An awesome new unit in the Zerg race is the Corruptor. It’s a flying unit that can drop slimy creep goo on enemy buildings causing them to halt whatever they’re doing for about 30 seconds. It’s pretty useful for swarming into an enemy base and rendering the defensive buildings useless; or for stopping production of enemy defensive units.

I had time to play a 1v1 match against a computer today — the only difficulty setting available in the beta is “very easy” so it was essentially sandbox mode to become familiar with the new game… which is exactly what I need because it’s kind of disorienting to learn a new way to play Starcraft.

The Zerg are still essentially pretty awesome. It took me a while to figure out that creep is built slightly differently; you can spawn a Queen unit from the Hatchery which can create these creep buildings which can *also* spawn more creep buildings from themselves. I’ll try to get a screenshot later today….. it’s definitely more convenient than having to use up a drone every time you need to expand your creep zone.

When I finally did move in for the kill, the computer AI sent me a chat message:

Player 2: gg