Patch 1.4 PTR Notes (updated 9/8) - Page 383

On September 11 2011 12:18 Truedot wrote:
Turn neural parasite into Neural Suicide. It can only be used on massive units, and sucks all the life out of the infestor to instantly blow up a massive unit.

there, problem solved.

Noone had a problem in brood war when people could Mass queens for 75 energy a pop to spawn broodlings instantly destroying tanks and adding zerg units to your forces instantly.

Queens had an ability that destroyed a strong enemy unit and also added units of your own to the field! This is like a perma-neural, which btw Neural Parasite was permanent back in beta.

Now that you can no longer take over massives, WHy not make Neural Permament again (yes, it was perma but still channeled meaning you had to cancel it to move your festor, they just reduceed its perma status to ridiculously low timer status so you other races wouldn't fear having their massive units perma taken)

On September 11 2011 17:59 freetgy wrote:
is that really true?

Baneling drops are insanely cost effective, because they do instant damage unlike storm and cheaper and upgradable.

I just tested it on ptr, everything worked just right. The change that affects drops is "Transports can no longer unload units into a dense area if the original order was issued on a fogged location."

Probably he just right clicked drop on a fog area and when it didn't work he's like "Wtf just happened". I will try to upload a video when i can.

On September 11 2011 18:41 atavus wrote:
Seems to me that it will be better if NP don't affect Psyonic unit : meaning almost almost all the major casters, archon & mothership.
In addition that massive don't get rooted by fungal just like Ultralisk.
This will make the archon/HT branch the perfect counter to Infestor without affecting ZvT & still allow a toss that went robo to be at least able to micro under fungal to snipe infestor as this is the only protoss unit with enough range to doing so, but colossi can still be NPable, turning the exchange in a microfest.

On September 11 2011 18:59 branflakes14 wrote:
For anyone who thinks Neural Parasite is now worthless, consider that NPing a Stalker is a 125/50 loss for your opponent and a 125/50 gain for you. That's pretty damn good, even after subtracting the cost of the Infestor. Neuralling a Colossus was a 600/400 and 12 supply gain in total, which really is just retarded when you think about it.

On September 11 2011 18:59 branflakes14 wrote:
For anyone who thinks Neural Parasite is now worthless, consider that NPing a Stalker is a 125/50 loss for your opponent and a 125/50 gain for you. That's pretty damn good, even after subtracting the cost of the Infestor. Neuralling a Colossus was a 600/400 and 12 supply gain in total, which really is just retarded when you think about it.

On September 11 2011 19:04 solidbebe wrote:


You must've missed the part where it said neural parasite lasted only 15 seconds. And that researching neural parasite costs 150 - 150. And that it costs 100 energy which would be better spent fungaling and throwing out infested terrans. Yes I believe you missed that part.

On September 11 2011 19:17 Big J wrote:
Just want to put it out there: if you Vortex 20 roaches you have a 1500/500 and 40supply gain which is even more retarted. I guess that's why we see Vortex that often.

(did someone say those units come back? Did someone say that there are huge costs in getting out a mothership and that you can do all sorts of stuff to prevent the vortex from beating you?)

On September 11 2011 21:11 CatNzHat wrote:
At the low level, there are a lot of terrans, in masters, terran is the least played race.

On September 11 2011 17:34 Big J wrote:



whaaaaat??? Are you telling me that they are removing the 2 most populars ways to deal with a Protoss Deathball, while buffing Immortals and Warp Prisms?
Can someone please confirm that, before I switch to terran?