Forum:Zerglings and wings

The zerglings in the demo video showed that zerglings can jump when they have their mini wings so is it possible that they can jump over cliffs and ledges. If this is true then the zergling would be the equivelent of the reaper in movement and terrain User:The-genecleaner 19 april 2009 2:31 P.M.

The zergling's "wings" were a result of getting the speed upgrade in SC2. However, since the second Battle Report, the wings have been removed from the upgrade and they no longer grow on the backs of zerglings. They did not give them the ability to jump cliffs, they were simply a speed boost. The infestor will be able to bypass cliffs while burrowed. --Thebrowncloud 21:47, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

I'm sure everyone knows this all by now, given that SC2 has been out of a bit but still. The wings are only a result of the speed upgrade (Metabolic Boost) and don't grant the zergling any ability to jump of scale cliffs.....yet. I haven't read anything anywhere that hints it ever will but given the degree of people complaining (tehcnically about absolutely everything, but specifically) that the zerg have no cliff-scaler (despite early-ish transports and nydus worms) I'm thinking it might happen, or at least be tested in an official capacity eventually. We know now that the Infestor can't bypass cliffs while burrowing, nor can any other burrowed mover, but that also seems like a plausible way of getting around the problem (if it is one for you), to simply tunnel on a slant. Still, giving winged zerlings the ability to flutter-jump, maybe with the requirement of a...lair, hive or something (as well as needing to evolve MB-wings and cliff-jumping) could be really neat and probably a lot more fun to play with.

I can see it now:

"Haha...even with those wings the zerglings are stuck down in that canyon and I'm safe up here on the cliffs. I wonder why they don't just learn to-......oh shi-" -Special:Contributions/174.89.52.112