the Swarm.
•    New multiplayer units and maps, expanding strategic choice and gameplay depth for each race.
•    Expanded features and functionality for Battle.net to improve custom-game search, and new tools for map authors to create even more epic custom games.
•    New pre-rendered and in-game cinematics bring the story of Heart of the Swarm to life.<\/p>\n

A selection of new units to be introduced with Heart of the Swarm was also recently revealed:<\/p>\n

Terran<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Warhound:<\/span> This versatile factory unit is great against mechanical ground targets and can dish out area-of-effect anti-air attacks.<\/p>\n

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Warhound<\/em><\/p>\n

Battle Hellion:<\/span> New transformation mode to gain durability in exchange for slower movement, great for fighitng mixed forces using light troops combined with area-of-effect attacks<\/p>\n

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Battle Hellion<\/em><\/p>\n

Shredder:<\/span> Mobile scout unit that can deploy and create a whirlwind of death around it. Safety protocols auto-disable the attack if other friendly units enter the danger zone.<\/p>\n

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Shredder<\/em><\/p>\n

Protoss<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Replicant:<\/span> Microscopic robots can fuse themselves to copy a targeted non-massive unit. The replication also auto-enables any specific upgrades of the targeted unit (ex: cloaking, etc.)<\/p>\n

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Replicant<\/em><\/p>\n

Oracle:<\/span> This flying support unit can scout and disrupt the enemy economy. It can reveal what structures are making and also temporarily disrupt building productions & resource harvesting.<\/p>\n

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Oracle<\/em><\/p>\n

Tempest:<\/span> Powerful capital ship that dominates the skies with massive area-of-effect attacks against light enemy flyers and a strong beam against ground targets.<\/p>\n

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Tempest<\/em><\/p>\n

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Zerg<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Viper:<\/span> Flying unit with support abilities, it can grant detection to units, create a cloud to hinder ranged attacks & abilities, and quickly pull units to safety (friendly) or their doom (enemy).<\/p>\n

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Viper<\/em><\/p>\n

Swarm Host:<\/span> This zerg host can gradually spawn endless waves of attackers while burrowed to overwhelm your enemy.<\/p>\n

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Swarm Host<\/em><\/p>\n

Heart of the Swarm teaser cinematic trailer<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Heart of the Swarm campaign screenshots<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm – what you need to know<\/strong><\/a> << Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blizzard reveals basic details for Zerg campaign<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}