Starcraft 2 New Zerg Changeling Gameplay [HD]

[19andoverlol]

You'd have to be really stupid or really inattentive to not notice three of your units moving into your base without you telling them to. It's not like TF2, where spies are actually practical since they represent others on your team. In SC2 nothing on your team moves a muscle unless they're running at an enemy or you tell them to go somewhere.

They'd honestly be better scouters if they just cloaked for the duration of their lives.

[wavelucas]

@19andoverlol The point is not to run in an overseer at the front door. You send one in from the side and send it in on a suicide mission to scout. The point is so you can tell what your opponent is going and react with the right unit, not let you backstab that Thor that just came out

[blizrfiz]

hope they become more useful once heart of the swarm comes out

[RainingMetal]

Isn't that the same rebel base in the second level?

[Riboshom]

Oh, look, a retarded marine I don't remember having (I all put them in bunkers anyway)suddenly popping out of the fog of war, and trying to get into my core base without my orders...

What could this mean...?

[wavelucas]

@Riboshom i better kill it OHSHIT A NYDUS HOW DID HE GET VISION DURRRRR

[Naba008]

I wish they'd get a skill or something so that they could hop into building and infest them.

[gamrage]

This would make nydus extremely useful

[GGPWN3D]

LOL, i'm noob, soooo

what exactly does this do?

like whats the point of it?

besides being annoying LOL.

[Evildemon101]

@GGPWN3D It appears to be a replacement for the "parasite" ability that the former queens used to have. They provide temporary sight of the enemy movements. But if they are wise to ur act, they will manually kill them. They just make it harder to be noticed by automatic defenses.

[iulikan]

@GGPWN3D it's deadlier than you think !

[F2L4Life]

Kind of like the spy in C&C only less useful.

[Berith003]

dont think this will work on a player vs player thing since people arnt that stupid

[ISeeTallPeople]

@Berith003 It does. When they're focusing on building zealots or marines or whatever they're doing it's rather easy to miss seeing one walk around, especially when it looks completely normal.

[electricbayonet2]

@Berith003 Do you remember every one of your Marines/Zealots? Awful hard to pick out a couple of them that you're not controlling if you're mass-shifting them around.

[Jay72288]

@Berith003 U be surprise, this unit helped me infest other peoples base... its a slaughter when u can get one to another base, build a nydus worm, and bring over a group of infestor, and produce an army of infested marines

[The9813]

SPY IN OUR MIDST MEN

[Kemonokami]

"Never knew what hit 'em."

[EmberBurn333]

The changeling should get a serious boost to line of sight, or it would easly be spotted before even getting a change to morph.

According to Starcraft Wikia under marine and changeling and their Sight range stat..

Marines have a sight range of 9 while Changelings have a sight range of 8. The latter should have a sight range, somewhere between 10 and 12.

[RACeCA12]

In a team match - say Red & Green VS Blue & Yellow, where Green is a Zerg player with changelings - Green could create a few changelings, have them impersonate Blue guys, and then scout Yellow's stuff (ex: units, expansions, base, etc.). Green would have to act inconspicuously for it to work; otherwise, Yellow would probably ask, "blue y do u have rines running around my base" to which Blue may reply, "they r changlings kill em!" Then they die.

If changelings suck then use em against dumb comps

[sciencemile]

doesn't really seem useful to me for multiplayer; usually watching vids it barely takes a few seconds for the player to recognize that the units are moving without their direction, resulting in a few manual-attack kills.

[TheVl3T]

it's a trap!

[kamikrazi123]

0:08 overlord poop :D

[Adimanstudios]

@kamikrazi123 actually its an overseer :D

[MercurialGaming]

@kamikrazi123 Overseer

[kamikrazi123]

@MercurialGaming Same shit. (pun intended)

[xxColdshadow]

@kamikrazi123 Now I know why at the beginning you read "May contain content inappropiate for childen" xD

[amazingdany]

Pretty treacherous way to get enemy intel, it fits the zerg's nature.

[ISeeTallPeople]

.. Gentlemen.

[Saiko47]

@ISeeTallPeople THAT MARINE IS SPY!

[tapo]

@ISeeTallPeople The SC2 achievement for killing a changeling is "Meet the Spy" :D

[CodeNashor]

pfff... only usable against terran... i hate such things. why not making them also able to change to zealots as well?

[Poeden]

@CodeNashor They can change into Zealots or Zerglings, as well... why do you not look into these details before posting hatefully? They convert, permanently, to the shape of whatever basic combat unit the enemy race has.

[SmallFryDK1919]

They convert permanently but only for a 60 second life.

[EmberBurn333]

@SmallFryDK1919

Hmm. 150 sec. Check SC wikia.

[GeminiSC2Armory]

@EmberBurn333 Must have changed from 4 months ago. *This is SmallFryDK1919*

[DoctorZoviet]

So wait, if a converted changeling goes into a protoss base from a Terran one, it stays a marine?

Didn't know that. >>;

[polygonporygon]

@DoctorZoviet Plus if the terran research combat shields, the changeling won't get a combat shield of it's own.

[bombadecasa]

@CodeNashor Actually it's usable on all basic infantry zealots, marines zerglings you name it

[StefanMonov]

What's the map called? I LOVED the terran city in the end. Felt so cinematic and real. Like watching a mechanized Tatooine... with buildings that are ACTUALLY flying high (compared to 40px offset in SC1) and that really tall crane...

The graphics in this game are worth the wait, they will not be a pointless GPU gimmick.

[thevandit]

as important as micro is, i believe losing your virginity takes priority.

[mrostos]

that's pretty cool, homefully there will be a way for these to be effective on battle-net

[EmberBurn333]

@mrostos

I hope too, even I havent played any SC 2 Beta. the changeling, dark templar and raven are getting more interesting as the release date close in. I love sneaky units, high risk, high reward :)

[djRwin]

but what if the terran selects the marines, will he select the zerg marines as well or will he imediately see that he cant select them, and do they apear in the terrans colour on the minimap or as the enemy?

[beghilhorst]

@djRwin Good points, allthough I'm sure Blizz is aware of these issues as well. A good player will surely see the changelings morphs into his units, thus ruining the disguise..

[WaterJay]

I suspect it will only appear in the compagines

[EmberBurn333]

@djRwin

they should be inter-selectable or something like, that both the original owner and his enemies can select them, anytime, anywere after the owner have chosen which units to change to.

but if the enemy uses your changeling marines to scout out your position, you should have the ability to kill off your disguised changelings :)

[JackHoff697]

this is where microing is important

imagine how happy terran is with the new marines, not knowing that his base is being scouted

[SethRayburd]

oh baby yes i can see my self using these. I hope they can do more than just disguised reconassance.

[marshall8787]

@SethRayburd Nope. Can't attack, no abilities.

[D0GBleSSeD]

sweet!!!