Hydra and Queen Speed Upgrade?

reg

United States134 Posts

September 19 2010 04:49 GMT

Any thoughts on how effective it would be to increase the movement speed of Queens and Hydras off creep via lair (hive?) tech upgrade? My thinking would be their speed on creep would become equal to their speed off creep.

Pros:
Hydras can retreat more quickly/micro easier?
5-6 Queens can transfuse your roaches or muta flock to keep your momentum and win more battles with good micro? High Hydra DPS and "high" roach armor suddenly seem like valid strategies vs T?
Queens are more useful in the late game?

Cons:
No more easy wins as Terran?
ZvZ gets weird?
Tons of mobile transfusing queens with a lot of starting energy suddenly become a huge problem for any army? (Solution: don't allow queens to transfuse queens?)

*It would also be nice to have a queen starting energy upgrade to further the transfusion idea. I really think queen anti-air would really complement a Z's midgame.

Roaming

United States239 Posts

September 19 2010 05:07 GMT

No. To all of that. Hydras have the best DPS in the game, and queens are part of the zerg base. Queens are already the most useful thing zerg has.

Thermia

United States866 Posts

September 19 2010 05:13 GMT

On September 19 2010 14:07 Roaming wrote:
No. To all of that. Hydras have the best DPS in the game

Except that, say, two stimmed marines for the same mineral cost and no gas have both more total hp and dps, ridiculously faster movement (even on creep) and can be produced from t1 straight away, for a mere 50/50 extra cost in upgrades.

ceekly

United States8 Posts

September 19 2010 05:25 GMT

On September 19 2010 14:13 Thermia wrote:
... two stimmed marines for the same mineral cost and no gas have both more total hp and dps, ridiculously faster movement (even on creep) and can be produced from t1 straight away, for a mere 50/50 extra cost in upgrades.

marines move 2.25 so do hydras (off creep).

marines with stim move just as fast as hydras on creep, 3.375

Edit: also the 50/50 upgrade you speak of, im assuming stimpack, is 100/100 same with combat shields

i agree with hydras needing speed buff though dont zerg rage completly wrong information...

also this topic, shouldnt be in this forum

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