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BloodOfAChamp
Profile Joined February 2005
United States266 Posts
Last Edited: 2005-03-05 10:35:45
March 05 2005 10:29 GMT
#1
For me clone = stacking on top of each other. Am i right? If so how do you do it? I keep hearing people say clone scvs and wriaths, but what does that mean?
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St0ry
Profile Joined May 2003
United States38 Posts
March 05 2005 10:33 GMT
#2
With HTs?
dork
Profile Joined September 2003
Canada2207 Posts
March 05 2005 10:39 GMT
#3
hight temp's hallucinate spell?
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mrmin123 *
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
Korea (South)2971 Posts
Last Edited: 2005-03-05 10:41:55
March 05 2005 10:41 GMT
#4
the shift+click thing?

i thought stacking on top of each other was... stacking...
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Guybrush
Profile Blog Joined December 2002
Spain4744 Posts
March 05 2005 10:45 GMT
#5
you shift click on the unit portrait after you've targeted a unit. For example u have 6 scourges u want to clone on 6 mutas. Then u mark the 6 scourges and wait for him to attack your overlord for example. When he does you attack all 6 scourges on one of the mutas, then u shift click on the unit portrait once so u have 5 scourges marked, then u target a new muta and proceed the same way until u have spread all the 6 scourges on 6 different mutas. Its not that hard precision is important so u dont target the same unit twice. Remember that u need to be some distance away so you have time to clone them correctly.

Im not sure if this was any help to u but as far as i know that is what cloning is about. GL !
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dork
Profile Joined September 2003
Canada2207 Posts
March 05 2005 10:46 GMT
#6
oh they call that cloning? lol i always just refer to that as "shift click"
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OhThatDang
Profile Joined August 2004
United States4685 Posts
March 05 2005 10:49 GMT
#7
yea they call it cloning for couple months into the game i was like wtf is cloning....so yea

i just call it "seperation"
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Smurg
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Australia3818 Posts
March 05 2005 10:50 GMT
#8
Yeah, like when you "clone" workers at the beginning of a match, you highlight all 4, click on one mineral patch, then you shift + click another worker and put to another patch and so on and so forth.

It works with a lot of things, cloning is mostly seen during a match with scourges.
ieatkids5
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
United States4628 Posts
March 05 2005 11:01 GMT
#9
On the 2nd game of July vs Zelotito on MMI, you could see July's hotkeys and he did somehting similar to cloning I think. At one point, he has 7 Scourge. All 7 are hotkeyed to 1, 5 of the same 7 are hotkeyed to 2, 3 to 3, and 1 to 4. The probable use for this is against the Sairs, so he can tell hotkey 1 (with all 7 scourge) to attack 1 sair, then tell hotkey 2 (5 of the scourge) to attack another sair and so on. This is sort of like shift-click, but it's faster. It also has a drawback, though, because you'll take up several hotkeys. Just an FYI.
CyuntiyuL
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
Canada1740 Posts
March 05 2005 11:10 GMT
#10
I just hotkey my units, click on a random part of the map behind them so they all go at the same time, then separate them.
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OneOther
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
United States10774 Posts
March 05 2005 11:21 GMT
#11
On March 05 2005 19:29 BloodOfAChamp wrote:
For me clone = stacking on top of each other. Am i right? If so how do you do it? I keep hearing people say clone scvs and wriaths, but what does that mean?


what exactly are u talking about??
clone isnt stacking on top of each other -_-
are u referrin to High Templar's hallucination or as in scourage-kill-vesssels thing?
I don't get why u would clone wraiths ;;
BloodOfAChamp
Profile Joined February 2005
United States266 Posts
March 05 2005 11:32 GMT
#12
On March 05 2005 20:21 OneOther wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 05 2005 19:29 BloodOfAChamp wrote:
For me clone = stacking on top of each other. Am i right? If so how do you do it? I keep hearing people say clone scvs and wriaths, but what does that mean?


what exactly are u talking about??
clone isnt stacking on top of each other -_-
are u referrin to High Templar's hallucination or as in scourage-kill-vesssels thing?
I don't get why u would clone wraiths ;;
here is what i have heard cloning to irradiate a group of zerg units. clone 3 scv scout to find out where zergs army is. For wriath i think that maybe you cant target more of them scorges fly into 1 of them.
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OneOther
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
United States10774 Posts
March 05 2005 11:38 GMT
#13
On March 05 2005 20:32 BloodOfAChamp wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 05 2005 20:21 OneOther wrote:
On March 05 2005 19:29 BloodOfAChamp wrote:
For me clone = stacking on top of each other. Am i right? If so how do you do it? I keep hearing people say clone scvs and wriaths, but what does that mean?


what exactly are u talking about??
clone isnt stacking on top of each other -_-
are u referrin to High Templar's hallucination or as in scourage-kill-vesssels thing?
I don't get why u would clone wraiths ;;
here is what i have heard cloning to irradiate a group of zerg units. clone 3 scv scout to find out where zergs army is. For wriath i think that maybe you cant target more of them scorges fly into 1 of them.


What...? Is it me that can't really comprehend or is it you with bad grammar? -_-
CyuntiyuL
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
Canada1740 Posts
March 05 2005 11:41 GMT
#14
On March 05 2005 20:38 OneOther wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 05 2005 20:32 BloodOfAChamp wrote:
On March 05 2005 20:21 OneOther wrote:
On March 05 2005 19:29 BloodOfAChamp wrote:
For me clone = stacking on top of each other. Am i right? If so how do you do it? I keep hearing people say clone scvs and wriaths, but what does that mean?


what exactly are u talking about??
clone isnt stacking on top of each other -_-
are u referrin to High Templar's hallucination or as in scourage-kill-vesssels thing?
I don't get why u would clone wraiths ;;
here is what i have heard cloning to irradiate a group of zerg units. clone 3 scv scout to find out where zergs army is. For wriath i think that maybe you cant target more of them scorges fly into 1 of them.


What...? Is it me that can't really comprehend or is it you with bad grammar? -_-

It's you because I can understand it. He means cloning irradiate to irradiate multiple units. Cloning 3 SCV to all scout the other bases(I'm assuming 3 SCV for LT) And to stack all your Wraith together so it's harder for your opponent to hit more than 1 of your Wraith at a time.
secret base
OneOther
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
United States10774 Posts
March 05 2005 11:45 GMT
#15
On March 05 2005 20:41 CyuntiyuL wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 05 2005 20:38 OneOther wrote:
On March 05 2005 20:32 BloodOfAChamp wrote:
On March 05 2005 20:21 OneOther wrote:
On March 05 2005 19:29 BloodOfAChamp wrote:
For me clone = stacking on top of each other. Am i right? If so how do you do it? I keep hearing people say clone scvs and wriaths, but what does that mean?


what exactly are u talking about??
clone isnt stacking on top of each other -_-
are u referrin to High Templar's hallucination or as in scourage-kill-vesssels thing?
I don't get why u would clone wraiths ;;
here is what i have heard cloning to irradiate a group of zerg units. clone 3 scv scout to find out where zergs army is. For wriath i think that maybe you cant target more of them scorges fly into 1 of them.


What...? Is it me that can't really comprehend or is it you with bad grammar? -_-

It's you because I can understand it. He means cloning irradiate to irradiate multiple units. Cloning 3 SCV to all scout the other bases(I'm assuming 3 SCV for LT) And to stack all your Wraith together so it's harder for your opponent to hit more than 1 of your Wraith at a time.


Well that wraith part was especially hard to understand. Oh and by the way, how is stacking wraiths "cloning". That's simply stacking not cloning ;;
CyuntiyuL
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
Canada1740 Posts
March 05 2005 11:49 GMT
#16
I don't know, he said it, not me.
secret base
stimpack[pG]
Profile Joined November 2004
Philippines88 Posts
March 05 2005 12:18 GMT
#17
what the hell is cloning? the only thing that is cloning is through hallucination...
and the thing about iradiating difrent zerg units at one time? howd u do that?
ieatkids5
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
United States4628 Posts
March 05 2005 12:32 GMT
#18
On March 05 2005 21:18 stimpack[pG] wrote:
what the hell is cloning? the only thing that is cloning is through hallucination...
and the thing about iradiating difrent zerg units at one time? howd u do that?

Cloning is a process of telling multiple units to do things seperately.
For an example, let's use 5 Scourge to kill 5 Observers. Normally, it's hard to click the Scourge seperately while moving towards the obs, and if you're too slow, the Archons will kill the Scourge. Cloning will help you move all 5 Scourge onto 5 dif obs quickly.
1st step - Select all 5 Scourge
2nd step - Tell all 5 to attack 1 ob
3rd step - Shift select the wireframe of a Scourge to deselect it from the group. You now have 4 Scourge selected.
4th step - Tell the 4 to attack another ob.
5th - shift select 1
6th - Tell the 3 Scourge to attack another ob.

Just keep doing that until you only have 1 Scourge left and have it kill the last ob. Sounds kinda confusing, but if you try it out vs the comp, it's pretty simple. Try doing this a few times vs the comp on your 4 worker split. - Tell 4 to mine, deselect 1, tell the 3 to mine another patch, deselect 1, tell 2 to mine another patch, deselect 1, and tell last one to mine another patch.

Hope this helps explain to you what cloning is and how it's done.
SainT
Profile Joined February 2005
Chile1067 Posts
March 05 2005 13:03 GMT
#19
i didn't know that was called CLONING, anyway some ppl say it's this and other ppl are saying it's HT's spell. I say none of them means cloning One is Hallucination, the other Shift+click
Well i'm a lucky man...
never[x.P]
Profile Joined July 2004
United States85 Posts
March 05 2005 13:04 GMT
#20
People started saying "cloning wraiths" a lot after the XellOs highlight video was released. He clones like 6 wraiths perfectly in the middle of the map. Dunno why, or what game it was, but he clones all of them to go to a different direction. It looked really crazy.
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