Can the OP be updated? Some of the stuff isn't necessarily true anymore, like the MULE dropping thing. Great list though.

(only if you have time ofc)

Sm3agol

United States2055 Posts

December 29 2010 19:48 GMT

#663

On December 29 2010 22:30 Blarghgh wrote:

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Clearly someone saw Psy's tips and tricks videos

regarding this one though, I believe drones actually have 40 health, although they'll still beat a probe one on one as they'll regenerate at least one hit point during the fight.

True. Another wonder of SC2 though. Probes are weakest worker unit, however, with micro, you can circle hurt ones around until their shield regens, and then they are far better than drones and SCVs 1 on 1.

jader

United States10 Posts

December 29 2010 19:52 GMT

#664

On December 28 2010 22:53 AXygnus wrote:
Took me some time to notice that a Chrono Boosted Nexus doesn't mine faster :/

You just ruined my life...

Is this true??

vapor666

United States11 Posts

December 29 2010 19:59 GMT

#665

On December 30 2010 04:52 jader wrote:

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You just ruined my life...

Is this true??

CB on a nexus builds probes faster, which equals faster mining. However, the resource gather per probe remains the same.

ZeroTalent

United States297 Posts

December 29 2010 20:09 GMT

#666

On December 30 2010 04:59 vapor666 wrote:

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CB on a nexus builds probes faster, which equals faster mining. However, the resource gather per probe remains the same.

Yeah when I played my first few games as Protoss I thought I noticed the probe animation moving faster when they were close to a CBed nexus. But it was just wishful thinking.

SpaceGhost

United States61 Posts

January 09 2011 20:06 GMT

#667

hallucinated colossus benefits from the Thermal Lance range research :D

helpful because your LSD colossus stays out of the range of cannons or other detection.

HardCorey

United States709 Posts

January 09 2011 23:35 GMT

#668

You can call down supplies on an ally's supply depot if you're both terran.

also that hallucinated colossus idea is pretty cool.

HardCorey

United States709 Posts

January 28 2011 20:41 GMT

#669

Oh i just figured out the coolest thing today. When playing as random you can tell what race you are going to be playing as about 30seconds earlier because of which cursor you have on the loading screen.

Crankenstein

Australia150 Posts

January 29 2011 01:14 GMT

#670

YOU CAN PUT LANDED VIKINGS IN A MEDIVAC!!1!

Chinesewonder

Canada354 Posts

January 29 2011 02:32 GMT

#671

WOA, didnt know you could set burrowed zerg units to autocast!!! Does this mean you can randomly burrow 2 banelings everywhere all over the map, get them to autocast and they will unburrow when terran units are on top of them??? If so I can see this drastically changing my ZvT.

My contribution. An obvious thing, if your zerg and you want to quickly saturate a new expansion, have all your hatches grouped into one group and click it to the mineral patch of your new expansion. You can quickly build 15-20 drones to head there when they hatch without manually doing it yourself. Really helped me saturate.

Armsved

Denmark642 Posts

January 29 2011 02:35 GMT

#672

When creeptumors die zerg loses vision instant, creep or no creep... Only took me 7 month to figure that out.

OzkanTheFlip

United States246 Posts

January 29 2011 02:40 GMT

#673

Overseers have the contaminate ability

Fruscainte

4596 Posts

January 29 2011 02:40 GMT

#674

On January 29 2011 10:14 Crankenstein wrote:
YOU CAN PUT LANDED VIKINGS IN A MEDIVAC!!1!

This was the most beautiful piece of information when I figured this out.

Every time I'm on at a hug lead, I fill up 6 medivacs with vikings and just drop his base and get up and fly away.

Optimist

Australia161 Posts

January 29 2011 02:50 GMT

#675

On January 29 2011 05:41 HardCorey wrote:
Oh i just figured out the coolest thing today. When playing as random you can tell what race you are going to be playing as about 30seconds earlier because of which cursor you have on the loading screen.

OH MY GOD THIS I realised this yesterday too after playing maybe my 80th game of random, I was so happy. I really like being able tell what matchup I'm going to be playing (unless the other guy is random of course) before the game starts, gives me a few seconds to think about my plan.

yrag89

Malaysia315 Posts

January 29 2011 03:02 GMT

#676

I just found out drones and queens can burrow. No more losing queens now.

Whitewing

United States7483 Posts

January 29 2011 03:22 GMT

#677

You can go fast lair to contaminate warp gate research with an overseer if you're quick and basically force a GG right there.

fuzzy_panda

New Zealand1681 Posts

January 29 2011 04:08 GMT

#678

this is something that took me a while to figure out, but in options, if you go to the display page, you can change the resolution from windowed, windowed(fullscreen) and fullscreen. Windowed(fullscreen) is basically full screen but wen u click alt-tab or windows key you can look at other things while sc2 is still running in the background. in other words, you never minimize the sc2 window and lag. you can click back on the game and play straight away. i saw some of the casters do this but didnt realise how until a few weeks ago. its quite convenient as i can surf the net, change music tracks etc while in a ladder game and not worry about lagging or the amount of time it takes to get bak in the game

Befree

695 Posts

January 29 2011 05:02 GMT

#679

I found out you can select unload all and then select your dropship and it drops units on the move.

10 years of playing Starcraft and I didn't know this!! Please tell me others didn't know this! I thought you just had to always individually select the units within the dropship to do this.

Dhurn

United States53 Posts

January 29 2011 06:07 GMT

#680

On January 10 2011 05:06 SpaceGhost wrote:
hallucinated colossus benefits from the Thermal Lance range research :D

helpful because your LSD colossus stays out of the range of cannons or other detection.

Kinda contradictory though because the moment you attack with it they see it does no damage and know it's fake anyway