Nukes as second teir?

[Aldrius]

It's not possible. As someone said, you'd need to control the Ghost Academy.

[sandwich_bird]

It's not so bad. 300 Damage will kill most units anyway besides those with more than 300 hp.

It's just that since the nuke is so much more accessible now having it do 2/3 damage to something is OP.

Although, I'm not fond of the idea of requiring 5 nukes just to kill a hatchery.

It's not op at all. The time for the nuke to be casted is long enough for any player to counter it. There's nothing op about the new nuke moving to a lower tier. The original nuke was pretty much useless in competitive play (no don't start of with boxer's EMP + Nuke combo, boxer is dead k...). Now they finally making the weapon more than an eye candy and you call it OP? I vote for it to stay this way.

[Pandonetho]

Er misunderstanding here.

I meant that it'd be OP if it had the power of the original nuke, which wtfpwned 2/3'rds of any unit or buildings HP if not outright killing them from the first boom.

[Operatoring]

I think it will be interesting to see how viable the Nuke is in competitive play. It is such a hard ability to balance cost/speed/damage. I hope they end up doing it right, because the line between useless and overpowered is very thin on this one.

[Norfindel]

It's not possible. As someone said, you'd need to control the Ghost Academy.

Seems logical, as the Nukes wouldn't just automatically be launched by remote from the Ghost's weapon. It will be likely that a lot of people will check the coordinates before launch, and do the actual launching. The Ghost would just paint the target.

[Runei]

I agree with Norfindel. Why do you need the Ghost Academy? Isnt that to produce ghosts? If they already have a nuke researched and I get the ghost I think I should get the ability to nuke!

[ArcherofAiur]

Its actually quite easy all you need to do is
1) Tech to infestor
2) Infliltrate your slow ass infestor into a enemy terran base
3) Nueral Parasite a SCV and sneak him out untill it wears off
4) Repeat
5) Repeat until SCV is in your base
6) Neural Parasite SCV and command it to build a Command Center
7) Repeat
8) Repeat
9) Tech to Nukes (dont forget supply for nuke)
10) Build Nuke
11) Bring your slow ass infestor near a ghost
12) Neural parasite the ghost and bring it towards the oponents base
13) Repeat
14) Repeat until at enemy base
15) Launch nuke
16) Facebutt monitor as comsat + siege tank anhilates ghost

[Runei]

Why don't I just neural parasite the ghost when the Terran has a nuke and use it against him? That sounds a little easier.

[Pandonetho]

Why don't I just neural parasite the ghost when the Terran has a nuke and use it against him? That sounds a little easier.

Because as everyone already mentioned. YOU CAN'T.

[RainbowToeSocks]

Why don't I just neural parasite the ghost when the Terran has a nuke and use it against him? That sounds a little easier.

As everyone else has said, you will have the ghost and its ability to launch a nuke
BUT
you will NOT have the nuke itself in your collection. The nuke will still be under the Terrans control

How you're thinking is like "WELL IM TERRAN AND THE OPPONENT IS TERRAN AND HE BUILT A NUKE SO I WILL USE MY GHOST TO LAUNCH HIS NUKE I AM SO SMART LUL LUL LUL (cept im really a fucking retard)"

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