• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EDT 05:22
CEST 11:22
KST 18:22
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
[ASL19] Finals Recap: Standing Tall10HomeStory Cup 27 - Info & Preview18Classic wins Code S Season 2 (2025)16Code S RO4 & Finals Preview: herO, Rogue, Classic, GuMiho0TL Team Map Contest #5: Presented by Monster Energy6
Community News
Firefly given lifetime ban by ESIC following match-fixing investigation5$25,000 Streamerzone StarCraft Pro Series announced4Weekly Cups (June 30 - July 6): Classic Doubles6[BSL20] Non-Korean Championship 4x BSL + 4x China9Flash Announces Hiatus From ASL66
StarCraft 2
General
Weekly Cups (June 30 - July 6): Classic Doubles The SCII GOAT: A statistical Evaluation The GOAT ranking of GOAT rankings Firefly given lifetime ban by ESIC following match-fixing investigation Jim claims he and Firefly were involved in match-fixing
Tourneys
$25,000 Streamerzone StarCraft Pro Series announced FEL Cracov 2025 (July 27) - $8000 live event Sparkling Tuna Cup - Weekly Open Tournament RSL: Revival, a new crowdfunded tournament series WardiTV Mondays
Strategy
How did i lose this ZvP, whats the proper response Simple Questions Simple Answers
Custom Maps
[UMS] Zillion Zerglings
External Content
Mutation # 481 Fear and Lava Mutation # 480 Moths to the Flame Mutation # 479 Worn Out Welcome Mutation # 478 Instant Karma
Brood War
General
[G] Progamer Settings i aint gon lie to u bruh... ASL20 Preliminary Maps BGH Auto Balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/ [ASL19] Finals Recap: Standing Tall
Tourneys
[BSL20] Non-Korean Championship 4x BSL + 4x China [BSL20] Grand Finals - Sunday 20:00 CET CSL Xiamen International Invitational The Casual Games of the Week Thread
Strategy
Simple Questions, Simple Answers I am doing this better than progamers do.
Other Games
General Games
Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread Nintendo Switch Thread Path of Exile What do you want from future RTS games? Beyond All Reason
Dota 2
Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion
League of Legends
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Heroes of StarCraft mini-set
TL Mafia
TL Mafia Community Thread Vanilla Mini Mafia
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine Summer Games Done Quick 2025! Russo-Ukrainian War Thread Stop Killing Games - European Citizens Initiative
Fan Clubs
SKT1 Classic Fan Club! Maru Fan Club
Media & Entertainment
Anime Discussion Thread [Manga] One Piece [\m/] Heavy Metal Thread
Sports
2024 - 2025 Football Thread Formula 1 Discussion NBA General Discussion TeamLiquid Health and Fitness Initiative For 2023 NHL Playoffs 2024
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread
TL Community
The Automated Ban List
Blogs
momentary artworks from des…
tankgirl
Culture Clash in Video Games…
TrAiDoS
from making sc maps to makin…
Husyelt
StarCraft improvement
iopq
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 586 users

Autosurround - Page 2

Forum Index > SC2 General
Post a Reply
Prev 1 2 All
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...
REEBUH!!!
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?
Go here http://vina.biobiochile.cl/ and input the Konami Code (up up down down left right left right B A)
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
Progamerpls no copy pasterino
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.
REEBUH!!!
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
Live, laugh, love
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.
The Z-g0d http://atZinc.org
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.
..and then I would, ya know, check em'. (Aka SpoR)
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 =[
Administrator~ Spirit will set you free ~
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?

Prev 1 2 All
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
Next event in 38m
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
JimRising 470
StarCraft: Brood War
firebathero 2930
Shuttle 943
actioN 388
Larva 357
Stork 345
TY 238
Zeus 194
Soma 126
Hyuk 112
Mini 102
[ Show more ]
ToSsGirL 101
Nal_rA 76
EffOrt 75
PianO 66
sSak 50
sorry 38
JulyZerg 35
Noble 32
Pusan 27
Rush 26
Sharp 26
hero 24
Yoon 22
Sacsri 20
Barracks 11
IntoTheRainbow 7
ivOry 1
Dota 2
Gorgc3455
XcaliburYe458
XaKoH 458
Fuzer 252
League of Legends
singsing219
Counter-Strike
Stewie2K1175
Other Games
tarik_tv20355
shahzam902
ceh9489
Happy321
crisheroes225
monkeys_forever213
Pyrionflax108
Organizations
Other Games
gamesdonequick32732
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
sctven
[ Show 13 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• Berry_CruncH376
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• Migwel
• sooper7s
StarCraft: Brood War
• BSLYoutube
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
Dota 2
• lizZardDota2175
League of Legends
• HappyZerGling89
Upcoming Events
The PondCast
38m
uThermal 2v2 Circuit
6h 38m
WardiTV European League
6h 38m
Jumy vs NightPhoenix
Percival vs Nicoract
ArT vs HiGhDrA
MaxPax vs Harstem
Scarlett vs Shameless
SKillous vs uThermal
Replay Cast
14h 38m
RSL Revival
1d
ByuN vs SHIN
Clem vs Reynor
OSC
1d 3h
Replay Cast
1d 14h
RSL Revival
2 days
Classic vs Cure
FEL
2 days
OSC
2 days
[ Show More ]
RSL Revival
3 days
FEL
3 days
FEL
3 days
CSO Cup
3 days
BSL20 Non-Korean Champi…
3 days
Bonyth vs QiaoGege
Dewalt vs Fengzi
Hawk vs Zhanhun
Sziky vs Mihu
Mihu vs QiaoGege
Zhanhun vs Sziky
Fengzi vs Hawk
Sparkling Tuna Cup
4 days
RSL Revival
4 days
FEL
4 days
BSL20 Non-Korean Champi…
4 days
Bonyth vs Dewalt
QiaoGege vs Dewalt
Hawk vs Bonyth
Sziky vs Fengzi
Mihu vs Zhanhun
QiaoGege vs Zhanhun
Fengzi vs Mihu
Replay Cast
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

Proleague 2025-07-07
HSC XXVII
Heroes 10 EU

Ongoing

JPL Season 2
BSL 2v2 Season 3
Acropolis #3
KCM Race Survival 2025 Season 2
CSL 17: 2025 SUMMER
Copa Latinoamericana 4
Jiahua Invitational
Championship of Russia 2025
RSL Revival: Season 1
Murky Cup #2
BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025
ESL Impact League Season 7
IEM Dallas 2025
PGL Astana 2025
Asian Champions League '25
BLAST Rivals Spring 2025
MESA Nomadic Masters
CCT Season 2 Global Finals
IEM Melbourne 2025

Upcoming

2025 ACS Season 2: Qualifier
CSLPRO Last Chance 2025
CSL Xiamen Invitational
2025 ACS Season 2
CSLPRO Chat StarLAN 3
K-Championship
uThermal 2v2 Main Event
SEL Season 2 Championship
FEL Cracov 2025
Esports World Cup 2025
Underdog Cup #2
StarSeries Fall 2025
FISSURE Playground #2
BLAST Open Fall 2025
BLAST Open Fall Qual
Esports World Cup 2025
BLAST Bounty Fall 2025
BLAST Bounty Fall Qual
IEM Cologne 2025
FISSURE Playground #1
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2025 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.