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MadRhetoric
Profile Joined May 2010
United States8 Posts
May 18 2010 04:41 GMT
#1
I can't for the life of me figure out how platinum level players load up dropships so quickly. I've tried every button combination I can think of, but the fastest way I can find for quick loads is holding shift+L and clicking on all the units. But when I watch pro replays, it seems they're picking up whole armies quickly. Can anyone explain how this is done? Any help is greatly appreciated.
androo
Profile Joined May 2010
United States6 Posts
May 18 2010 04:43 GMT
#2
Select army, right click the dropship.
Galleon.frigate
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Canada721 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-18 04:44:50
May 18 2010 04:43 GMT
#3
I just do the low apm move of selecting units then move clicking the shuttle


if you fall into the 1a syndrome like me, you can just 1 shift move click all of your shuttles for full load out
Satallgeese
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States239 Posts
May 18 2010 04:48 GMT
#4
While on the topic, how exactly does one do the drop and keep moving with a dropship, d+shift click+shift click etc? Or right click destination and right click the portraits while it's on the move. I think I saw Cauthonluck do this against TLO in the HDH, and I for the life of me cannot figure it out.
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Matrijs
Profile Joined May 2009
United States147 Posts
May 18 2010 04:52 GMT
#5
On May 18 2010 13:41 MadRhetoric wrote:
I can't for the life of me figure out how platinum level players load up dropships so quickly. I've tried every button combination I can think of, but the fastest way I can find for quick loads is holding shift+L and clicking on all the units. But when I watch pro replays, it seems they're picking up whole armies quickly. Can anyone explain how this is done? Any help is greatly appreciated.


1) Select all the units you want to put into dropships.
2) Hold down shift.
3) Right-click each dropship once.

Failsafe
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States1298 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-18 04:53:26
May 18 2010 04:52 GMT
#6
On May 18 2010 13:48 Satallgeese wrote:
While on the topic, how exactly does one do the drop and keep moving with a dropship, d+shift click+shift click etc? Or right click destination and right click the portraits while it's on the move. I think I saw Cauthonluck do this against TLO in the HDH, and I for the life of me cannot figure it out.



2 options

1) unload the units individually while the dropship is traveling. to do this you click the wire frame of each unit

2) *good* alternatively you can tap "d" to unload all and then select the dropship itself. then the dropship unloads all on itself and decelerates slowly. this is prob what you saw - note the dropship does lose speed using this method but it is effectively a moving drop and most good players use it
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Deux
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States159 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-18 04:54:18
May 18 2010 04:53 GMT
#7
On May 18 2010 13:48 Satallgeese wrote:
While on the topic, how exactly does one do the drop and keep moving with a dropship, d+shift click+shift click etc? Or right click destination and right click the portraits while it's on the move. I think I saw Cauthonluck do this against TLO in the HDH, and I for the life of me cannot figure it out.


right click move then use the drop command on the dropship itself

Edit: just got ninja'd
EnderW
Profile Joined March 2010
United States170 Posts
May 18 2010 05:04 GMT
#8
On May 18 2010 13:53 Deux wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 18 2010 13:48 Satallgeese wrote:
While on the topic, how exactly does one do the drop and keep moving with a dropship, d+shift click+shift click etc? Or right click destination and right click the portraits while it's on the move. I think I saw Cauthonluck do this against TLO in the HDH, and I for the life of me cannot figure it out.


right click move then use the drop command on the dropship itself

Edit: just got ninja'd


I used to love this w/ shuttles in SC1, gonna have to start doing it more in SC2, ffun stuff :D
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codewarrior
Profile Joined April 2010
United States52 Posts
May 18 2010 05:54 GMT
#9
Right-clicking your army onto the dropship has the side effect of making the dropship chase each unit as they load up. You can keep your dropships in formation if you give them a move or patrol command before you start loading up. Mostly useful for Zerg drops with 8+ overlords, because you want the whole ball to stick together.
MadRhetoric
Profile Joined May 2010
United States8 Posts
May 18 2010 12:21 GMT
#10
Thanks for the help everyone. I can't believe I couldn't figure that out in the first place lol.
Arcalious
Profile Joined March 2010
United States213 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-18 17:21:42
May 18 2010 16:28 GMT
#11
Slightly off topic but related to loading transports quickly. Most people probably know this already, but for those that don't.

Using rally points to auto load units into transports.

It is also possible to auto load newly created units into a transport by setting the rally point of the unit creation structure onto the transport. Example (set Barracks rally on Medivac). Another way is to set the rally point of a transport creation structure onto the unit to be loaded (up to 4 units can be queued up to be loaded). Example: Set rally point of Starport onto Siege Tank (or hold shift and right click on multiple units to be loaded).
Liquid`Jinro
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
Sweden33719 Posts
May 18 2010 17:02 GMT
#12
While on the topic of dropships - it's really annoying that in SC2 (unlike in SC1), if you right click on a dropship it does not go to meet the unit, this makes control a lot clumsier =/

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Chill
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
Calgary25980 Posts
May 18 2010 17:07 GMT
#13
On May 19 2010 02:02 FrozenArbiter wrote:
While on the topic of dropships - it's really annoying that in SC2 (unlike in SC1), if you right click on a dropship it does not go to meet the unit, this makes control a lot clumsier =/


Yep, I agree. Also I keep accidentally loading half my army into my medivacs They have so many bars (life, energy, units) that it's difficult to automatically see when there's units in them >_<
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Kanil
Profile Joined April 2010
United States1713 Posts
May 24 2010 23:45 GMT
#14
I'm trying to understand unit loading, myself. Doesn't quite work the way I'm familiar with from SC. They sometimes seem to meet the unit, but sometimes don't? I don't really understand it, other than that they often don't do what I expect them to.

Another problem I think I have is when you have several dropships selected, and you right click on one, then before it's finished loading you right click on another. In SC, this generally results in both dropships picking up as many units as possible, but in SC2 it seems that the first dropship just stops loading once the second one gets the order.

Anyone else have some thoughts about dropship behavior?
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FC.Strike
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States621 Posts
May 24 2010 23:47 GMT
#15
I'm bad, so I typically just box everything on the screen and madly start right clicking all of my dropships.

But you know, whatever works
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