On September 21 2010 23:23 hEndO wrote:
as Zerg i just learned that once you have 1 lair but 2 hatches you can get Overlord speed on one and Overlord drop on the other. I always thought i could only research them at the Lair. =/

omg I just learned this by reading your post bahahaha! That's awesome!

Bosu

United States3247 Posts

September 22 2010 01:14 GMT

#163

Roach speed makes them go faster above ground. For about a month I thought it was just while burrowed.

Reptilia

Chile913 Posts

September 22 2010 01:22 GMT

#164

what i recently learned which is really really helpful is that if you press (for example) d ( d is hotkey for drop) on your medivac it will start dropping units while you control the medivac to move everywhere

Yuka

United States133 Posts

September 22 2010 01:35 GMT

#165

Zerg: Corruption (Corruptor special ability, of course) can be cast on ground units. Very handy against high hp ground units (thor, ultralisk,etc.)

Protoss: a low attention/quick way to expand to resource nodes blocked by rocks ~ use a pylon/photon cannon to destroy the rocks, while you manage your army and do other things. With proper placement, it'll also provide defenses as your nexus warps in.

Terran: seems a lot of my opponents forget that I don't need to get air units to get into their base even if they've blocked their choke. Fly in a few barracks and land them in a tucked-away corner. Even if your opponent finds them, it's easy to just lift off and make your army elsewhere.

Perscienter

957 Posts

September 22 2010 10:07 GMT

#166

EMP uncovers cloacked units for a moment. With the help of it, you can hunt observers.
9 overlord is more efficient than 10 overlord in most standard bos.
It's possible to turn flyer helper always on in the options. Henceforth, every unit will graphically be supported by a marker, which shows their exact position above ground.
It is possible to spot if mineral fields are being mined, by scouting in a range of them which not already uncovers the mineral field itself. You can already see some flashes. But you still have to be quite near.
Massive units like the thor, ultralisk and colossus break force fields, but it doesn't work with hallucinated colossi.
Shift patrol is generally possible and allows workers to change their direction without hesitating. If the starting and end point of the patrol command are the same, the unit will run in circles.
Blink works despite fungal growth being cast upon the stalkers.
Destructible rocks have an armor of 3, which makes it almost impossible for Zerg to kill them with queens and zerglings.
A thor needs eleven shots to shoot down a void ray. Don't run with a void ray from a thor, no matter, how many scvs are repairing them!
When tanks are unsieging, the player can already queue up move commands and a siege command and vice versa.
strg+alt+f will let the camera follow (a) unit(s).
strg+shift+f will toggle the fps counter.

Lilyith

1 Post

September 22 2010 10:14 GMT

#167

I learnt that 1 mutalisk = 100 Gas, and 2 roaches and a Hydra is also 100 Gas, and that Roach Hydra is a goooood unit composition.

MjrBuzz

United States219 Posts

September 22 2010 10:27 GMT

#168

On September 22 2010 00:05 Adeeler wrote:

Shift + # to add units to a group instead of selecting a group and shift selecting then Ctrl + # to reassigning all to the group is much faster way of reinforcing.

Thank you! Learned something new!!!

kickinhead

Switzerland2069 Posts

September 22 2010 10:39 GMT

#169

One thing that has greatly improved my success on the Ladder was to acknowledge how bad Zerg is and switching to another race...

zizou21

United States3683 Posts

September 22 2010 10:41 GMT

#170

Dude 70% of this thread is new to me ...

Drazzzt

Germany999 Posts

September 22 2010 10:51 GMT

#171

On September 22 2010 05:08 SnowFantasy wrote:
You can target fire with bunkers..

PLUS: you can use stim when selecting a bunker.

Mongery

892 Posts

September 22 2010 10:53 GMT

#172

Massgaming is the only way in improving and analyze ur game afterwards, check timings etc.

apriores

Romania41 Posts

September 22 2010 11:03 GMT

#173

I learned the larvae injection technique with all queens in one control and using V + Shift + click + Backspace to quickly spawn on every base.

inTheMood

Norway128 Posts

September 22 2010 11:03 GMT

#174

I've just noticed how good +1 lings are.

Seriously, it has totally changed my zvp!

Perkins1752

Germany214 Posts

September 22 2010 11:03 GMT

#175

On September 22 2010 19:39 kickinhead wrote:
One thing that has greatly improved my success on the Ladder was to acknowledge how bad Zerg is and switching to another race...

same here: by switching form Z to T for a week, I realized, you don't need 50 apm or a gameplan to play Diamond Terran.

Bio

Canada185 Posts

September 22 2010 11:21 GMT

#176

Reapers are only 1 supply!!!!! I play zeg and thought "well, they should be at least 2.... Then i played T in a 2v2, and......

b_unnies

3579 Posts

September 22 2010 11:28 GMT

#177

I'll use Sentry as an example:

If I have 12 Sentries and i activate guardian shield, only 1 sentry activates the spell rather than all 12 activating guardian shield.

I'm still not used to this change from BW

FaCE_1

Canada6186 Posts

September 22 2010 11:36 GMT

#178

On September 22 2010 03:31 Obstbaum wrote:

Show nested quote +

i loled....hard

I know it's cost but I have a real hard tiem to put it down at 150

SiegeMode

United States206 Posts

September 22 2010 11:39 GMT

#179

My bio play improved dramatically when I realized I only had to hit stim once, not t tab t for marines and marauders. No wonder they died so quick..

Piledriver

United States1697 Posts

September 22 2010 11:40 GMT

#180

* You can neural parasite a mothership and use it to vortex your enemy units while focus firing the mothership.

I dont know if this is obvious, but yesterday in a really long game against a zerg, I finally teched up to Carriers+ mothership to break the deadlock....and got RAPED. The zerg just got 1 infestor along with his hydra army and just NPed my mothership and vortexed my entire carrier + zealot + stalker force...and then focus fired the mohership. 400 minerals/gas down the drain, and I lost the game right there. I was sooooo pissed when this happened.

Nerf NP...shouldnt be usable on hero units