Queen Upgrade

[moosh]

They should have a queen speed upgrade at hive or lair tech... they nerfed queen speed to prevent a certain rush. But it would be nice to use the queen more offensively later in the game. What do ya'll think?

[Aldrius]

I agree!

...completely unsurprisingly.

[ArcherofAiur]

[moosh]

creep tumor is nice for connecting and protecting your bases and expansion but it isn't practical to get a tumor all the way to your opponents base... just to get your queen to get in on the action and use spells like transfusion and whatnot

[DemolitionSquid]

Maybe we could give a Zerg air unit some way to spread creep? And give Zerg some way to move their army instantly across the map using underground tunnels dug by giant worms...

Nah. That's a stupid idea.

[GRUNT]

creep tumor is nice for connecting and protecting your bases and expansion but it isn't practical to get a tumor all the way to your opponents base... just to get your queen to get in on the action and use spells like transfusion and whatnot

Idra actually creates Creep highways to his opponent's base very convincingly .

He's not the only player that does it, except that Idra really seems to prioritise his APM to achieve this objective much higher than other players do.

[Aldrius]

Maybe we could give a Zerg air unit some way to spread creep? And give Zerg some way to move their army instantly across the map using underground tunnels dug by giant worms...

Extremely vulnerable air units that any good player will immediately shoot away... leaving your valuable queens vulnerable.

The Queens speed off the creep now is absolutely pathetic. She might as well be immobile off of it. I don't see what would be wrong with a speed upgrade if people want to pay for it.

[DemolitionSquid]

Extremely vulnerable air units that any good player will immediately shoot away... leaving your valuable queens vulnerable.

The Queens speed off the creep now is absolutely pathetic. She might as well be immobile off of it. I don't see what would be wrong with a speed upgrade if people want to pay for it.

Good plan putting your Overlords on top of your enemy instead of just outside his base.

Once you get the Queen to the front line you might as well place those creep tumors anyway as you advance. Its not like they seriously compete with Transfusion for energy.

Not everything needs an upgrade. I hate that kind of design.

[Aldrius]

Good plan putting your Overlords on top of your enemy instead of just outside his base.

He can shoot at them just outside his base too.

Once you get the Queen to the front line you might as well place those creep tumors anyway as you advance. Its not like they seriously compete with Transfusion for energy.

Well that's just blatantly not true. Transfusion is awesome. Hell, that's the only real reason to use your Queen offensively.

Not everything needs an upgrade. I hate that kind of design.

Queen's got an imbalanced timing rush at tier 1. Therefore they made her slower, now making her practically useless offensively. There's got to be SOME compensation somewhere.

[DemolitionSquid]

He can shoot at them just outside his base too.

You don't put them a few pixels outside it

Well that's just blatantly not true. Transfusion is awesome. Hell, that's the only real reason to use your Queen offensively.

I meant a single self replicating creep tumor isn't going to hinder your Transfusion ability by much.

Queen's got an imbalanced timing rush at tier 1. Therefore they made her slower, now making her practically useless offensively. There's got to be SOME compensation somewhere.

The compensation is learning to use creep better (ie. properly).