Pylon Bug to Find Opponent's Location

LaStScan

Korea (South)1289 Posts

September 30 2019 08:08 GMT

Warp Pylon -> when Pylon starts to change figure, Attack with Probe and then cancel.

You canceled the Pylon, but you have the image of Pylon as you selected in the middle still.
Once the opponent start making something, you can click the portrait or ctrl+c to center that unit of your screen.

prosatan

Romania8496 Posts

September 30 2019 08:14 GMT

UNBELIVABLE ! how is this possible ????

[sc1f]eonzerg

Belgium6782 Posts

September 30 2019 08:15 GMT

remove protoss race from the game please..

iFU.spx

Russian Federation372 Posts

September 30 2019 08:16 GMT

pretty crazy, thanks for sharing

ggsimida

1148 Posts

September 30 2019 08:24 GMT

LOL works in 1.16 too

imagine the players that have been quietly abusing this since the beginning XD

Akio

Finland1838 Posts

September 30 2019 08:39 GMT

Wow this is actually pretty nuts. Thanks for sharing.

MinixTheNerd

200 Posts

September 30 2019 08:43 GMT

how did some1 even find this?

bovienchien

Vietnam1152 Posts

September 30 2019 08:46 GMT

how effect?
I don't see anything difference from normal.

jimminy_kriket

Canada5520 Posts

September 30 2019 08:56 GMT

Pretty neat

Liquid`Drone

Norway28715 Posts

September 30 2019 09:00 GMT

#10

rofl this is hilarious.

bovien, watch it from 1:25 to 1:45 and pay close attention

QuadroX

386 Posts

September 30 2019 09:00 GMT

#11

Very good find. Now we have to watch over Protoss players who cancels pylons in the early game. :D

prosatan

Romania8496 Posts

September 30 2019 09:03 GMT

#12

On September 30 2019 17:43 MinixTheNerd wrote:
how did some1 even find this?

My thoughts also !
How can you find this ?

Bonyth

Poland591 Posts

September 30 2019 09:04 GMT

#13

Love it, will definitely use

ggsimida

1148 Posts

September 30 2019 09:08 GMT

#14

On September 30 2019 18:00 Liquid`Drone wrote:
rofl this is hilarious.

bovien, watch it from 1:25 to 1:45 and pay close attention

to be fair scan's instruction at "Attack with Probe" is not 100% clear.

press A and hover over the pylon with your cursor. as the pylon forms press left mouse click twice quickly.
do this correctly the pylon will appear on the stat screen but not actually be selected. press escape right before it finished forming.

Ollin

Poland77 Posts

September 30 2019 09:14 GMT

#15

So you can just see where the opponent's main is, right? Why SCV was damaged?

Liquid`Drone

Norway28715 Posts

September 30 2019 09:16 GMT

#16

My theory is that you see the building or unit the opponent starts building after the cancellation. the scv being damaged is basically just the scv being in production. (I don't know this for sure, but it sorta makes sense and works with the timing.)

ggsimida

1148 Posts

September 30 2019 09:25 GMT

#17

trick works through any protoss building, not just pylon. pylon easiest to abuse since cheap, fast and no pylon requirement

1.16 NOT RM screenshots
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same game able to locate zerg enemy with alt-c
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terran can do it too!
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Starecat

940 Posts

September 30 2019 09:27 GMT

#18

I think the damaged SCV could either be grapgical bug because of the unintended behavior of the portrait exploit or judging by the camera this how the game treats a building unit internally like a building who starts with it's wireframe "damaged" untill it's done.