Volatile infested

Volatile Infested
Unit
Race	Zerg
Affiliation	Zerg Swarm Infested Jarban Minor research team
Campaign	Nova Covert Ops "Co-op Missions"
Role	Suicide Unit
Armament	Volatile burst
Properties
Life span	90 (Co-op Missions)
Production
Control	0 1 (Co-op Missions)
Build time	30 (60 (180 initial) charge cooldown) (Co-op Missions)
Produced from	Infested colonist compound (Co-op Missions)
Movement
Speed	1 1.25 (Co-op Missions)
Protection
Hit points	60 35 (Co-op Missions)
Type	Ground Biological
Armor type	Light
Volatile Burst
Damage	40 (+40 vs structures)
Targets	Ground
Cooldown	0.2 (can only be used once)
Range	0.1 (Melee)
Upgrade/level	+4/1 per level (Co-op Missions)

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

Overview

Volatile infested were made from the infested research team on Jarban Minor after the zerg overran them. They appear 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 Alexei 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.

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 100 100 60

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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 150 150 90 Required Infested engineering bay

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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 100 100 60 Required Infested armory

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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 100 100 160 Level 2 Cost 175 175 190 Required Infested armory Level 3 Cost 250 250 220 Required Infested armory

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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 such as siege tanks or Nova's grenades can do well against clustered volatile infested. In addition, HERCs are immune to their acidic explosions.

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

Blizzard Entertainment. StarCraft II. (Activision Blizzard). PC. Mission: Nova Covert Ops, Night Terrors (in English). 2016-08-02.

Zerg Units and Structures of StarCraft II v • e

Versus units and structures Terrestrial units Larva Drone Zergling Baneling Roach Ravager (LotV) Hydralisk Lurker (LotV) Infestor Ultralisk Queen Swarm host (HotS) Aerospace units Overlord Overseer Mutalisk Brood lord Corruptor Viper (HotS) Spawned units Broodling Changeling Infested terran Locust (HotS) Basic buildings Hatchery Creep tumor Extractor Evolution chamber Spawning pool Baneling nest Roach warren Automated defenses Spine crawler Spore crawler Advanced buildings Lair Hive Infestation pit Spire Greater spire Hydralisk den Lurker den Nydus network Nydus worm Ultralisk cavern Transition units Baneling cocoon Broodmother cocoon Brood lord cocoon Egg Impaler cocoon Infested swarm egg Lurker cocoon Overseer cocoon Ravager cocoon Ultralisk chrysalis Others Creep Campaign and Co-op Missions units and structures Terrestrial units Aberration Blightbringer Brutalisk Defiler Impaler cocoon Infested colonist Infested diamondback Infested marine Infested trooper Infested medic Infested SCV Infested siege tank Omegalisk Pygalisk Pygalisk cocoon Swarmling Volatile infested Aeropsace units Guardian Leviathan Sac Scourge Swarm guardian Infested banshee Infested liberator Buildings Impaler den Infested terran buildings Infested command center Toxic nest Virophage Automated defenses Bile launcher Impaler colony Scourge cannon Spore cannon Sunken colony Infested bunker Infested missile turret Variant units Zergling Strains Raptor Swarmling Baneling Strains Hunter Splitter Baneling spawn Roach Strains Corpser Roachling Vile Queen Strains Aiur queen Broodmother Swarm queen Hydralisk Strains Hunter Killer Impaler Lurker Ultralisk Strains Noxious Stank Torrasque Swarm host Strains Carrion Creeper Locust Strains Flying locust Mutalisk Strains Brood lord Viper Guardian Strains Swarm guardian Canceled Zerg Units and Structures of StarCraft II v • e Scrapped Removed Units Behemoth chrysalis Bone wasp Cobra Dracolisk Fiend Fury Gigalisk Gorgeling Huge queen Incubus Infested protoss Klurken Large queen Larval queen Leech Lilev coccoon Magnasaur Magnathar Mantalisk Mantis Miasmalisk Morphalisk Nihilisk Primalisk Prowler Scavenger Siegeling Spore host Swarm Swarm guardian Swarm larva Terrorling Trichinella Removed Buildings Broodling nest Creep colony Creep tower Infested protoss buildings Nydus destroyer Nydus warren Shrieker Spore colony Swarm clutch Swarm infestation Underfiend