[o] Random Questions for Testers - Page 2

On February 18 2010 11:23 Try wrote:
Is it fun to play? How long are games on average? Are there alot of unit firing animations? If so, does that alot of units retarded to micro like dragoons?

On February 18 2010 11:35 FrozenArbiter wrote:

It's fun, firing animations are fine.

They NEED to add channels. Like NOW. They NEED to add a /whisper command, because replying to someone in game, by bringing up a fucking MSN window is retarded.

Right click sometimes acts like attack-move... I sent a probe scout with right click, 20 seconds later it's back at my base because it met his probe halfway and chased it -__-

Trying to escape from zerglings with zealots is impossible lol

Oh and it seems like the servers are split - EU, NA, etc. I haven't been able to add anyone from North America.

On February 18 2010 11:35 FrozenArbiter wrote:


They NEED to add channels. Like NOW. They NEED to add a /whisper command, because replying to someone in game, by bringing up a fucking MSN window is retarded.
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On February 18 2010 11:01 quinnydinny wrote:
500 people were on at one point.

Some interesting changes:

-NO LURKERS in beta build
-There is an upgrade for Roach movement while burrowed



There is a charge(forget what it is called) on each nexus. It takes 50 energy to use, but it works on all buildings to speed up tech and unit production. It worked pretty well at the beginning to speed up probe production. I haven't done a whole lot of testing though.

On February 18 2010 15:25 onmach wrote:
Someone was asking about spell casters. I just gave the zerg tech tree a whirl, and gave infestors a real look at.

So they three spells now, none of which is spawn infested terran.

Obviously once you research burrow, this can burrow. And it has an upgrade to move faster, and also another upgrade to spawn with 25 more energy.

None of the following spells can be used while burrowed.

The first one is like energy suck. Or energy drain or something. Basically you can go up to any enemy unit or building press e and it'll spit out a short range proboscis into the unit or structure and suck for minimal damage to the unit, but half of the damage is turned into energy. Speaking of suck, that would be an apt name. Obviously trying to suck the life out of a unit while a group of marines is hammering you is not going to work out very well. And you can't suck your own units or buildings so forget regenning mana that way either. You can make this one auto cast, and it'll just suck from whatever is in range if it is sitting still, so you might as well leave it on.

The next one is that neural control spell that was shown in the beta report. This one actually causes the unit in question to grow tentacles and shit all over it while you are in control. But it passes after 10 seconds. Only works on biological units, and of course you are completely exposed while casting this spell.

The last one is fungal infestation. He spits out a blob of green goo that seems to damage a little and prevent movement of the unit for a very small amount of time. This could be useful, but the unit can still defend itself, so I'm not totally sold on it. Could be useful against zealots if you are using roaches.

Given that both roaches and infestors can move underground at comparable speeds, they could make an interesting raiding party, but I haven't tried in game yet because its too late, I gotta sleep.

All in all the unit itself is fucking cool looking, and has great death animation but I'm having a hard time making any use of him.