Its nothing new, dustin browder was also asked about this in a interview, he said its simply the same thing but only with a different animation

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Eschaton

United States1245 Posts

June 17 2010 17:08 GMT

In the depths of my SC2 newbdom, I did upgrade zerg melee attacks at least once in order to improve the melee attack for the roach. 'Cause it clearly has one, right? I get the aesthetic reasoning, but it's potentially confusing to newbs.

ThePurist

Canada686 Posts

June 17 2010 17:10 GMT

It looks pretty cool just because hydras have long forearm blade things and never really put them to use.

So even though it's a melee animation it registers as an ranged?

789

United States959 Posts

June 17 2010 17:10 GMT

This has been in the game since at least battle report 2. There was a point in the game when david kim was getting pinned in the corner by that lower right high yield, and a hydralisk did a melee animation on an auto turret. Like other have said, it's merely an animation and counts the same as their normal ranged attack.

Licmyobelisk

Philippines3682 Posts

June 17 2010 17:10 GMT

I love how wild and durty the hydra gets when doing some smashing and slashing.

UnderWorld_Dream

Canada219 Posts

June 17 2010 17:16 GMT

I'm guessing Guardan Shield still works even tho they attack in melee when close.

Anyone has tested it?

Ordained

United States779 Posts

June 17 2010 17:17 GMT

#10

Well in every single cinematic the Hydralisk is melee.

rastaban

United States2294 Posts

June 17 2010 17:17 GMT

#11

The PDD does not stop the hydralisk's melee attack, might be useful is rare cases.

Bibdy

United States3481 Posts

June 17 2010 17:18 GMT

#12

I wanna see Thors punch shit.

gogogadgetflow

United States2583 Posts

June 17 2010 17:21 GMT

#13

On June 18 2010 02:17 rastaban wrote:
The PDD does not stop the hydralisk's melee attack, might be useful is rare cases.

Wow. That could lead to some exceptional pimpest plays. Or at least some funny moments in 2v2s where hydras kill melee units even under enemy pdds.

chekthehek

United States279 Posts

June 17 2010 17:22 GMT

#14

WTF??? THE HYDRALISK IS USING A MELEE ATTACK? WTF!!!!!?!!

Wr3k

Canada2533 Posts

June 17 2010 17:23 GMT

#15

Same damage & rate of fire, the only difference is the animation, and that it can't be shot down by point defense drones.

Mindful

Sweden21 Posts

June 17 2010 17:25 GMT

#16

On June 18 2010 02:17 rastaban wrote:
The PDD does not stop the hydralisk's melee attack, might be useful is rare cases.

In that case it's not considered a ranged attack then?

rastaban

United States2294 Posts

June 17 2010 17:26 GMT

#17

On June 18 2010 02:18 Bibdy wrote:
I wanna see Thors punch shit.

The death animation for that would be so sweet, It would be worth building them vs zerglings just to see them fly through the air when struck.

kajeus

United States679 Posts

June 17 2010 17:26 GMT

#18

On June 18 2010 02:23 Wr3k wrote:
Same damage & rate of fire, the only difference is the animation, and that it can't be shot down by point defense drones.

I see some slick burrow action in the future...

rastaban

United States2294 Posts

June 17 2010 17:28 GMT

#19

On June 18 2010 02:25 Mindful wrote:

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In that case it's not considered a ranged attack then?

Technically the PDD only stops projectile attacks and not ranged attacks. So even though it is considered ranged it is no longer a projectile.

Guardian Shield affects ranged attacks but not "splash" attacks so it should still work in this case.

pzea469

United States1520 Posts

June 17 2010 17:31 GMT

#20

I knew about this already but had never seen the animation. I always thought that Blizzard should really take advantage of this and change it to melee and make the damage higher. Could even have a melee icon that you can right click to activate(like you would when switching to autocast on spells). Would lead to some awesome micro and add uniqueness to the hydra