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EsPages
Profile Joined November 2011
2 Posts
November 01 2011 10:34 GMT
#81
This is great! Nice find OP, I'll absolutely try this out
Flossy
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States870 Posts
November 05 2011 20:26 GMT
#82
Will use this! It's one of those things that is ingenious and everyone is mad they that didn't come up with it. :D
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PR4Y
Profile Joined November 2010
United States260 Posts
November 05 2011 20:34 GMT
#83
people are just realizing this? seems strange to me... could a pro / top level zerg comment on this? i don't even play zerg (protoss) but when i do random team games and roll zerg i always go mass muta... and i've known about this since the magic box trick was first discovered, as I thought that was how you did a magic box o.O


im actually amazed at how many people didn't know you could hold position then attack command to target fire magic box. so strange.
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Spicy_Curry
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States10573 Posts
November 05 2011 20:53 GMT
#84
This is probably too powerful in the TvZ MU...
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Roynalf
Profile Joined August 2011
Finland886 Posts
November 05 2011 21:12 GMT
#85
omg didnt know about this, awesome thx
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ALPINA
Profile Joined May 2010
3791 Posts
November 05 2011 21:27 GMT
#86
So you need to hold H while focus firing, right? Quite a nice find actually.
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kiy0
Profile Joined August 2010
Portugal593 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-05 21:33:11
November 05 2011 21:29 GMT
#87
Just came by to drop a meaningless and completely worthless post like "Awesome!" or "Nice find!", therefore raising my post count by 1.

About the subject at hand, it would be advisable for people to think about what holding a key down for a few seconds represents in terms of gameplay. The find in itself is interesting but pretty much worthless unless you're straight up using a flack of mutas against 1 or 2 thors, with no other units involved. In most scenarios the Zerg 1As the Terran, moves the mutas over the thors and then micros his lings and banelings. In high level play, you can't simply not micro your ground units.

For all of you who are anxious to try this out, keep this in mind. It doesn't really matter how the command works. It's the simple fact that you can't do anything else while holding down the H key.
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cari-kira
Profile Joined March 2011
Germany655 Posts
November 05 2011 21:42 GMT
#88
whats the problem?
we all know zergs dont have to micro at all, so they have plenty of time. the only skill they need is to hold down keys for drohnes/zerglings/mutas/banes, so that adds just a 5th key to hold down.
pretty easy, i guess;-)

*just some sarcastic 2 cents from a sad protoss*
Live and let live
Stropheum
Profile Joined January 2010
United States1124 Posts
November 05 2011 21:47 GMT
#89
Very good find. I'll definitely give this a shot
PenguinWithNuke
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
250 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-05 21:52:03
November 05 2011 21:49 GMT
#90
I'm looking forwards to seeing lots of exploding Thors. I do love my mutas!


On November 06 2011 05:53 Spicy_Curry wrote:
This is probably too powerful in the TvZ MU...


Magic boxed mutas don't like stimmed marines.
Paljas
Profile Joined October 2011
Germany6926 Posts
November 05 2011 22:28 GMT
#91
Great find, I am curios if this is used be progamers.
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joyeaux
Profile Joined May 2005
United States169 Posts
November 05 2011 22:54 GMT
#92
On November 06 2011 06:49 PenguinWithNuke wrote:

Magic boxed mutas don't like stimmed marines.


Unless the stimmed marines are busy running away from banelings.
kedarking
Profile Joined August 2011
Netherlands98 Posts
November 05 2011 23:09 GMT
#93
Sweeeeeeeeeeeeet! Thanks man, gonna help a LOT against Mech/ archons/
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Roblin
Profile Joined April 2010
Sweden948 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-05 23:46:07
November 05 2011 23:45 GMT
#94
On November 06 2011 07:54 joyeaux wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 06 2011 06:49 PenguinWithNuke wrote:

Magic boxed mutas don't like stimmed marines.


Unless the stimmed marines are busy running away from banelings.


in which case the magicboxed mutas shouldn't be getting the hold position command.

edit:
On October 31 2011 13:52 Odal wrote:
I like how muta micro in sc2 has accomplished the exact opposite thing it did in bw. lol.


lol so true
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GinDo
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
3327 Posts
November 05 2011 23:53 GMT
#95
On November 06 2011 08:45 Roblin wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 06 2011 07:54 joyeaux wrote:
On November 06 2011 06:49 PenguinWithNuke wrote:

Magic boxed mutas don't like stimmed marines.


Unless the stimmed marines are busy running away from banelings.


in which case the magicboxed mutas shouldn't be getting the hold position command.

edit:
Show nested quote +
On October 31 2011 13:52 Odal wrote:
I like how muta micro in sc2 has accomplished the exact opposite thing it did in bw. lol.


lol so true


Cuz until recently nobody knew how to make Valks in BW.
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sensenmann
Profile Joined July 2010
United States172 Posts
November 06 2011 02:59 GMT
#96
So does this trick apply to any other units? I'm just wondering if there is anything else I would use this trick on.
awakenx
Profile Joined May 2011
United States341 Posts
November 06 2011 03:17 GMT
#97
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO
my poor, poor thors. But this is an awesome find! :D Props to you for finding this out.
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LimitSEA
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Australia9580 Posts
November 06 2011 03:17 GMT
#98
Can't believe this hasn't been posted before, awesome find!
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m3rciless
Profile Joined August 2009
United States1476 Posts
November 06 2011 03:27 GMT
#99
Goddamn zerg players making thors even worse. Why is there never a thread like:

Hold down Gather while attacking to make your SCVs turn into Optimus Prime!
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statikg
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada930 Posts
November 06 2011 03:58 GMT
#100
Thors will definitely need a buff in response to this, or maybe blizzard will be content just to ignore the issue and mech will become even more dead then it already is.
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