New Zerg video

Found at: www.sc2news.dk frontpage - 14 Jun 2008

 

Great! Why is he killing his ultralisks?

 

I have to say 4 things about this video:
1: I like that the infested terrans have timed life.
2: The water looks awesome with all the waves.
3: That plague ability looks deadly.
4: I like the animation for the creep when it spreads.

 

Are you sure this is new since the infestor spawned infested marines as opposed to broodlings? But i guess blizzard might not have released that build yet. Why do all these zerg videos have to contain a force of 20 ultralisks ! ><

 

Dark swarm looks really good but it should be above the units.
When he plays around with the zerglings, you can really see the difference between the SC and SC2 reaction times of units, which will make micro even more powerful.
And I still think the creep is just blight in 3D. Creep should be brighter and a bit more purple-brownish.

@LT: I think he consumes them to try out dark swarm and plague

 

But why kill them all? I guess he's just fooling around...

I do too. It's awesome!
If you put two overlords on the same spot to make creep, does the creep surface increase more or it just grows faster, or...

 

asides from everyones comments, have you guys noticed the marines running speed? it looks like as if they were adrenaline rushed zerglings..

 

prolly stimpacks

 

this is a really old movie, not only does it have infested marines, but it also has swarm clusters, which was the old defense building for the Zerg. and i have to say ouch at 1:40 on the 2nd section.

just notice that this was the vid. where we saw how powerful a small group of Ultralisks can be. tho that time the vid. was very short, not this whole match.

 

Which video is which?

I saw a lot of cool things, like the Infestor plaguing those Ultralisks, and the Queen making Creep Tumors and then seeing them turn into Shriekers, but I didn't see any Infested Marines.

 

just want to say that the name is no longer Plague, it is now called Disease, it targets only one unit, is contagious so the ability can spread rapidly, and can kill. it cant spread to buildings, but can be casted on buildings to spread to near-by units.

@ Kimera, the infested marines happened right before he started to Diseased his own Ultralisks.

 

Source?

 

im looking for it, when they talked about it, it was in a none sticky thread, and was just after the Zerg release, i do know that the ability spread tho, cuz if you looked at the 3rd section of this vid. and watch where he took out 1 Ultralisk and cast Disease on it, there was a few seconds before it spread to the Infestor. ill continue to look for that thread between all the spam they have.

Edit: well i guess i lied about them talking about it, tho my 2 primary sources, SC Armory, and SC Source, say that the name is now Disease, and even tho all databases are somewhat unreliable right now, they are the best thing we have besides Blizz. clarifying it themself, and knowing Blizz., i think there is a 50% possibility that the name was changed with the ability.

 

What I heard about the disease ability is that when it cast, any unit which touches it and then touches another unit passes on the disease, so without paying attention you could lost a whole batch of Marines or something.

The 3rd video was new to me tho, saw the first 2.

For clarification, before the Infestor started putting disease on the Ultralisks, was that Darkswarm it casted, then the Ultralisks stepped on it. I guess Darkswarm doesn't cover them?

Oh and was the Infestor consuming some of them cuz I noticed it didn't kill the Ultralisk in one consume like it would in Sc1, so to me that tells me it drains hitpoints for mana.

Ohohoho the Disease ability is something I'm gonna love, tha fact it requires a little more attention then when you got irridated, it will require you to quaranteen the diseased units, I love it.
Then you gotta be ready for the possibility they run into you and give you the disease; I wonder if its possible to catch your own disease?
Yyou can Disease a group of Zerglings and suicide the enemy passing it on to them. Now thats the kind of mechanics I love, where it leaves you open for more than the obvious!!!

I really wanna see the rest of the recording...

 

from what i know, from the sources that i use, it take a % of health from the units that it is affecting at the moment, and i dont think consume is in the game right now, what you saw, the flashing bulbs of light, was Disease in effect, otherwise he would have consume some of his Ultralisks or even the infested marines to cast Disease faster.

 

the infestor dose not have consume anymore. That has been removed from the game as of right now. It is casting another ability on the ultralisk, its like the old science vessal's ability.

 

How can you remove consume, we need it. Although disease is quite powerful and doesn't need to be cast multiple times like Plague did, so I'm fine about that...

 

LOL just imagine casting disease on the enemies workers. it would spread, and all of em are gone! LOL

 

DIESEASE - Matchbox 20


I got a disease
Deep inside me
Makes me feel uneasy baby
I can't live without you
Tell me what I am supposed to do about it
Keep your distance from it
Don't pay no attention to me
I got a disease
II'm free of my disease



..thats a very definitive tribute for the mechanic, I love the infesters disease ability but maybe it should be shifted to tier 3 upgrade for balance issues.. as im not quite sure how it could possibly be the most threatening sickness as a midtier ability and about consume... i rather cut it because an infinite energy source for the infester would be really pesky to deal with having him in mid tier ^_^ and that would make him too skillful if he still has consume that would make it 5 which would quite be unfair to other races casters...

 

They removed consume because the inferster is a early game unit at tier 2 and having them move under ground and take buildin + spreding diseases would be way OP. they did the right thing.