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Kennigit *
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
Canada19447 Posts
February 22 2010 22:43 GMT
#21
I watched a replay where 6 raiding reapers got insta raped when they jumped between a mineral line and a CC. Bad positioning? Maybe a little, but i literally thought there was a bug or something because the reapers just evaporated....I doubt it's going to change as we've been complaining about it since WWI but yea - it sucks :\ .
LunarC
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States1186 Posts
February 22 2010 22:46 GMT
#22
On February 23 2010 06:52 Gedrah wrote:
Because that's a stupid arbitrary limitation that has no good motivation and doesn't improve control in any way. You're still free to put 24 units on YOUR hotkeys, but I'm going to put 30+ on mine. And I don't find it a miserable struggle. Microing single units to keep them alive longer or microing your army to improve surround's effect on battles is still possible. Play the game more before you're so sure it needs to change, is my mouthy little bit of advice. I think it's great :X


Of course it's not a miserable struggle to assign all of the units you own and the buildings too to one hotkey. It sounds really easy. I wish Blizzard would at least make it impossible to select buildings and units simultaneously...
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pyrogenetix
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
China5094 Posts
February 22 2010 22:49 GMT
#23
I HAVENT PLAYED SC2 BETA

but it does sound like it's better for macro players and worse for micro players.
macro players want to a-move their lings in and then build more
micro players want to run around picking at things and keep lings alive

just like a lot of other things *coughdareimentionthiswithoutashitstormmbsautominecough* I think giving the ability to toggle is what is best. tournaments will of course have set rules so it doesn't affect high level, and the average casual gamer can still use it if he wishes.
Yea that looks just like Kang Min... amazing game sense... and uses mind games well, but has the micro of a washed up progamer.
Zato-1
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Chile4253 Posts
February 22 2010 22:50 GMT
#24
I've said this many times, and I'll say it again.

Say you have a bunch of clumped up zealots against an ultralisk. First three zealots charge at it and start whacking at the zerg unit. What will the remaining zealots do?

There's only two possibilities:

a. Collide ineffectually with each other until the player gets them 'unstuck' before they engage the ultralisk, or

b. Go around their fellow zealots automatically and engage the enemy

Option b. is what happens in Starcraft 2, and it's not because of an 'autosurround AI'; it's the logical consequence of improved pathing. If you can't reach an enemy because your own units are blocking, then you'll go around over to the nearest opening where there aren't any allied units blocking- the direct consequence of this is that if you have enough units, you will start surrounding the enemy, because that's the only way to get enough 'surface area' of contact with the enemy to get as many melee units into melee range as possible.

You literally cannot remove autosurround from SC2 without making unit pathing dumber, so let's get right down to the core of the issue: should unit pathing be made dumber in SC2?
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MorroW
Profile Joined August 2008
Sweden3522 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-02-22 22:58:08
February 22 2010 22:55 GMT
#25
does anyone have a vod of this?

i never really seen any automatical surrounds, not quite sure what u guys r talking about :<

edit: read some more and
basically auto surround means that they move around their own units to get to the attack faster rather than freezing up like they do in sc1 for about a second? it sounds like a good feature and is only logical to a modern game o,o
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LunarC
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States1186 Posts
February 23 2010 00:10 GMT
#26
If autosurround = units moving to the next open position around a unit, then I approve of autosurround. I thought this was the past issue of groups of units spreading out to attack other units instead of the targeted one.
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ZenDeX
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
Philippines2916 Posts
February 23 2010 00:37 GMT
#27
On February 23 2010 07:50 Zato-1 wrote:
[...]
You literally cannot remove autosurround from SC2 without making unit pathing dumber, so let's get right down to the core of the issue: should unit pathing be made dumber in SC2?

This should be quoted in the OP.
IskatuMesk
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Canada969 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-02-23 00:40:30
February 23 2010 00:39 GMT
#28
I don't think the pathing should be changed. I just think some units need slightly larger collision sizes because their tiny collision size makes the pathing very, very strong (zerglings vs zealots, workers).

Modders and mappers are going to absolutely love the pathing in this game. It handles 800 units just perfectly. It's like liquid motion. I hope they don't break it, they just need to make some collision sizes a bit bigger.
caution.slip
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States775 Posts
February 23 2010 00:40 GMT
#29
On February 23 2010 07:50 Zato-1 wrote:
I've said this many times, and I'll say it again.

Say you have a bunch of clumped up zealots against an ultralisk. First three zealots charge at it and start whacking at the zerg unit. What will the remaining zealots do?

There's only two possibilities:

a. Collide ineffectually with each other until the player gets them 'unstuck' before they engage the ultralisk, or

b. Go around their fellow zealots automatically and engage the enemy

Option b. is what happens in Starcraft 2, and it's not because of an 'autosurround AI'; it's the logical consequence of improved pathing. If you can't reach an enemy because your own units are blocking, then you'll go around over to the nearest opening where there aren't any allied units blocking- the direct consequence of this is that if you have enough units, you will start surrounding the enemy, because that's the only way to get enough 'surface area' of contact with the enemy to get as many melee units into melee range as possible.

You literally cannot remove autosurround from SC2 without making unit pathing dumber, so let's get right down to the core of the issue: should unit pathing be made dumber in SC2?


Pretty much. And no, it should not be dumber. Dumb goons and goliaths is all the reason why it should stay the way it is
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Z-R0E
Profile Joined April 2009
United States147 Posts
February 23 2010 00:53 GMT
#30
I think this is us applying our SC1 logic to SC2. Does this mean we'll see less zealot/ling micro in the future? Most likely. That doesn't mean we'll see less micro though, just what units are being microed will change. Thinking of it from a spectator point of view, I think that could be good. Watching units "behind the front line" unit micro is more interesting and exciting to watch I think.

Like Klive5ive said, I think this will just be different. Not necessarily right nor wrong, good nor bad.
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CharlieMurphy
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
United States22895 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-02-23 01:26:56
February 23 2010 01:25 GMT
#31
as much as auto surround owns in the first ling (for the zerg) vs 1-2 zeal battles in the early game it sucks sooo much worse when a unit is encountered on the map and you didn't see it (normally in bw you can get away before he wraps you, but now you have no chance). And same thing with zeals/lings vs workers. if you click 1 probe target, half of the lings rush around the back side and then his probes wrap those lings and you lose half your lings. Early lings are nearly useless even if he has zero attack units.

Also units acquire targets differently in this game and it just doesn't feel right.

Another thing that bugs me is you can nuzzle up next to an idle worker and expect him to attack you so you hit him and it doesn't run away. this age old trick is gone.
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Plexa
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Aotearoa39261 Posts
February 23 2010 05:03 GMT
#32
On February 23 2010 06:54 Virtue wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 23 2010 03:24 Plexa wrote:
What are peoples thoughts on this? It certainly takes the fun out of melee battles and makes speedlings ridiculously good. I'm not sure if this is a good or bad thing just yet.

It also makes charing zealots insanely good as they make a pretty good wall and it's hard to get off a surround.
against a large number of zealots because they auto spread out.

I think we can generalise this to any fast melee unit is super powerful with autosurround!

On February 23 2010 04:23 pachi wrote:
I hate auto surround. it makes it impossible to retreat half my unis because they automatically super run at my opponents T_T

Yea I often feel that retreat is hardly worth it most of the time due to this =[
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Redunzl
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
862 Posts
February 23 2010 05:46 GMT
#33
On February 23 2010 04:52 meeple wrote:
It might turn out that at lower levels its good but at higher levels you need to micro to combat the autosurround... like splitting up your units or during ling battles perhaps?

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