StarCraft 1: The unused Defiler attack (Venom)

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Published on February 25, 2013 7:08:36 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtVtRTtloz4

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StarCraft (1998)

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This is widely know, anyway, but if you have read the manual that comes with StarCraft, you will realize that some units (like the Queen, Defiler and High Templar) got mentioned attacks, but in-game, you can't use them, also, the Mutalisk had an attack named Acid Spray (Acid Spray is also programmed, but it seems it has no graphics) instead of the Glave Wurm, which was assigned to the Queen (I tried to assign her the attack, but no matter the target, it always says "Unable to attack target."). The High Templar attack is the same as Tassadar's, but weaker.

I was playing around in DatEdit and I found that there were two entries, Venom (Unused-Defiler) and Venom (Unused-Defiler Hero), that caught my attention. I assigned it to the Defiler, I added an Attack button with FireGraft (I forgot to hide it when burrowed... Meh, what the hell...) and these are the results.

The Venom attack is unique and no other unit use these graphics nor sound. The attack itself is pretty weak and it's not quite useable in gameplay, but it's rather interesting to see this missing gem.

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