I am really hoping that all the yet unused unit models are made playable in Co-op. Obviously, I’m not expecting the Hybrid to be playable, but anything that isn’t a hybrid, and was used by Terran, Zerg, or Protoss, I want playable at some point.
Lets list all the unused units so far. (Please comment with any unit models that you think should be on this list)
Terran:
- Predator
- Diamond Backs (non-infested)
- Valkyrie (Liberators are not a satisfying replacement)
- Specter (Heros don’t count)
- Warhound (Heros don’t count)
- Loki Battlecruiser
- Hurricane Battlecruiser (they are unused in the editor, and they look really cool)
- Herc (Heros don’t count)
- Militarized Transport
- Outback Hunter (special Hellion model used in the WoL campaign)
- Pirate Capitol Ship
- Griffon fighter (probably should have been given to Han and Horner)
- Tac Fighter (Fighters that are stationed on Battlecruisers. The Hyperion uses them in the WoL campaign)
- Civilian (I wouldn’t list these, but the Ariel Hansen concept video changed my mind)
- Laser Drill Tank (The Drakken Laser Drill was going to have a mobile variant one point, but was never used. The model would make a really cool tank unit that isn’t a siege tank)
Zerg:
- Defiler
- Mitoscarab
- “Fatty”
- Primalisk (unused Primal Zerg creature. It doesn’t look like primal zerg to me though)
- Tentacle Monster (Unused Zerg Flying unit. Likely used a tentacle attack similar to the Leviathan)
- Zerg Artillery (unused zerg siege unit)
- Primal Mutalisk (there’s a primal Mutalisk model used in the HotS campaign that is not used by Dehaka. Looks kind of like a wasp, or a hornet.)
Protoss:
- Stone Guardian
- Arbiter (Again, Hero units don’t count)
- Blood Hunter (Tal’darim Dark Templar)
- Sky Lord (Tal’Darim super Carrier)
- Tal’darim Zealots
Honestly there aren’t many unused Protoss or Zerg units.
I wanted to do a writeup about which commanders could/would most likely use which units, but I have to leave for work, so I’ll do it later.
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I agree and think the list is pretty nice but would add:
Regular medivacs, Tychu’s calldown does not count
Regular ghosts, not elite ones
Pigalisks (mini ultralisks ) from WoL campaign
And more infested versions from current non-infested ones
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I want the Instigator (Purifier Stalker) to see some use.
No, I don’t care that Zeratul’s Xel’naga Ambushers are already everything Instigators are and more.
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As long as they are used creatively, I’m all down for it. Curious what combinations of these units can pool into a themed commander.
Call me weird, but I think the enemy infantry unit (don’t recall the name, the ones that are basically unarmoured marines) from Nova’s campaign could be interesting as a fodder unit.
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I want to use the unused skins from the Warchest:
Purifier High Templar
Purifier Archon
Purifier Dark Templar
Umojan Marine
Umojan Ghost
Tal’darim Adept
Etc.
Oh and the Preserver. Could act as a Detector.
They are called the Trooper.
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You forgot that titanic Warp Prism of the Tal’darim’s that you have to destroy as a bonus. Its sprite is used as the (suicidal) transport in Scythe of Amon but I don’t remember it being used as a super-Warp-Prism anywhere in coop, yet at least.
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You reminded me of the Nerazim Transport from the Shakuras evacuation mission. That would be kind of cool to see as well.
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Yeah, now that you mention it, I remember those zipping by throughout that mission. Kinda made me think I was in an airport. xD
A few others I don’t think were listed:
-Avenger (Aiur dark Templar variant)
-Aiur scouts
-Roachlings
-Swarm guardian (looks like a cross between guardians and leviathans)
-Warhawk (the boss unit nova fights while on the vulture in her mini campaign). I could see a smaller version act as a sort of gunboat.
-Xanthos, maybe as a calldown for a future commander?
-gorgon Battlecruiser, either as a calldown or a permanent unit
-Soul Hunter (beta unit, don’t think it’s in the editor, but very cool looking. It was envisioned as a Nerazim unit but I think it would be awesome if it was re-skinned to Aiur or Taldarim aesthetics for Selendis or Jinara, respectively).
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I think Selendis will likely get Avengers, Adepts, Scouts, and even a Templar variant of the Void Ray.
As for the Soul Hunter? Not a fan of the design. It looks like an Adept on a floating platform but worse. I’d rather go with the Vindicator. It was based on the “Purifier” from Starcraft: Ghost. Look it up.
What about the Shredder?
I really wanna see this come back to coop.
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Ever since they added Defilers to the game from Nova Covert Ops I wanted to use them in Coop
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Just a note to the OP: you listed Defiler as one of the units you’d like to see. I am pretty sure that’s impossible.
During an Evolution mission in HotS, Abathur says that the Defilers are extinct and cannot be recovered. I am not sure such a tiny lore bit will be remembered, but he very definitely said this.
This may be part of the reason why on the Diamondback mission to destroy Dominion trains and recover the old Adjutant, you collect Defiler bone samples to further Zerg research. If I recall correctly, Kerrigan also collects these in the battle against Warfield’s Gorgon battlecruisers to get levels.
Those poor defilers are just no more. They have ceased to be. Even shrubberies and limbless Black Knights cannot bring them back.
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Overmind could have Defilers in theory. Co Op isn’t canon after all.
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Well, if it’s not canon then yeah.
Defilers appear in the Nova Covert ops missions, so they are very much connonically alive. The team that made the Nova missions probably just forgot about Abathur’s lore tidbit.
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During an Evolution mission in HotS, Abathur says that the Defilers are extinct and cannot be recovered. I am not sure such a tiny lore bit will be remembered, but he very definitely said this.
Besides coop being non canon, and as LeafIt and Zealous mentioned; Nova Covert Ops happens after LotV and way long after WoL and the trains + diamondbacks missions.
In those chapters defilers + a group of feral zergs iirc attack Horner’s base.
In further missions you also see, infested banshees, infested siege tanks, infested turrets, inf bunkers, inf supply depots, brood queens, etc. So the whole Zerg army, including, Overmind’s units, New Swarm’s units and Zerg Infested Terrans. So we can have any single Zerg unit fortunatelly.
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Regular (non-Nova) Liberators.
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