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Revision as of 06:43, 23 January 2012
The modern firebat
- Terran firebat(src)
The firebat is a type of terran infantry specialized for close-quarters combat. The firebats played great roles on the terran military war machine even got replaced by marauders.
Overview
- Franko Tildon, widely credited as the first firebat(src)
A post-Brood War firebat
Firebats are "armored assault troopers".[1] Firebats are often attached to provide support for marine squads.[2] They are typically armed with dual arm-mounted flame throwers and wear armor similar to those used by marines, except heavier and providing additional resistance to heat and flame.[1]
During the Guild Wars, a few firebats wore experimental CMC-230 XF armor, equipped with jetpacks. The armor had reliability issues, however, and so was quickly phased out.[3] Though during the Great War,they still wear them despite obsolete.
During the Great War, Confederate firebats were equipped with wrist mounted Perdition flamethrowers and CMC-660 combat suits.[1] The vulnerable flame tanks are protected by containment fields just to protect the wearer.[2] United Earth Directorate firebats were armed with the C-140 "Epyon" Plasma Incinerator Cannon.[4]
As with marines, many firebats are recruited or conscripted from "culturally challenged" persons. Such individuals undergo "neural resocialization" and receive aggression inhibitor implants as part of their training.[1] Firebats are almost exclusively composed of resocialized criminals and psychotic pyromaniacs.[5] Still, volunteers are not unheard of: in the Confederate Marine Corps, an individual had to have a PEB (Preferred Experience Base) of at least three months combat experience to become a firebat.[6] The firebats still serve on various terran military organizations despite being replaced by the marauders.
Game Unit
StarCraft
Unit profile
The firebat's attack is optimized against groups of small-sized units, as it deals concussive splash damage. Firebats are most useful in the early game, as all of the base units for the three races are small. Supported by medics, firebats can stand up to zealots attacks despite the large difference in health between them. With stims and medics, firebats can easily defeat swarms of zerglings.
The firebat's attack is ranged, but it still works under the defiler's Dark Swarm. The attack also deals full damage against protoss shields, regardless of the size of the unit.
Abilities
Marines and firebats double their rate of fire and increase their movement rate for a limited period of time.
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Development
Firebats could set doodads (like trees) on fire.[7]
StarCraft: Ghost
The firebat in StarCraft: Ghost
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In StarCraft: Ghost multiplayer, the firebat was equipped with flamethrowers.[8] In addition, it launched laser-guided or manually guided napalm rockets. The napalm rockets had greater range than the flamethrowers but limited ammo to reload.[8][9]
Firebats moved quite slowly, being outpaced by light infantry and marines.[10]
In the Invasion Mode, a firebat cost three points.[10]
StarCraft II
The firebat is available in the StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty campaign. It is unlocked by playing the mission "The Evacuation", available after Rory Swann was able to procure them for Raynor's Raiders.[11] After the Evacuation mission,the Devil Dogs then offered their services to the Raiders. The marauder replaced the firebat in multiplayer, because the firebat is truly effectively an alternative to the hellion.[12]
When compared to the hellion, the firebat is tougher when given Juggernaut Plating (especially against zerglings and zealots), has a faster rate of fire, can load into bunkers, and can be paired with medics or medivac dropships, making it better defensively and giving it more staying power. The hellion, however, is far faster, has more range and deals more damage per shot (against light units), making it more powerful offensively. The two also have different armor properties, giving them different counters. Overall, the firebat is considered to be more useful than the hellion in the campaign due to its medic/medivac pairings, along with the campaign being a setting where speed is less critical.[13]
Firebats are strong against marines, reapers, zerglings, banelings, infested terrans, and zealots. They are weak against marauders, siege tanks, diamondbacks, stalkers, immortals, archons, roaches, and ultralisks.
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Wings of Liberty
The firebat's attack area increases by +40%.
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Attack upgrades improve attack cooldown of affected units by 5% per level. These self-replicating ultra capacitors reduce the reload time of weapons and systems. Now each of the weapon upgrades at the armory and engineering bay increases attack speed by 5% in addition to increasing damage.
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 Vanadium Plating Armor upgrades increase health of affected units by 5% per level.[15] We have created a new lightweight alloy called vanadium. Vanadium diffuses weapon impacts much more efficiently than traditional armor plating, and it better preserves the life of our units. Now each of the armor upgrades in the armory and engineering bay increases unit life by 5% in addition to increasing armor.
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Development
The following section contains information from a previous version of StarCraft II which is no longer valid.
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Early firebat render
The firebat was set to return in StarCraft II, but was canceled during development.[16] They have been replaced in the most recent build by the marauder.[17] It was found that their role overlapped with hellions.[12] But after the Wings of Liberty release, the firebats remain only in the campaign and other custom games.
Firebats were produced from a factory, as they had bigger, more powerful suits that gave them a greater ability to withstand enemy fire,[18] which granted them more hit points.[19] They could still fit into bunkers[20] and could be healed by medics.[21]
Firebats once had a "Bearclaw Nozzle" upgrade,[22] later renamed Incinerator Gauntlets.
Images
Specialist Firebats
Known Firebats
"Nothin' like a good smoke."
- Lieutenant Jack Frost
- First Sergeant Gui Montag
- Sergeant Bud Morris
- Private First Class Fetu Koura-Abi
- Private Ekart
- Private Hank Harnack
- Private Eugene Malik
- Private Harper Utley
- Private Wabowski
- Billy Bob
- Trevor Jacobs
- Franko Tildon
- Jimmy
Notes
The firebat's portrait in StarCraft II is a mix of StarCraft firebat portrait with StarCraft II marauder portraits.
Space fel orcs, which resemble terran firebats, appeared in the map editor of Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne as well as the final cinematic (the latter only on difficult mode).
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