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I have found a couple of Easter Eggs in HOTS so far, including the opening cinematic.

I'll keep updating the list as I find more, I'm currently replaying the missions on a higher difficulty for achievements and easter eggs.

Arthas in the first Kaldir Mission.

In the Opening Cinematic you can spot people in the Blizzard logo.

This is the second.

And the Third, the air freshener looks like a Gnome/Dwarf, it's not the Terran Insignia.

World of Warcraft Stocks in the bottom right corner.

Got to Kaldir mission 3, here you go. Gave a ping on the map to show where it is, note in it won't open until you destroy the engines.

Here is another Achievement.

Comment and post if you find any! :) Grats to Ahli for beating me to A Game of Drones achievement.

@Alnatair: Go

in the mission in the protoss ship, there's a room dedicated to Aiur Chef

Just posted a pic of another Easter Egg... I was rewatching cinematics.

On account of the room on the ship, I'll get a pic when I get there. Still gotta do the next Kaldir mission.

Anyways, people should keep posting until we find ALL of the Easter Eggs... It'll be a neat list if we could make it a Sticky.

EDIT: And another.

^ the whole Protoss kitchen

One boss fight is very similar to D3's Belial bossfight...

NOTE: I've never played Brood War or the original Starcraft expansions/game, so I wouldn't know about references to it other than the main backstory which Blizzard gives HERE.

EDIT: I noticed A Game of Drones, I didn't get a pic last time but I was going to this time. Haha, beat me to it :P

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One boss fight is very similar to D3's Belial bossfight...

Very similar? It was exactly the same! the whole time, right from the beggining I was wtfing the whole time. I was actually expecting him to transform into something else when his HP hitted 40%...

I gotta be honest, I was kinda disappointed when it didn't :P

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During the mission where you assault the prison ship, there's a marine in a cell with a very specific name, but I can't remember it off the top of my head. It says he refused to receive a security pat-down. The fact that he's got a specific first and last name makes me think it's something easter-eggy but I'm not sure ^.^

There's actually a few prisoners in this level with cool names and funny infos. Definitely inside jokes/easter eggs.

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@Ahli634: Go

Very similar? It was exactly the same! the whole time, right from the beggining I was wtfing the whole time. I was actually expecting him to transform into something else when his HP hitted 40%...

I gotta be honest, I was kinda disappointed when it didn't :P

What do you mean, the fight is already belial at the 2nd form, you expect him to transform even more ?

Most achievement name are pop cultures references. Dont really need to list them since its easy to find, unlike some we have to find in map

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I didn't know about many of the easter eggs until I started playing a second time, I'll try my best to spot some more.

HOTS definitely has way more easter eggs than WoL, and other than the screwed up ending and logic with Kerrigan's psi-lift and flying... It was pretty good.

WoL easter eggs were the Elite Tauren Chieftain song which could play upon entering a code, the Tauren on the second third mission called Zero Hour. That and maybe the Secret Castanar mission? I don't know about any others in WoL, then again it took me a second playthrough to even notice some of the obvious HOTS stuff.

About the Zerus bossfights... Those were good, but Blizzard has it drilled in their head when it comes to bosses.... Mainstream Bosses.

Over the years (anyone else agree?), a lot of the bosses Blizzard releases nowadays are VERY similar to the bosses from D1, and D2? SC didn't really have bosses like that (did it?), just occasional heroes which were on attack move like WoL.

Didn't get D3 so I wouldn't notice... to be honest I've played D2, SC2, and a bit of WoW... so I wouldn't get many references such as BW, or not very apparent/mainstream WoW content such as Arthas.

As someone who hasn't played HOTS yet and doesn't want spoilers but is interested in the easter eggs, this is how I feel scrolling through this thread:

That said: that left guy in the second 'blizzard' picture (in the OP) looks like Sixen, or is that just me?

Edit: Raise your hand if you actually tried clicking that, btw. *Raises hand*

No idea, but when people posted on the Battle.net forums about it. The community managers joked around about "I don't see anything weird... ;)".

I may give them a link to this page just for fun.

Anyways, got some more easter eggs from Kaldir Mission 3. I'll keep getting more as I go, plus if the finder doesn't mind I'll put their easter egg in the big bundle just to summarize it.

Also, another thing I'll be doing. HOTS vs WoL discussion with a poll on your favorite missions, if I get the time.

I didn't find/make all the screenshots I post. I pull that from reddit like the next one which seems to be a star wars episode 4 reference:

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because Progammer didn't post the easteregg that he found in this thread... have my screenshot of it:

This one isn't exactly an easter egg, because I believe it doesn't appear in game, but here it is, you guys MUST listen to it: open a map/mod with the Swarm Story dependency, or add it to a map. Go search the sound files, listen to zOuttakes_EvolutionMaster_001.ogg

Funniest thing ever.

@SoulFilcher: Go

Perhaps a description of what happens? Will have to check that out later...

@Mozared: Go Got it covered, all the outtakes Voice-over files I could find.

@progammer: Go Haha that's onefunniest things ever. Alsof the last one is very funny.

@progammer: Go Dehaka's immitations of Kerrigan are the best! 'There is something daaaark in me Jim"