So I wanna find ALL the resources on the topic. The guide below is a good starting point alto most of it has been patched. I want to make clear I am not looking for additional software or 3rd party tools that enable things. Just ANY tricks that are ALREADY in the game and have not been patched out.
Also how did people find out about those? Some tricks would be discovered by playing countless hours and trying everything out. Others are so specific I cant imagine anyone discovering by coincidence.
On October 09 2016 02:27 Freakling wrote: Another source you may want to look into is https://kb.speeddemosarchive.com/StarCraft. They are heavy abusers for obvious reasons ;D
workers, for some reason, still harvest almost as much ensnared as they would normally. The difference is really, really small. Been testing this over and over again for some article we wrote for the Advent Calendar. Supposedly has something to do with the gather move and how workers turn around after gathering minerals.
2. Queen + Hallucination / Hallucination in general
A hallucination of a queen can still infest a command center.
Also, any spell onto a hallucination will destroy it - e.g. recall. Found this out the hard way when trying to troll someone with recalls of hallucinations of probes ;/
more known "exploits"
3. Turrets + Obs bug
You can make turrets fire again, if they were broken by observers. Just order them to stop often enough. Same goes for glitches out ranged units, that won't move. Just stop and it works again.
4. Unload / Patrol + Aircraft Ships
Unloading pressed on overlords/shuttles/dropships makes them drop their units while still flying onwards (moving drop). If you find the sweet spot (relatively hard / magic box), it will unload multiple aircraft units.
If a transporter (or a corsair/valkyrie/devourer) is moved with patrol, it will automatically retreat if it's fired on from ground. Helps as newb to stop a silly drop in no-time.
5. Casting on moving units
Casting dark swarm on big units like Ultralisks while the army moves is a nice technique. The defilers are slower, the ultras are slightly faster when upgraded. So, when ultras clash, the swarms will come with a slight delay, but sourround the bulk of your army quite nicely.
Similarly, casting psi storm ON TOP of zealots/Archons against zerglings/zealots is very helpful. Just move the zealots back the instant anfter and the hostile units will follow them, running into their doom.
If a transporter (or a corsair/valkyrie/devourer) is moved with patrol, it will automatically retreat if it's fired on from ground. Helps as newb to stop a silly drop in no-time.
does this work with corsair + probe stack?
On October 10 2016 01:15 noname_ wrote: Destroying interceptors with landing buildings.
On October 10 2016 00:13 GeckoXp wrote: I religiously repeat following facts:
1. Workers + Ensnare
workers, for some reason, still harvest almost as much ensnared as they would normally. The difference is really, really small. Been testing this over and over again for some article we wrote for the Advent Calendar. Supposedly has something to do with the gather move and how workers turn around after gathering minerals.
2. Queen + Hallucination / Hallucination in general
A hallucination of a queen can still infest a command center.
Also, any spell onto a hallucination will destroy it - e.g. recall. Found this out the hard way when trying to troll someone with recalls of hallucinations of probes ;/
more known "exploits"
3. Turrets + Obs bug
You can make turrets fire again, if they were broken by observers. Just order them to stop often enough. Same goes for glitches out ranged units, that won't move. Just stop and it works again.
4. Unload / Patrol + Aircraft Ships
Unloading pressed on overlords/shuttles/dropships makes them drop their units while still flying onwards (moving drop). If you find the sweet spot (relatively hard / magic box), it will unload multiple aircraft units.
If a transporter (or a corsair/valkyrie/devourer) is moved with patrol, it will automatically retreat if it's fired on from ground. Helps as newb to stop a silly drop in no-time.
5. Casting on moving units
Casting dark swarm on big units like Ultralisks while the army moves is a nice technique. The defilers are slower, the ultras are slightly faster when upgraded. So, when ultras clash, the swarms will come with a slight delay, but sourround the bulk of your army quite nicely.
Similarly, casting psi storm ON TOP of zealots/Archons against zerglings/zealots is very helpful. Just move the zealots back the instant anfter and the hostile units will follow them, running into their doom.
Time to test the hallucinated queen! That is AWESOME! Thanks for the contribution!
5 minutes later... I tested it on version 1.09 and doesnt work. Doesnt work on 1.16.1 either. Have you done it yourself? How should I do it?
the craziest (most applicable) glitch that i didn't learn until like last year after playing for like 12 years was the worker stacking attack.. it's absolutely fucking op if used correctly.. not drone drilling, i mean the shift to gas then attack stack.. i believe the command order is this:
1 group drones (or scvs/probes) on a mineral stack 2 right click an unoccupied geyser 3 before the drones reach the geyser, shift-attack move near where you want them to attack
the drones will STAY clumped regardless of orders if done correctly, allowing for mega drone drills that give you like 40 DPS (aka marine ONESHOTS) if you have 8 drones.. this combined with ling micro can make holding BBS pretty ezpz lol but most people don't know about the glitch (well, terran and toss will usually have gas up anyways if they have lings near workers so it's not as readily applicable for them). but still! try it out, it's dope
edit ~ lmfao at someone trying to hallucinate probes for a bm recall... nice. best game ever
On October 10 2016 20:30 Endymion wrote: the craziest (most applicable) glitch that i didn't learn until like last year after playing for like 12 years was the worker stacking attack.. it's absolutely fucking op if used correctly.. not drone drilling, i mean the shift to gas then attack stack.. i believe the command order is this:
1 group drones (or scvs/probes) on a mineral stack 2 right click an unoccupied geyser 3 before the drones reach the geyser, shift-attack move near where you want them to attack
the drones will STAY clumped regardless of orders if done correctly, allowing for mega drone drills that give you like 40 DPS (aka marine ONESHOTS) if you have 8 drones.. this combined with ling micro can make holding BBS pretty ezpz lol but most people don't know about the glitch (well, terran and toss will usually have gas up anyways if they have lings near workers so it's not as readily applicable for them). but still! try it out, it's dope
edit ~ lmfao at someone trying to hallucinate probes for a bm recall... nice. best game ever
Yeah. Thats why it is banned in all tournaments. ; D
On October 10 2016 20:30 Endymion wrote: the craziest (most applicable) glitch that i didn't learn until like last year after playing for like 12 years was the worker stacking attack.. it's absolutely fucking op if used correctly.. not drone drilling, i mean the shift to gas then attack stack.. i believe the command order is this:
1 group drones (or scvs/probes) on a mineral stack 2 right click an unoccupied geyser 3 before the drones reach the geyser, shift-attack move near where you want them to attack
the drones will STAY clumped regardless of orders if done correctly, allowing for mega drone drills that give you like 40 DPS (aka marine ONESHOTS) if you have 8 drones.. this combined with ling micro can make holding BBS pretty ezpz lol but most people don't know about the glitch (well, terran and toss will usually have gas up anyways if they have lings near workers so it's not as readily applicable for them). but still! try it out, it's dope
edit ~ lmfao at someone trying to hallucinate probes for a bm recall... nice. best game ever
Yeah. Thats why it is banned in all tournaments. ; D
is it really??? i only ever see observer trick and allied mines banned, never seen anything about the a-move stack being banned (or else i would have looked into it sooner xD)
Yeah I think it's banned that's why you never see it when the pros play. Another use for it is for a worker to bypass a unit blocking the ramp. I used to do the trick last time when there was a dragoon blocking my scv on the ramp
On October 11 2016 01:17 xboi209 wrote: I know that someone was able to uninfest a command center somehow
I think if you tried you would not be able to be more vague about it! Please tell me how or where I might be able to find a way to do that. Seems cool.
JUST DID IT! INFESTED A CC WITH A HALLUCINATED QUEEN. SO HAPPY!
Here are the Koreans doing it:
It ALSO works with a Scout. You need mutalisks. I suspect you would be able to do it with any air unit that can attack the CC being it landed or floating.
On October 11 2016 01:17 xboi209 wrote: I know that someone was able to uninfest a command center somehow
I think if you tried you would not be able to be more vague about it! Please tell me how or where I might be able to find a way to do that. Seems cool.
You have to repair it fast enough in between the Queen entering and the Queen actually infesting it. It's hard, but I saw it happen, most memorably in a match between Bakuryu and sas.non.
On October 11 2016 01:17 xboi209 wrote: I know that someone was able to uninfest a command center somehow
I think if you tried you would not be able to be more vague about it! Please tell me how or where I might be able to find a way to do that. Seems cool.
You have to repair it fast enough in between the Queen entering and the Queen actually infesting it. It's hard, but I saw it happen, most memorably in a match between Bakuryu and sas.non.
Well Ive done THAT. Thats not technically a defestation tho, because it is not infested in the first place. You just cancel the process before it begins.
On October 11 2016 00:57 Dante08 wrote: Yeah I think it's banned that's why you never see it when the pros play. Another use for it is for a worker to bypass a unit blocking the ramp. I used to do the trick last time when there was a dragoon blocking my scv on the ramp
what do you mean??? i have seen people phase through blocked ramps without vision before but i have always assumed that it was because they issued the mineral gather command into my main before losing vision of the minerals, is there some other exploit that im missing??
If a transporter (or a corsair/valkyrie/devourer) is moved with patrol, it will automatically retreat if it's fired on from ground. Helps as newb to stop a silly drop in no-time.
On October 10 2016 01:15 noname_ wrote: Destroying interceptors with landing buildings.
that was fixed ages ago.
didn't see this. "It should". However, if any enemy air unit is close by, the sairs will probably ignore the attacks from the ground and start to attack themselves.
On October 11 2016 03:30 fanatacist wrote: If you want to see the multitude of tricks that existed before they got patched, watch these speedrun videos:
Within, you will see lurker eggs transform into guardians or some shit like that, and many other tricks. Of course, many of them are patched now, but it fits your request.
Thanks a lot dude! I have 1.09 which has flying DTs and HTs and some of the other super imba stuff.
On October 11 2016 00:57 Dante08 wrote: Yeah I think it's banned that's why you never see it when the pros play. Another use for it is for a worker to bypass a unit blocking the ramp. I used to do the trick last time when there was a dragoon blocking my scv on the ramp
what do you mean??? i have seen people phase through blocked ramps without vision before but i have always assumed that it was because they issued the mineral gather command into my main before losing vision of the minerals, is there some other exploit that im missing??
Yes the legal way is to issue the mineral gather command before losing vision. The illegal way if I remember correctly is to shift + right click on gas --> shift + right click on gas again --> shift + right click into their main. Just tested and you can bypass a blocked ramp without having vision of their main
On October 11 2016 00:57 Dante08 wrote: Yeah I think it's banned that's why you never see it when the pros play. Another use for it is for a worker to bypass a unit blocking the ramp. I used to do the trick last time when there was a dragoon blocking my scv on the ramp
what do you mean??? i have seen people phase through blocked ramps without vision before but i have always assumed that it was because they issued the mineral gather command into my main before losing vision of the minerals, is there some other exploit that im missing??
Same trick, but you click a mineral instead of a unit, and use just 1 worker. Then the worker floats trough units blocking the ramp even with no vision.
i thought that the obs bug was banned in kespa tournies??? ill test that worker glitch, really annoyed if people have been exploiting vs me (really it's only ever protosses that do it but that makes it all the worse..
On October 10 2016 20:30 Endymion wrote: the craziest (most applicable) glitch that i didn't learn until like last year after playing for like 12 years was the worker stacking attack.. it's absolutely fucking op if used correctly.. not drone drilling, i mean the shift to gas then attack stack.. i believe the command order is this:
1 group drones (or scvs/probes) on a mineral stack 2 right click an unoccupied geyser 3 before the drones reach the geyser, shift-attack move near where you want them to attack
the drones will STAY clumped regardless of orders if done correctly, allowing for mega drone drills that give you like 40 DPS (aka marine ONESHOTS) if you have 8 drones.. this combined with ling micro can make holding BBS pretty ezpz lol but most people don't know about the glitch (well, terran and toss will usually have gas up anyways if they have lings near workers so it's not as readily applicable for them). but still! try it out, it's dope
edit ~ lmfao at someone trying to hallucinate probes for a bm recall... nice. best game ever
That's uncorrect, here what I tried and worked well:
1) Stack drones by sending all of them to mineral field 2) Right click on not build geyser 3) Shift right click to geyser again while drones are on their way 4) Then shift+A to unit/building you wanna attack (you can even hold Shift while you're doing step 3 and just use A after)
correct, i think there needs to be a shift move command on the geyser after the initial geyser move command. just tested the ramp phasing, that shit is so fking op lol.. ALSO, initially i thought you could only attack in a straight vector from the geyser since the drones have to auto acquire targets, but it's not the case at all with the attack shift commands! you can actually target units (and buildings) with it (as other people in the thread have mentioned, i'm just saying i just now realized this application of it) which means whenever a protoss cannon rushes you can just drone drill his pylon/cannon! i always had issues with getting enough drones to be in a attack range, but nowwwww oh man
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