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I have played this game many years and understand the clumsiness of units.
But lately i have had it happen on a few occasions where.
A) I will be microing my dragoons in my base and one will just stop randomly in the middle of nowhere with no obstructions. To the point where i have to manually click it and it wont even move until i issue multiple commands.
B) Zealots reacting in the exact same manner. Where i will be in the middle of the map, and one out of the group will just stop moving until i move it individually with multiple move commands...
Anyone experiencing this?
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I experienced this, and I gave them a blanket. They needed more blankets. And then less blankets.
However, on a real note, I only experienced this so far with dragoons as in the past. Not with zealots yet, or that I can remember. Just hit HOLD POSITION on a frozen unit to unfreeze it though.
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Have had this with marines and tanks too =/
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My medics always freeze. They're barely better than dragoons in this regard, yet no one ever mentions it.
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Units will freeze when you manually target another unit but very rarely when you attack-move. At least this is what I have experienced. Happens most often with marines and dragoons.
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Yep. I've played bw since 05 and i main protoss.
This could happen before the hd release, but now it happens a lot more, and in open areas.
It's super annoying early against Terran, where every dragoon makes a difference =/.
I assume this would be hard to "fix".
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Korea (South)11598 Posts
welcome to broodwar! the game where you have to hold your units hands or else they will either wander off and go for a stroll instead of going down the ramp, or they will just freeze and not want to do anything.
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On September 06 2017 08:43 CaucasianAsian wrote:
welcome to broodwar! the game where you have to hold your units hands or else they will either wander off and go for a stroll instead of going down the ramp, or they will just freeze and not want to do anything.
i'm A rank on iccup and have 11 years of experience, but i had no idea. Thanks for the tip bro!
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I've actually felt it has happened more with the release of Patch 1.18. It definitely happened in 1.16.1 of course, but I feel it happened less often.
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From what I've seen freezing often happens when you are targeting a unit and then are re positioned out of its range. That's 2 of the factors that are part of causing a freeze but I don't know what the third is that makes it actually freeze.
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This is a serious factor with busting a terran ramp. I have had dragoons freeze during a dive and lose the game that would otherwise be won.
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I've personally noticed it happening a lot more.
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So in other words... Like the game i just lost. Using dragoons against zealots..... But then all your dragoons cant move.
Trying to upload the replay... Cant find the file.
Quick recap. I was fighting about 10 zealots with 8 dragoons. On the course of retreating i attempt to micro the whole way back to base. My dragoons stopped. THREE times. Lost them all before reaching my nat. GG
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On September 06 2017 09:47 pillowpants66 wrote:
So in other words... Like the game i just lost. Using dragoons against zealots..... But then all your dragoons cant move.
Trying to upload the replay... Cant find the file.
Quick recap. I was fighting about 10 zealots with 8 dragoons. On the course of retreating i attempt to micro the whole way back to base. My dragoons stopped. THREE times. Lost them all before reaching my nat. GG
Just out of curiosity how do you micro your dragons? I've hand units freeze before both zealot and dragoon and it's usually when I target click a specific unit. It's pretty rare though. However when microing dragoon vs zealot I always right click away then hold position when they are far enough to shoot but not be hit then repeat. I found when doing this you will never experience freeze.
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Hmm yeah, im trying to micro like i would in SC2, Right click to run away, then A-target the front zealot
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I've been playing forever.. this is a known in-game "mechanic". Just press stop or hold position on the unit and it will unfreeze
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United States10487 Posts
On September 06 2017 08:48 A.Alm wrote:Show nested quote +On September 06 2017 08:43 CaucasianAsian wrote:
welcome to broodwar! the game where you have to hold your units hands or else they will either wander off and go for a stroll instead of going down the ramp, or they will just freeze and not want to do anything. i'm A rank on iccup and have 11 years of experience, but i had no idea. Thanks for the tip bro!
... what. how is this even possible lol
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On September 06 2017 09:59 pillowpants66 wrote:
Hmm yeah, im trying to micro like i would in SC2, Right click to run away, then A-target the front zealot
Dragoon micro is much more efficient by right clicking away hold position and they will shoot then right click away and repeat. If they are speedless zeals you won't even get touched. 8 dragoon can beat many speedless zeal. With speed it's harder but the same technique is always best.
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Something is not right. I play the game for years, and I don't remember units not shooting when enemies right at front. Even at the campaign I had valkyries right up enemies cannons and they didn't do anything.
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