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wtf is this firebat unit everyone keeps talking about
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IskatuMesk wrote:wtf is this firebat unit everyone keeps talking about
Possibly the brand new structure destroyer? Dealing a total of 18 dmg per 0.6 sec (0.4 with Stim) vs them.

Thus without any upgrades other than Stims, it's about about 45 DPS vs structures.
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In the end, decided to make firebat have 16 base+ 14 structure damage.

Also noticed they only had +1 damage per upgrade so now it's +2.
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A semi-fix for Kerrigan would potentially be to have a cooldown on razor swarm after she teleports.
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Or just increase the energy cost of both spells.
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if kerrigan gets nerfed I will take delight in the fact that I was the reason for it

Seriously though, kerrigan is the only perk that comes with playing zerg. The race suffers so badly on a huge map like exotic garden. Queens eat up supply, creep dependency kills their mobility over long distances, and they can't shit out static defense like Protoss or even Terran can. Nerf kerrigan and zerg is basically garbage again. You'd have to give them something else in return.
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Yeah. I can pretty much agree with everything mucky says. I don't really feel like picking apart the map to figure out how it could be fixed, though. It's too bloated of a walrus for me to grapple.
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A random thought : How about if Zerg's creep expand farther than usual along with creep tumors having more range?

As for Kerrigan, maybe the current idea or maybe replace it's map-wide blink to something as decent but not as abusable?

Also, queens could potentially take up 1 supply instead of 2. However, they are just a bit too useful to not take supply at all.
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Maybe if deep tunnel were limited to teleporting on creep only?

Also, you can try the monobattles method and limit queens to one per hatchery.
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With the off-creep movement upgrade, can you also allow queens to have Transfusion Auto-cast with smart casting?
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Longer creep range? Is the possibility of endless creep growth probable (at a moderate rate, clearly not at a fast rate)? That would keep other players on their toes if they left the Zerg unchecked.
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I'll have to see if it's possible to make creep tumors auto-place without triggers.
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Maybe if deep tunnel were limited to teleporting on creep only?
Probably the requirement I would prefer the most.
Also, you can try the monobattles method and limit queens to one per hatchery.
Nope, it's pretty much a nerf for queens overall. It's preferable for monobattles' purposes but not for W&M's situation.
With the off-creep movement upgrade, can you also allow queens to have Transfusion Auto-cast with smart casting?
A very tricky situation since that can ultimately make them way too powerful as healers without putting some gas cost to them.
Longer creep range? Is the possibility of endless creep growth probable (at a moderate rate, clearly not at a fast rate)? That would keep other players on their toes if they left the Zerg unchecked.
That was one of my ideas but when I tried to stack two different growth, it did seem to take the best values of everything. In other words, very high range + insane growth.

Ultimately, the idea of longer range for creep growth + creep tumor would be to make creeping the map less painful but without giving mass easy creeping for Zerg on a golden plate.
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Ricky_Honejasi wrote:
Also, you can try the monobattles method and limit queens to one per hatchery.
Nope, it's pretty much a nerf for queens overall. It's preferable for monobattles' purposes but not for W&M's situation.
I don't see how that would be a nerf. I make one queen for every expansion, each of which have 1-2 hatcheries, while my main has 4-5 hatcheries and still only one queen. I never make more than 5 queens because they start eating into my supply too much. That's far lower than a 1:1 queen:hatch ratio, which is what I had in mind with my suggestion. Do you really think people are going to mass queens for any reason except to mess around?
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Do any of you know how to get a unit's charge number for a validator or requirement? I need something to check if a creep tumor has a charge. Maybe something in the "unit compare field" validator that's hard to get right.
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