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wonksaggin
Profile Joined March 2010
United States73 Posts
May 07 2010 04:43 GMT
#1
So, Blizzard claimed in the recent Patch 11 that Ultralisk will receive another buff in the upcoming patch. What are some of your predictions and or what would you like to see the Ultralisk have?

I'll start it off: Since the Ultralisk has two hornlike slicers, it might be nice to see them do x2 damage. Kind of like how Banshees missles are but melee, and also adding splash damage since those horns slice like scissors.
synapse
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
China13814 Posts
May 07 2010 04:46 GMT
#2
Armor or Speed no longer requires upgrade
:)
Ryuu314
Profile Joined October 2009
United States12679 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-07 04:47:04
May 07 2010 04:46 GMT
#3
It doesn't matter how they buff Ultra damage or hp or stats. It won't fix it unless they made it imbalanced through stat tweaking.

The issue with ultras are that they are enormously expensive as an investment and don't give a very good return on that investment. In addition, they're in credibly fat, which really screws with army pathing and makes it way to easy for them to be countered.

I think the only way they're going to make them more useful is to either give one or both of their upgrades by default or to make the model size smaller (at the cost of some stat nerfs).
ccou
Profile Joined December 2008
United States681 Posts
May 07 2010 04:52 GMT
#4
It's not going to happen, but it'd be funny to see ultras headbut air units.
Wake up Mr. B!
Zeno
Profile Joined May 2010
United States40 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-07 04:54:25
May 07 2010 04:54 GMT
#5
It's gotta be something that affects the animation/graphics, or else they would likely have done it in this patch. My prediction is allowing ultras to walk above roaches/lings to have less clutter.

A cliff walk ability would be sweet too, but with the current changes i think it's unlikely.
poor newb
Profile Joined April 2004
United States1879 Posts
May 07 2010 04:55 GMT
#6
they should smash force fields by walking over them
How do you mine minerals?
xnub
Profile Joined August 2009
Canada610 Posts
May 07 2010 04:56 GMT
#7
On May 07 2010 13:55 poor newb wrote:
they should smash force fields by walking over them


and push supply depos into the ground mode : O lol
Loving the beta !! Weeeeeeee
Chairman Ray
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States11903 Posts
May 07 2010 04:57 GMT
#8
Ultralisks will get an ability where they can shoot 2 special missiles out of their eyes. Upon impact, these missiles open up to form a giant megalaser per missile. Megalasers have 200 hp and fires at 20 damage per second, piercing targets and damaging everything in a vertical line. When it kills an enemy unit, the enemy unit will become a zombie. These zombies spawn giant Stalin Robots that corrupt enemies with communist beliefs. You can combine 10 giant Stalin Robots to form a giant Lenin robot. The Lenin robot shoots robot stalin's as ammunition which could be further turned into Stalin Robots. A Lenin Robot, 4 Stalin Robots, and a giant megalaser can all be combined in a Power Rangers fashion to create an even larger robot. That robot shoots out Chuck Norrises as ammunition. Each Chuck Norris does over 9000 damage upon impact and can roundhouse kick the Overmind into oblivion. When there are over 100 Chuck Norrises ingame, the game crashes because it is unable to process that much win.
Equalizer
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada115 Posts
May 07 2010 04:57 GMT
#9
An interesting idea that I remember seeing that seems to have been burried is to give ultralisks the ability to "push" units out of their way (your own and enemy's).
After all it is primaily pathing that hinders ultralisks.

As I see it Blizzard could use the game engine machanics that are used for sentry force field.
The person who says it cannot be done, should not interrupt the person doing it.
Seiuchi
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States931 Posts
May 07 2010 04:58 GMT
#10
Take away the Armored modifier and just make it Biological/Massive. That way Ultras tank through everything like they were designed to do.

I think that along with some of the commonly suggested pathing ideas (let lings walk under) would fix it and make it a useful unit. It could probably keep the same speed if you're sure it's going to get through to melee range and draw fire.
FestiveLemur
Profile Joined April 2010
United States19 Posts
May 07 2010 05:08 GMT
#11
Give a pounce, trample, or charge ability.
Mobius
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Canada1268 Posts
May 07 2010 05:08 GMT
#12
they can cast darkswarm
Entusman #51
Saracen
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States5139 Posts
May 07 2010 05:09 GMT
#13
Increase base movement speed to that of a speed upgraded zergling. Allow an upgrade to let ultralisks fly (over force fields).
WorkersOfTheWorld
Profile Joined April 2010
United States619 Posts
May 07 2010 05:10 GMT
#14
Consume zerglings to regain health.
Samwise: You don't want to play Dustin [Browder]. He can't even beat the UI, let alone the AI. -
Baerinho
Profile Joined February 2010
Germany257 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-07 05:11:43
May 07 2010 05:10 GMT
#15
i would prefer three changes, and non are stat related:

-makes them slightly smaller

-allow zerglings to run under them similar to collossi, but just the lings

-speed upgrade comes in the serial model
jeebuzzx
Profile Joined January 2010
Canada365 Posts
May 07 2010 05:12 GMT
#16
ultras start with +2 armor upgrade so you dont have to research
MrStorkie
Profile Joined April 2010
United Kingdom697 Posts
May 07 2010 05:16 GMT
#17
perhaps the ultralisk deserves an ability? such as taunt maybe? taunt ability forces units affected to focus fire on the ultralisk, making it a more efficient 'tank' unit as opposed to a mega sized, clumsier but bigger hp pool version of the zergling
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0neder
Profile Joined July 2009
United States3733 Posts
May 07 2010 05:17 GMT
#18
Ultralisks can cliff walk, deform terrain, move while burrowed, attack air units, and can swallow zerg units to heal (kodo beast!)
BlackHat
Profile Joined April 2010
United States264 Posts
May 07 2010 05:18 GMT
#19
On May 07 2010 13:56 xnub wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 07 2010 13:55 poor newb wrote:
they should smash force fields by walking over them


and push supply depos into the ground mode : O lol


Rofl. Awesome ideas. Ultras now "F your wall Terrans, screw your forcefields Protoss!"

I would add to this by giving them the ability to hit Terran buildings into liftoff mode.
Borsalino for life.
shalafiend
Profile Joined April 2010
United States62 Posts
May 07 2010 05:19 GMT
#20
upon death ultras spawn broodlings, much like destroyed zerg buildings
upon attacking, ultras have a 25 percent chance to stun for 2 seconds
upon being attacked, ultras gain increased attack/ or increased defense

dam is nerfed back to 18
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