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On March 05 2012 11:31 jimbob615 wrote:
are you sure? the first half, you did the magic box trick. the second half, you were clicking inside the magic box. that's why they were not spreading as much? this is like the opposite situation to magic boxing.
if he did magic box then his mutas would be in the same position relative to other mutas. However, all the mutas spread vertically as he moves them. Magic box only works if the units are already spread out. You cannot magic box stacked units.
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not trying to hate but wasn't this what everyone was doing in BW?? at any rate nice find, i'll be able to storm muta's better now :D:D
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They seemed to unstack when you went right while they remained stacked when you went left. Is that how the trick works or did they just unstack because you moved to the opposite side ?
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On March 05 2012 11:57 BMM wrote:
not trying to hate but wasn't this what everyone was doing in BW?? at any rate nice find, i'll be able to storm muta's better now :D:D
Ya, this is similar to what people did in BW, which is what led me to try it in the first place. It's just that most people, including pros, don't realize that it makes a difference in SC2. As someone mentioned earlier, I think the only pro who does this frequently is Nestea.
On March 05 2012 11:57 chuky500 wrote:
They seemed to unstack when you went right while they remained stacked when you went left. Is that how the trick works or did they just unstack because you moved to the opposite side ?
You can move around in any direction. I think I just messed up and clicked too far away or not quickly enough when I switched directions.
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interesting that this didn't come up before, but i guess in beta it was like omg, thor > 1000 mutas, so no one actually bothered trying to stack them better. Pretty interesting find, will make targetfireing worse, which will be pretty damn annoying for everyone before the aoes are out. Which is the case really often, so it is really a nice information.
Atleast i am quiet happy i can easily snipe most air units still. Seeing the feedback on it though i don't think i have to fear alot.
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Sweet. Good trick to finally discover in SC2. And here people thought it didn't make a difference / didn't work. Yup just try to avoid things like Thors and Storm and you should be ok. I think it has to do with risk vs. Reward. Since AoE existed in BW and they stacked mutas there too I think we just need to know when and where to use it as players (I play toss though so no impact on me directly)
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Nestea is streaming and he has an overlord in his mutalisk control group 
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On March 05 2012 13:58 Oboeman wrote:Nestea is streaming and he has an overlord in his mutalisk control group
Superhuman Nestea does this as well? Great find!
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I think it works very slightly better with a slow overlord, Great find !!!
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Ive been doing this for quite awhile, very good technique.
Unless you get fungalled that is.
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Hmm was just watching Nestea play and wondered wth he was doing. Looks really interesting!
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On March 05 2012 13:58 Oboeman wrote:Nestea is streaming and he has an overlord in his mutalisk control group
Confirmed!
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hey can we see it shoot? id really like to see it shoot while microing liek this
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What happens when the overlord gets speed?
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On March 05 2012 16:21 Advocado wrote:
What happens when the overlord gets speed?
The overlord moves faster.
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I'm pretty sure it has to do with the amount of distance between the extra unit you have in the group and the muta flock.
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![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/fSK5b.jpg)
Image by pr0foak from reddit
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On March 05 2012 12:33 Pantythief wrote:
..this is new?
It is new to a lot of people.....
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EPT![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/5DVnz.png)
