This is on the unit tester map. It's possible that there are triggers to keep the buildings powered and that this won't work in the actual game. I recommend testing it out against easy ai on that island map.

Edit: This is also why the zerg player has instant access to build gateway tech, since normally you would have to make a nexus first.

inFeZa

Australia556 Posts

October 19 2010 13:13 GMT

#45

Hahaha i so wanna try this but it will never happen

NevilleS

Canada266 Posts

October 19 2010 13:19 GMT

#46

Seems like a viable counter to the 8 probe warp prism harass that has been tearing up PvZ lately... Although I'm not sure of your credentials, are you 1000+ diamond?

In my opinion (600 diamond T) you could use this to counter aggro probe harass mid game because it would give you unlimited pylon power... This must be draining a lot of energy and driving up commodity prices for toss and therefore increasing the base cost if all buildings and units for toss, right? Economic destabilization for the win.

allyourbase

United States243 Posts

October 19 2010 13:22 GMT

#47

This opens up so many possibilities in my ZvP. I can use my standard roach opening, tech to infestors. Then go for a zealot/stalker/sentry/infestor midgame

lowercase

Canada1047 Posts

October 19 2010 13:29 GMT

#48

So many games I have been stuck with all infestors and my opponent has gone mass warp prism, and I had been wondering what I could do.

kxr1der

United States213 Posts

October 19 2010 14:08 GMT

#49

On October 19 2010 21:39 monteyuma wrote:
Wait a second... wasn't Neural Parasite supposed to not work on air units in the first place?

When they changed neural parasite from unlimited to 12 sec duration they also changed it so you could target air units.

Rawenkeke

Norway350 Posts

October 19 2010 14:16 GMT

#50

I fucking love Cocain! Looks like you got some!

cocosoft

Sweden1068 Posts

October 19 2010 15:48 GMT

#51

Not really gamebreaking, but pretty neat..

But also

On October 19 2010 17:03 drksl wrote:
But how did you build the gateways without a Nexus ?

AJMcSpiffy

United States1154 Posts

October 19 2010 15:55 GMT

#52

Very cool find, hilariously written too. I'm gonna have to try this out in some 2v2s when I feel like messing around.

brainpower

United States233 Posts

October 19 2010 17:02 GMT

#53

Correct me if I'm wrong, but when you neural parasite a unit, they keep all of their abilities like blink, psi storm, ext. Making a building is just an ability probes have. If you somehow manage to steal a probe late game, you could probably build a gateway, and templar archives without ever making a cyber core or twilight council.

SugarBear

United States842 Posts

October 19 2010 17:05 GMT

#54

On October 20 2010 02:02 brainpower wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but when you neural parasite a unit, they keep all of their abilities like blink, psi storm, ext. Making a building is just an ability probes have. If you somehow manage to steal a probe late game, you could probably build a gateway, and templar archives without ever making a cyber core or twilight council.

No, it forces you to produce every tech structure before you can make the next structure in the hierarchy.