Possible reaver glitch [explained visually] - Page 2

Grobyc

Canada18410 Posts

January 21 2011 04:12 GMT

#21

The loading in to dropship is extremely common and quite important in PvP already. You won't be able to use to trick well enough to
a) fight a middle to large sized P army with multiple reavers firing simultaneously, especially since you don't know which unit his scarab is targeting.
b) be effective vs storm
c) fight even a pure goon army against a P that knows how to chose his battles

The only bio play you will see at high levels is a deep four/five/six, which is all-in already already extremely rare.

meegrean

Thailand7699 Posts

January 21 2011 06:22 GMT

#22

On January 21 2011 06:38 FlaShFTW wrote:

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PUT IT ON PIMPEST PLAYS!!! O.O

holy shit! i didn't see that before.

mmp

United States2130 Posts

January 21 2011 12:39 GMT

#23

The only TL guide on dodging scarabs in a useful TvP manner can be found here.

JMave

Singapore1805 Posts

January 21 2011 13:22 GMT

#24

On January 21 2011 13:12 Grobyc wrote:
The loading in to dropship is extremely common and quite important in PvP already. You won't be able to use to trick well enough to
a) fight a middle to large sized P army with multiple reavers firing simultaneously, especially since you don't know which unit his scarab is targeting.
b) be effective vs storm
c) fight even a pure goon army against a P that knows how to chose his battles

The only bio play you will see at high levels is a deep four/five/six, which is all-in already already extremely rare.

yea. i thought doding scarabs was a common knowledge already? it has been done for a long long time already.

buhhy

United States1113 Posts

January 21 2011 14:21 GMT

#25

On January 20 2011 17:10 LunarDestiny wrote:
Or you can be Flash and pull off the spinning reaver technique.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BkiNeua3QU&#t=11m10

Holy balls

That is some insane vult micro. Pimpest plays!

oBlade

United States5738 Posts

January 21 2011 17:38 GMT

#26

Zergs have been known to dodge scarabs by loading into overlords, and Terrans to micro tank/etc. against goon/shuttle/reaver with dropships. But this really doesn't bring anything to bio vs P. At the timings you would want to push with a bio army, it is too much of a diversion to invest in a starport and a dropship. Even if you did, lifting marines against reavers would be a huge (luck-based) waste of micro APM when you need to be microing marines in other ways like splitting and fighting zealot/goon. The investment is too great for no gain.

olabaz

United States298 Posts

January 21 2011 21:12 GMT

#27

On January 21 2011 07:54 Weasel- wrote:
So what you're saying is that if a reaver shoots at a unit and that unit gets loaded into a transport, the unit doesn't end up getting hit?

I'm gonna have to remain skeptic on this one until I see some proof.

Successful troll is successful.

XsebT

Denmark2980 Posts

January 22 2011 00:24 GMT

#28

On January 22 2011 06:12 olabaz wrote:

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Successful troll is successful.

No, that would be "sarcasm". Welcome to the internet.

And for the sake of content I'll just add that a lot of people doesn't seem to know that a reaver scarab does much less damage to a unit moving away from it. This is especially important for terrant microing tanks against reavers, but is also useful in several other situations.

pwnsftw

United States42 Posts

January 22 2011 01:23 GMT

#29

On January 20 2011 17:10 LunarDestiny wrote:
Or you can be Flash and pull off the spinning reaver technique.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BkiNeua3QU&#t=11m10

now that's micro

reincremate

China2216 Posts

January 22 2011 03:25 GMT

#30

The dropship in the OP looks like a bears face.

Relickey

United States145 Posts

January 22 2011 04:59 GMT

#31

This also works for dragoons, and has been around for a really long time.