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#102 Jan 29, 2013 at 23:03 UTC - 0 likes

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if its not in the game it doesnt really count even if its from blizzard :P.

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Yeah, but the whole discussion only exists because Blizzard recently gave us the stats for the Bucephalus, the biggest battlecruiser ever, and it's only 550m long., which makes it a lot smaller than a city.

The one in this cinematic looks pretty accurate to me. For the sake of this video I'm going to say those sky scrapers are 70 stories tall. Ok, well that puts them at roughly 875-950 feet tall, about half the length of a the Bucephalus. As we can see from the video over half of the Battlecruiser is show before it actually makes contact with the ground. Blizzard got this right and anyone who says otherwise can't do simple math.

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#104 Feb 01, 2013 at 02:00 UTC - 0 likes

@Daara87: Go The one in this cinematic looks pretty accurate to me. For the sake of this video I'm going to say those sky scrapers are 70 stories tall. Ok, well that puts them at roughly 875-950 feet tall, about half the length of a the Bucephalus. As we can see from the video over half of the Battlecruiser is show before it actually makes contact with the ground. Blizzard got this right and anyone who says otherwise can't do simple math. <</quote>>

The Bucephalus is 550m. That's 1805 feet. In my estimation, the skyscraper on the right side of the frame when we see the Battle Cruiser fall, is approx 15 stories tall. We can see approx half of the battlecruiser. If it is the Bucephalus, then that's about 900 feet, I think it's a bit more. Let's go with 1000 feet.

What we see of the BC on screen, 1000', is about twice as tall as the skyscraper to the right (assuming the one right next to the BC is as tall as the close by one) without correcting for tilt. If you were to tilt the structure to the same angle as the cruiser, then we get about 2.5 or 3 towers in height for the BC on screen. If the building is 15 stories high, and we use an estimate of 15' per story, that's 225' per building. 225(2.5)=563. 225(3)=675. This brings us to somewhere around 6-700 feet of the BC on screen, or 1200-1400 feet total.

Basically, a 1400' BC is not the Bucephalus. That's more like 450m, not 550m. I might have underestimated, or, it might be a standard BC. Anyhow, the scale is close to what makes sense. The buildings in the front row are 4 stories tall. The buildings at the base of the skyscraper are about the same height. If it's more like 20 stories per tower (Now that I think about that, that's closer), that's still 750-900' of BC on screen, or a much closer 1500-1800' of total.

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#105 Feb 01, 2013 at 02:23 UTC - 0 likes

@libertymonk: Go Whoa wait, how exactly you counted stories for the buildings? Remember the tallest buildings on Korhal are huge, the one on the right, with its tip near the clouds, doesn't look like its only 15 stories tall at all. The one on the left, not totally visible, looks very close to some of the new doodads, which have way more than 15 stories.

Well, I dont want to drag this discussion, I simply imagined the buildings way taller then you did.

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#106 Feb 01, 2013 at 21:40 UTC - 0 likes

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Well, I compared the height of the 4/5 story buildings in the front. All of that crap looks like it's about four or five stories tall because there are windows/balconies or whatever ridges there. You can see three distinct floors above the ground floor (four stories total) of the buildings at the edge of the "plaza" with the Mengsk statue. Most of the buildings in Korhal look to be about that same height. The tower on the right that gets close to the clouds/BC wing looks to be four or five times the height of the regular buildings near its base. I don't think that any of the massive buildings are in sight, or if they are, they are miles away. The one on the left is possibly as many as 30 floors tall.

My estimation may have been off, but I think that tower is about 15-20 stories tall. Just to be clear, I'm using larger than normal stories. I think I actually confused myself, but the tower doesn't seem massive. It's more like a pre-20th century sky scraper, or a tall building rather than a standard apartment/business. The Willis tower is massive, as is the Burj Khalifa, but many of the other towers in Chicago and Dubai are not 500m+ in height. At any rate, from the architecture, it's more plausible for it to be shorter than Earth's "multi-tube" type structures.

I'm sorry if I'm being a dick, I'm just really bad at ignoring questions that aren't bully-class. I feel as though the scale of the Cruiser is close to something that makes sense, not just because Blizzard should know better than to spend thousands on a cinematic that is not to scale.

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