The Nydus Worms - Theories, Conjecture, Guesswork

I've been reviewing the footage of these big ole' dusty earthworms.
Trying to find some common texture, or structure or TELL that the worm is there. Can't seem to find anything.

Is it possible that with a Nydus Worm, you can build a Burrowed structure remotely, and "Pop" it up on your unsuspecting enemy?

Maybe the Worm actually moves while Burrowed... but how would that work?

The Nydus Worm is obviously capable of moving units...I'm not going to play "Count the yakked-up Zerglings" but it's more than 8. Originally the Nydus Tunnels had to be constructed on infected soil, but it shows via the minimap that the brown dirt here is... field natural?

Can this mean the Nydus Worms can open tunnels anywhere? Or perhaps anywhere on Natural soil??
So artificial turf is going to be an advantage just like raised ground?

What do you people think of the Nydus worms? (Aside from the gross sound of regurgitated Zerglings)
Powerful new weapon of the Zerg? Good way to scare noobs?
Discuss.

 

I love this new unit, gives the game a great feel....just imagine how much it would suck to be building your base up and all a sudden 9 worms pop out of the ground in your base and start spewing out units!

 

We had a thread on this already, chances are this will be melded into that, but I'll post anyways....

I believe the general consensus is that you have to have explored where you want the Worm to pop up....I dunno what we said about Fog of War.

 

The Nydus worm can pop up anywhere on the map, it doesn't need the creep.
It has to be scary having a worm coming up in the middle of the base and units start to pour out. Hence players now have to spread out their defenses more rather than just build up on the choke point.

EDIT: It probably cannot come up in the unexplored areas of the map, it can come up in the fog of war.....cos it's not like a terran comsat

 

Yeah having it being able to come up anywhere is kinda cheap...kinda defeats the whole purpose of base defence lol.

 

Defeats it, or, evolves it. . . .

 

I think it will have a range from which it can pop up from outside your base, or maybe it is like a lurker that you can move underground

 

I agree, I think it simply evolves base defence. With the introduction of the Colossi and Reapers as well, you're going to have to cover every part of your base in defence in a long game, and you can't simply cover your choke points. I'm personally looking forward to it, I love building up my defence ^_^

 

But I don't think that there will be a limit for the sake of keeping the game exciting. After all, the Protoss can use their Phase Prisms to warp in units from anywhere on the map, so why can't the Zerg do the same?

 

Maybe it can't move within sight range of Detectors?

 

thats actully very good within the site of detecters would be wicked, if there not smart they deserve to be swared by giant worms lol

 

Or a certain distance from any enemy base... maybe starting points?

 

Maybe they just make a lot of noise when moving, so people can tell when they're coming.

 

I vote for it being able to appear anywhere on the map. I like a good challenge, and especially one that can be retaliated against in the same way with a Phase Prism!

 

Not the same way,
- Phase Prism doesn't have a cloak, so everyone can see it.
- Phase Prism flies, can be shot down much easier than something that goes through the ground.

 

I have to wonder, if the Nydus Worms can get to anywhere in the map (and I personally don't see any reason they shouldn't) and Phase Prisms can do what they do, what about the Terran?

 

I think it would be really stupid if they could just pop up anywhere they woudl like.

 

Maybe if you have a detector you can see the Nydus Worm move under the ground and it becomes vulnerable to attack? Maybe doesn't make the most sense but it's the only thing I can think of.

 

Maybe they won't make Nydus Worms function as Nydus canals did in Sc1, maybe they'll make them an actual underground transport unit that picks up a few units and takes them somewhere, instead of delivering a continuous stream of units like a Canal...

 

I say it's some kind of transport unit.. but instead of being a flying unit.. it's a burrowed unit.. which means it's invisible..