Solo Cyst Level 4+

Fazmond

(Solo Cyst) at Bio mass 4+ the alien commander gets a solo cyst which is :-

1. A different colour (yellow) with yellow infestation
2. It does NOT need to be connected to a hive or cyst chain and dropped anywhere on the map
   • They cannot be dropped in range of a command chair entity (stopping whip rushes)
   • Or it could be certain structures don't work on the type of infestation like whips
3. The infestation does very minor damage to structures
4. Allows the commander to teleport things to it like normal infestation
5. It would have a higher cost than a normal cyst
6. It would have a cool down on using it (stopping spam use)
   • Higher Levels of biomass could reduce the cool down
   • Higher Levels of biomass could upgrade any effect of structures placed on it
   • Higher Levels of biomass could upgrade any effect of gasses emitted from it
7. Marines walking on this infestation could be slowed or even highlighted on map
8. Infestation spread should be wider (making placement important as any contact with marine structures would alert marines)
9. The cyst its self could be bigger or have a different model to it (Giving the chance for the marines to spot it)
10. Higher Levels of biomass could reduce the cool down
    

GOOD POINTS

1. It would help against the mid game lane blocking
2. It could give a place for the commander to shift out cloaked healing bases, eggs whips
3. With cool downs, higher cost and wide infestation it wont be spammed and has tactical uses
4. Could have tactical uses , like creating distractions
5. Being a level 4+ ability should also be countered with Grenades and advance weapons
6. Earlie game dead gorges could re-gorge on a teleported egg
   • Gorges normally would find it hard to get past well lane marines with observatory cover
7. Because it has its own type of infestation it could have different rules applied to it like :-
   • Marines could be slowed on it
   • Different structures might or might not work on top of it
   • It could damage armour like spores do (by emitting a type of spores)
   • It could have an umbra effect (by emitting a type of umbra)

BAD POINTS

1. Gorge Rush Tunnels (not the intended use of this cyst but then again were gorge tunnels either)

skav2

So basically this is contamination. An interesting take away from this would be if you can lay down different kinds of cysts. Cysts such as poison infestation, mine cysts, hardened cysts etc.

Nintendows

FYI you can already do something like this by cysting up to where a gorge is and having them build the cyst before the chain gets cut. It will produce infestation before the intermediate cysts are even built, and will continue to do so after they are destroyed.

This doesn't work with drifters because they cannot build cysts.