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chestnutcc
India429 Posts
I don't know about sniping zealots. You would require a lot of ghosts, with marauders to slow down the zealots. The answer to this imo is more zealots, and with warp ins, the effective number of zealots goes up. It could lead to a stylistic divide within terrans, with those favouring kiting vis a vis those favouring snipes. PS: Vs zerg, a handful of ghosts would be more powerful than they are now. | ||
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NeThZOR
South Africa7387 Posts
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Roxy
Canada753 Posts
On February 07 2012 04:29 chestnutcc wrote: This is not a macro. I don't know about sniping zealots. You would require a lot of ghosts, with marauders to slow down the zealots. The answer to this imo is more zealots, and with warp ins, the effective number of zealots goes up. It could lead to a stylistic divide within terrans, with those favouring kiting vis a vis those favouring snipes. PS: Vs zerg, a handful of ghosts would be more powerful than they are now. I have really been noticign that the super late game Ghost/Marauder/Medivac/Viking with composition seems to be the army of choice vs the protoss deathaball. It seems they dont even want marines because they arent worth the PSI. This new snipe ability could certainly provide for some entertaining matches! | ||
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Integra
Sweden5626 Posts
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zmansman17
United States2567 Posts
DARY Came here from Wolf's tweet and glad I did. | ||
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noaziN
Brazil7 Posts
There is something called "bunny hop". It consists in jumping repeatedly right after hitting the floor, and only using strafe keys ("A" and "D"), gaining extra velocity per jump, and making it harder for enemies to shoot you. It's nearly impossible to do that using the space bar due to it's difficult timing. So players tried to figure out something to repeatedly press the space bar on an insanely high speed. And the only solution was to make a macro. But every kind of macro is illegal, so here is what they game up with: Don't use the space bar anymore. Now the jumping command is your mouse scroll wheel pointing up. Players could do that by typing into the console: "bind mwheelup +jump; wait; -jump" The result is that players no longer need to worry about the space bar, and will ALWAYS hit the bunny hop. Just spam the wheel on the direction you assigned and use your strafe keys. There is also something similar with the "duck" command. If you press it and release it really quick, your model will WTFSEIZUREJUMP for a sec. Also making it harder for enemies to shoot you, with the bonus of MAKING NO SOUND ON MOVEMENT AT ALL! The command was "bind mwheeldown +duck; wait; -duck" So yeah. What happened? They banned it. Yes, yes. It is an in-game command, but is considered as an exploit for any championship or tournament league. Anything the player did related to it would result in a ban. Anyway... this new find is made outside of the game... it's not a macro, but it is definitely something that changes the gameplay a lot. I don't think Blizzard can ban people by using it, but major tournaments definitely can. | ||
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JerKy
Korea (South)3013 Posts
I wish protoss could utilize this T_T | ||
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kcdc
United States2311 Posts
On February 07 2012 04:24 KevinIX wrote: Well, ghosts are too slow to kite, and regular mouse clicks are already quick enough to snipe templar. I don't think this will affect PvT much. It's much more devastating to Zerg. I'm talking about sniping zealots. Normal Terran micro vs chargelots is EMP's then kite. I've seen Thorzain instead use EMP's, then burn his snipe energy on zealots, then kite, but the sniping phase takes long enough that he doesn't get much kiting done. This scroll button snipe micro will allow the snipe phase of that micro chain to be faster, so he'll get more kiting done. Just watch--if this proves to be legal in tournament play, Terrans will build more ghosts and they'll burn their energy sniping before they start kiting. It will totally shift the metagame. | ||
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Tomazi
United Kingdom158 Posts
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llKenZyll
United States853 Posts
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snively
United States1159 Posts
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jinorazi
Korea (South)4948 Posts
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disco
Netherlands1667 Posts
On February 07 2012 04:20 goswser wrote: Not really that useful because you can just unbox a bunch of them from your group just as easily though. So you stopped using it? I didn't try it 'cause I figured i'd "accidentally" click way too often. | ||
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Willzzz
United Kingdom774 Posts
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kcbgoku
Poland156 Posts
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United States2567 Posts
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