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Moataz
Profile Joined January 2018
Egypt267 Posts
June 24 2019 22:45 GMT
#1
Recently I discovered/corrected a wrong belief about the CoachAI from a friend.

I'd like to know (and let SC1 community know) about common wrong beliefs (or myths) in the game in general, whether its spotted and corrected for most of the players or not.

Let's start with this belief that:
* Workers have different speeds/accelerations and that what makes a microed Probe/Drone could kill a SCV and that all workers have the same range.

Is that correct?
"All who believe in Allah and the last day, either say good or be silent." Muhammad
Alejandrisha
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States6565 Posts
June 24 2019 23:22 GMT
#2
even though shooting uphill or behind doodads has a reported 30% chance to hit, they actually have a 53.125% chance to hit. ranged units on equal footing have not a 100% chance to hit but actually a 99.6% chance to hit
get rich or die mining
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9-BiT
Profile Blog Joined January 2012
United States1089 Posts
June 24 2019 23:41 GMT
#3
toss ez
kwark_uk: @father_sc learn to play maybe?
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland26975 Posts
June 24 2019 23:43 GMT
#4
Subscribing for interest
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AntiHack
Profile Joined January 2009
Switzerland553 Posts
June 25 2019 00:13 GMT
#5
On June 25 2019 08:22 Alejandrisha wrote:
even though shooting uphill or behind doodads has a reported 30% chance to hit, they actually have a 53.125% chance to hit. ranged units on equal footing have not a 100% chance to hit but actually a 99.6% chance to hit

Wasn't it 1 on 256 miss chance on equal footing?
"I am very tired of your grammar errors" - Zoler[MB]
Tim123321
Profile Joined April 2017
24 Posts
June 25 2019 00:38 GMT
#6
Wasn't it 1 on 256 miss chance on equal footing?

255/256 = 99.6%
Jealous
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
10333 Posts
June 25 2019 01:47 GMT
#7
Nexus gives supply.
"The right to vote is only the oar of the slaveship, I wanna be free." -- бум бум сучка!
Alejandrisha
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States6565 Posts
June 25 2019 01:53 GMT
#8
On June 25 2019 10:47 Jealous wrote:
Nexus gives supply.

hahahaha oh lawd
get rich or die mining
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Alejandrisha
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States6565 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-06-25 02:09:45
June 25 2019 02:06 GMT
#9
dragoons bug in place and need to be given stop or hold position command only after attacking a retreating unit at max range

edit: i heard this happens to other units but sorry i don't believe it for a second ^^
get rich or die mining
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[AS]Rattus
Profile Joined March 2017
428 Posts
June 25 2019 02:45 GMT
#10
So workers all have the same acceleration or what?
ZeroChrome
Profile Joined September 2010
Canada1001 Posts
June 25 2019 03:59 GMT
#11
On June 25 2019 11:06 Alejandrisha wrote:
dragoons bug in place and need to be given stop or hold position command only after attacking a retreating unit at max range

edit: i heard this happens to other units but sorry i don't believe it for a second ^^


this even happens to melee units
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FlaShFTW
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States10470 Posts
June 25 2019 04:05 GMT
#12
On June 25 2019 11:06 Alejandrisha wrote:
dragoons bug in place and need to be given stop or hold position command only after attacking a retreating unit at max range

edit: i heard this happens to other units but sorry i don't believe it for a second ^^

Sometimes yes, this does happen when you try to target fire units. This also happens to marines and hydralisks from what I can tell while playing.
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Psyonic_Reaver
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States4342 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-06-25 04:14:27
June 25 2019 04:12 GMT
#13
All workers have the same movement speed. Drones and Probes have ranged attacks. SCVs are melee.

That's why Probes and Drones miss under Swarm but SCVs do not.

Drones and SCVs mine as melee. Probes mine at range. They can even sometimes "miss" the minerals during mining and have to start the cycle over again. I've seen it happen and it sucks major butt in a ranked game when you need your first wave of money to come in exactly on time and it doesn't haha.
So wait? I'm bad? =(
kidcrash
Profile Joined September 2009
United States623 Posts
June 25 2019 04:20 GMT
#14
On June 25 2019 13:12 Psyonic_Reaver wrote:
All workers have the same movement speed. Drones and Probes have ranged attacks. SCVs are melee.

That's why Probes and Drones miss under Swarm but SCVs do not.

Drones and SCVs mine as melee. Probes mine at range. They can even sometimes "miss" the minerals during mining and have to start the cycle over again. I've seen it happen and it sucks major butt in a ranked game when you need your first wave of money to come in exactly on time and it doesn't haha.


I was always under the impression that although all workers have the same movement speed, probes accelerated the fastest, followed by drones and with scvs having the slowest acceleration. I also understood that this effected mining rate. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Jealous
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
10333 Posts
June 25 2019 04:23 GMT
#15
On June 25 2019 13:05 FlaShFTW wrote:
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On June 25 2019 11:06 Alejandrisha wrote:
dragoons bug in place and need to be given stop or hold position command only after attacking a retreating unit at max range

edit: i heard this happens to other units but sorry i don't believe it for a second ^^

Sometimes yes, this does happen when you try to target fire units. This also happens to marines and hydralisks from what I can tell while playing.

Happens to Zealots in between attacks.
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Seeker *
Profile Blog Joined April 2005
Where dat snitch at?37095 Posts
June 25 2019 05:00 GMT
#16
Oh boy... This can't end well. Shutting it down before the shit-storm takes place.
ModeratorPeople ask me, "Seeker, what are you seeking?" My answer? "Sleep, damn it! Always sleep!"
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