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DarkSaieden
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
South Africa254 Posts
September 19 2008 07:18 GMT
#1
as the title implies, i'm having trouble keeping my mutas really tight so that it all the mutas fire correctly. what sometimes happens is that they'll drift slightly, despite right-click bashing, and then when i pull them back they sort of cross over one another and i have to restack them all over.

here's an exaggerated example:
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sometimes my muta's are also just not close enough for them all to fire and its really annoying having rines survive cos only one shot got in.
any help would really be appreciated, thanks.
Divinek
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
Canada4045 Posts
September 19 2008 07:19 GMT
#2
...Are you grouping them with an overlord that's far away?
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
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DarkSaieden
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
South Africa254 Posts
September 19 2008 07:28 GMT
#3
hmmm my edit didn't show up..

yeah i am, i read all the guides and doing it all. grouping, bashing, moving to minerals etc.
paper
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
13196 Posts
September 19 2008 07:29 GMT
#4
figure out the timing, don't let them decelerate
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Zelniq
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
United States7166 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-09-19 07:38:10
September 19 2008 07:36 GMT
#5
once you click once when theyre stacked, they usually all align up except for spreading out all on a straight line. so say if theyre aligned horizontally (their 'x' coordinate is the same for all mutas), but theyre not aligned vertically, the way to fix it is to then move them right above or below (along that imaginary line).

doing this a couple times usually makes them stack up really nicely
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DarkSaieden
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
South Africa254 Posts
September 19 2008 07:39 GMT
#6
im not tho. i click about just 1/3 of a screen away from them when im moving them around but they still drift.
dream-_-
Profile Blog Joined April 2006
United States1857 Posts
September 19 2008 08:10 GMT
#7
sounds like your mutas hate you
Plexa
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Aotearoa39261 Posts
September 19 2008 08:39 GMT
#8
sounds like
a) not grouping with overlord
b) not keeping them moving all the time

and you've already eliminated the first option so.... ?
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XenOsky
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Chile2267 Posts
September 19 2008 08:39 GMT
#9
thats cause mutalisk are haters
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Nytefish
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United Kingdom4282 Posts
September 19 2008 09:25 GMT
#10
On September 19 2008 16:39 DarkSaieden wrote:
im not tho. i click about just 1/3 of a screen away from them when im moving them around but they still drift.


I find that clicking further away makes them stack better.
No I'm never serious.
.gypsy
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
Canada689 Posts
September 19 2008 10:00 GMT
#11
Mass click son, it always works, just click click click and if you have a far away overlord, you should be k, dont worry about being called a ''spammer'', just click as fast as possible =D
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CharlieMurphy
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
United States22895 Posts
September 19 2008 10:33 GMT
#12
they will spread out slightly no matter what. just make sure that when you swoop in you have enough stacked to 1 shot whatever your target is.
..and then I would, ya know, check em'. (Aka SpoR)
Nytefish
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United Kingdom4282 Posts
September 19 2008 11:33 GMT
#13
I think going back+forth at an angle works better than directly horizontally or vertically.
Might just be in my head though.
No I'm never serious.
Mortality
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
United States4790 Posts
September 19 2008 11:53 GMT
#14
Keeping them moving nonstop is of the utmost importance. Even if you group them with an overlord, if they aren't clicking, they won't all tighten up again.
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XtaC_hiryu
Profile Joined November 2004
Philippines125 Posts
September 19 2008 14:01 GMT
#15
Overlord not far enough from mutas?

and don't right click too close to the mutas when they arent stacked yet
potato and cheese ftw!
DarkSaieden
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
South Africa254 Posts
September 19 2008 15:48 GMT
#16
thanks a lot for the response. the diagonal clicking helps quite a bit actually and i've its a lot easier to hurl glaives from diagonals as well since the stack is a bit better and there's generally more mouse room too tho of course its not always feasible.
arb
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Noobville17921 Posts
September 19 2008 20:26 GMT
#17
Make sure the mutalisks are virgins.
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selboN
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States2523 Posts
September 19 2008 21:19 GMT
#18
On September 20 2008 05:26 arb wrote:
Make sure the mutalisks are virgins.

Yeah because in the event that they die, the gods will be on your side. If they don't die, then you win
"That's what happens when you're using a mouse made out of glass!" -Tasteless (Referring to ZergBong)
skyglow1
Profile Blog Joined April 2005
New Zealand3962 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-09-20 00:22:28
September 20 2008 00:19 GMT
#19
I actually noticed this too when I was playing around with stacked mutas. I realised after a while that diagonal movements are always reliable but some of the other movements aren't I opened up bw for a while to get a clearer picture:

Despite my whole magical boxes thing, it seems that stacking mutas is not 100% reliable.
If the mutas are quite close together, and move command will cause them to go to that spot and be stacked up.
If the mutas are a bit more spread out though, move commands that are a short distance and make the mutas fly in horizontal directions do not seem to make them stack. Instead they behave like if they were within the magical box and fly in formation.

Knowing this, the reason why people say keep momentum up for mutalisks is that if you issue many move commands while your mutas are close together, they will always stack up for every move command. If however you get lazy and let them sitting around, they'll start to drift and won't behave 100% responsively. In that case, use diagonal move commands which work 100% all the time no matter if the mutas are close together or a bit more spread apart, then one you are in that very stacked state, any move command will keep the mutalisks stacked, you just have to issue them frequently before they start drifting,

The reliability of the diagonal movement is also why you see mutas approaching a target in a 45 degrees diagonal fashion more often than a more vertical or horizontal direction.
il0seonpurpose
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Korea (South)5638 Posts
September 20 2008 04:57 GMT
#20
But doesn't playing on b.net effect this? There's no point in having super tight mutas (lol) if you can't attack right. I found on one of nevake's videos, hold position is alot better on battlenet
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