Originally Posted by Cavez
He's not making it up.=) Here's how it works.
Overseers can create a Changeling by spending energy. The Changeling is a small unstable Zerg creature with timed life. When he gets near an enemy structure or unit he will change shape into the correct basic unit type and color to match that player. So if you get near a Blue Barracks you become a Blue Marine. If you get near a Red Stalker you become a Red Zealot, etc.
Enemy players cannot control the Changeling. It's still owned and controled by the Zerg player who created it. It is very vulnerable and can be killed by a single hit from just about anything. The Changeling cannot fight. He is just a shapeshifter, when he looks like a Marine that gun in his hand isn't "real."
You can see that something is a Changeling by mousing over the unit, by trying (and failing) to drag select or by selecting the unit and seeing the name and portrait.
What it does for the game:
1) Gives the Zerg a fun way to scout (though really they already have plenty of scouting options).
2) Makes enemy players constantly fearful of all of their own units. Is THAT a Changeling?! What about THAT GUY!?
In live games it is pretty difficult to keep on top of the "Changeling Problem" if an enemy Zerg player is trying to sneak into your base. However when you do catch them it feels pretty good.
It's something we have been trying for a few weeks and we thought we would include it in the WWI build to see what people thought.
Props to SCLegacy guys - I found it at their site
OK so
1 it's name sounds totally stupid
2 the idea sounds totally stupid
3 it doesn't fit zerg at all - lore, gameplay... just not zergish
4 it doesn't fit Starcraft at all
5 stop putting C&C in SC
6 cut that james bond shit y'all
7 blizzard stop taking drugs
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Hehe. Sounds nice but i wonder how blizzard explains how it works cuz blizzard obviously is trying to make the game techs etc very logical. If the change ling can really imitate anything so why doesn't it just imitate corsairs or smth all the time. Doesn't make sense very much :D
But blizzard obviously is making an effort to create new things and i like it. But wether u like it or not. It will be removed if it sucks. Tho it would suck if it just became another useless unit like ghost or queen. (I don't say they are totally useless especially in tvt or zvz, but u know what i mean).
I will accept this unit if blizzard tells us how in the hell is this unit logical or explained. How did zerg evolve this.
a biological creature that can imitate metal objects ...
and ofcourse the most stupidest thing of all advanced terran and protoss detection don't detect it ... WTF ?!?!?!
I really haven't heard of a more absurd idea for this game
#7 there is a point ... Toss has observer and it does nothing but scout
the point is that the Zerg already HAVE good scouting Overlords and Overseers ... why put something useless in there
its funny if your opponent is stupid enough not to notice it i like the concept but this shouldnt be a zerg unit but a protoss one "shapeshifter" that uses lets say "copycat" ability on one enemy and after that it cant change anymore. when u used this there's a new icon and if u click u start changing into the unit u used the spell on before (instant transformation would kinda give it away wich unit u selected and more easy to find it later or kill off immediately)
edit: oh yea and the shapeshifter has a shitload of c4 stuck to his body to blow himself up ez?
two usage that come into my mind in 1 minute:
near nexus-> probe->near mineral mimetize and use it for safe drop
for kill expo->use copycat to block opponent ramp->attack
2008-07-04 11:05:02, K)RooKie wrote:
two usage that come into my mind in 1 minute:
near nexus-> probe->near mineral mimetize and use it for safe drop
for kill expo->use copycat to block opponent ramp->attack
Not a bad idea, but imo it doesn't fit zerg. It should be a protoss unit, perhaps they have the technology to invent such things. But they already have observers, which are also cloaked, so it's not neccesary.
"changeling" makes me think more of some cheesy 50's ALIEN movie rather than StarCraft. I'm 80% sure blizzard removes this stupid unit before release and come to the sences that parasite is more "ZERGY"
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