How good are Infested Terrans?

[PosImpos]

They shouldn't die after time.

Still wouldn't be that useful if their stats suck so much they die really quickly. Might as well just produce an army of zerglings or roaches in the amount of time it takes you to sit in your base with your infesters and summon infested terrans one by one.

I think Infested Terrans make the most sense as a sudden burst of support / cannon fodder for your army. You're in the midst of the battle (or right before it) and the 3 or 4 infesters you have at the back of your army spit out a group of infested terrans who immediately jump into battle and are either killed within 10 seconds or die after 20-25 seconds.

It should be possible to produce a significant group of them quickly, and they should be strong enough to have a measurable impact on a battle without being a main source of damage or difficult to kill individually. Kind of like skeletal warriors raised by Necromancers in WC3. That's how I envision it, anyway.

[GRUNT]

They shouldn't die after time.

Well, the 'dying-after-some-time' part I don't have a problem with because otherwise you could use Infestors as a barracks which produces Infested Terrans for free and you could get a lot of free units over time .

However, I think they die a little too fast at the moment...at least, too fast considering what an Infested Terran does.

Maybe if the Infestor spawned 2 or 3 at a time, then the current lifespan will make more sense. At the moment, they're so weak that even if you spend 75 Energy for 3 of them, it's not going to have much of an impact in a fight. Certainly not as much as other abilities which cost 75 Energy like EMP, Psi Storm, or the Infestor's own Fungal Growth.

[Noise]

Since it's a spell it should give a a powerful short term benefit not a build up an army really gradually.

[Aldrius]

They shouldn't die after time.

They have to. They don't take up any food.

What they shouldn't do is have such a long spawning time or they need to spawn more at a time, or they need to move faster or something.

Right now you just spawn these slow as molasses, weak as hell units that just get killed instantly. I'd much rather use Fungal Growth.

[Norfindel]

Yeah they are far too weak and short lived. They should really let you infest buildings instead, I can't remember why they took that out.

Because you cannot get infested Protoss by lore, and it was too difficult to get the units that way.

[Aldrius]

Because you cannot get infested Protoss by lore,

Bah! There were workable alternatives!!

and it was too difficult to get the units that way.

I don't know. Depends on how the spell worked. It's energy cost. etc. etc.

[Blazur]

[Aldrius]

Uh... wow. That'd be hard to pull off, though. And the amount of gas you need for 7 infestors is pretty hefty.

Plus that was a computer opponent. lol.

[Perfecttear]

I would like it much bether if spawn infested terrans would be replaced by spawn broodlings pack (3 broodlings per 25 energy?) It would be much more fun to spawn masses of those litlle vicious beasts . Well they have almost no hp but they have a high dps, so it would be perfect in some cases


Thughts?

[Aldrius]

I would like it much bether if spawn infested terrans would be replaced by spawn broodlings pack (3 broodlings per 25 energy?) It would be much more fun to spawn masses of those litlle vicious beasts . Well they have almost no hp but they have a high dps, so it would be perfect in some cases


Thughts?

Overlaps too much with the Brood Lord I think.