Campaign Creations

WB wrote: From what I've been hearing from friends and from what I saw the AI was raping most people. Games only lasted like 20 min, since they had a timer on all the games to get the line moving, and it was all 1v1.

Doctor Doack wrote: I'd be more worried about the ass-backwards hard counter based balancing than the names right now.

Negi wrote: too many units don't really work well for their purposes

Units they should bring back equivalences of:
Scout
Wraith
Reaver
Goliath
Vulture
Defiler

Units they should scrap
Immortals
Reapers
Colossus

Units they should re-power
Carrier!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Highest tier air should not be that damn weak
Hydralisk went from the most useful unit in the game to a hard anti-air counter.  Seriously, what the hell.

Units that need name-changes:
EVERY NEW PROTOSS UNIT
EVERY NEW TERRAN UNIT
EVERY NEW ZERG UNIT

Seriously, the names they picked are fucking terrible
Nearly every starcraft unit obeyed a racial naming scheme or subscheme

Protoss

Zealot
Templar
Dragoon
Archon
- Names reminiscent of middle-age military units with a distinct catholic-roman feel

Scout
Carrier
Shuttle
Observer
Probe
-Simple names basically describing what the unit does
Corsair
Arbiter
Reaver
- Only names that didn't really fit the naming scheme but all sounded cool

Terran

Marine
Firebat
Ghost
Medic
- Simple names that really convey the units' roles

Siege Tank
Dropship
Battlecruiser
Science Vessel
SCV
- Obvious descriptive names for units -- pretty much what they are

Valkyrie
Goliath
Vulture
- Again, don't necessarily fit, but still sound cool

Zerg

Zergling
Broodling
Hydralisk
Ultralisk
Mutalisk
-Fairly obvious how these all relate.  They are all alien sounding names ending with li-- indicating either diminutive or mature unit type

Queen
Overlord
Drone
Guardian
- All describe organisms in an insect-type hive

Lurker
Devourer
Defiler
-Names describing function -- Lurker lurks, devourer devours (air units), and defiler defiles stuff

Scourge
- Pretty much only zerg unit not following one of the above naming schemes

Now look at SC2
We have for Terran

SCV
Marine
Ghost
Siege Tank
Battle Cruiser
Reaper - It reaps?  I don't get it
Marauder - It marauds? I don't get it
Hellion - WTF does that even mean or relate to?
Thor - ?
Medivac - Name makes sense but is just shitty
Nighthawk - Come on, what does this mean?
Banshee - Having played StarCraft I, this would make sense if it was a natural evolution of the Wraith.  But no, it has two gigantic-ass fans.  Plus it's ATS only which makes it a stupid fucking horrible copy of the guardian.  It is not like the wraith at all, so why name it like that?
Viking - Come on, really?

So we went arguably from 3 non-descriptive non-conforming names to 8.  There is no logic to these names at all.

Consider the new Protoss

Probe
Zealot
High Templar
Dark Templar
(Twilight) Archon
Observer
Carrier
Stalker - Name is misleading, suggests it is a cloaked unit or something. 
Immortal - Doesn't really work with the other names for protoss units.  Never are protoss units named just by adjectives; it just sounds wrong
Nullifier - Name might work, but there are a number of better names that could be come up with
Colossus - Looks like a tripod from War of the Worlds, useless, shitty, and sounds like it would be a Terran unit.  Name sucks, try again.
Warp-Prism - We go from a simple easy name like shuttle to Warp-Prism.  The thing is, Warp-Prism does not sound anything like a protoss unit.  It's just bad.
Phoenix - That's right, the protoss are apparently familiar enough with human mythology to pull this one off.  Doesn't make sense, doesn't work, doesn't sound anything like a protoss air unit.  It does not describe function at all.  Sounds more like a terran unit.
Void Ray - like warp-prism in its shittiness.  Don't describe what it's shaped like..  Describe what it does in some way.  Call it a destroyer, call it anything but void ray.  Void ray in english would just be a ray that shot nothing?
Mothership - WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT WAHT WHAT WHAT?!  Could they really be serious withi this?  We can see that the protoss are aliens.  Unfortunately, the problem is as follows.  Carriers are the protoss capital ships.  Battles are commanded from them.  Ships dock within them.  Mothership doesn't sound protoss.  It doesn't follow any other naming scheme.  It doesn't look protoss.  The devs are a little too preoccupied with war of the worlds or something, because protoss DO NOT USE MOTHERSHIPS!  They warp nearly everything in, or they fly their fleets in when warping in is not an option.  So yeah, fuck "Mothership"

So far, from what we've seen of the Zerg, I don't have much hope either
Creep tumor - shitty name
Zerg Roach - LOLOLOL
Just... yeah, shitty names for the zerg thusfar.

So yeah, those are some problems I have with SC2.  Most important things though, are bringing back standard tier 1 air units for all races back into the game,   Scout and Wraith.  Then next is to re-power the carrier and hydralisk.  More important for the hydralisk, but the carrier would be nice.  After all of those things are done, then they can change the names, but I hope they get better than they are now.