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StarCraft 2: Legacy of the Void's new unit hailed as Liberator

StarCraft 2: Legacy of the Void's latest beta update has introduced a new Terran unit, a terror of the skies known as the Liberator.

Ozzie Mejia

May 27, 2015 2:45 PM

The battle is just beginning in StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void, but the number of units is starting to increase. Today, Blizzard unveiled the game's newest Terran unit, a massive air vessel called the Liberator.

"The Liberator is a large, high-cost air unit that deals splash damage against its enemies in the sky," explains the Battle.net post. "The Liberator normally can't attack ground, but it can target a specific ground area in order to deal high burst single-target damage to any unit entering that area. This ground attack only targets units, so structures can’t be hit with this weapon."

The Liberator will act a more rounded air unit to go along with some of the changes to the Legacy of the Void beta. Blizzard is aiming for diverse strategies with the addition of this unit and will be examining player strategies closely. For a better idea of how the Liberator unit works, check out the video below.

Ozzie Mejia

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Ozzie has been playing video games since picking up his first NES controller at age 5. He has been into games ever since, only briefly stepping away during his college years. But he was pulled back in after spending years in QA circles for both THQ and Activision, mostly spending time helping to push forward the Guitar Hero series at its peak. Ozzie has become a big fan of platformers, puzzle games, shooters, and RPGs, just to name a few genres, but he’s also a huge sucker for anything with a good, compelling narrative behind it. Because what are video games if you can't enjoy a good story with a fresh Cherry Coke?

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May 27, 2015 2:45 PM

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- Vogerl
  
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  May 28, 2015 7:21 AM
  
  Starcraft 2 released in 2010, HotS 3 years later, Void most likely 3 years after HotS.
  
  They are just releasing content for SC2 out of obligation above all else. The sales figures can't be steady, the entire focus is on competetive PvP, a toy to wave around at tourneys; the casual crowd isn't touching it, twitch stream numbers have steadily declined over the last 2 years.. If they didn't have WoW as cash-cow they could not have been able to afford beta'ing content for a year, cutting out units...
  
  I like the RTS genre but the mainstream market is dead and fans are relegated to titles like the Men of War series for actual new features and the odd Total War, as long as its not a rehash of their last game which could have been better as an addon, rather than a standalone full-priced title (Atilla), or if its not buggy as heck (Rome wasn't patched in a day, after all).
  
  The next glimmer on the horizon will be the warhammer fantasy total war game, if they learn from their mistakes and until then I'll go pick up helmets and ammo from corpses for my Assault Squads.
  - Horn
    
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    May 28, 2015 7:33 AM
    
    SC2 tournaments still do well enough, I've seen the WCS streams get up around 40k viewers recently which is far from dead. One of the problems is that hots wasn't a very good game and it led to boring matches. Hopefully LoTV has longer legs and I could see archon mode becoming an attraction as well.
  - walker270
    
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    May 28, 2015 7:44 AM
    
    WoW is no longer their only cash cow. Hearthstone is ridiculously huge, and Heroes of the Storm is getting bigger.
  - mad-d00d
    
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    May 28, 2015 7:58 AM
    
    Big tourneys still get a lot of viewers, I haven't watched the pro scene lately but when possible I do enjoy watching sc2.
    
    Once LotV is released, I expect archon mode to kick things up a notch
  - Disarray
    
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    May 28, 2015 9:15 AM
    
    hey are just releasing content for SC2 out of obligation above all else. The sales figures can't be steady,
    
    haha you can't be serious
    
    fans are relegated to titles like the Men of War series for actual new features and the odd Total War,
    
    You sure you want to compare sales data of Sc2 + expansions to those games ?
- jimvolk
  
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  May 28, 2015 7:55 AM
  
  I wish I could like this game more.
- lefthighkick
  
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  May 28, 2015 8:40 AM
  
  I didn't touch multiplayer last expac but 100%'d the campaign achievements and had a blast doing so. I'm looking forward to doing that in Legacy. I also might try Archon mode with friends.