Detonate Burrowed Banelings

StarCraft Players now have the option to detonate burrowed banelings in the latest StarCraft II builds, so expect to traverse the occasional biological minefield against zerg!

http://www.facebook.com/#!/StarCraft?ref=nf

looks like spidermines are back, except they can be repositioned however you like and can explode while burrowed

WOOT!



Next weeks Facebook update: Banelings have lost the ability to detonate while burrowed.

No damage penalty for exploding underground? or damage boost for exploding above ground?

Either way...very interesting

Ya, the icing on the cake for zerg map control.

You know, there really isn't any point at all to adding a detonate option for the sake of being able to detonate underground.

How is it going to be any different from simply unburrowing? Unless they kept the terrible "wait for half a second before exploding" thing they had with the infested Terran in SC1.

I see the detonate option more useful for running your banelings into the midst of enemy troops then detonating for maximum effectiveness.

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Originally Posted by Pandonetho

You know, there really isn't any point at all to adding a detonate option for the sake of being able to detonate underground.

How is it going to be any different from simply unburrowing? Unless they kept the terrible "wait for half a second before exploding" thing they had with the infested Terran in SC1.

I see the detonate option more useful for running your banelings into the midst of enemy troops then detonating for maximum effectiveness.

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for the split second it takes to unburrow then explode, you could be one-shotted by a sieged tank, gunned down by 40 marines etc probably

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for the split second it takes to unburrow then explode, you could be one-shotted by a sieged tank, gunned down by 40 marines etc probably

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Uh, first, no that's the problem that SC1 infested Terrans had as I mentioned.
Banelings on the other hand, should NOT have this problem because the explosion should be instantaneous.

Second, it wouldn't matter either way, banelings do damage regardless of how they are exploded, whether by manual detonation, or by enemies killing them. (Unless this changed).

I can see people burrowing banelings ontop of expansions early games to be used as scouts and to destroy probes/scv's/drones in an attempt to expand

Hell yeah!

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Originally Posted by Sydarm

I can see people burrowing banelings ontop of expansions early games to be used as scouts and to destroy probes/scv's/drones in an attempt to expand

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Excellent strategy. This, combined with the threat of lurkers, makes it even more important to have detection against Zerg.

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Originally Posted by Blazur

Hell yeah!



Excellent strategy.

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Mind you, the baneling will block the expansion from being put down intially and you'll only have to worry about the harvester.

the downside is it will force the opponent to tech detection early game on you