On June 08 2011 02:49 dukethegold wrote:
Found it weird that the Overmind required numerous cerebrates to assert full control over the swarm while Kerrigan needed only herself. Back in BW, she had the player cerebrate and Duran.
Blizzard was kind of off in how they handled the portrayal of Zerg chain of command.
The OVermind should by all accounts be able to exert control over all of the swarm. They implied in their source material Cerebrates were needed for efficiency purposes. In turn Overlords AND Queens were used to help Cerebrates to help cerebrates in the same manner.
In the end we were left with what seemed to be inconsistencies with Queens not providing supply control over Drones and broods going insane when the Cerebrate dies.
When you look closer there wasn't any issues. When the Overmind died all the zerg rank and file units became frenzied even though the Cerebrates were alive and very much in control of their mental capacities.
This says the Overmind has a subconcious level control over the entire swarm but it abdicated conscious control to the Cerebrates so it can focus on higher function tasks without being stressed. The mental effort needed to regain control of the Garm brood was probably not worth it considering the time table they were on to prepare consuming the Protoss.
Was the cerebrate from the original the same cerebrate from BW?
The UED commander from BW that we played as is presumably a flowing corpse somewhere in the galaxy. Or inside a pile of muta crap.
The fate of the commander from the original who defected along with Raynor is also unknown.
The cerebrate from BW died in the Protoss campaign of SC. This was elaborated on in a novel. The cerebrate from BW was different and it got killed in a novel.
BW UED commander is dead.
The fate of the commander from SC isn't known by me but someone else may have some insight.
I personally enjoyed the Cerebrates but I don't mind they aren't coming back. I do mind that Blizzard is missing an opportunity to make the zerg a very compelling race by going a different route and rehashing the Warcraft 3 orc storyline into the zerg personal story.
The Zerg first and foremost were genetically modified parasites. These parasites formed a group intelligence in the same way ant colonies for intelligence as their population grows.
Eventually from that out growth the OVermind was created. This says to me that while the OVermind is dead the very essence of what created the overmind is not dead. Every zerg being and structure are born from these parasites.
They could have created a ZvZ campaign where a new intelligence spontaneously emerges from the swarm after the Overmind intelligence has failed to deliver the results the swarm needs to keep on being top of the food chain.
EPT
. (or maybe it took her to much power to keep her pet cerebrate alive)
