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If you try to hit a baseball thrown by a professional pitcher, you won't have a good time and in the same way if you play a professional StarCraft player you will get trounced. Whenever the game defences get too strong the game suffers. They just hid behind their base and no one attacked for a very long time. With StarCraft 2s multiplayer games seeming to head down a similar route, I asked Sigaty about this design choice. If the original StarCrafts multiplayer games had one shortfall, it was the sense that there was a set formula for victory an optimum order in which to construct buildings and units that simply couldn't be countered if built quickly enough. With Browder called away to answer questions at another table and my German companion now hooked up to an oxygen tank to help control his excitement at the new wing configuration of a Terran aerial unit, I dive into a succession of multiplayer games, each as unrelenting as the next But with each game ending in either a dominant win or a crushing defeat, a gnawing doubt begins to scrape its molars down the back of my brain. They also have the ability to burrow, enabling them to pop up from below the ground and launch surprise attacks against passing packs of enemies. As well as the newcomers, the Zerg also welcome back a number of familiar units, including the Linker, Hydralisk, Mutalisk and pesky Zerglings that remain the perfect weapon for quick strike attacks on undefended enemy bases.Īlso making a return are the towering mammoth-like Ultralisks, which inflict devastating amounts of area damage with their massive tusks. Spotting some seriously rapid regeneration abilities that make the Hulk look like a slow healer, a massed pack of high-level Roaches can cut through a sizeable enemy force and come out virtually unscathed. If the Zerg had one weakness in the original game it was their lack of a tough, scrapper unit, a shortfall that Blizzard is keen to rectify here with a ground-attack arachnid warrior called the Roach. She can also lay eggs throughout your base, which then hatch into kamikaze base defenders whenever a foe approaches. The Queen has now become one of the game's most impressive units, a truly formidable warrior capable of tearing through enemy ranks as though they're made of wet toilet paper. She can also heal a building instantly for several hundred hit points and quickly tunnel around areas infested with Creep. She gets bigger and more powerful, and can even bring your buildings to life to defend your base. Perhaps the most notable change in how the Zerg play is the revised role played by the Queen, a giant, scuttling killer that looks like a distant cousin to the mother from Aliens. The other ability allows the Overlord to generate Creep, a terraforming ability that prevents your opponents from building on or using infested areas of the map. With victory mine, Browder tells me that resources and observation posts relics scattered throughout each map that push back the fog of war when captured can also be infested with a unit called the Overlord. Within seconds, a once well-defended stronghold is nothing more than a pile of rubble. What begins as an equally matched slugfest soon degenerates into a massacre as my Corruptors turn the fleet to my whims, while the infested barracks spew out marines loyal to my cause. Acting on Browder's advice, I spawn a legion of Corruptors and Infestors, then storm a nearby Terran base. The Corruptor is a squid-like air-to-air unit that turns enemy craft against their masters, while the Infestor brings your opponent's buildings under your control for a limited period of time. While the Zerg's lightning-fast unit generation makes them a formidable fighting force, it's the faction's infestation units that truly set them apart from the Terrans and Protoss. However, with no limit imposed on the number of Hatcheries you can construct, the Zerg can churn out a frightening number of units in seconds. Zerg units mutate from larvae spawned at a Hatchery.
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