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Volatile infested are a breed of zerg infested terran found after the zerg infested the Umojan Protectorate research team on Jarban Minor.

Overview[]

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This article or section contains information derived from Co-op Missions, and should not be considered part of the official StarCraft storyline.

End War[]

During the End War, Alexei Stukov utilized volatile infested in his infested terran forces, and brought them to bear against Amon. These infested were used as living ammunition in his infested siege tanks.[1]

When Amon's Forces infested Chazington, a number of volatile infested defended the virophage infesting the colony.[2]
During the attack on a Kel-Morian Combine mining colony, a number of volatile infested were spawned in order to overwhelm the miners.[3]

Jarban Minor[]

Around the Defenders of Man Insurgency, a number of volatile infested were made from the infested research team on Jarban Minor after the zerg overran them. They appeared to be similar to normal infested colonists, but with a large explosive pustule on their chest, which explodes when it gets in range of a target.

When Agent Nova Terra arrived on Jarban Minor in search of terrazine, she was forced to fight off waves of these creatures, which swarmed the extraction devices as she tried to harvest from them.

Game Unit[]

Co-op Missions[]

Volatile infested appear in Co-op Missions as a possible unit spawned by Stukov. Stukov's tier 2 mastery gives him a 0.5% chance per mastery point (max 15% chance) to spawn a volatile infested instead of a regular infested civilian. In addition, volatile infested are fired by infested siege tanks, and are controllable after they land next to their targets. Both the volatile infested spawned from siege tanks and from the colonist compound are impacted by the acidic enzymes upgrade.

Volatile infested also appear as enemies in the Miner Evacuation and Dead of Night maps. The virophage bonus objective on Dead of Night will generate volatile infested to defend itself.

Upgrades and Abilities[]

Volatile infested use the same in-game weapon as banelings, the damage appears higher but campaign banelings have the same damage stat.

SpawnCivilian LotV Game1
Spawn Infested Civilian

Spawn 8 Infested Civilians. (This ability creates several infested cocoons, which after 30 seconds transform into infested civilians.)

This ability is autocast by default.

Volatile Infested Spawn Chance Mastery: The Infested colonist compound can spawn a volatile infested with a chance of +0.5% per mastery point.

Usage
Cooldown 60 (Initial cooldown=180) seconds
Notes

Doubles the number of Infested Civilians created for each level of Infestation.
Mastery: +0.5% volatile infested chance per Volatile Infested Spawn Chance mastery point. Up to a maximum 15% chance.

Acquisition
Purchased from Infested colonist compound
Hotkey D
ve
AnaerobicEnhancement LotV Game1
Anaerobic Enhancement

Enables Infested Civilians and Volatile Infested to leap.

Usage
Notes

Leap to enemy targets within a range of 4.

Acquisition
Purchased from Infested colonist compound
Hotkey A
Cost 100 Minerals 100 Vespene gas 60seconds
ve
BroodlingGestation LotV Game1
Broodling Gestation

Infested Civilians and Volatile Infested spawn a Broodling when they die.

Usage
Passive
Campaign Acquisition
Unlock Reach Stukov Level 7.
Acquisition
Purchased from Infested colonist compound
Hotkey G
Cost 150 Minerals 150 Vespene gas 90seconds
Required Infested engineering bay
ve
AcidicEnzymes LotV Game1
Acidic Enzymes

Infested Siege Tanks and Volatile Infested deal an additional +15 damage to armored units and structures in both modes.

Usage
Passive
Campaign Acquisition
Unlock Reach Stukov Level 9.
Acquisition
Purchased from Infested tech lab attached to infested factory
Hotkey E
Cost 100 Minerals 100 Vespene gas 60seconds
Required Infested armory
ve
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Infested Terran Infantry Weapons

Increases the attack damage of infested terran infantry.

(Also affect Broodlings)

Usage
Passive
Campaign Acquisition
Unlock Initially available.
Acquisition
Purchased from Infested engineering bay
Hotkey E
Level 1
Cost 100 Minerals 100 Vespene gas 160seconds
Effect Damage: 44 (+44 vs Structure) (basic)
44 (+44 vs Structure, +15 vs Armored) (with Acidic Enzymes)
Level 2
Cost 175 Minerals 175 Vespene gas 190seconds
Required Infested armory
Effect Damage: 48 (+48 vs Structure) (basic)
48 (+48 vs Structure, +15 vs Armored) (with Acidic Enzymes)
Level 3
Cost 250 Minerals 250 Vespene gas 220seconds
Required Infested armory
Effect Damage: 52 (+52 vs Structure) (basic)
52 (+52 vs Structure, +15 vs Armored) (with Acidic Enzymes)
ve
SC2 TerrInfArm
Infested Terran Infantry Armor

Increases the armor of Infested terran infantry.

(Also affect Broodlings)

Usage
Passive
Campaign Acquisition
Unlock Initially available.
Acquisition
Purchased from Infested engineering bay
Hotkey A
Level 1
Cost 100 Minerals 100 Vespene gas 160seconds
Effect Armor: 1
Level 2
Cost 175 Minerals 175 Vespene gas 190seconds
Required Infested armory
Effect Armor: 2
Level 3
Cost 250 Minerals 250 Vespene gas 220seconds
Required Infested armory
Effect Armor: 3
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Nova Covert Ops[]

Volatile infested appear in the Nova Covert Ops mission Night Terrors. They function as slower moving banelings, but have higher health. When harvesting from an extractor, waves of them will often appear from nearby caves, particularly those from the southeastern most extractor. Area-of-effect attacks such as the ones from siege tanks or Nova's grenades can do well against clustered volatile infested. In addition, HERCs are immune to their acidic explosions.[4]

Trivia[]

Volatile infested appear to be a reference to the infested terrans from the original StarCraft, as they both function as explosive suicide units.

References[]

  1. Blizzard Entertainment. Co-op Missions. (Activision Blizzard). PC. Stukov (in English). 2018.
  2. Blizzard Entertainment. Co-op Missions. (Activision Blizzard). PC. Dead of Night (in English). 2018.
  3. Blizzard Entertainment. Co-op Missions. (Activision Blizzard). PC. Miner Evacuation (in English). 2018.
  4. Blizzard Entertainment. StarCraft II. (Activision Blizzard). PC. Mission: Nova Covert Ops, Night Terrors (in English). 2016-08-02.
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