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Well, some of you might know things about brood war, little things that not everyone knows, i will give you an example.
Mutalisks. Did you know that Mutalisks have a tongue?, and its tongue is a Gecko?, Try watching the preview in a game of a mutalisk, and keep looking at it for seconds, the mutalisk will flip out his tongue, and guess what, its a gecko. Very funny.
Reavers and Mines, The explosion of their atack are exactly the same image, blizzard only changed the mine explosion color to blue and thats what the explosion of a scarab looks like.
Esnare and Plague. Did you know that the Esnare and Plague not only are the same effect, and a change of the color. But they are also Just an effect of various Marines dying?
If you watch really carefully in a slow mode and watch the queen cast the Esnare or the Defiler cast the Plague, you will see that the formed effect, are just some marines dying in another color.
I dont remember any other now, but as soon as i do, i will post them. I know quite a few, post yours if you got one.
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Turret, if you actually look closely on the scale pictuer- there is a person in it
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wow is that serious? i never knew there was a person in there lol
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Edit: sorry, I sound like an ass. Guess I was a bit tired =/
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Sweden33719 Posts
Tec, it's not meant to be anything but funny, no one is complaining :O
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Cool keep them coming 
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Greece2394 Posts
i also never figured out why the sound effect of laying a mine and defilers's consume are the same. how hard was it to just make a new one for one of them?
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On July 23 2005 11:33 SchOOl_VicTIm wrote:
i also never figured out why the sound effect of laying a mine and defilers's consume are the same. how hard was it to just make a new one for one of them?
thats actually a good point, its the same sound, and so different things!...
Anyway, another thing, not all of you know.
Zealot, Its the only small unit that can resist a Yamato Gun. yep thats right, do yamato gun to a zealot and you wont kill it...
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On July 23 2005 10:17 KeepOfOnE wrote:Turret, if you actually look closely on the scale pictuer- there is a person in it
I knew this for awhile, but can u imagine how dizzy he is :O
Poor fucker..
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Very interesting.
I'll try watching plague/ensnare being cast on slowest.
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/off topic
you people seem to know everything ) I have a question.
Yesterday played a game TvZ, me T. I was gathering valkiries, at one point my friend, who was watching told me stop producing them because no more than 8 can shoot at a time. I argued, because it seemed stupid to me, but he explained me aboust some "sprites", which I couldn't understand. Is is true? Someone tested?
10x in advance
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On July 23 2005 13:13 One Page Memory wrote:/off topic you people seem to know everything ) I have a question. Yesterday played a game TvZ, me T. I was gathering valkiries, at one point my friend, who was watching told me stop producing them because no more than 8 can shoot at a time. I argued, because it seemed stupid to me, but he explained me aboust some "sprites", which I couldn't understand. Is is true? Someone tested? 10x in advance It's true, the actual amount of valkyrie rockets varies depending on what else is going on in the game.
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On July 23 2005 13:13 One Page Memory wrote:/off topic you people seem to know everything ) I have a question. Yesterday played a game TvZ, me T. I was gathering valkiries, at one point my friend, who was watching told me stop producing them because no more than 8 can shoot at a time. I argued, because it seemed stupid to me, but he explained me aboust some "sprites", which I couldn't understand. Is is true? Someone tested? 10x in advance
10 valks is not enough
maybe like 50 will cause problems in a standard 1v1 game (or even 2v2)
I think the sprite limit is 1024. So 1024 things would have to fire at the same time (minus say 200-300 - depending on the number of dododads on a map)
each valk has 8rockets (sprites)..
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On July 23 2005 11:44 FunnyMan wrote:Show nested quote +On July 23 2005 11:33 SchOOl_VicTIm wrote:
i also never figured out why the sound effect of laying a mine and defilers's consume are the same. how hard was it to just make a new one for one of them? thats actually a good point, its the same sound, and so different things!... Anyway, another thing, not all of you know. Zealot, Its the only small unit that can resist a Yamato Gun. yep thats right, do yamato gun to a zealot and you wont kill it...
Eeek thats pretty cool. But also in the map "unitrace.scx" it seems that interceptors wont die to yamato gun if they are running away as fast as they can. Maybe I can get a rep of it.
skyglow1
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On July 23 2005 14:13 skyglow1 wrote:Show nested quote +On July 23 2005 11:44 FunnyMan wrote:On July 23 2005 11:33 SchOOl_VicTIm wrote:
i also never figured out why the sound effect of laying a mine and defilers's consume are the same. how hard was it to just make a new one for one of them? thats actually a good point, its the same sound, and so different things!... Anyway, another thing, not all of you know. Zealot, Its the only small unit that can resist a Yamato Gun. yep thats right, do yamato gun to a zealot and you wont kill it... Eeek thats pretty cool. But also in the map "unitrace.scx" it seems that interceptors wont die to yamato gun if they are running away as fast as they can. Maybe I can get a rep of it. skyglow1
I dont think thats true at all.
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A few strange things I've found through experimentation:
EMP shockwave wipes out mana on comsat stations.
Irradiated drone can be morphed into an irradiated building, same for defensive matrix etc.
Ensnared workers mine at the same rate.
If you manage to slide a siege tank beneath a landing building and siege it, it explodes.
If you manage to burrow units beneath a landing building, they die.
You can hallucinate cocoons and eggs. You can mind control larvae.
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I don't think hover//air units are effected at all by ensnare.
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did u know that casting a nuke on a battle cruiser will not kill it unlike a carrier or a devour/guardian?
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Infested terran kinda looks like marines.
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Well.. i guess ill share something cool.
Watch a replay.
Click any unit (like a Nexus or something)
Move your screen away.
Ok so now you're screen is somewhere totally different on the map, and you have the nexus selected.
Click the adun guy (nexus display portrait)
BOOYA!! try this with.. anything
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Germany / USA16648 Posts
On July 23 2005 14:07 8882 wrote:Show nested quote +On July 23 2005 13:13 One Page Memory wrote:/off topic you people seem to know everything ) I have a question. Yesterday played a game TvZ, me T. I was gathering valkiries, at one point my friend, who was watching told me stop producing them because no more than 8 can shoot at a time. I argued, because it seemed stupid to me, but he explained me aboust some "sprites", which I couldn't understand. Is is true? Someone tested? 10x in advance 10 valks is not enough maybe like 50 will cause problems in a standard 1v1 game (or even 2v2) I think the sprite limit is 1024. So 1024 things would have to fire at the same time (minus say 200-300 - depending on the number of dododads on a map) each valk has 8rockets (sprites)..
uh that's not true at all
10 are more than enough to make it happen
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On July 23 2005 17:26 myaccountmessup wrote:
Infested terran kinda looks like marines.
No shit? :DD
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On July 23 2005 17:36 Carnac wrote:Show nested quote +On July 23 2005 14:07 8882 wrote:On July 23 2005 13:13 One Page Memory wrote:/off topic you people seem to know everything ) I have a question. Yesterday played a game TvZ, me T. I was gathering valkiries, at one point my friend, who was watching told me stop producing them because no more than 8 can shoot at a time. I argued, because it seemed stupid to me, but he explained me aboust some "sprites", which I couldn't understand. Is is true? Someone tested? 10x in advance 10 valks is not enough maybe like 50 will cause problems in a standard 1v1 game (or even 2v2) I think the sprite limit is 1024. So 1024 things would have to fire at the same time (minus say 200-300 - depending on the number of dododads on a map) each valk has 8rockets (sprites).. uh that's not true at all 10 are more than enough to make it happen
are u sure?
i think 8 valkyries will shoot okay
everytime these problem happen, is only when i have tons of valkyries and plus wraiths etc from enemy
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-I don't think you can mc a larvae, but you can maelstorm it which disallows morphing. (I tested it)
-Matrixed drone does not have matrix when in building, but it can have irradiate.
-Mines activate if there is larva (not sure about egg), so if vultures harass the zerg mineral line it is dangerous.
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yeh i do the vulture harass on zerg when im bored as hell. its fun cuz they cant make anything. ;-D
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On July 23 2005 17:08 TrainingMacro wrote:
I don't think hover//air units are effected at all by ensnare.
>___>;;
i have to check some of these out :D
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On July 23 2005 19:01 Ryshi wrote:
-I don't think you can mc a larvae, but you can maelstorm it which disallows morphing. (I tested it)
-Matrixed drone does not have matrix when in building, but it can have irradiate.
-Mines activate if there is larva (not sure about egg), so if vultures harass the zerg mineral line it is dangerous.
Yes you can MC larva and also you can hallucinate it if you want...
-Yamato Gun does 260 dmg aprox.
-You can Recall interceptors to anywhere on the map, if you have carrier in one corner, and recall interceptors to the other corner, they will fly all the way trough the map until reaching the carrier.
-If you statis field an interceptor and kill de carrier, the statis field will dissapear and the interceptor will die.
*Hard to do Glitches*
1.- Archon/Dark archon with statis field forever. and be able to atack. (discovered by me i did a news about this glitch at qpclan.org alooong time ago)
All you have to do is morph 2 ht or 2 dt and when they are about to complete the morph, statis field them, when the time is over they will actually finish with the statis field gear.
You can atack and be atacked like any normal unit, its just an image bug.
2.- Select a drone and build a hatchery with him, When he is about to morph, cast with a queen, "sparn broodlings" .
note: the thing, is to cast it on the drone while its a unit, and while the little thing is flying to get the drone and become 2 broodlings the drone is now a building..
what happens? Well, the building is literally destroyed will all effect and 2 broodlings will appear.
3.- same as 2.- but with while morhping to archon/dark archon
4.-if you cast lockdown on a unit and while the missle is going to lock the unit, you cast statis field on it, you will actually get to see a lockdown/statis field unit, which is not possible in any other way.
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I discovered you can also do Micro to a sunken colony.... try this:
get dropship and tank, upload it.
then drop it and let it atack (cooldown is 0) then upload again.
the tentacle of the sunken will miss....
damn i got lots more, ill post them later :D
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On July 23 2005 19:17 ryuGie wrote:Show nested quote +On July 23 2005 17:08 TrainingMacro wrote:
I don't think hover//air units are effected at all by ensnare. >___>;; i have to check some of these out :D
It is, just watch Chojja vs Reach game one. The corsairs (and sometimes the mutalisks) get ensnared plenty of times.
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ensnared stimmed marine is the same speed as a normal marine
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No you can't mc a larva. We're talking about hatchery larva right? I just tested it again and it doesn't work, but yes hallucination works. I'm using 1.13 for my test.
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On July 23 2005 20:22 Ryshi wrote:
No you can't mc a larva. We're talking about hatchery larva right? I just tested it again and it doesn't work, but yes hallucination works. I'm using 1.13 for my test.
oh yea im sorry you cant mc it, i never tested it again since like patch 1.09 so i did it now, and shit , it wont work now.. too bad. ;S
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On July 23 2005 19:32 hasuprotoss wrote:Show nested quote +On July 23 2005 19:17 ryuGie wrote:On July 23 2005 17:08 TrainingMacro wrote:
I don't think hover//air units are effected at all by ensnare. >___>;; i have to check some of these out :D It is, just watch Chojja vs Reach game one. The corsairs (and sometimes the mutalisks) get ensnared plenty of times.
Thoose are flying units, he was talking about hoovering units, like SCV, Probe and Drone.
But that theory doesnt hold since Archons gets effected, and they hoover.
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On July 23 2005 20:31 TheOdMan wrote:Show nested quote +On July 23 2005 19:32 hasuprotoss wrote:On July 23 2005 19:17 ryuGie wrote:On July 23 2005 17:08 TrainingMacro wrote:
I don't think hover//air units are effected at all by ensnare. >___>;; yep , also DA, and vulture (dunno if vulture hover, but at least it doesnt activate mines) i have to check some of these out :D It is, just watch Chojja vs Reach game one. The corsairs (and sometimes the mutalisks) get ensnared plenty of times. Thoose are flying units, he was talking about hoovering units, like SCV, Probe and Drone. But that theory doesnt hold since Archons gets effected, and they hoover.
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If you used an ensared drone to build something, the building's morphing animation will also be ensared
It doesn't slow down the building time
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16961 Posts
Fun to do:
Take two drones and an Arbiter. Have one make gas. Stasis just as the drone climbs up. Have second drone make gas. Wait for first drone to unfreeze!
It'll make the "pissed off" noise over and over, you can't give it commands, and you can't tell it to stop! Approximately 3 noises a second, and 3 minimap blips a second! Try it with 10 Drones!
Also, if you do it right, a Scourge against a Speedupped Shuttle, the Scourge will hit, you will see green explosion, but shuttle will take no damage and scourge will not die. You will also hear scourge death noise.
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MURICA15980 Posts
These are actually pretty interesting. To think after years of playing the game, I didn't know them :O
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On July 23 2005 22:26 Empyrean wrote:
Fun to do:
Take two drones and an Arbiter. Have one make gas. Stasis just as the drone climbs up. Have second drone make gas. Wait for first drone to unfreeze!
It'll make the "pissed off" noise over and over, you can't give it commands, and you can't tell it to stop! Approximately 3 noises a second, and 3 minimap blips a second! Try it with 10 Drones!
Also, if you do it right, a Scourge against a Speedupped Shuttle, the Scourge will hit, you will see green explosion, but shuttle will take no damage and scourge will not die. You will also hear scourge death noise.
wow i just did it, it was alot of fun actually hahahah
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Here is another one i just figured out,
Infested terran, is the only ground unit that can atack while being under a Disruption Web.
Did you know you can atack to ground with infested terran? it will explode anywhere you want..
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mostly for mapmakers:
it is possible to put buildings and units on a melee map (in melee mode!), for example a pylon block on island to prevent fast expanding by terran (instead of a mineral cluster), or a command center to be infested by zerg - or hero units for the protoss to MC
it is possible to have maps with non-standard size - for example a 13x256 map (basically a straight line) using alternative editors. I think every size between 13-256 is accepted
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On July 23 2005 17:32 wahnsinn wrote:Well.. i guess ill share something cool. Watch a replay. Click any unit (like a Nexus or something) Move your screen away. Ok so now you're screen is somewhere totally different on the map, and you have the nexus selected. Click the adun guy (nexus display portrait) BOOYA!! try this with.. anything
so..what is supposed to happen?
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MURICA15980 Posts
Your screen centers on the nexus.
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On July 25 2005 00:00 Klogon wrote:
Your screen centers on the nexus.
OMFG!
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ok, here is a useful thing i discovered several months ago.
when watching replay sometimes you want to know the state of the object - i mean is it moving with attack command or just moving, or is it just stopped or hold position....
all of these images are behind the replay control window (pause, play etc)
ok, just
- pause
- select the unit/building
- move the screen to the right till the right corner of the map
- while keeping the mouse to the right edge of the screen (when it's => like) and a little above the replay control window, just right click the mouse
- the selected unit's control window will flash a moment above the replay control window.
-hth-
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United States12235 Posts
On July 25 2005 00:00 Klogon wrote:
Your screen centers on the nexus.
Alt+C and Ctrl+C are even easier ways to do this. Or, if you have the building hotkeyed, just press the hotkey twice.
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On July 25 2005 00:00 Klogon wrote:
Your screen centers on the nexus.
the screen centers on the start location, which in melee = town hall. that's why people who make observer maps, should put the start locations of observers near the start locations of the players - so that observers can see if the players cloned the miners well (of course it is often possible when you are quick, but sometimes there is a small lag at the beginning of the game)
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when canon is building in mineral line and lings have attack move they will start attacking canon even it is not finished,
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On July 23 2005 20:31 TheOdMan wrote:Show nested quote +On July 23 2005 19:32 hasuprotoss wrote:On July 23 2005 19:17 ryuGie wrote:On July 23 2005 17:08 TrainingMacro wrote:
I don't think hover//air units are effected at all by ensnare. >___>;; i have to check some of these out :D It is, just watch Chojja vs Reach game one. The corsairs (and sometimes the mutalisks) get ensnared plenty of times. Thoose are flying units, he was talking about hoovering units, like SCV, Probe and Drone. But that theory doesnt hold since Archons gets effected, and they hoover.
All units are affected by ensnare
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sometimes if i play fastest and i tell a drone to make an extractor fast, it fucks up and looks like its humping the gas and wont move away
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On July 23 2005 23:55 FunnyMan wrote:
Here is another one i just figured out,
Infested terran, is the only ground unit that can atack while being under a Disruption Web.
Did you know you can atack to ground with infested terran? it will explode anywhere you want..
Yeah infested terran is the only unit of scbw able to ''attack groundt''
it could be fun if infested terran could destroy ramps like bridges are destroyed with siege units in war3
*runs out in a hurry...
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sometimes a medic will stuck on a place healing nothing
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16961 Posts
On July 24 2005 19:41 8882 wrote:
mostly for mapmakers:
it is possible to put buildings and units on a melee map (in melee mode!), for example a pylon block on island to prevent fast expanding by terran (instead of a mineral cluster), or a command center to be infested by zerg - or hero units for the protoss to MC
it is possible to have maps with non-standard size - for example a 13x256 map (basically a straight line) using alternative editors. I think every size between 13-256 is accepted
I've played a 1028x1028 "Find the Observer" game before XD
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I have one but maybe its well known. When watching a replay, especially for 2v2 replays, if you press SHIFT + TAB you switch the colors on the mini map to be just 2 colors, one for each team. And do it again and the colors of the units themselves actually switch.
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On July 26 2005 08:28 FalliNinLove wrote:
when canon is building in mineral line and lings have attack move they will start attacking canon even it is not finished,
yes its common sense to attack something before its finished, so whats your point?
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On July 23 2005 23:55 FunnyMan wrote:
Here is another one i just figured out,
Infested terran, is the only ground unit that can atack while being under a Disruption Web.
Did you know you can atack to ground with infested terran? it will explode anywhere you want..
yeah I knew that from TMA, very useful feature too :D
DId you know when you fire a vulture gernate as a ling running toward you, the gernade miss the ling cuz the ling runs fast, but ling still takes damage T_T
And yomato gun never miss no matter how far a unit runs away from the BC after the BC has yomatogun targeted on it. the only way to avoid a yomato gun while its been targeted is to 1.load into dropship, 2. die 3, stasis field. 4 recall?(not sure, someone test)
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On July 26 2005 10:30 Empyrean wrote:Show nested quote +On July 24 2005 19:41 8882 wrote:
mostly for mapmakers:
it is possible to put buildings and units on a melee map (in melee mode!), for example a pylon block on island to prevent fast expanding by terran (instead of a mineral cluster), or a command center to be infested by zerg - or hero units for the protoss to MC
it is possible to have maps with non-standard size - for example a 13x256 map (basically a straight line) using alternative editors. I think every size between 13-256 is accepted I've played a 1028x1028 "Find the Observer" game before XD
o_O I thought more than 256 is impossible
could you post the map?
On July 26 2005 11:25 Danka wrote:
I have one but maybe its well known. When watching a replay, especially for 2v2 replays, if you press SHIFT + TAB you switch the colors on the mini map to be just 2 colors, one for each team. And do it again and the colors of the units themselves actually switch.
with the new patch, if you are unlucky one of the players is green T_T
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Baltimore, USA22251 Posts
On July 26 2005 10:07 Camila_br wrote:
sometimes a medic will stuck on a place healing nothing
That'll happen when they're trying to heal, and run out of energy.
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sum1 plz test if its possible to avoid yamato by recalling.
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lol it would be funny if the yamato follows all the way across the map
..but im pretty sure it will just explode where the unit used to be.
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ya yamato just explodes where the unit was and the unit is recalled as normal, takes no damage
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It is possible to recall sieged tanks
It is possible to recall lockdowned units.
It is possible to recall spider mines, if they are being layed during the recall
If you statis an irradiated unit it will be able to inflict dmg to the untis nearby
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You can recall zerg units while they are borrowing - they will appear all burrowed in the same spot
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Statised hallucinated units die
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If you play more than 20 consecutive 1on1 games, you become tired and your effectiveness and apm decreases.
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SCV can repair air units but cannot attack air units.
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There's no way to make Overlord auto follow your own ground units after you upgrade overlord transportation.
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Calgary25974 Posts
On July 26 2005 16:36 myaccountmessup wrote:
There's no way to make Overlord auto follow your own ground units after you upgrade overlord transportation.
M + left click on unit?
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Calgary25974 Posts
If you're watching a replay and you want to know if he's researched something (say Ventral Sacs), click an Overlord and right click many times on the unit portrait. The replay menu disappears and the Overloard's menu appears for a brief second, then it reverts back to normal. It works better on slower replay speeds and it only works for some units / buildings.
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somebody test this idea: ENEMY HALLUCINATE A UNIT.. YOU MC IT... wonder will u get the real stuff..
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haha reading this was really fun!
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On July 26 2005 16:45 TheDeadman wrote:
haha reading this was really fun!
Building Bunch of Pylons around the map to "slow down the enemy" when you have too much minerals as a protoss is Not a good idea.
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United States12235 Posts
On July 26 2005 16:40 Chill wrote:
If you're watching a replay and you want to know if he's researched something (say Ventral Sacs), click an Overlord and right click many times on the unit portrait. The replay menu disappears and the Overloard's menu appears for a brief second, then it reverts back to normal. It works better on slower replay speeds and it only works for some units / buildings.
This only works globally if you happen to spawn in the same slot while watching the replay as the player in the game. So, if one player appears light green on the minimap, you will be able to check his hotkeys and right-click on all his units' and structures' command card portraits to view his tech level.
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United States12235 Posts
On July 26 2005 11:48 Sorrow_eyes wrote:
DId you know when you fire a vulture gernate as a ling running toward you, the gernade miss the ling cuz the ling runs fast, but ling still takes damage T_T
This is typical of many RTS games. It's just more obvious with the Vulture grenade because it travels at a slow speed. Every attack in Starcraft except for Lurker spines is a sure-hit (with the miniscule chance of a ranged miss), meaning they cannot be laterally dodged. You will notice the same thing with Interceptor pulse cannons, Devourer spores, and Wraith missiles, all of which do not track.
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i didnt know this until a few days ago
but a bc is the only unit that can survive a nuke =p
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Belgium6768 Posts
On July 23 2005 17:26 OhThatDang wrote:
did u know that casting a nuke on a battle cruiser will not kill it unlike a carrier or a devour/guardian?
How much damage does a nuke actually do? I once saw xellos lockdown a bunch of carriers, EMP em and then nuked em
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United States12235 Posts
On July 27 2005 07:56 Xeofreestyler wrote:Show nested quote +On July 23 2005 17:26 OhThatDang wrote:
did u know that casting a nuke on a battle cruiser will not kill it unlike a carrier or a devour/guardian?
How much damage does a nuke actually do? I once saw xellos lockdown a bunch of carriers, EMP em and then nuked em
500 damage at ground zero, 250 at the next splash ring, and 125 at the farthest ring. Or, 2/3 of the max life of the affected target, 1/3 at the next splash ring, and 1/6 at the farthest ring. The game uses a per-unit calculation and chooses whichever is greater.
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U can cloak all zerg buildings with exception from sunkens, spores, extractor and hatcherys morph too lair.
Most here know they trick to cloak an ling with an arbiter, do it with a drone ( mc it) and u can make it.
Try an cloacked nydus in an pz v zz, units just appeared from nothing :D
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one cant load critters in a shuttle (OMG MY "CRITTER DROP" CANT BE DONE T_T)
in single player critters explode when clicked many times
computer players kill every critter they see(not sure)
On July 26 2005 15:47 True_Spike wrote:
Statised hallucinated units die
hallucinated units die when affected by ANY spell - the best ones are probably emp, ensnare and maelstorm, because they affect large area
On July 26 2005 16:41 artofmagic wrote:
somebody test this idea: ENEMY HALLUCINATE A UNIT.. YOU MC IT... wonder will u get the real stuff..
it will just dissapear
still it is good, because the opponent just wasted 150mana
I have a replay where I have a bunch of carriers and fly around with hallucinations, because the enemy has massed dark archons
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On July 23 2005 10:17 KeepOfOnE wrote:Turret, if you actually look closely on the scale pictuer- there is a person in it
That's why I'd never want to play a Battlefield 2 like game in the Starcraft universe. It must be quite boring to kill 1 observer per hour...
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