How good are Infested Terrans?

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Originally Posted by Blazur

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Holy moses their portrait is creepy. It's a totally different feeling from the old one.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...stedTerran.gif

Before they seemed like they had this tube attached to their face, and it'd been feeding them the infestation, and polluting their system. Now they're just consumed by it, and vomiting out tentacles.

(They do seem to last for a very short time, and I have to say that they seem a little odd firing the little egg sacs so high into the air, only to land a few feet away).


X :cool:

That clip basically confirms how useless infested terrans are. 7 infestor spam worth did very little damage.

It should be similar to the Corrupter's original ability.... cast it on units (possibly AoE), and If/When those units die they become Infested Terrans/Corrupted units. with a temporary life.

Possibly give it a DPS... ie cast on unit/area, bio units in area take 1-3 DPS for X seconds, if they die in those X seconds they become a
Infested Terran.
Corrupted Protoss.
or
Infesterling.
all with the same stats, just different graphics...or else stats that depend on exactly what unit it was befor (ie Infested Marauder, etc.)


Although I think a cast on building unit spawning ability would be better.... especially if it did NOT stop the buildings activity, and could get cast on friendly buildings (essentially allowing the Infester to help in base defense as well as base assault.)
Terran building->Infested Terrans spawned
Other building->Swarmlings spawned (same stats)

Haven't played the beta but i've always thought this ability sucks. =\

Edit: Just watched the clip... THAT WAS AWFUL!

I'm thinking... change it so they spawn infested Firebats instead of Marines and subsequently boost their stats (the Infested Marine's low stats are because they have to reflect regular Marine stats). Perhaps give them a bonus against organic units and raise their hit points so that they make potential meat shields.

I still think it should spawn some zerg like creature/s, and not an infested terran unit. It can't be realy that hard to create a new zerg unit only for this ability, and give it some stats and that's that.

I like the ability and whoever said they did little damage, that is because they are cannon fodder... They aren't supposed to do much damage, they are meat shield. Only thing I don't like is that they don't last long at all. Even 30 sec would be good, this is more like 15-20...

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Originally Posted by RamiZ

I like the ability and whoever said they did little damage, that is because they are cannon fodder... They aren't supposed to do much damage, they are meat shield. Only thing I don't like is that they don't last long at all. Even 30 sec would be good, this is more like 15-20...

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I agree with it lasting too short a time. Compare it to Auto-turret that costs twice as much energy but does more damage (at least per shot), has 3x the health and lasts 9x longer than the Infested Terran. In its current form, the Infested Terran doesn't quite work as a meat shield. It has too few hit points to soak up much damage and it doesn't deal enough damage or last long enough to warrant the enemy diverting firepower against them.

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Originally Posted by RamiZ

I like the ability and whoever said they did little damage, that is because they are cannon fodder... They aren't supposed to do much damage, they are meat shield. Only thing I don't like is that they don't last long at all. Even 30 sec would be good, this is more like 15-20...

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Infested Terrans are pretty flimsy meat-shields. I think the idea is the same as the Brood Lord's spawn broodling attack. Completely overwhelm your opponent with masses of units, but um... it takes A LOT of energy to create an even moderately note-worthy number of Infested Terrans.

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Originally Posted by Aldrius

Infested Terrans are pretty flimsy meat-shields. I think the idea is the same as the Brood Lord's spawn broodling attack. Completely overwhelm your opponent with masses of units, but um... it takes A LOT of energy to create an even moderately note-worthy number of Infested Terrans.

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Well, that is meat shield... You have to attack them in order to attack some other units, Hydras for example. And it is not like they are useful for anything else, one Infestor can produce 8-9 of them. Having 3 Infestors in your army can make devastating group of Infested Marines. Of course, you won't use all of your energy on them, but making about 15 Infested Marines with those infestors and that are addition to your army, I think it is worth it.