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The following section contains information from a previous version of StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm which is no longer valid.

The shredder was a terran automaton. It was developed after the first phase of the Second Great War after analysis of the battles fought, in order to better improve the terran war machine.[2]

Game Unit[]

The shredder was a mobile unit produced from the factory.[3]
It could create a whirlwind of radioactive death around it. It dealt roughly 20 DPS to both ground and air units, but didn't affect units on different elevations.[1]

The attack was automatically disabled if friendly units entered within range.[4]
It was particularly effective against zerg opponents.[5]

The shredder could not attack while moving and needed to be deployed for it to use its ability.[4][3]

It burrowed into the ground, but did not require detection to be seen.

The shredder's unit portrait was expected to resemble the MULE's.[5]

Development[]

Shredder Concept Game

Concept art

The shredder began its life as a "napkin concept"—a term for low-detail concept art, with most of the actual design left to unit modelers. An early concept had it being structurally similar to spider mines.[5]

The shredder was cut from multiplayer by April 2012. Testing showed it confused players; the unit was being used for quickly killing workers rather than for its intended purpose of map control.[6]
Additionally, its role overlapped with that of the siege tank.[7]

Heart of the Swarm beta files indicate that the shredder had many different forms and/or names over the course of its development. These include the "sentry mine", "firebot" and "mine layer".[8]

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Rusher. 2011-10-26. ​A complete list of all multiplayer HOTS changes/additions, now that Blizzcon is over. Reddit. Accessed 2011-10-29.
  2. 2011-10-27, BlizzCon 2011: StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm – Units and Abilities. Blizzplanet, accessed on 2011-11-06.
  3. 3.0 3.1 2011-10-21. Blizzard Cuts and Adds StarCraft II Units. IGN. Accessed 2011-10-21.
  4. 4.0 4.1 LordBlackJack. 2011-10-21. Blizzcon 2011 : Terran new units Starcraft 2 heart of the swarm. Youtube. Accessed 2011-10-22.
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 2011-10-23, BlizzCon 2011 - Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm and Blizzard DOTA - Art & Technology Panel (Full). YouTube, accessed on 2011-11-07.
  6. Dustin Browder. 2012-04-11. Developer Update: Heart of the Swarm Multiplayer - Starcraft II. Battle.net, accessed on 2012-04-11.
  7. 2012-06-15, David Kim Interview - MLG Anaheim 2012. StarCraft Legacy, accessed on 2012-07-19.
  8. Blizzard Entertainment. Heart of the Swarm beta Map Editor. (Activision Blizzard) (in English). 2012-09-04.
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