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westvolk
United States29 Posts
This knowledge alone will make up for 100 APM pts when playing someone who micros every spell one by one... | ||
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mitsy
United States1792 Posts
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jtan
Sweden5891 Posts
Nice in pvz maybe to make undodgable storms! | ||
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jtan
Sweden5891 Posts
On November 18 2005 12:35 greatmeh wrote: even if its old news its still news to me, and it seems this would be extremely effective for storm, vmines and swarm, so why dont progamers use it? maybe because getting the exact positions isnt worth the time T_T Ive seen progamers use it...like in that cool rA vs some zerg game on requim...he dropped 3 temps and stormed all over the place, killing hydras | ||
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ubergamer15
United States645 Posts
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skyglow1
New Zealand3962 Posts
On November 18 2005 14:20 mitsy wrote: in the center of gravity drops thread they said how the same thing applies to high templar storms... which is the same technique showed here, interpretted differently. this IS center of gravity in a different form How does the center of gravity thingy explain that when the templars are apart by a certain distance, trying to storm will make the storms stacked, while when you're in this predictable boudnary of the imaginary box that they storm in formation? With this you can now make sure that you're gonna do a spread out storm, or get alot of mines layed down, which I think is really helpful ^^ skyglow1 | ||
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QuietIdiot
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mitsy
United States1792 Posts
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skyglow1
New Zealand3962 Posts
On November 18 2005 17:25 QuietIdiot wrote: This works with unit drops too right? That explains how Yellow drops his units from his overlords while they were moving..most impressive! No for that if you have say 5 dropships selected, you must click unload at the center of gravity of your group of dropships, it is something quite different (or the unload-onto-self way). This is different cause you can place your command anywhere outside the box, as long as all your units are within your box. skyglow1 | ||
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nortydog
Australia3067 Posts
1) say you had two templars spread apart a little more than double the range of storm, then when you cast storm directly halfway in between them they would both have to move to storm the location and thus the storm would stack. 2) if you had two templars spread from each other within the length of two storms they would both storm the same location (in between them) but not in formation. 3) if you had two templars standing together within the range of storm and told them to storm a location they can both reach I think thats when it wil have the spread effect. ill test this out anyway but after thinking about it im pretty sure this is how it would be | ||
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nortydog
Australia3067 Posts
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skyglow1
New Zealand3962 Posts
wouldnt it be that the size of the "imaginary box" is dependent on the spells range? 1) say you had two templars spread apart a little more than double the range of storm, then when you cast storm directly halfway in between them they would both have to move to storm the location and thus the storm would stack. Dependent of the spell's range? I'm pretty sure that maelstrom, storm, and plague have all different ranges, but yet the box size is same for DA, templar and defiler. Unless I'm not getting what you're saying T_T 2) if you had two templars spread from each other within the length of two storms they would both storm the same location (in between them) but not in formation. I think they move to the location staying in formation, and storm in formation. Reply when you checked this out. 3) if you had two templars standing together within the range of storm and told them to storm a location they can both reach I think thats when it wil have the spread effect. Yes as in my pictures. skyglow1 | ||
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skyglow1
New Zealand3962 Posts
On November 18 2005 21:22 nortydog wrote: also air units in most cases have a longer spell casting range than ground units, so that would explain the bigger box size your talking about. It would be good to know the stats anyway, maybe Excalibur_z could tell us? Again I think that dweb, ensnare and emp schockwave have different ranges and yet the box sizes are same for the 3 units that cast these spells. It's good that you're answering these smart questions so we can find out more about these boxes ^^ skyglow1 | ||
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nS-g.OoZi
Canada92 Posts
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Chris307
3095 Posts
On November 18 2005 14:20 mitsy wrote: in the center of gravity drops thread they said how the same thing applies to high templar storms... which is the same technique showed here, interpretted differently. this IS center of gravity in a different form Center of gravity was a useless bullshit explanation of scatterstorming. This explanation is pristine. | ||
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mitsy
United States1792 Posts
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WGT)DarkXprT
Qatar428 Posts
Mutalisks. Did you know that Mutalisks have a tongue?, and its tongue is a Gecko?, Try watching the preview in a game of a mutalisk, and keep looking at it for seconds, the mutalisk will flip out his tongue, and guess what, its a gecko. Very funny. Reavers and Mines, The explosion of their atack are exactly the same image, blizzard only changed the mine explosion color to blue and thats what the explosion of a scarab looks like. Esnare and Plague. Did you know that the Esnare and Plague not only are the same effect, and a change of the color. But they are also Just an effect of various Marines dying? If you watch really carefully in a slow mode and watch the queen cast the Esnare or the Defiler cast the Plague, you will see that the formed effect, are just some marines dying in another color. I dont remember any other now, but as soon as i do, i will post them. I know quite a few, post yours if you got one. | ||
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skyglow1
New Zealand3962 Posts
On November 19 2005 00:49 nS-g.OoZi wrote: do you know if you can use any of these techniques to get every dship to unload at once like koreans do ? No that is totally different thats when you click unload ont he center of gravity of the group of dropships. Search for "center of gravity dropships" to find out. On November 19 2005 09:26 WGT)DarkXprT wrote: Well, some of you might know things about brood war, little things that not everyone knows, i will give you an example. Mutalisks. Did you know that Mutalisks have a tongue?, and its tongue is a Gecko?, Try watching the preview in a game of a mutalisk, and keep looking at it for seconds, the mutalisk will flip out his tongue, and guess what, its a gecko. Very funny. Reavers and Mines, The explosion of their atack are exactly the same image, blizzard only changed the mine explosion color to blue and thats what the explosion of a scarab looks like. Esnare and Plague. Did you know that the Esnare and Plague not only are the same effect, and a change of the color. But they are also Just an effect of various Marines dying? If you watch really carefully in a slow mode and watch the queen cast the Esnare or the Defiler cast the Plague, you will see that the formed effect, are just some marines dying in another color. I dont remember any other now, but as soon as i do, i will post them. I know quite a few, post yours if you got one. Maybe you intended that int he Did you know thread where it would fit perfectly? :D Btw yes those have been posted before so I know of them ^^ skyglow1 | ||
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hasuwar
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WGT)DarkXprT
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