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Overlord/ all drones get selected hack?

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Leonix
Profile Joined June 2019
161 Posts
May 08 2021 18:02 GMT
#1
I have now encountered two times this phenomenon, that at the beginning of a match(one time at ladder, one time in a custom game fastess), i select only one unit/drone and all drones are selected and in my custom map game it was that i selected the overlord but it selected two drones+larva. Is this some form of hack, bug or problem with set up ? I tried every possiblity ingame, deselect with shift, click, quadrad select. Strangly it only was at the beginning of the game and some months apart.
g0rynich
Profile Joined October 2016
Russian Federation139 Posts
May 08 2021 18:09 GMT
#2
could it be double click mouse issue? like mouse button start working wrong?
StRyKeR
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
United States1739 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-05-08 19:03:11
May 08 2021 19:02 GMT
#3
This probably happened:

1) You probably alt-tabbed into game and because the key-up wasn't captured, the alt key was perma-down.
2) You box selected overlord with all drones and some larva and right clicked to mine.
3) Then you selected a drone to split, but because the alt key was down, what the alt key does is it selects the last group of units that the target unit was in. Therefore, you ended up selecting all drones and overlord.
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Ikirouta
Profile Blog Joined November 2017
Finland736 Posts
May 08 2021 19:19 GMT
#4
stop alt tabbing
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LG)Sabbath
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
Argentina3024 Posts
May 09 2021 00:53 GMT
#5
It is not alt tab, I have seen this bug with scvs, sometimes they get selected as a group and there is no way to select just 1 of that group, even if you just click once. Seen it twice, at the start of a game some months apart.
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Jealous
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
10238 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-05-09 01:16:02
May 09 2021 01:15 GMT
#6
On May 09 2021 09:53 LG)Sabbath wrote:
It is not alt tab, I have seen this bug with scvs, sometimes they get selected as a group and there is no way to select just 1 of that group, even if you just click once. Seen it twice, at the start of a game some months apart.

That sounds like you might have been holding Ctrl, or recently held Ctrl. I'm not sure but perhaps latency can affect this? I imagine Argentina gets some sick latency with other places TT__TT
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tec27
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
United States3702 Posts
May 09 2021 02:23 GMT
#7
On May 09 2021 10:15 Jealous wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 09 2021 09:53 LG)Sabbath wrote:
It is not alt tab, I have seen this bug with scvs, sometimes they get selected as a group and there is no way to select just 1 of that group, even if you just click once. Seen it twice, at the start of a game some months apart.

That sounds like you might have been holding Ctrl, or recently held Ctrl. I'm not sure but perhaps latency can affect this? I imagine Argentina gets some sick latency with other places TT__TT

Latency wouldn't be a factor, your keypresses don't get transmitted over the network, just resolved actions. Likely just a stuck modifier key (which mostly happens due to window/focus switches while the modifier key is held, and then coming back into the window without it held down), as other people have said. You can basically always fix this by just tapping the modifier keys again.
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Jealous
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
10238 Posts
May 09 2021 03:30 GMT
#8
On May 09 2021 11:23 tec27 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 09 2021 10:15 Jealous wrote:
On May 09 2021 09:53 LG)Sabbath wrote:
It is not alt tab, I have seen this bug with scvs, sometimes they get selected as a group and there is no way to select just 1 of that group, even if you just click once. Seen it twice, at the start of a game some months apart.

That sounds like you might have been holding Ctrl, or recently held Ctrl. I'm not sure but perhaps latency can affect this? I imagine Argentina gets some sick latency with other places TT__TT

Latency wouldn't be a factor, your keypresses don't get transmitted over the network, just resolved actions. Likely just a stuck modifier key (which mostly happens due to window/focus switches while the modifier key is held, and then coming back into the window without it held down), as other people have said. You can basically always fix this by just tapping the modifier keys again.

Thanks for the clarification! I've had similar issues in other games, but I think it may be that my PC is too slow for them
"The right to vote is only the oar of the slaveship, I wanna be free." -- бум бум сучка!
Leonix
Profile Joined June 2019
161 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-05-17 02:00:11
May 17 2021 01:58 GMT
#9
Ok, thx guys y i alt +tab all the time ... Kind of funny that it doesnt happen more often. Poor guys that played those times vs me, lol ... I really thought they were hacking lol.
Though kind of strange that it happeneed today again and after first minutes it fixed itself like allway. Than after a while mega lag.
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