Also the crawlers are severely underpowered. The predatory pack upgrade is far to expensive, and it barely does anything. Doesn't come close to comparing with the rage upgrade. which is far better and far less expensive. 50 gold 50 mana. the crawlers upgrade is 200 gold and 100mana and does nothing noticeable. #grumpychaosfan
Agreed that its too expensive, FAR too expensive.
Crawlers are an early unit, maybe first 3 minutes of the game. We simply cant afford the buff at that stage.
ALSO both crawler buffs take a whole minute to research - which is far too long as the crawlers are only really used at the very start of the game (granted, unless being used against giants).
It would be great to be able to afford to buff the crawlers early game, while they are the main/only unit being used.
I discussed with Tec the idea of making the buffs two-stages (like giant growth 1 & 2); so the first stage is less effective, but cheaper and quicker. When the second stage is added it gets full power on the buff. This would open up some options for chaos early game, as all we get currently is (unbuffed) crawlers and throw-away bombers.