Even if the changling is never effective at tricking your opponent at high level play at all, because they are too aware to fall for it.. The changling will not be auto-attacked by the enemy or shown as an enemy unit on the mini-map and this would allow you to get them into the enemy base just long enough to see what he has before he notices them.

ProoM

Lithuania1741 Posts

November 21 2009 00:28 GMT

#43

good thing in zerg arsenal, makes it little easier to scout with in mind that zergs had always hardest scouring opportunities ;}. Not like terran, which can just scan and see whatever they want or protoss which they can just send invisible little thing aka obs >.>.

PhiliBiRD

United States2643 Posts

November 21 2009 00:28 GMT

#44

On November 21 2009 02:45 kerpal wrote:
single player only?

anyone know?

Icks

France186 Posts

November 21 2009 00:40 GMT

#45

It's for multiplayer as well.

Xiphos

Canada7507 Posts

November 21 2009 00:45 GMT

#46

Man, now thats just cheezy and gimmicky.

Grobyc

Canada18410 Posts

November 21 2009 01:50 GMT

#47

Spy 'round here.

InToTheWannaB

United States4770 Posts

November 21 2009 01:53 GMT

#48

On November 21 2009 08:36 CheeC[h] wrote:
mecha tangu, watch towers, now spies.... they should stop taking things from red alert 3. ra3 is epic fail

RA3 was not a epic fail IMO. To me its by far the best multiplayer version of any CnC game.

meeple

Canada10211 Posts

November 21 2009 01:55 GMT

#49

Its a cool idea, I wonder how well it works though... especially if detection reveals them

Klockan3

Sweden2866 Posts

November 21 2009 02:20 GMT

#50

On November 21 2009 08:36 CheeC[h] wrote:
mecha tangu, watch towers, now spies.... they should stop taking things from red alert 3. ra3 is epic fail

You do know that starcraft 2 was announced before RA3, and that thus it was RA3 that was copying the viking and not starcraft copying the mecha tengu?

Halfpastnoob

United States191 Posts

November 21 2009 02:38 GMT

#51

On November 21 2009 07:50 andeh wrote:
"oh cool i suddenly got 3 more marines from somewhere"

lol

synapse

China13814 Posts

November 21 2009 02:50 GMT

#52

Yeah any decent gamer will be able to see an increase in unit count... it only makes sense to sneak into the base (not following any other troops).

ERGO

United States168 Posts

November 21 2009 03:35 GMT

#53

It doesn't really matter what it looks like, just the fact that the enemy units won't auto attack it is enough, as long as it doesn't look totally out of place. During the mid or late game, even a pro player won't notice a random ally walking towards their main. The purpose is not to go follow the opposing army around when they have 5 marines, it is to get a unit into their base for a moment. Once it is in the midgame it is possible that you can't get an overlord in to scout properly, I definitely feel that the changeling accomplishes this better, especially since it just costs energy.

Ideas

United States8167 Posts

November 21 2009 04:03 GMT

#54

it'll be even more useless in multiplayer since unlimited selection means that any good player will always have ALL of his units hotkeyed at all times and will immediately notice 1 that isnt.