Mutalisk Evolution: Brood Lord and Viper (Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm)

The brood lord strain was re-inducted into the Swarm after the Swarm's mutalisks killed some feral brood lords and assimilated their essence. The mutalisks were then morphed into new brood lords which Kerrigan then sent to destroy the nearby Dominion defense platform Sigma Centari. The viper strain was developed from primal zerg essence. Several vipers were used to steal jorium crystals from the Dominion on Brokas Hur... "Mutalisk Evolution" mission from 'Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm' PC game... Gameplay on Normal... ► Watch more Starcraft videos: bit.ly/1b1W2yY.
Mutalisk Evolution:
Brood lord strain: Can morph into a brood lord, which besieges ground targets from long range with spawned broodlings.
Viper strain: Can morph into a viper, which can pull distant units close, slow enemy ground units and prevent them from attacking for several seconds, or drain life from allied units to restore its own energy. Also enables air-to-air combat.

[@LamborghiniDiabloSVPursuit]

"Do you want a niche utility unit that won't see much use outside of specific scenarios, or do you want the only siege unit the Zerg have"

[@unevennoble9363]

"brood lords are the zergs only siege unit" Swarm hosts: *am I a joke to you? Cuz I won't be once a zerg player obliterates your base with JUST swarm hosts.*

[@adeliciousboi6133]

@@unevennoble9363lurkers: “Am I a joke to you?”

[@TricksterPoi]

I kinda don't understand why we're forced to pick between 2 specialist choices for the Mutalisk when in the brood war, the Mutalisk CAN morph into either a specialist anti-air (Devourer) or Siege anti-ground (Guardian) which is annoying.

[@wojciechwerner8787]

@@unevennoble9363 You forgot about Impaler.

[@dividedreality9708]

Anyone else miss the Devourer variant? Dem big-a$$ flying bananas of doom.

[@ezylo129]

Divided Reality haha 🍌 of doom 😂😂

[@junehollybell5977]

devourer didnt fly the guardian did.

[@CelestineGup]

they both flew

[@SageePrime]

You're thinking of the defiler I think. Devourer flew

[@hoangpham1515]

Devourer the one true counter 2 air

[@thuanantythieu2764]

"Dropping reinforcement !" Their reinforcement: 5 marines.

[@markhunter3533]

6

[@Freeman75901]

@@markhunter3533 Great diffefence

[@SageePrime]

Should have been a choice between Guardian and Brood Lord for one variant and a choice between Devourer and Viper for a second variant of mutalisk morphology

[@TG-ss2jh]

Or Brood Lord/Viper vs Guardian/Devourer. New combination vs old fashion.

[@darkravenbest8970]

Actually they both was planned to appear. But was cuted, and we have crumpled, cuted and absurd tech tree. Just like in the LotV in two years.

[@justnoob8141]

Should be like Corruptor -> Broodlord/Guardian and Mutalisk -> Viper/Devourer

[@HerrHoppenstedt]

Сергей Воронков As i personally agree, consider this: these are all alterations, just for the SP. I heard LotV is the worst in that regard, but SC lives in the MP.

[@k-leb4671]

@@darkravenbest8970 "cuted"???

[@travismontgomery1897]

Brood Lord: Baby throwers Viper: FLYING SCORPIAN FROM MK

[@gyppygirl2021]

I'll be honest, I pick vipers just for the aesthetics. Vipers themselves look cool, and the muta strain that morphs into them... I love their wings.

[@Tucher97]

it maybe just me but the vipers vaguly resemble a defiler, 2 longated limbs, massive lower jaw, longated body and both are great ultility units as well as having an ability that hinders range units also i like how bloodlings resemble the broodlords

[@superspies32]

Tucher97 but I prefer deflier, swarm cloud create perfect shield against tanks and colosus. Disable cloud and abduct require Viper to come to range and be killed quickly

[@Tucher97]

defilers mostly only made an appearance in brood war and there were no colosusi, but great against carriers, get a group of hydrlisk and fire hte cloud at them

[@mirahorner6277]

I'd prefer vipers. Ability to slow dowm and make ground armies useless seems better than a gass, which defends my armies.

[@Umbra_of_Emberspike]

If the viper had a much higher DPS against air units in general, I'd be less certain about always going brood lord, even in archives.

[@zixiais]

broodlords ftw. cmon, their range is crazy and attack damage is ridiculously OP.

[@randomzergling]

Honestly Vipers are better and cooler but I'm bad so I use broodlords

[@xh7385]

Watching the instructor's awkward controlling is tormenting.

[@ZlyLudekPL]

Makes me want to gouge my eyes out

[@xelj3155]

Ikr

[@Azuriel03]

Agree

[@merikmalhads1676]

I kinda wanted to see what they would do with the infestor's evolution but abby never found compatible essences

[@NeilsonBuntowa]

Maybe flying queen or just infestor and defiler

[@kiloklavdi1185]

I miss defiler. Those things are plain annoying but also great

[@AlteraLin]

Kinda lame that they didn't let you get the Guardian and Devourer. :/

[@builder5008]

PLAQUE TOO OP

[@sillypiegamer1010]

UNLESS you play multiplayer (maybe)

[@mirahorner6277]

Alterius Zhang why? Why do you need guardian when broodlord basicly is guardian of sc2

[@Tucher97]

when i played starcraft mass recall guardians did have the range but the AI would target the guardian but the broodlord fires units which hte AI would attack that instead of the broodlord itself

[@Dan-uf2vh]

guardians shoots faster than broodlords and have higher dps; brood lord's better as long as broodlings screen the army from damage but it leaves the zerg without any unit that can clear the map largely on its own (and with only mutalisks as air-to-air during the campaign, you have nothing to protect them from air either)

[@lyrlynnebalios2806]

Brood lord is just a swarm host that is flying.

[@arcanaxiii6665]

Personally I'd go with Brood Lord myself. I like the flying artillery ability. On the flip side my... ahem, talent for managing unit abilities is pretty low.

[@sillypiegamer1010]

somehow i like Viper, cuz of dragging and disabling the enemy units and use the Zerglings to surrounding em, also attacking the air units is fine for me, covering the army and drag the Battle Cruiser to Pile of Hydralisks or Spore Crawlers

[@mr.v6052]

I wonder if abathur's research on enhancing psionic potential with jorium would be relevant in the future

[@DeathDragon5000]

And that assumption would be WWWWWRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGG because gw starcraft probably doesn't exist anymore because gw we have jack balls information on a starcraft 3 and starcraft 2 was pretty much the end and starcraft 2 isn't getting any new content

[@unevennoble9363]

Do the chitha count.

[@helpmereach690subscribers3]

Sigma Centauri is like on the door step of earth’ where the fuq is the EUD

[@imanolbergeon9886]

Brood-lords : powerful Viper : useful

[@Rjlaufeyson]

This evolution mission is like choosing between the zerg guardian w/o the acid spores & zerg devourer with defiler abilities (plague replaced with abduct)

[@Dirtygerty]

Anyone else notice the guts falling..... downward into space.

[@arnowisp6244]

Wait....space has gravity outside of the platforms?

[@aaronnoel6176]

BLIZZARD didnt bother to add Corruptor, the evolution suppose to be Mutalisk mutates to Devouver or Viper and Corruptor mutates to Brood Lord or Guardian.

[@67IronWhalE]

Where did you get the info about Guardian being considered to be added to the campaign during the development?

[@cursedhawkins1305]

Everyone mentioning the devourers yet nobody seems to remember that guardians were an option for the mutilisk... give us them or at the least both so everyone can be happy.

[@Intrafacial86]

This is basically a choice between attack+move strain and APM/micro strain.

[@hentaidude666]

And it's in campaign so guess what everyone chose

[@k-leb4671]

@@hentaidude666 Vipers are arguably better though. Once you actually put some effort into it, their Disabling Cloud combined with Abduct is bonkers and nullifies so many enemy attack waves and defences.

[@hentaidude666]

@@k-leb4671 of course they are much better, most spellcasters or micro intensive units in this game are. But the question you gotta ask people at the end of the day in single player is "is it easy/more fun"

[@JBrander]

Almost everyone chooses the Viper, but the Brood Lord can be a gigantic pain in the ass if a group of 'em flanks your army or sneaks in to your base.

[@maxpaul7102]

You dont need to sneak if you have a ton of BL.

[@k-leb4671]

I thought almost everyone chose Broodlords.

[@SuperiorAmericanGuy]

I can’t believe mutalisks morph into brood lords instead of corruptors.

[@rainbowstrike5723]

Brood lord Mutalisks have wings resembling Halloween vampire bats Viper Mutalisks in the other hand, has wings that resemble a fairy ........

[@ChoriDinawan]

Brood Lord: Easy option to destroy bunkers and Any turrets Viper: More like support units.

[@TricksterPoi]

I'm not a zerg main, but it's annoying that we had to pick between that rather the Mutalisk having 2 specialist roles just like it's Brood War time.

[@kennovafastforward8460]

I chose the viper strain because I don't need anti ground nor anti armor mutalists, because ultralisks can deal with them. What I need is anti air, and vipers are anti air, plus they look cooler

[@Nor1998_]

Brood Lords be like "I can have many babies".

[@jamesestrella5911]

More like: TAKE my babies!

[@spooneater9001]

Let's see....should I use a flying siege tank that can create temporary melee reinforcements directly on top of an enemy....or be able to grab enemy units one at a time into what are essentially obsolete units at that point of the game? (I'm not even going to bother with the corsair ability nobody even used in brood war)

[@randomzergling]

Idk man vipers are generally agreed to be better if u can micro

[@mrghostmanghost5595]

Im watching carbot after this...

[@ГерманБудрик]

I wish we could choose from old and new queens so we would have to choose from olf brood war play style with multiple hatcheries and good support unit or with new queens able to heal units

[@jannieschluter9670]

viper is the only choice for me

[@joe78man]

Isnt it too much micro?´

[@jorgemendez7055]

Ikr, micro for the swarm doesn't fit much

[@LotusReal]

Jorge Mendez ikr but it can be very good if you micro effectively but I get your point

[@Nedvesperec]

I prefore like viper straim.

[@lamdelmundo8492]

I like the one from Bubba's Gas n Grub

[@Regunes]

i'm gonna redo this campaign, and i'm gonna pick every choices that will make my army larger, Aka Broodlord, splitterBane, FloodLing, etc

[@ArariaKAgelessTraveller]

dont forget to add that perk that let swarm host spam faster

[@Regunes]

@@ArariaKAgelessTraveller good point

[@ArariaKAgelessTraveller]

@@Regunes and that super fast Zergling breeding

[@Hoddevik92]

Always picked brood mother. way more useful

[@Its_me_Stolas]

chooseViper to take enemy tanks near to you army to destroy them fast

[@Dangur2]

As for me, vipers break the laws of physics too much even for the scale of SC. How such a creature, that definetly is not extremly heavy and is hanging in the air without any support from solid ground, can stay on it's location and pull objects, that are MUCH bigger and MUCH heavier and do it so fast, with enomorous accelerations, as if there was no inertia at all? This is too weird. In a more realistic case of such a fast pulling viper would be moved towards a heavy object while big unit would change position only a bit. It could be better, if vipers could use abduct against big units only being borrowed in the ground, or if it was needed to use many of them simultaneously to move something big. Or, and that's the best - if accelerations were dependant to the mass ratio and it took a lot more time to pull heavy objects, and that time could be used for retailation - killing the viper, or sending it's victum to move into the opposite direction, so that it will pull viper forward. . In real life a small tug can pull a big ship only with a very low acceleration, and - only when the ship does not resist. If it will turn the engines on and move into the opposite direction, it whould be able to pull the tug all across the Atlatics. And of course it is much harder to pull objects, that are standing on the ground and are hold by much higher friction.

[@smileyn7377]

Have you ever seen the sight of a Protoss Mothership being pulled over? It's glorious lol. :D

[@WolfgerLion]

i never cared for Vipers, so Brood Lords forever

[@Its_me_Stolas]

but if you pick Brood lord you also can pick a lurker

[@Its_me_Stolas]

it can be very use full with Impalers

[@JoseFrituz]

cool vid

[@elementbender1]

Who picks vipers over brood lords?

[@trolling-face]

Me

[@allainegaming369]

4:30 did you just turn off your friendly fire?? because i saw the few terran troops on fire by the siege Tanks

[@daredeflon662]

You can't turn it on or off, in Starcraft there are units who do area damage, some units hit friendlies too, some do not, Siege Tanks DO HIT friendlies

[@lotgc]

Guardians and defilers are cooler, change my mind

[@DeathDragon5000]

Hey the viper does one thing better than the defilers and that's the viper has abilities and the defilers don't

[@lotgc]

@@DeathDragon5000 what do you mean the defiler has no abilities? It had the most broken abilities in the game!

[@DeathDragon5000]

I meant the basic abilitys of life *cough* shooting things *cough* flight

[@Regunes]

Still waiting for those SKins to hit Melee...

[@SwordMasterTala]

for fuck sake... use attack move

[@bubujibujibuji958]

Warpten

[@-rage-blackout9145]

My Micro ability not bad but Viper trash.

[@cobrazax]

why u never use attack move? so much time wasted

[@joe78man]

He's not the best player

[@cobrazax]

its a VERY basic command in strategy games...he doesnt need to be the best, just have a BASIC idea of gaming

[@jarskil8862]

What is attack move?

[@cobrazax]

@@jarskil8862 attack order on ground. your forces will attack anything along the path automatically. WAY more efficient than clicking on every enemy...especially if u barely click anything so your forces spectate for ages...

[@jarskil8862]

@@cobrazax I had no idea such thing existed and Ive played through all the campaigns 4 times :D

[@VoidTemplar]

Micro skill too slow.

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[@dyatlov3466]

This player is so bad

[@Amoth_oth_ras_shash]

we all miss the devouer one..and the mini flyign bombs..but above all ,this unti realy made me give up on blizz and ther rts this generation , a flyer spitting a cloud ? ofc its ffs zerg..a could that makes units have 0 vision ? sure logical and a lees op version of the sc1 invunability scorpid cloud +cast from a far more flexible unit , pulling massive units to..yourself..when your flyign aka cant produce any counter acting force to its weight ''and i dond see it havieng wings the size of a pt or a brain the size of a zerebrate to make some psi shit''..ehh....reallllllly at the edge of balance issues and fourthwall or basic inworld logic..but a cloud that msyteriously makes all the equipment of the units have zero range ?..ffs...in that case the terrans should get the infinitive inviciblity uppgrade for ghosts its jsut a little power question right ? or have ther nukes being deploy by command anywhere not limited by frail infiltration units closerange laseer guidance...sighs...

[@LucanianIndico]

Holy fuck, this is without a doubt the most poorly formed paragraph in the history of KZbin comments. May god have mercy on your soul.

[@mirahorner6277]

Namoth what the hell are you talking abaut? Disabling cloud is Op, specially with vile roaches because enemies cant attack nor move out of cloud. Wait... were you talking abaut lame multiplayer and it's blinding cloud?

[@baron2062]

It reads like a two year old wrote this