"Muta"lisks that don't mutate

[dyermaker]

Seriously? The mutalisks -> devourer/guardian mechanic was way more interesting. They have absolutely taken a step backwards in terms of creativity and lore in my mind.

It's just not nearly as cool as it used to be.

[Maxa]

Browder touched on this in a recent interview:

GameStar:
One thing we wondered about is that you moved the broodlord upgrade from the mutalisk to the corruptor. Why?

Dustin Browder:
We noticed that the corruptor needed a way to stay in the game after I swept the sky. So if I fly around with my corruptors and kill everybody, what's use are these corruptors any more? The same applies to the Protoss Phoenix: What do I do if I have killed everything in the sky? That's why we added the anti-grav ability to the Phoenix so it remains useful. Without some mechanic to give the unit a way to »recycle« itself, air-to-air fliers become very difficult to use.

[Aldrius]

I sort of agree.

I don't really think the Corruptor should mutate into the Brood Lord, but I also don't think we really need another tier 3 air unit...

[Shadow Archon]

Mutalisks in the Zerg Single player campaign probably transform into Guardians and Devourers.

[pure.Wasted]

Mutalisks in the Zerg Single player campaign probably transform into Guardians and Devourers.

So in the campaign Mutalisks and Corruptors transform into the same unit?

[moosh]

Seriously? Does this not piss anyone else off? The mutalisks -> devourer/guardian mechanic was way more interesting. They have absolutely taken a step backwards in terms of creativity AND lore.

lol so dramatic...

[Shadow Archon]

So in the campaign Mutalisks and Corruptors transform into the same unit?

Brood Lords and Guardians aren't technically the same unit, they just basically do the same thing.

[horror]

lol so dramatic...

haha i know right. i don't know why everybody's so crabby about sc2 all of the sudden. it's called testing. yes, testing, so don't go super saiyan and carnage on some mutation. And yeah, it's probably gonna stay, but doesn't mean you have to get so ANGRY about it...

[SoFool]

If you think about it, hydralisk kinda lost its evolution too since the lurker is removed lol

[horror]

Zerg should have less units produced by larvae, and more by evolution (y)