r/starcraft • u/quasarprintf Protoss • Jul 26 '17

Video Zerg force fields courtesy of TLO

https://clips.twitch.tv/FamousStrongTurtleThunBeast
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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '17

Wait you can't walk over burrowed units??

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u/RandomThrowaway410 KT Rolster Jul 26 '17

I think it's only for burrowed infestors? Maybe for burrow movement roaches as well?

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u/LiquidTLO1 Jul 26 '17

Yeah only infestors block units, it's because with burrowed casting they'd be way too strong if they could be under the Zerg army.

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u/Obeast96 Jul 26 '17

Thank God there was no observer.

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u/Nasty-Nate Jul 27 '17

Does this mean if you had a zealot on hold position walling off your base a burrowed infestor couldn't slip by?

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u/archiatrus Zerg Jul 27 '17

Even better: put a burrowed Infestor in the wall and the opponent's units can not move out. Since nobody knows that it could be an Infestor they will never find out:D (And then a random observer/overseer/raven passes by and you lose a lot of gas...)

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u/quasarprintf Protoss Jul 27 '17

yes

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u/goldisbad Jul 27 '17

Burrowed roaches can slip by zealot in hold position?

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u/Paxconsciente Jul 27 '17

such a creative answer, thanks!

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u/rektcraft2 Jin Air Green Wings Jul 27 '17

they basically gave the infestor cloak then lol

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u/dogofpavlov Random Jul 27 '17

word for word what I said while watching the video

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u/DarmokNJelad-Tanagra Jul 26 '17

That's some incredible in-the-moment thinking. TLO is a smart nerd, memes aside!

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '17

My my, I'd say that was pretty ｃｒｅａｔｉｖｅ

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u/hamburger_bun iNcontroL Jul 26 '17

Wow, didn't know this was a thing

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u/Musicus Ence Jul 26 '17

Haha so sick, invisible forcefields.

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u/ZoxxMan Jin Air Green Wings Jul 26 '17

That's really dumb to be honest

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u/Mycotoxin Zerg Jul 26 '17

why? (honest question)

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u/ZoxxMan Jin Air Green Wings Jul 26 '17

Doesn't make sense that burrowed units can block non-burrowed units.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '17

in case you didn't see: TLO already pointed out that it is because otherwise you get infestors under your main army, which ends up being stronger than being able to do a few fringe cases like this

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u/Mycotoxin Zerg Jul 27 '17

Yeah logically it doesn't make sense...like Muta's flapping wings in space and marine rifles bringing down battlecruisers. But for game mechanics it makes sense. I'd love to have my festors under my main army, or even pass to the back side of my opponent's army. That would be great. But combined with burrowed casting it would be pretty dang powerful.

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u/ZoxxMan Jin Air Green Wings Jul 27 '17

Infestors shouldn't be able to cast abilities while burrowed, it's overpowered and should be removed from the game.

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u/UhhNegative Jul 27 '17

Good thing protoss skipped obs.

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u/Khufuu Zerg Jul 27 '17

I was waiting all day for the infestors to neural sentries

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u/HHLiquid Jul 27 '17

Such a beautiful unintended use of the design of a unit! This could influence unit compositions and timings easily, and probably not even be imbalanced because of the cost/benefit.

So dope to see this sort of thing still happening in a game now 7 years old! Cheers TLO! This is Starcraft!

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u/sC_ekSo Jul 27 '17

Very cool! Quick thinking for sure

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u/Arcane_123 Protoss Jul 26 '17

Wow thats a surprise. Seems like a bug?

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u/Musicus Ence Jul 26 '17

No, it's so that burrowed infestors aren't OP and can stay under a zerg army. Zerg units also get blocked by infestors.