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Starcraft 2: Zerg RoachModel by Phill Gonzales & final textures by Ted Park
Animated by Jay Hathaway
The Zerg Roach is a troublesome creature. During the development of Starcraft 2 the gameplay mechanic of the Roach was established early on and the unit proved to be extremely useful. Artistically, the physique of the Roach was very similar to the Zerg Lurker, leading us to push the Lurker in a different direction so we could retain the current Roach design. There was a small amount of tears shed when the Roach was redesigned as a ranged attacker, making the scything blades nearly useless aside from visual flamboyance. Luckily, the Starcraft 2 engine is adaptable and in this case allowing ranged attackers to perform melee attacks when confronted at close range. The Roach used to be brown like many other Zerg, but now it’s black.
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The art direction was "let's make all the new Zerg units black in SC2 so they stand out from the old units".
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That reminds me, I remember seeing pics of the starcraft prototype from the 90s, and the Zerg Hydralisk was able to do both a melee attack with its claws, and the ranged attack, before they removed it. I always thought that the roach doing the same now was homage to that.
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pretty good but the oversized spikes really take away from the realism.
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My personal rating (1-5)
Model:4
Abilities:5
Shooting animation:4
Portrait:4
Comment: When the beta came out I didn’t like the roach ,but know I think its pretty cool .
What I still do not like about the roach is the shooting animation .The animation could be something more original . Second thing is the portrait . The glowing eyes … I don’t know
It’s just too much. Hiding the head in the shell looks really cool
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Phill, can you comment on why the icon graphic for roach burrow movement and roach speed is flipped? Is there a design reason or has this been a bug since release? I find it very odd that the roach speed movement looks like tunneling claws and the tunneling claws upgrade looks like faster moving claws. It perplexes me why this hasn't been fixed in the game.
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Dang Journalists, always bugging the heck out of talented people.
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This unit was soo friggin powerful wiht its armour and regenerative capability, i remember a fully upgraded roach burrowed with regeneration upgrades nothing would be bale to kill it. I swear i made it fight an ultralisk on its own and it would repair to full after a kaiser blade atk. It sure as hell could destroy hydralisks with ease. Just burrow get health back and come back out, seems really overpowered!
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