EPTTry it: Make 5 tanks and spread 10 scvs apart. then use the tanks and shift-attack all 10 scvs. They attack the latest one then stop. The easiest way to notice this, is that the tank barrels rotate after every shift-click, meaning that they switch targets before the current one has died
Shift-clicking sieged tanks
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Oracle
Canada411 Posts
Try it: Make 5 tanks and spread 10 scvs apart. then use the tanks and shift-attack all 10 scvs. They attack the latest one then stop. The easiest way to notice this, is that the tank barrels rotate after every shift-click, meaning that they switch targets before the current one has died | ||
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Infundibulum
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weaksauce
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evanthebouncy!
United States12796 Posts
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Jonoman92
United States9107 Posts
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Chef
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Oracle
Canada411 Posts
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Liquid`HayprO
Iraq1230 Posts
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ilovezil
United States4143 Posts
You're supposed to attack click by itself on a dragoon first, THEN hold shift + attack (very rapidly since goons melt vs tank fire). shift also doesn't work with other functions if you don't use it properly. EDIT: Also, a bit of theorycraft. If you see your tanks fire autonomously as if you hadn't manually targetted, consider the fact that you're attacking manually only with the tanks that are within attack range. It's easily possible that a chunk of your selected tanks are out of range and thus, does not allow them to attack the targetted unit. | ||
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fusionsdf
Canada15390 Posts
Why would you want all your tanks attacking the same target? | ||
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xM(Z
Romania5299 Posts
fusionsdf - it's because of the splash. you goal is to aim where in the bulk of your enemy forces are and let the splash do the rest; (and sometimes pros target the high templars first.) | ||
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merz
Sweden2760 Posts
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Equinox_kr
United States7395 Posts
I always did the shift+click with Siege Tanks and they worked fine :-/ | ||
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merz
Sweden2760 Posts
It's kinda weird though, because every time I've used shiftattack, the tanks NEVER attack the zealots, as they are forced to attack the dragoons. Hmm... weird. | ||
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[pG]BrEaKdOwN
Germany141 Posts
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ilovezil
United States4143 Posts
On July 20 2007 10:29 xM(Z wrote: ilovezil is wrong koltx is right. you can not queue shift+atack+target on a tank; il will atack first then last target skipping the rest. fusionsdf - it's because of the splash. you goal is to aim where in the bulk of your enemy forces are and let the splash do the rest; (and sometimes pros target the high templars first.) Worked for me in the past. Perhaps by any cahnce, the new patch is the cause? I'll re-experiment with this in any case, sometime. | ||
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CubEdIn
Romania5359 Posts
Thank me for saving you. And I don't even play terran, how about that!? | ||
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yoinkity
Korea (South)43 Posts
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yoinkity
Korea (South)43 Posts
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NaDazpwnz3r
United States111 Posts
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