Simple Questions, Simple Answers - Page 246

On February 14 2016 15:43 TheGreatOne wrote:
If you mind control a probe will it give you a whole other 200/200 protoss army or just add to your already protoss army?

On February 14 2016 15:56 Scarbo wrote:


gives you new 200/200

On February 14 2016 06:09 shall_burn wrote:
When a dragoon triggers a mine and the mine explodes, do shields go down immediately or, although sonic-fastly, but gradualy? I mean is that 80-0 at once, or is that 80-79-78-...-0?
If a dragoon has got say 1hp 50 shields and replenishes them at shield battery, and at the very moment they begin to get replenished a mine explodes, will goon's actual hp be damaged? Or the battery will restore shields with the same speed the explosion hurts them so that goon won't die?
And another question about da. Once I attacked z's expo & I definitely remember having casted maelstorm, prolly on eggs or larvaes, don't remember exactly, but what I remember for sure that when lings popped out of mael'd egg, they had that orange revolving graphics over them, but they could actually move and fight. So they had maelstorm animation over them, but were not affected by the spell. So I decided that if u mael an egg/cocoon, the z unit will appear, it will have the mael animation, but will act normally. That was a year ago, or so. But lately I tried to pull this off in a ums and you know what? Turned out, if u mael an egg/cocoon, it stops morphing. Now I am at a loss. How could I have those lings being maelstormed, having ms animation but not being affected by the spell?

On February 14 2016 18:51 Freakling wrote:

No it doesn't. Don't make claims you haven't tested, please. If you are at 200 as Protoss and MC another probe all it does is put you at 201/200 supply... Basically, supply for T, Z P are three independent variables for the game, but you cannot create new supply limits via MC, just access the existing ones by gaining units of the respective race...

On February 13 2016 07:54 Bakuryu wrote:



Thank you for reminding me, i completely forgot about that matter.....i hope i remember it correctly because after all those years it just feels "natural" now........ Patch 1.15.2 allowed you to play bw without a cd by copying the install.exe from the cd and renaming it broodwar.mpq. the only downside with this was that all ingame nagging sounds (not enough minerals, base is under attack) are on 1 "timer" and only 1 sound of it gets played at the same time. Gotta search the solution now....

On February 14 2016 06:09 shall_burn wrote:
And another question about da. Once I attacked z's expo & I definitely remember having casted maelstorm, prolly on eggs or larvaes, don't remember exactly, but what I remember for sure that when lings popped out of mael'd egg, they had that orange revolving graphics over them, but they could actually move and fight. So they had maelstorm animation over them, but were not affected by the spell. So I decided that if u mael an egg/cocoon, the z unit will appear, it will have the mael animation, but will act normally. That was a year ago, or so. But lately I tried to pull this off in a ums and you know what? Turned out, if u mael an egg/cocoon, it stops morphing. Now I am at a loss. How could I have those lings being maelstormed, having ms animation but not being affected by the spell?

On February 15 2016 03:56 B-royal wrote:
How come units that are running often take less than the full damage from mines?

Is it because mines have decreased damage further away from the point of impact?

Also, sweet tidbit about maelstrom.

On February 15 2016 06:51 shall_burn wrote:
are lurkers melee or range units?
Does their attack get affected by highground?
Can a single dragoon (or zealo/dt/archon) outmicro a lurker and kill it taking no damage?

yes but you have to remember it is possible to still hit its target even if it "misses" depending on the size of the target/how the target is moving. or it can hit something else close to its original target

On February 15 2016 06:51 shall_burn wrote:
are lurkers melee or range units?
Does their attack get affected by highground?

Can a single dragoon (or zealo/dt/archon) outmicro a lurker and kill it taking no damage?

On February 18 2016 03:20 Freakling wrote:

Lurkers are ranged units, but their attack is linear splash (Firebat attack works by the same principle), basically pure AoE damage without an impact point. Hence their attack is unaffected by any miss chances (through high-ground, doodad tiles or Dark Swarms), since these work by moving the impact point towards the attacker.


Shield damage forbidden as well?
I'll also assume that the Lurker is already buried....
Dragoon is hard (compared to a marine, for example), due to their slow pre-attack animation which requires them to stay in one place for a long time. But it's definitely doable.
A Zealot definitely cannot do it, as it has to stand basically right on top of the Lurker to do damage, so the Lurker attacks will hit without delay, even leg speed won't help.
With an Archon it would also be quite a feat, mostly because of their clumsy a-/deceleration. Short range and big hit box don't help either. As far as hovering units go, I'd rather bet on a Vulture, which has more range, more speed and an instant attack animation to work with. Maybe if you can manage to have them do constant moving shots from the brink of their range, but I doubt it...

DT, of course, can do it very easily, no micro required, just right-click once. It's simply a matter of your having at least once observer in the vicinity whereas the Zerg has no Ovi nearby...
So I guess you can also use any other ground unit then, just add an Arbiter