The new feature of the swarm hosts is called "Charged Locusts". Now the nano-locust barriers they deploy will have a strong electric charge after being formed. Any enemy unit trying to directly pass through the barrier will be hit by an extremely violent electric current.
This new feature will make it impossible for enemy melee units to pass through the barrier placed by the swarm host as easily as before, thus providing more perfect protection for the swarm's long-range troops.
The new feature obtained by the Prowler in this main nest upgrade is a new ability. Abathur referred to the illusion generation device of the Protoss Mechanical Sentinel and designed a set for the Prowler that can use fast-growing spores to create two for himself.
Organs of an empty shell of a fungal organism.
This special empty-shell fungal organism is almost identical in appearance to the Prowler, but it does not have any attack power or skills. At the same time, these limited-life empty-shell fungal organisms are also easy to destroy, but after they are
Before they are eliminated, ordinary detection radar and the naked eye cannot distinguish their authenticity.
This new ability is called "Fungal Prosthesis", which creates cover for the Prowler to attract fire, allowing the Prowler to get closer to the target more easily and use its powerful skills to severely damage the target.
After introducing the Prowler, Abathur paused for a moment, and then began to introduce the changes to some special units of the swarm in this main nest upgrade.
The first special unit is the Insect Mother.
The insect mother has always played an important role as a middle-level commander in the insect swarm. Compared with the king insect that connects and is responsible for conveying orders, the insect mother is better able to use tactics and make decisions.
They are very important supporting nodes in the insect swarm. After being strengthened many times, every insect mother in the insect swarm now has the ability to control an entire insect colony.
The insect mother is the tactical commander and strategic executor of the insect swarm, and Abathur is very cautious about strengthening them.
The characteristics of "inorganic creatures" not only give the mother insects stronger mobility and attack power, but also expand their brain capacity and spiritual energy reserves. On this basis, Abathur added to them according to the characteristics of the mother insects.
A new pair of "multifunctional appendages".
This pair of appendages is special because they can evolve into different forms based on the different situations the insect mother faces.
For example, when the insect mother needs to command troops from the air or fly over obstacles, this pair of appendages can evolve elytra from the first segment. The elytra can support the insect mother in short-term low-altitude flight at an altitude of about fifty meters.
with gliding.
When they no longer need this pair of elytra, the elytra will fall off, and the appendages will quickly regenerate from the first segment and evolve into other forms according to the needs of the insect mother.
The multifunctional appendages can also evolve into an extra pair of digging claws, giving the mother the ability to dig underground, or evolve into webbed appendages to help the mother swim faster in liquids.
Their role is entirely determined by the needs of the insect mother, and they can be discarded at any time and reborn quickly.
With this pair of appendages, the insect mother's tactical diversity will become even richer. Now they can truly follow the insect swarm troops they command from heaven to earth, and command the insect swarm troops to make decisions at the forefront of any battlefield.
The most advantageous tactical decision.
After introducing the insect mother, Abathur then began to introduce another special creature of the insect swarm, the tunnel worm.
To be precise, Tunnel Worms are not a combat unit of the Zerg. Their evolutionary purpose is not to destroy enemy troops, but to transport friendly troops and insect swarm units more quickly.
However, their huge size and crushing saw teeth that can crush hard rocks and even steel still make them extremely intimidating. If any enemy units accidentally fall into the vortex of the Nydus Worm's meat grinder-like teeth
, then it may be difficult for it to crawl out completely.
During Xue Hua's time in charge of the swarm, the Nydus Worms evolved a new, more powerful variant, the Void Delver.
This mutant tunnel worm can shuttle through the void and even move freely between two completely disconnected lands regardless of physical rules. The chemical sensing organs in their bodies have been strengthened, allowing them to recognize the signals of insect swarm units from underground instead of just
Limited to creep, this allows them to emerge from any ground that is not on creep and transport large groups of swarm units directly to their target location.
However, because the special organs of the void burrowers that interfere with the void have certain adverse effects on ordinary tunnel worms and the insect tunnel network, they have never been able to replace ordinary tunnel worms as the main combat unit transportation channel of the insect swarm.
But now, under the transformation of the "golden gene", the Void Digger's void disturbance organs have been improved and strengthened. This set of organs will no longer emit special radiation that can embrittle the soil.
Because of this, Abathur completely used the genetic sequence of the Void Digger to replace the genetic sequence of the Nydus Worms this time, making the evolutionary variation of the Nydus Worms perfect, and at the same time, the insect swarm's insect tunnel network was no longer limited to what it had been.
Developed land.
The Nydus Worms completely withdrew from the historical stage of the swarm, and were replaced by the more powerful Void Delver.
After possessing this kind of transportation tool that can transport the swarm troops to any place at any time, the swarm's offensive will become more and more unstoppable.
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After finishing all the introductions to the Void Delver, Abathur's report on the current biological conditions of the insect swarm after the upgrade of the main nest came to an end.
But these are not all the changes brought about by this main nest upgrade.
The real highlight is the impact of this main hive upgrade on the high-level commanders of the swarm and the addition of new members.
According to Abathur, there are five new types of Zerg units created through genetic improvements collected from the Zerg Gene Bank this time, and they all have very distinctive characteristics and quite powerful abilities.
Among these new members, there are two types of creatures joining the swarm ground troops.
They are "Captor" and "Lupus Giant Spider" respectively.
The Captor is a medium-sized creature that looks a bit like a lizard. They are covered with a hard scaly carapace. They have sharp teeth and a pair of multi-tooth sickles on both sides of the head that can tear steel.
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Their backs are covered with sharp barbs, and the six digging legs distributed on both sides of the body are strong and powerful.
These characteristics make the Captor look like a brutal melee unit.
However, in fact, the Captor's fighting method relies more on concealment and long-range sneak attacks.
Like cockroaches, their captors can use their digging feet to burrow silently underground, but the difference is that they can also attack their targets directly from the ground!
This creature, which is nearly four meters in size, has a set of flexible and strong flexor muscle organs in its body. This set of organs is connected to the captor's tongue, which is covered with barbs and high-strength viscous liquid.
The flexor muscles in the predator's body can be up to a kilometer long when fully extended, allowing them to attack their prey from far away where they can't even see them.