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renaissanceMAN
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1840 Posts
July 28 2021 03:34 GMT
#1
I'm by no means a good player, but I've had this odd thing happen to me twice in the past two weeks versus Zergs:

https://drop.sc/replay/19650890

at ~1:45 my opponent drops a hatchery at my natural and cancels it after a few seconds only to immediately start an evolution chamber. I killed it after it finished and used his delay in spawning pool to pull of a bunker rush that I slowly used to mech my way to victory. They gave me some nice BM at the end too!

When this happened last week the person I was playing did the same trick but dropped a spine crawler which broke my wall off. I've been playing SC2 for 10 years now and I've never actually seen this strategy? hack? bug? What is this?

Thanks!
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Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55566 Posts
July 28 2021 06:19 GMT
#2
Cancelling a hatch creates a small patch of creep that is just about big enough to fit an evo if Zerg is quick enough. It's a feature but I think it was a lot more commonly used in HotS.
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Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20326 Posts
July 29 2021 21:56 GMT
#3
On July 28 2021 15:19 Elentos wrote:
Cancelling a hatch creates a small patch of creep that is just about big enough to fit an evo if Zerg is quick enough. It's a feature but I think it was a lot more commonly used in HotS.


Yep, it starts as a 3x3 patch IIRC and almost immediately recedes so you have to be quick

Oh hey, TL is back on
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WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland26265 Posts
July 31 2021 18:12 GMT
#4
You’re a lucky man to have avoided the dreaded proxy hatch block for so long!
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Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20326 Posts
July 31 2021 20:10 GMT
#5
On August 01 2021 03:12 WombaT wrote:
You’re a lucky man to have avoided the dreaded proxy hatch block for so long!


One of the unlucky 10,000 https://xkcd.com/1053/
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
WeddingEpisode
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States356 Posts
August 07 2021 03:33 GMT
#6
Yeah, very old trick.
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