On June 14 2010 19:34 Cheerio wrote:
This is not true. They can look like they actually repair but they just enter the repair animation and nothing happens. It's a bug.

Unless things have changed over the past few patches, I know for a fact I have repaired partner's void rays before.

tathecat563

United States96 Posts

June 15 2010 17:25 GMT

#23

It's not a huge difference since it repairs so ridiculously slow and costs a lot more resources than repairing terran units.

What's worse is if your SCVs repair the protoss units instead of the terran units during a smaller skirmish since the healing actually makes a difference in who comes out on top.

It is nice to repair things like Collossus though, I find myself repairing an allie's collosus quite often.

tfmdjeff

United States170 Posts

June 16 2010 22:26 GMT

#24

Yeah, whenever i play terran in 2v2 i repair my friend's colossi and such. Medivacs can also zealots, i believe. I know they can heal zerg units.

Also, on a similar note, i think if you grant your partner control they can chronoboost some of your stuff. I only heard that from someone though, it could be wrong.

But yeah, each race seems to have mechanics that work on the others

Zerksys

United States569 Posts

June 17 2010 01:05 GMT

#25

On June 15 2010 19:21 figq wrote:
It's true - scvs can repair toss mechanical units. Unfortunately toss buildings are neither mech, nor bio, so their health can't be repaired/healed by anyone.

Note: this only restores the health, not the shields. This means a strong shield unit like Archon can't be supported efficiently by healing allies.

Shields regen quickly enough we don't need a "repair" function for shields lol. Also I don't believe archons are mechanical.

Patriot.dlk

Sweden5462 Posts

September 20 2010 18:03 GMT

#26

I'm bumping this because the first page was mostly "does it work?" and then just one more page... Not enough for something this interesting imo. I have been starting to use this quite a lot being T/P 2v2 player. Can someone help me think of good uses for this?

We tried mass scv-stalker+immortal oriented pushes with me going hidden banshee and stuff like that. Didn't work well.

The best usage so far is just randomly repair stuff like immortals etc.

JinDesu

United States3990 Posts

September 20 2010 18:10 GMT

#27

Always nice to have repair on high HP low shield expensive units.... i.e. Colossus & Carrier.

And having like 10 scvs repairing a mothership is hilarious.