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In StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, you will unleash the devastating power of Sarah Kerrigan and advance the evolution of the Swarm to terrifying new heights.
Queen of Her Brood

Kerrigan will be a playable unit in most missions of StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm. When the former Queen of Blades takes the field, she has multiple roles to choose from. Each role is called a Battle Focus and comes with a unique set of abilities. As the campaign progresses, new roles will unlock, and Kerrigan will acquire new abilities for existing roles. The Battle Focus you choose for Kerrigan in any given mission and the way you use her powers will have a major impact on how each mission plays out.

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Unnatural Selection

Harder, better, faster, stronger: the Swarm never stops evolving, and in Heart of the Swarm, you decide how the zerg develop. Between missions, you'll be able to mutate your different zerg species. If you unlock enough mutations for a species, you can evolve that species into one of two different strains. For example, one zergling strain might evolve the ability to hatch more zerglings from the same egg, while the other could produce zerglings that can make short leaps forward to close into melee distance more quickly.

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Goldenthorns #950
Goldenthorns
3 days ago
i think they should show every new unit in heart of the swarm
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blizzard check this unit out --> The zerg took the critter karak and blended it with their home planet of char. It can shoot fireballs out of its mouth from a long distance. Its twice as big as a hydralisk and it deals minor splash when the balls explode. It shoots 3 mini fire balls at air. The stomach glows with red fire. It changed its face and tail to look more like a zerg/firebeast. It would be a good unit because zerg dont have a good seige ground unit like a seige tank or collosus. It would be perfect for HOTS. Comment on what you think.
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Exterminater #393
Exterminater
5 days, 14 hours ago
so excited.
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I wish this would come out this year...
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shadow #3953
shadow
5/12/2012
starcraft is the bomb
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@shadow: lol i am a bomb (referring to my name)
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XxKatooluxX #982
XxKatooluxX
5/9/2012
The only Blizzard franchise that's beginning to bug me is Warcraft, I think they need to do MoP to set a good base for WarCraft 4. I mean come on, WoW is no new top of the line mmo and people are getting bored they want new styles of mmo's. So just bring it to RTS now, because Blizzard owns when it comes to lore and RTS games!
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XxKatooluxX #982
XxKatooluxX
5/9/2012
@XxKatooluxX: But Diablo and StarCraft are great to me!
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FoxMulderFBI #418
FoxMulderFBI
5/12/2012
@XxKatooluxX: Oh yeah I'm with you I was kind of disappointed when I saw WoW wasn't an RTS. Warcraft 2 brought me into the fold of RTS games and computer gaming in general. They BETTER do a Warcraft 4. 3 came out when? 2003 or something? That game is still SO epic especially for how old it is. When WC IV drops sometime in 2015(?). That'll be the day........ You see, the epic wait for Starcraft II and Diablo III will be overshadowed by the current wait for Warcraft IV!
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ILIKKACATZ #179
ILIKKACATZ
5/9/2012
All the players that are ranting about Blizz making bad games have either not finished campaign or haven't played multiplayer enough...
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ILIKKACATZ #179
ILIKKACATZ
5/9/2012
@edmundduke: who cares if they make WoW worse which they aren't , WC3 was better. Also don't even bring up WoW this is starcraft.
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Quikkill #744
Quikkill
5/8/2012
@EdmundDuke I couldn't even get through your comment. Your spelling and grammar are atrocious. Maybe you should invest in an education instead of bashing Blizzard.
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Olson #684
Olson
5/8/2012
@Quikkill: lol
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BrassBalls #288
BrassBalls
5/8/2012
@Quikkill: Exactly! HAHAHA!
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EdmundDuke #490
EdmundDuke
5/8/2012
Blizz is more concerned with ruining world of war craft with thier pathetic new concepts for the pandora expansion. You expect them to actually make a decent game after hireing people who worked for sony? really ? does no one else remebe what misserable failures sony put out like the everquest series... now the same people are designing for blizz. It is time to invest in a new gameing co that actually listens to the people who pay for the games
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Xtreme #421
Xtreme
5/8/2012
I really doubt this game will be released before 2013. Don't get your hopes up
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Busted #973
Busted
5/7/2012
i wonder what other units they have 4 protoss
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NinjaNoob #597
NinjaNoob
5/6/2012
I want Raptors in multiplayer!
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Avail #945
Avail
5/5/2012
I was dissapointed with the 10-12 year wait for SC2 and the limmited improvments along with the minimal single player game content. It realy felt like an expansion pack to me which did not merrit a new releice. Dissapointments like this will cause me to wait for the wait for the SC battlechest to come down to 10$ several years after it's released. I expected more. I suspect an even greater diaspointment lies just around the corner with the release of DIII. If blizzard does not blow doors off with DIII I will likly never buy another blizzard product OTC. They will either have to pay me to play it, make it free, or give refunds on the purchase if people decide they don't like the game and want to return it after a trial period. And yes I do live in a dream where expectations become dissapointments on a regular bases when it comes to recent blizzard projects I can't wait for GuildWars2.
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Brotato #212
Brotato
5/6/2012
@Avail: Judging by your profile, it doesn't seem like you have the authority to say much about improvements or minimal single player content. I don't think you even gave this game a chance. You were expecting something bad, so you experienced something bad. If you don't like the game then fine, but don't rant about your dissatisfaction of a game you didn't even really play. Also, your spelling and punctuation are atrocious.
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LyonTheDark #938
LyonTheDark
5/7/2012
From what I've heard DIII is losing alot of character customization from DII. In an ARPG we want copious amounts of character customization, without it what is an ARPG?
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KilJadaen #917
KilJadaen
5/8/2012
@Brotato: Bravo! Thank you for saying what was needed to be said. I agree that too often do we have people who constantly rant about how bad a game was, but they don't have the right to say anything especially if they have not even given the game a chance. I for one look forward to this game and I thoroughly enjoyed SC2 Wings of Liberty. "Khassar de Templari!"
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Luminosity #903
Luminosity
5/10/2012
@Avail:

"Dissapointments like this will cause me to wait for the wait for the SC battlechest to come down to 10$ several years after it's released."

You must be pretty delusional. Have a look at the Diablo series battlechest's cost.

"I suspect an even greater diaspointment lies just around the corner with the release of DIII."

And you base this on...? You haven't even given one suggestion as to what could be changed/improved/removed/added to Starcraft 2, but have the balls to decidedly state that SC2 sucks, and feel that D3 is going to be just as bad.
Typical.

"If blizzard does not blow doors off with DIII I will likly never buy another blizzard product..."

lol. Just lo- nevermind.

"They will either have to pay me to play it, make it free..."

EL OH E-
Oh wait, been there already.

"...I can't wait for GuildWars2."

Then you have a solution. No need to play anymore Blizzard games.
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Luminosity #903
Luminosity
5/10/2012
@Luminosity:

Since I've managed to do only as much as what you've put in, I'd say I'm able to compare my experiences to yours.

I've completed all 29 campaign missions on Hardmode (except for the very last one, on Normal). It might look like I haven't because I did all that on my brother's account before I bought my own (multiplayer reasons).
Ironically though, I never played multiplayer at all due to stupidly purchasing the US version when I'm situated in Australia. I had about 1s - 1.2s worth of lag.

I actually think the campaign is quite nicely done. Short-ish, but still nice and fun.
The pace was fast, never a slow point that made me yawn during the playthrough.
However, the tech upgrades system is what peaked my interest. That added a nice amount of change to the typical campaigns from older games that I'm used to.

And since you want to implement the typical childish mentality of "I'm right, you're wrong", I'm gonna do it here.
A lot of us seem to like SC2 a lot, and I liked the campaign a lot, myself.

So you're wrong. Gtfo.
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dmen #633
dmen
5/13/2012
@Brotato: who cares what someones profile says. i play SC2 all the time but do you know what my profile says... it says i played one custom game and quit.
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dmen #633
dmen
5/13/2012
@Brotato: btw i beat the campaign 3 times
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TheChampion #534
TheChampion
5/3/2012
its coming out after december or on the first of 2013
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Sebastian #438
Sebastian
5/2/2012
Well Zerg always makes things interesting I must admit I'm hoping that this will come out when I have the money!
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kitchell #133
kitchell
4/30/2012
Zerg is going to fk sht up
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NinjaNoob #597
NinjaNoob
4/29/2012
I would change the replicant. How about it copies the unit's ability instead of the unit? It could have Snipe, EMP, Point Defense Drone, and Auto Turret if it copied a ghost and then a raven! Not cloak or BC canon, you know, but it would still be real cool!
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NinjaNoob #597
NinjaNoob
5/14/2012
@NinjaNoob: I wonder if Blizzard read this stuff...
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NinjaNoob #597
NinjaNoob
5/14/2012
@NinjaNoob: talking to myself again I see
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Scotty #648
Scotty
4/29/2012
Itl'll probably come out in another 5 years. You know how Blizzard rolls...
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avengingdead #464
avengingdead
4/21/2012
probly like sc1 you need the expansion to play with others in that game
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Nuju #965
Nuju
4/21/2012
I've heard blizzard talk about more co-op with the campaign, similar to night 2 die map with WoL, if they DO, do more co-op, I think it should be with the campaign itself too. That would be awesome.
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Luminosity #903
Luminosity
5/10/2012
@Nuju:

Yeah hopefully there's co-op in Heart of the Swarms.
Curiously enough, my brother and I were playing Army of 2 just a mere few days ago, when he mentioned that there should be more FPS/TPS games with a proper co-op design implemented into the game.
I feel the same way about RTS campaigns.
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darioserrano #849
darioserrano
4/20/2012
O_o
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SamWise #201
SamWise
4/20/2012
Ooooooh... so good.
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Miles #692
Miles
4/20/2012
when does it come out