Lock Formation option - Page 2

Reborn8u

United States1761 Posts

April 29 2010 18:36 GMT

#21

so the multicasting, automining, unlimited selection,and auto surround would survive the same arguments people are mostly making here?

RumZ

United States956 Posts

April 29 2010 18:38 GMT

#22

Formations were pretty useless in war3x, I imagine it would be a little more effective in sc2.. but you can really make your own formations, you just need to avoid the 1a syndrome, and move to the more, shinier, 1a 2a 3a.

Kinky

United States4126 Posts

April 29 2010 18:40 GMT

#23

Formations would make the problem with 2 big armies a-moving into eachother even worse. If you set a formation for your army beforehand, you could literally just a-move and look away and not do anything.

Reborn8u

United States1761 Posts

April 29 2010 19:27 GMT

#24

I guess i just get annoyed when my units seem to just do whatever the hell they want, or when i take the time to make a concave and then the opponent baits half the line and it feels like I'm fighting the opponent for control of my own army, especially when force fields are involved.I try to use hold position but that can be annoying to deal with. I'm just one of those people who likes to position my army really well and it is so gay when they just revert to blob mode especially when it's range units. or the pathing just decides to have them walk around uselessly at the back of a group. Obviously, I don't have very good control. Maybe I just need much more practice, but I've definitely seen vod's of high level gamers struggling with this sort of thing as well.

Chairman Ray

United States11903 Posts

April 29 2010 19:30 GMT

#25

I've played lords of the realm as well, and I do agree that formations are a very good addon for it, and also in AoE, but I don't want SC to be that simplified. A lot of the skill that sc2 requires is based around being able to manipulate your formation constantly before battle, and during battle. That's something that makes the game tasteful and should be kept that way.

pragm4

United States6 Posts

April 29 2010 19:41 GMT

#26

I would support this idea if and only if I can create a long and narrow formation that can penetrate my opponent's defenses. It would be an ideal formation because it can move in and out narrow chokes easily while the head of the formation retains the ability to attack inside the choke, thus making the assault a fruitful endeavor. Hell, I would probably just run around the map showing off my cool formation.

Although I probably woudn't do this with zerg, roaches look too much like crabs.

SageFantasma

United States383 Posts

April 29 2010 19:45 GMT

#27

To be honest, I don't think a lock formation would be necessary for SC2. Besides making concaves and flanks(which with auto-surround and multiple control groups is quite easy) I don't see any real use besides running into your opponent's base with a pair of boobs attacking them.

Feefee

Canada556 Posts

April 29 2010 20:25 GMT

#28

On April 30 2010 04:27 Reborn8u wrote:
I guess i just get annoyed when my units seem to just do whatever the hell they want, or when i take the time to make a concave and then the opponent baits half the line and it feels like I'm fighting the opponent for control of my own army, especially when force fields are involved.I try to use hold position but that can be annoying to deal with. I'm just one of those people who likes to position my army really well and it is so gay when they just revert to blob mode especially when it's range units. or the pathing just decides to have them walk around uselessly at the back of a group. Obviously, I don't have very good control. Maybe I just need much more practice, but I've definitely seen vod's of high level gamers struggling with this sort of thing as well.

If you're positioning your army close to the enemy you can at least lessen the glob blow in two ways: Either seperately attack move chunks of your army, or the easier way, attack move your army to the far side of the screen. Units will try to walk a line from where they stand to where you click. If you click attack close to them they'll all clump onto your mouse cursor. If you click at the edge of the screen they'll wall walk pretty much in formation until they get close to said edge.

Not optimal, but it's what some people do to move their roach line closer to the enemy so the guys in the back can fire without clumping the entire army up into a ball.

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