@Senior Pug He was on the fronts lines in battle against them and even sided with the Protoss against the Zerg many times. Course he knows more than the experts.
"Awaken my child, and embrace the glory that is your birthright. Know that I am the Overmind; the eternal will of the Swarm, and that you have been created to serve me." I miss you, Overmind, you were so much more badass than grandmas queens and Kerrigan...
+Rafael Lopez It wasn't a complete waste of time, it whole de-infestation plot freed her from amon's influence. Otherwise she would've been a slave when amon returned just like the overmind was
Did you know that in Star Trek the next-generation the Borg were meant to be an insectoid race but due to budget constraints they were made into a cybernetic alien race I think The Zerg are what the Borg were meant to be
The zerg can produce units at an incredibly fast rate and if your army falls in one battle you can just build another one in seconds, way before your opponent can rebuilt hes own, as long as you got the resourses.
I love this overview. I wish they updated each one with Swarm's and Void's new units. The Starship Troopers style of the Zerg was the reason I traded the boring Battlefield 1942 with OG Starcraft way back in 1998!
My uncle Amrik Khella was so cool. He showed me Starcraft, world of Warcraft, and Diablo. What a fun guy he is... too bad he stopped talking to me. Thanks for the fun.
As a basic run down: The Protoss have few, expensive, powerful units with lots of special abilities. Protoss need to rely on conservative tactics: actively avoiding losses, relying on terrain etc. The Zerg use vast numbers of cheap, disposable units. Zerg need to rely on stealth and subterfuge. Try both, and Terran too. The differences between all three factions are too long to list. Until you try out each one yourself, you'll never know which one you're suited to.
I always wonder if the carapace armor that the Zergs have is enough to protect them from solar radiation, especially when they venture into outer space to invade other planets. I think Blizzard should explain that :)
I Love Corruptor. Armored air vs Phoenix (although I switched to Protoss), destroys Collosus,observers, Ravens etc. Can morph into Broodlord and become almost invincible + beautiful design.
the great thing about them is that they can out mass any army but they die very fast and zergs has the most casualties then any other (takes one drone just to make a building) and unlike the other races they can only spawn by one building the hive thats a building to start with and where minerals are collected, making other buildings just unlocks more to spawn at the hives
not quite as big, and the zerg more adapt pre-existing biological lifeforms to serve as troops rather than create whole new lifeforms marly based of pre-existing DNA. for example for the Tyranids created the Zoanthrope out of Eldar DNA to act as living phonic siege weapon. where as if the zerg where to get their claws on some eldar, they would repurpose their form and being into something else. perhaps some kind of very fast and agile phonic support form. maybe as some sort of commando lifeform. something that can strike and fast while sowing confusion through enemy ranks with mental powers or attacks. a more mobile version of a queen perhaps. also zerg are purely organic as apposed to tech-no organic. and also they tend to ack in both their biology and function more like a bacteria or virus. also also they have a far quicker and more resilient regeneration
@343TheSentient or actual locusts... which are pretty accurate parallel. Swarm in absolutely innumerable numbers, consume everything in an instant, and spread.
@rusher38 Thats because Starcraft was originally a Warhammer 40k adaptation, but Blizzard and Games Workshop fell out before it was finished. I actually believe Blizzard still pays royalties to Games Workshop for using marines (which were obviously going to be space marines). I could be wrong about that though.
@ZaCoder Maybe the Overlords can withstand SR, but I don't think they can maneuver in the vacuum of space. There's no friction of any sort to "swim". The Zerg also don't use technology so it kind of baffles me to how they could actually move from one planet to another.
@Nightbaron61 I can do some research, I belive I read that they have assimilated animals capable of warp travel somehow, but I am not compleatly shure. I want to remember though that they gather in flaps that these animals have, so it might be so that the zerg cannot withstand radiation, but the transport animals can.
Another thing is that these are put together to highlight where each unit shines. If you watch the Terran and Protoss ones, you'll see them ripping their way through armies.
@Gouki6669 maybe i should of been more clear... Xenomorph was firsted used by hollywood in the series Alien (Aliens by james cameron), the main character ripley (someone without military experiance) kills several aliens + xenomorph queen. deadspace aliens are not called xenomorphs, their called necro morphs :P
@FierceLegoLink I agree that Zerg is a hard race to play because it is very macro heavy, You have to make sure you keep up your drone count, replacing drones you use to make buildings, make sure you keep your queen pumping out larva, and keep up with creep spread, all the while producing units to defend/attack.
I wasn't crying. I was pointing out that Zerg has it's hardships as well as other races. Terran can just drop all the energy on their orbitals in a second,and so can Protoss with chrono boosts. However,a zerg player can't get a crap load of larva injects because he can't stack them. And he NEEDS the larva late game. Another thing would be roach burrow micro,twice as hard as blink micro because you do have to unburrow the roach. In my opinion Zerg is at least not the easiest race.
zerg have clear understanding of technology-and evolve biologicly to counter the technological weapons they encounter. also,mutating their larva into whatever creature is needed on the battlefield takes less time then constructing a machine-multipite creatures can be mutated at the same time from the same hatcerhy while terran or protoss need multipite factories to craft thier machines and in the end,the evolution of zerg is so succesful that their biological weapons are more effective.
Ah, yes. Forgot about the creep tumour. Although I've never seen a player building a Queen specifically for laying tumours. Players always (at least that's what I've seen) use the Queens that are placed next to the Hive in order to provide a booster for larva spawning. From time to time when there is no need of this, a player would send a Queen to place a creep tumour somewhere. All I'm saying it would make it much more realistic as to the nature of the Zerg. :)
At a certain point - yes. But not for long. A hive has a single Queen, a few males and plenty of workers. Additional queens move to other places to expand and build new hives. Populations of two nests/hives (made by queens born from the same mother bee) will attack each other if necessary. So practically there is only one Uberleader (talking Wolfenstein-style here ;P) of the whole nest.
@1000AJs0001 Yeah but I would have thought it was a full race overview, not one races view of everything else, there is a reason for it being Raynor, I just thought it would be the main overview, and I would think it could be for Multiplayer too.
@Nightbaron61 The overlord was from the spacefaring creature called the gigantus proximae. You can look that part up. Those GP live in space. starcraft2 starcraft.wikia
Lol, Ultralisks were not able to burrow in SCI, don't worry. They are currently able to burrow in SCII. Maybe @jack5001ful was referring to how they have always able to burrow in SCII.
Does ANYBODY know where the music that begins around the 3:00 mark is from? I tried listening to all of the Zerg themes for SC 2 but I couldnt find it.
much as i love starcraft, warhammer 40k (the tabletop game) was made roughly 10 years before sc 1. What you were thinking is warhammer 40k dawn of war (the pc strategy game)
@AlekSensej their neural parasite lasts 15seconds except for tosses u'll be spending like 4-6 infestors just to build a command center but giving ur opponent vision of it every 15seconds. do u honestly think they'll just sit there and let u build it?
I may have just been playing a lot of Hearthstone lately but I realized playing the Zerg is kind of like having a deck, and you have to build your deck around your opponents and whatever...I guess that makes sense.
Samuel James You basically have to build a deck that will counter the other popular decks that you will end up fighting to maximize your winrate. It's similar with how you choose to build troops in SC.
@Nightmare78hAlo not really, because..... When your a zerg you dont have to get military units VERY fast. All you have to do is spread creep, because zerg units build pretty fast by the time your enemys are on your creep you already have a army waiting.
In the early years of Star Trek the next generation The Borg were meant to be an insect-like Race but due to budget constraints they were change into humanoid cyborgs at the last minute but I had a feeling if they had a budget they would be something like this!!!!
@jayhog128 im talking about real life not a game,in game a battlecruiser is a small ship but in real size its a flying palace,no matter of positioning no real 50 marines could hold out 1000 zergs
"they can kill a marine faster than he can empty his gauss rifle"
Yeah, he never does...
Ariel Hanson: "You know more about the Protoss and Zerg than any of experts i have read about Jim"
Depthcharger44 Jim Raynor knows more about starcraft then the game developera
@Senior Pug He was on the fronts lines in battle against them and even sided with the Protoss against the Zerg many times. Course he knows more than the experts.
"Awaken my child, and embrace the glory that is your birthright. Know that I am the Overmind; the eternal will of the Swarm, and that you have been created to serve me."
I miss you, Overmind, you were so much more badass than grandmas queens and Kerrigan...
+Rafael Lopez It wasn't a complete waste of time, it whole de-infestation plot freed her from amon's influence. Otherwise she would've been a slave when amon returned just like the overmind was
I like Zagara and the Overmind was realy cool
If they are not turn her into human again she will be infested by Amon ! Only with the power of Primal Zerg can help her against Amon infested !
Too bad Blizzard removed that player character concept. I loved the way SC1 involved you in the story.
overmind dead woohoo
Zerg are my favorite alien species
Did you know that in Star Trek the next-generation the Borg were meant to be an insectoid race but due to budget constraints they were made into a cybernetic alien race I think The Zerg are what the Borg were meant to be
interesting
Would've thought it was the Orks lol
Orks are a close second only because the zerg evolve so fast and could possibly absorb the orks and make them a cast of zerg
The zerg Swarm will infested Orks :)
1:51 Zergs in a nutshell...
The zerg can produce units at an incredibly fast rate and if your army falls in one battle you can just build another one in seconds, way before your opponent can rebuilt hes own, as long as you got the resourses.
I love this overview. I wish they updated each one with Swarm's and Void's new units.
The Starship Troopers style of the Zerg was the reason I traded the boring Battlefield 1942 with OG Starcraft
way back in 1998!
Battlefield 1942 was published in 2002.
@@antoniousai1989 so boring it felt like came out in 1998.
😋
I like how you guys made Raynor narrate it !
In Polish version Matt is narrator
Zerg: Overwhelm
Terran: Adapt
Protoss: Stratigise
Zerg: Evolution
Protoss: Psionic
Terran: Country Music
zerg:numbers
terran:power
protos:technology
Zerg: Overwhelm
Terran: Adapt
Protoss:
A T T A C K M O V E
Protoss :Advance tech
Zerg: Overwhelming numbers
Terran: GUN!
Wait didn't the Zerg win at the end of Starcraft 2.
Anyone else getting Goosebumbs as soon as those Ultralisks appear? :D
Marco Pfefferl üzere iki gün Q ü
Forget the ultralisks. Wait till the leviathans and omegalisks get here. THEN you're in trouble.
Heeyyyoooo
Zergs are awesome
Agreed!
FOR THE SWARM!
my favorite alian is ZERG 😙
the SWARM
Chaos Gaming Live for the Swarm!
My uncle Amrik Khella was so cool. He showed me Starcraft, world of Warcraft, and Diablo. What a fun guy he is... too bad he stopped talking to me. Thanks for the fun.
I love how they just swarm everything. *sniff* it's beautiful.
I love how Jim sounds so haunted
As a basic run down:
The Protoss have few, expensive, powerful units with lots of special abilities. Protoss need to rely on conservative tactics: actively avoiding losses, relying on terrain etc.
The Zerg use vast numbers of cheap, disposable units. Zerg need to rely on stealth and subterfuge.
Try both, and Terran too. The differences between all three factions are too long to list. Until you try out each one yourself, you'll never know which one you're suited to.
What's the Terrans like both?
I still remember the times when Queens used to fly and spawn broodlings... Good ol' times!
Long live Brood War!!!
FOR THE QUEEN!
The Ultralisks used to have an Ability called Ram. Which no longer exists in Competitive multiplayer, but it's shown in the vid.
I serve only the Queen of Blades... For the Swarm!
Who wouldn't, am I right fellas? Heh heh ;D
But in all seriousness, Zerg FTW
No, our true lord is the overmind
s i m p
I always wonder if the carapace armor that the Zergs have is enough to protect them from solar radiation, especially when they venture into outer space to invade other planets. I think Blizzard should explain that :)
You are right...
First like
7 years old
Small world
They don't have charge attack but the attack got increased a lot. From 15+2 Splash to 35+2
I Love Corruptor.
Armored air vs Phoenix (although I switched to Protoss), destroys Collosus,observers, Ravens etc. Can morph into Broodlord and become almost invincible + beautiful design.
the great thing about them is that they can out mass any army but they die very fast and zergs has the most casualties then any other (takes one drone just to make a building) and unlike the other races they can only spawn by one building the hive thats a building to start with and where minerals are collected, making other buildings just unlocks more to spawn at the hives
can i keap him he folowed me home please please
Yes, give him regular biomass daily.
Zerg master race, they're THE reason I am buying (not bought yet) StarCraft 2 for.
Anyone imagined this with the voice of Liam Neeson?
I hope we have Kerrigan narrating the same sort of overviews for Heart of the Swarm. Going over the changes, new abilities and units, et cetera.
2:26 why is the probe attacking the zealot
changling?
Changelings dont attack.
I just realises how cool zerg is
did he say xenomorphs at 0:15
yes he did. but xenomorph just means alien form.
Oh yeah the Zerg was my favorite race since I started playing Starcraft I.
Is that Raynor's voice? ^^
yep
+Đức Tài Văn Nguyễn "An overview of the Zerg narrated by Jim Raynor."
No, it's Morgan Freeeman.
Buzz light year would be so terrified
I claim these minerals.
thxs 4 the vid, i was just getting started with zerg and wasnt sure enough of how they work...
2:14 Never seen in-game
Yeah. weak players never do that and advanced players quickly counter!
Alexander Mill Its not about that. This was really stupid cause zealots didnt killed infestors instead they tried to kill colloses!
Alexander Mill I`m diamond too, maybe you could show me some replays with Infestors? Xllon#2548 (EU)
awesome. love that show. love starcraft, love raynor, love zerg.
So Tyranids basically..
yup
Zerg ripped off Tyranids
Jack Of No Trades yeah but way weaker.
not quite as big, and the zerg more adapt pre-existing biological lifeforms to serve as troops rather than create whole new lifeforms marly based of pre-existing DNA. for example for the Tyranids created the Zoanthrope out of Eldar DNA to act as living phonic siege weapon. where as if the zerg where to get their claws on some eldar, they would repurpose their form and being into something else. perhaps some kind of very fast and agile phonic support form. maybe as some sort of commando lifeform. something that can strike and fast while sowing confusion through enemy ranks with mental powers or attacks. a more mobile version of a queen perhaps. also zerg are purely organic as apposed to tech-no organic. and also they tend to ack in both their biology and function more like a bacteria or virus. also also they have a far quicker and more resilient regeneration
@343TheSentient or actual locusts... which are pretty accurate parallel. Swarm in absolutely innumerable numbers, consume everything in an instant, and spread.
I serve only Liam Neeson
Zerg are one of many of my favourite alien races
Space marines would crush the zerg
That is hardly fair, WH 40K crushes nearly everything.
Zerg? Rush
Terran? Rush
Protoss? Cheese
Hotel? Trivago
@rusher38 Thats because Starcraft was originally a Warhammer 40k adaptation, but Blizzard and Games Workshop fell out before it was finished. I actually believe Blizzard still pays royalties to Games Workshop for using marines (which were obviously going to be space marines). I could be wrong about that though.
@TheXeno2000 if you look at the air between the hydras and their target you can see the spines flying.
@ZaCoder Maybe the Overlords can withstand SR, but I don't think they can maneuver in the vacuum of space. There's no friction of any sort to "swim". The Zerg also don't use technology so it kind of baffles me to how they could actually move from one planet to another.
@Nightbaron61 I can do some research, I belive I read that they have assimilated animals capable of warp travel somehow, but I am not compleatly shure. I want to remember though that they gather in flaps that these animals have, so it might be so that the zerg cannot withstand radiation, but the transport animals can.
Another thing is that these are put together to highlight where each unit shines. If you watch the Terran and Protoss ones, you'll see them ripping their way through armies.
@Nightbaron61 They can use a more simple method of propulsion. The high pressure release of gas should do it.
@Gouki6669 maybe i should of been more clear... Xenomorph was firsted used by hollywood in the series Alien (Aliens by james cameron), the main character ripley (someone without military experiance) kills several aliens + xenomorph queen. deadspace aliens are not called xenomorphs, their called necro morphs :P
well you get queens used for creep spread. so an additional queen from a hive is kind of needed for creep
@FierceLegoLink I agree that Zerg is a hard race to play because it is very macro heavy, You have to make sure you keep up your drone count, replacing drones you use to make buildings, make sure you keep your queen pumping out larva, and keep up with creep spread, all the while producing units to defend/attack.
Zerg is one of the most hardest races to ever master
Zerg:Cockroaches
Protoss:Technology
Terran:Power Of Bros
@Fl4m30f3d3n that is when you change the zerglings into banelings and steamroll those light armored infantry units.
@ZergSwarmling mass air pwns the army you suggest, especially the extra damage voids do to massive units.
@boredvine u can do that with any other race too it's just a cheap way of saying zergs have to counter to win or they can't do anything at all.
@SouthbobParkpants Maybe Heart of the Swarm will have Kerrigan do all the overviews as well
I wasn't crying. I was pointing out that Zerg has it's hardships as well as other races. Terran can just drop all the energy on their orbitals in a second,and so can Protoss with chrono boosts. However,a zerg player can't get a crap load of larva injects because he can't stack them. And he NEEDS the larva late game. Another thing would be roach burrow micro,twice as hard as blink micro because you do have to unburrow the roach. In my opinion Zerg is at least not the easiest race.
@FinTheDew they are for DPS. you need roaches as meat shield/ tanks
zerg have clear understanding of technology-and evolve biologicly to counter the technological weapons they encounter.
also,mutating their larva into whatever creature is needed on the battlefield takes less time then constructing a machine-multipite creatures can be mutated at the same time from the same hatcerhy while terran or protoss need multipite factories to craft thier machines and in the end,the evolution of zerg is so succesful that their biological weapons are more effective.
Ah, yes. Forgot about the creep tumour. Although I've never seen a player building a Queen specifically for laying tumours. Players always (at least that's what I've seen) use the Queens that are placed next to the Hive in order to provide a booster for larva spawning. From time to time when there is no need of this, a player would send a Queen to place a creep tumour somewhere. All I'm saying it would make it much more realistic as to the nature of the Zerg. :)
this didn't age well
At a certain point - yes. But not for long. A hive has a single Queen, a few males and plenty of workers. Additional queens move to other places to expand and build new hives. Populations of two nests/hives (made by queens born from the same mother bee) will attack each other if necessary. So practically there is only one Uberleader (talking Wolfenstein-style here ;P) of the whole nest.
@1000AJs0001 Yeah but I would have thought it was a full race overview, not one races view of everything else, there is a reason for it being Raynor, I just thought it would be the main overview, and I would think it could be for Multiplayer too.
@Nightbaron61 The overlord was from the spacefaring creature called the gigantus proximae. You can look that part up. Those GP live in space.
starcraft2
starcraft.wikia
@IceCorps It was literally just posted today/yesterday. (it was november 4th but is fairly recent)
hay, has anyone noticed that that the Kerrigan showed here is actually the Primal Kerrigan from Heart of the Swarm?
Lol, Ultralisks were not able to burrow in SCI, don't worry. They are currently able to burrow in SCII. Maybe @jack5001ful was referring to how they have always able to burrow in SCII.
@boolengleng they use thier overlord or some of them can already fly or they use some kind of squid that drops eggs.
Does ANYBODY know where the music that begins around the 3:00 mark is from? I tried listening to all of the Zerg themes for SC 2 but I couldnt find it.
SC 2 shows how visceral they are there the best looking Faction.
@Nightbaron61 Who said that their cell nucleus are vulnerable to solar radiation in the first place?
How do they move across the galaxy if they don't have technology?
Leviathans are bioships that can warp space
@whatehell0 that would be awesome, and Zeratul/Tassadar for the 3rd one
why is it i cannot connect to this game???
im from phillippines
i have StarCraft 2 Heart of Swarn the problem is cant connect. why?
+Jafmil Cabunoc you need wol too
Lets Pretend Heart of the Swarm is standalone now. Wings of Liberty no longer needed to play the game ;)
Pirate pa more
Can someone please explain me how does Mutalisks fly on space???
first time i saw this i wasnt sure it was jim but then he said someone i knew someone i cared about and im like yep thats jim
my main race is zerg but im thinking about having a secondary one im thinking more towards toss rather than terran though
If you think about the SC1 Zerg quest the overmind talks about warping.
i like how they max upgrades on the featured race
much as i love starcraft, warhammer 40k (the tabletop game) was made roughly 10 years before sc 1. What you were thinking is warhammer 40k dawn of war (the pc strategy game)
correct me if im wrong, i dont think ultralisk can burrow in starcraft 1.
@AlekSensej their neural parasite lasts 15seconds except for tosses u'll be spending like 4-6 infestors just to build a command center but giving ur opponent vision of it every 15seconds. do u honestly think they'll just sit there and let u build it?
Yes,but you need to finish a mission first and then check the evolution pit,click the ultralisk,click burrow charge
I love how most space games have the swarming faction: Starcraft - Zerg, Warhammer - Tyranid (much creepier then zerg), Halo - flood
What is the soundtrack called? This sound is in "Ghost of a chance" mission but i dont know its name
this is now my new motivational video
I may have just been playing a lot of Hearthstone lately but I realized playing the Zerg is kind of like having a deck, and you have to build your deck around your opponents and whatever...I guess that makes sense.
That's... like *every* race...
I think I was high when I commented that or something.
Sushin what you mean by 'around your opponent'?
Sushin what you mean by 'around your opponent'?
Samuel James You basically have to build a deck that will counter the other popular decks that you will end up fighting to maximize your winrate. It's similar with how you choose to build troops in SC.
@Nightmare78hAlo Its not in the race, It depends on how you use it.
why don't the zerg have a unit that can drop of units wherever like protoss and terren?
They have the overlords and not to mention the nydus worms
they do, its called a Nydus Worm. (i think is what its called)
it is the nydus worm that drop zerg units
Olinga Broda but the locusts
StarCraft, Keep making videos!
@Nightmare78hAlo not really, because.....
When your a zerg you dont have to get military units VERY fast. All you have to do is spread creep, because zerg units build pretty fast by the time your enemys are on your creep you already have a army waiting.
Wait wait wait....corruptors in brood lords? I thought it was mutalisks into brood lords?
In the early years of Star Trek the next generation The Borg were meant to be an insect-like Race but due to budget constraints they were change into humanoid cyborgs at the last minute but I had a feeling if they had a budget they would be something like this!!!!
They need to make a Starcraft full-feature movie.
In HOTS do Ultralisks still have that Burrow charge attack?
If you're good with the zerg, you're almost unstoppable.
infestor fungal only does about 35 damage and its range is quite short. not to mention it costs 75 energy
@jayhog128 im talking about real life not a game,in game a battlecruiser is a small ship but in real size its a flying palace,no matter of positioning no real 50 marines could hold out 1000 zergs