The Nydus Worms - Theories, Conjecture, Guesswork

Ok, i did not get that then. The only thing i got was that the worms were Zergs compensation for cliff-walkers.

 

Heey Gusy! I don't know if this has been posted before in this topic, but here goes.

As stated by Thomas "T-Dawg" Wagner over at www.starcraft.org, here is a quote from the text regarding the Nydus Worms.

"THE NYDUS WORM. This bloated tremor of a creature has been the controversy since it was first leaked. Here is the rundown:

1. Build a Nydus Barrens (Which is also needed for a Hive).
2. Build a Nydus Worm (which burrows ungrounded and is cloaked except to detectors).
3. Load units into the Nydus Barrens.
4. Unburrow in some location, transform to Nydus Canal and unload units from Nydus Barrens.

As you can tell – it is infinitely cooler than the Nydus Canal which relied on your opponent being Zerg and not paying attention. Now you can unburrow in anyone’s mineral patch and wreak havoc. How fun!"

Enjoy!

 

But how does it get off the island? (without getting voted off for being a bitch)

 

as i said before,it goes UNDERGROUND!,under the river the lake the pond the bathtub the shower.If it cant do that so my has zerg a disadvantage in island map?

 

Jon said it can't cross rivers, so yes, they have serious disadvantage on island maps. At least they had in that build.

Lore-wise the ground under water may be too deep for it to dig through (hard rocks n' stuff)
In-game: Notice that while there is indeed ground under water bodies in Real, in games usually land is placed on surface of water and there's no ground beneath it.

It's possible that they made this restriction so that worms don't unburrow and drop units on the surface of water (which would make for some fun time on conventions and meetings like Jon's in Irvine btw.) and later they will make worm able to move anywhere but it could only drop units in feasible places.
That's unlikely tohugh, because it wouldn't work on space platforms that way

 

What if overlords could transport, but were unable to do it with worms? Wouldnt that balance it off?

 

Hm... I agree that the Nydus Worm is not enough. An an island map the Zerg couldn't expand! How would that look like... They would lose one of their advantages.. I think the overlord should have the transport ability, but when upgraded to overseer it would lose it. (if the overseer upgrade individual is) This way the Nydus worm could be good for ambushes, but the Overlord should also stay as a transporting unit between your bases.

 

I don't really understand why they don't make the worm work the same way as nydus canals to preserve (aerial) transportation for the Overlord or the Overseer. It could be balanced easily by not allowing it to surface in the fog of war, reducing its hitpoints, making it non-cloaked and if need be, delay the spawning of the units at the other end.

I don't see a future for treating it a unit because of the obvious barriers like its movement visuals.

ps it might have been posted before but does anyone know if the Overlords have to be mutated into Overseers individually like Battlecruisers or if it's a global evolution?

 

I liked the old "they work like drop-pods" idea.

• Fly an overlord over (Any flier will do.).
• Spot and suitable area for unit deployment.
• Select the Warren (or Worm?) and target the ground (Area can't be covered by Fog of War).
• If they want to go for an all-out rip-off of Dune, they could even add a warning mechanic (Wormsign) so the opponent has a chance to prepare before it pops out.
• Worm pops up (Possibly after a delay).

I liked this idea... since you have to have been there before with a visible unit. You can't just boot around the map underground (perma-cloaked) until you find the right spot to pop-up.

I don't really see the point in having it be a controllable unit if there are no units in it.. All the units are back home safe in the Warren; killing the worm doesn't destroy the units inside it like a regular dropship/shuttle.

I still love the Nydus Worm... my favorite addition to the Zerg by far. I just wish I knew how it worked.

 

Hej kuvasz, majbe this video helps... at 6:47 the guy has got the overlord selected, and it shows 3 abilities.. I don't know what the Overlord can do but maybe you can figure it out. http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/188205.html

 

those 3 are: deploy creep, block resources, and upgrade to overseer.

 

This may be a stretch, but perhaps when he said "except water" he meant it couldn't unburrow in water? I don't know.

Also I don't see why worms can't cross space if the queen can (with her underground teleport thing).

 

Yep, but what about Abysses? How would a Worm cross an empty canyon??