I got mentioned that Dustin Bowder(Lead Game Designer) was interview by Korean reporter. Here the link to watch this : YouTube - Dustin Browder SC2 Interview
1 sentence that Dustin said : He say he chosen not to keep the Firebat. Anyone can tell me it 'will removed the Firebat' or 'not keep the Firebat and stay' in SC 2? I hope Reaper will be out in Final Version.

Hope my 'poor' english wont confused you.Thank you

He says that for now, the reaper has apparently replaced the firebat. But that's just "for now". Nothings been finalized yet so you can't be sure. But I personally think the chances to Reapers replacing firebats are pretty high.

Thats too bad, firebats were kind of awsome :P

what??? c'mon thats not fair the firebat is one of the terrans best mellee units besides every terran player knows that theres no unit like the firebat

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what if they put them both in how do you think that would work out?

no because that would give the terran way too much of an advantage when they are fighting a melee froup. they would most likly tear them apart.http://www.starcraft2.net/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

how about fuck you

Interesting discussion. LoL!

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As it seems now the Reaper will indeed be in the final version and Firebats won't be avalible in the campaing BUT, they said the Firebat will still be avalible in the SC2 Editor for those interested of keeping them in some User Map Settings map.

actually i find this quite bad... the lack of a melee unit in terran actually made them a little vunerable against an early zealot attack... i used to use the bats as a preventive against prot and zerg in early game...