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AskJoshy
United States1625 Posts
- Thors attack that stuns and does massive damage is actually most effective against buildings with 100% health, if you can manage to get into a scenario like that. Thors are not a great investment right now. - Vikings and probably other air-to-air only units can still hit Colossi. - /dance works for marines and marauders right now, but some achievements that have been previewed may allow for other units to have dance animations in the future. | ||
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DeCoup
Australia1933 Posts
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AskJoshy
United States1625 Posts
On February 25 2010 09:05 DeCoup wrote: As a protoss taking the hallucination ability before teching to void rays allows you to send in a couple of hallucinated air units with your Warp Rays. You can then get just out of visual range of your enemy and attack your own hallucinations to get your Warp Rays to max charge before moving in range and attacking the enemy base. This gives your opponent much less time to react and can cut down the time it takes for a warp ray to kill an enemy building after being spotted considerably. When using this tactic make sure you also try to incorporate hallicination into your overall strategy to make the research more worthwhile. I might just make a video dealing with this. It's pretty damn good. | ||
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wrags
United States379 Posts
On February 24 2010 21:35 CharlieMurphy wrote: -Obvious, but Terran can fast expand to maps with islands and rocked in bases. (Kulas Ravine, Scrapyard, Desert Oasis, Steppes of War, LT) as z, i find that sending your first overlord to the nearest drop expo (to the terran) is more useful than using it as a spotter because you can poop creep all over it | ||
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nicoaldo
Argentina939 Posts
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DeCoup
Australia1933 Posts
On February 25 2010 09:11 nicoaldo wrote: That /dance stuff is retarded, i dont see the point Whats the point of a Pylon heart?  | ||
Excalibur_Z
United States12237 Posts
On February 25 2010 09:11 nicoaldo wrote: That /dance stuff is retarded, i dont see the point That is the point. There's no point in clicking your units a dozen times to hear wacky quotes, but they've been doing that since Warcraft 1. It's just a fun, silly extra. | ||
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hifriend
China7935 Posts
On February 25 2010 09:11 nicoaldo wrote: That /dance stuff is retarded, i dont see the point Because computer games are srs business. | ||
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CowGoMoo
United States428 Posts
On February 25 2010 08:33 iCCup.Raelcun wrote: Similar to hold shot with mutas in SC:BW? Kinda. | ||
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Dr.Frost
United States389 Posts
On February 25 2010 07:21 alexpnd wrote: Has shift click been mentioned? You must hold shift before selecting the command (eg. build supply depot). So hold shift + B + S or B + hold shift + S then click as many supply depots as you like. Good for protoss, meh for terran, garbage for zerg lol. ed: the shift before command hasn't worked for me but I'll give it another go tonight. i don't get to play as often as I would like. thanks! Actually, it is great for T. It doesn't work exactly how you said there is 1 more thing u can do. If you do B + S and click the ground then push B + B and hold shift before u click where you can Queve different buildings. Doesn't have to be mass of 1 building. This goes for P too. All you have to do is hold Shift before you select the location to place w/e building your making. | ||
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CharlieMurphy
United States22895 Posts
On February 25 2010 08:15 TestSubject893 wrote: I highly doubt that that is a bug, and I would also argue that the only reason anyone would ever think of considering this a "bad design" is because it is different than it was in SC:BW. Do you really think that it is more useful to have units be forced to ignore units attacking them by default, in any situation, rather than attacking things that attack them unless instructed otherwise? yes, this is called micro.... If I want my units to attack always as soon as they come out, I'd tell them too. I mean what idiots are rallying their units across the map without watching them (which is the only time you could want attack move rally). | ||
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CharlieMurphy
United States22895 Posts
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Belac
United States26 Posts
On February 25 2010 08:49 JoshSuth wrote: - Putting a Nexus in its own control group is a good idea even when not building workers, because then you can Chrono Boost without having to go all over the place to find your various buildings. I like to put my nexuses in the control with all my production buildings. After warp gates, you can warp in units, and then tab back to the nexus and cast Chrono Boost on the building portraits without having to leaving whatever map position you were at. | ||
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HazMat
United States17077 Posts
On February 25 2010 12:14 CharlieMurphy wrote: -At about 600-800 hp of a barrack construction the scv goes behind and inside the building, making harder/impossible to worker harass it. I think that's on purpose, like the unit rally, which I like. | ||
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BladeRunner
United States407 Posts
My thought is, in the early game when you first get your queen and can't earn enough to use all the larva, isn't it smarter to spawn Creep Tumors leading to your ramp or natural? That way if you're invaded all your units move faster for more surround/escape opportunities. Speed-boosted zerglings in particular absolutely FLY (pun intended) on creep. Of course it may take finesse to be able to rely on normal larva production but I can see the benefits of at LEAST one creep tumor being easy to prove over a stream of spawn larva. edit: wanted to add to OverSky's credit he seems to be the first player I've seen put the overlord creep drop to good use (or any use at all). However it does pose a large risk to the channeling overlord, hence why I had the thought of tumors when spawn larva doesn't have much benefit. | ||
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caution.slip
United States775 Posts
but i saw in dayvie's game vs ggtemplar where dayvie went banelings, he was putting the creep tumors everywhere. If anything they serve map awareness tools. It forces the enemy to deal with them before being able to move out their army. And while they're up you get movespeed. | ||
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BladeRunner
United States407 Posts
I'd still like to think there are lots of options for defensive/offensive deployments of creep tumors.. load a queen into an overlord and move to each expansion spot, dropping some creep (tumor must be placed in creep) then tumoring? Would cost some energy and time with the queen away from your base but creates a pretty nice block of an expansion maybe. Especially if the player doesn't realize it's a tumor and just tries waiting for it to disappear  | ||
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BladeRunner
United States407 Posts
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DeCoup
Australia1933 Posts
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DaVinci
Netherlands27 Posts
On February 25 2010 12:49 Belac wrote: I like to put my nexuses in the control with all my production buildings. After warp gates, you can warp in units, and then tab back to the nexus and cast Chrono Boost on the building portraits without having to leaving whatever map position you were at. Thanks, didn't know this! I tried hitting 4(Nexus)-C-9(Gateways) for instance and that didn't work so I assumed it wasn't possible and went back to manually clicking the buildings I want to Chrono. | ||
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