don't listen to Nevada, he's gold league at his best (he pays someone periodically to maintain masters level, he asked me once to do it for him)
For zvt I open 15h 16g 16p and 9 drone scout to see if hes 2 raxing unless its a 4 player map. If I see CC first I'll go 3 hatch before gas then pool. If I see gasless rax expand I'll skip the speedling upgrade.
Open pretty normally, usually trying to sneak a pair of lings across the map to kill scvs constructing the cc, getting second queen at natural for creep spread, starting 3rd when I'm at about 30 drones (I prefer to get 3rd queen out first). I'll send in my overlord at some point while my 3rd is still under construction (I forget to do this sometimes so I'm not entirely sure on the best time to send it in) to see if he's adding banshees or if he didn't get a third CC. If banshees, I'll start 2 more queens. If no third CC, I'll drop a baneling nest and start spamming lings and calling him a faggot.
If he's playing normally though (hellion banshee or just typical hellion harrass), then yeah, you pretty much do just go muta/ling/baneling until you puke. Once you get 4-5 bases running and feel comfortable enough, you can think about getting ultralisks and a few infestors. You do want to get a hive though for upgrades pretty quickly, even if you dont use the hive for anything else. However, if you fuck up and lose a bunch of mutas you will have to tough it out and build more because having no mutalisks is pretty awful.
This post was edited by dwalk1989 on Feb 27 2014 10:54pm