Ghost Sniping and miscellaneous

You could in starcraft, mass ghosts and lockdown a whole fleet in seconds

 

thats true but for both situations ud have to click on each ghost then target the carrier without the ghost dieing

 

You probably won't get a chance unless your opponent is newbie and is stacking forces before attack (no movement).

 

Ability should be more rational and take more time than normal attack (targeting). Sniper should be able to one shot one kill any humanoid sized biological unit (and in some cases even mechanical/robotic). Drone, Zergling, Baneling, Hydralisk, SCV, any terran trooper, Probe, Zealot, High/Dark Templar (ignoring plasma shields?) should be vurnerable to such attack. Because of lots of micro required I see its' energy cost around 75.

 

well if u put a time on it like a nuke whats gonna be the point i dont think i would use something like that unless it was something extreme cuz really why i need to waste energy to kill a drone> or a zlot lol

 

I think I read somewhere that Snipe isn't an instant kill; it just deals extra damage to biological units. Same with their Sniper vs. Energy units; I wouldn't be too worried about imbalance, but there's definitely room for some intense micro there.

 

hay dosent the ghost still do extra dmg to light armored units. like +11???

so psi round would be +11(light units) +20 for the ability. and then +80 is its a caster??

 

im not sure does it?

 

on SC2 armory it says

ghost dmg is 10
+15 vs light

Snipes an enemy unit for 50 damage, deals an additional 50 damage to psionic units.

10
15 ( light armored unit )
+50
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75 dmg (non caster, light armored unit)
+50
--------
125 dmg (caster, light armored unit)

i guess thats right

 

Old snipe did 50 base damage + 100 vs light armored units. Against some units (zealots, marauders) it wasn't an insta-kill.

New psi-round does 20 base damage + 80 vs psionic units.

Both can only target biological units.

 

well to snipe takes minutes. How about the sniper actually can take out a carrier, that is, if the carrier doesnt move for lets say 1min and 10 secs. In this time the ghost will meassure the windspeed, the distance, locate the driver of the big ship etc. The bigger the ship, the more time to take the shot.

So then the ghost fires and takes out the big ship. I think that the ship should not get killed but you can not control it (you still own it though). Then you can use a function to put another commander on the ship but this will take time and ressources.

 

theres one problem with your sniper theory...

shields

EDIT: btw, it sounds too C&C Generals'ish

 

Somehow the protoss are dumb enough to make the bridges of their capital ships penetrable by single shots, and put self-destruct mechanisms on their captains?

 

That would be retarded.

Here's another idea. Maybe there's an ability that is knda like he hypnotize in SC1 Dark archon except that it Hypnos the captin (could be for any capital ship "BC, Carrier, maybe the Thor"). Hypnos the captin and then to can tell him that he should do soMething, and that would be like, "oh is I hot in here? Maybe I should roll done the window right beside me and bring down the shields because it blocks he air flow." this would take all of the energy of the ghost and render him unmovable for les say 30 seconds while he catches his breath then he sniper next to him waits for the sign and kills the captin. So maybe this could then put it in a lock down state. Then maybe if you snipe again it destroys the control room or something makeing it a much harder way of taking down capital ships, but still effecive especialy of you only use the hypnos ability. You could render entire fleets given enough ghosts and kill them win lots of other units.

Anyone like that idea?
---discuss---

 

It just doesn't seem fun that the ghost can destroy a carrier or battlecruiser alone with one click. Capital ships are supposed to be very good units. Even if the ghost would be left immobile for 30 seconds it is a too powerful ability because the ghost can cloak and ghosts are much cheaper than capital ships and they get their energy back. And capital ships are very far away from the ghosts unless the ghosts are in ships too so they probably can't command people so far away.

 

ghosts are the ultimate magic terranunit. Its meant to be effective. And sniping takes micro. So maybe the ghosts are cheap but can have drawbacks on other elements.

 

Ok how about they are unmovable for 30sec, can not be cloaked during that time period, they take 90% of ORIGINAL HP so if it has 100 it will only have 10 or if it has 80 Hp it's screwedbecause it would die. Plus just to make it so is not used at all why not make it so you need 200 M***** F***ing ghosts? HAPPY?!?!?!

 

Then it would be useless.
If the ghosts weren't cloaked then they would get killed or the ships would just escape.

If you want to wreak havoc with ghosts use nukes.

 

Yes, what neelder said: use nukes for big things!

How about this, since we're insisting on an ability that does more the linger the Ghost waits: if the Ghost is sitting still, continuously increase the range at which Snipe is effective. Like the way the Overseer's sight radius increases as it sits still.

It won't overlap with the massive-damage-dealing Nuclear Strike calldown.

It makes sense as a "sniping" attack- sitting still allows for increased accuracy, which translates into a longer maximum range.

 

True, much better idea. However isn't it true that ghost can only hit biological units. Therefor they couldn't attack with the snipe ability.