Blizzard neglects the Corruptor and Overseer - Page 6

On September 13 2012 15:10 Vindicarian wrote:
There have been a lot of people asking Blizzard to remove the Colossus and replace it with the Reaver, or some other unit that allows for some sort of micro via the Warp Prism. I don't think Blizzard would ever remove the Colossus, and its highly unlikely that they'll redesign it given how "successful" the unit has been. That having been said, allowing Protoss to do some sort of Warp Prism micro with their Colossi would be awesome and make using the Colossus a hundred times more interesting/fun.

On September 18 2012 06:14 osiris17 wrote:
Corruptor is what really needs improving. Some different ideas...

-Give the corruptor a 'chew' ability where it latches onto a structure, chewing on it and halting production until something comes to shoot it off or until the ability ends. Basically a nerfed corruption.
-Give the corruptors a surge ability where they will temporarily fly faster & become more maneuverable, kinda like how a squid surges through the water

We're seeing some community discussion on units that we shipped with Wings of Liberty. Examples include:

- Carrier
-Thor
-Void Ray
-Ghost

While we are very willing to change these units down the road we are not focused on them for the next few weeks. We are very interested in what kind of strategies we are introducing with the new beta units as well as what types of balance problems we are creating.

Obviously you can post on any subject you like and if you want to talk about older units feel free. We will definitely read your posts on older units. But we probably won't make balance or design changes of any significance to older units anytime soon. Once we stabilize the balance on the new beta units we will take a look to see what changes make sense to older units.

On September 07 2012 21:10 HowardRoark wrote:
Instead of Corruption I thought out a new feature for the Corruptor:

Corruption Crash - Some kind of one time use Kamikaze attack that make the Corruptor crash land on the ground. Either to crash into buildings that will be corrupted, or some kind of crash land on open ground or crash into a unit that does a certain amount of damage to the unit and afterwards the Corruptor is destroyed.

Perhaps it's spell can be to crash land into static defences unpowering them for a certain amount of time. Imagine as a last resort the Zerg's Corruptors, after killed all Colossus in the enemy army start to fall from the sky on every Photon cannon and Stalker nearby. It should be very spectator friendly seeing all Corruptors fall from the sky in a last valiant effort to feign defeat. It also follows the lore of masses of Zerg sacrificing themselves: Think Locusts, Banelings, Broodlings, and now Kamikaze Corruptors. It could be balanced easily to not be OP by making the impact damage as low as necessary. It could also add lots of spectator friendly micro moments if, when spotted, the enemy units tries to dodge the falling Corruptors that all of a sudden start to rain from the sky.

What do you think?

On September 18 2012 06:42 Novalisk wrote:


I like moving contaminate to corruptors, but I imagine getting the "latching" animations right for all the buildings could be difficult.

We tried a bunch of things for the Overseer. Every time we had a good/strong ability, there was always the same problem. You can create an infinite number of Overseers due to them having no supply restriction.

This meant, in order to get the Overseer working correctly with a powerful spell we needed to increase the cost and/or have a supply cost.

Neither sounded good for obvious reasons like:

- If Overseers cost 1 supply you lose 9 supply when you morph one from an overlord (since you lose the overlord)

- Zerg mobile detection is nerfed way too much

- Is the new spell even cool with the tradeoffs/downsides the new Overseer has now?

Sorry guys, I have communicated badly in this area. We will rebalance the entire game including the old units. Just not today. We have months left in the beta. We can only do so much in 1 week and trying to do eveything at once is a mistake. You'll have to trust me on that.

We are still making core design changes to some of these new units. Warhound came out, Oracle got a new spell and may get a new spell again. We aren't really liking the last new spell. Widowmine may get some changes. Etc.

I'm not saying "we will never make changes to Thor" or "we will never making changes to Void Ray" I'm just saying:

"For another week or two (depending on how things go) we will be focused on design changes on these new units."

Cool?

On September 08 2012 02:06 Illiterate wrote:
I find it funny that Blizzard changed the energy cost of Contaminate just as DESTINY was finding out how good it was, but before it was abused. I would have liked to have seen it be abused.

Also, I just had an idea, what if you could for no cost but only time (about 20 seconds?) change a mutalisk to a corruptor and vice versa? Or would that be insanely overpowered?