I couldn't find a similar thread on TL, so sorry if there is one.

Last night I got nuked. The red dot, as far as I can see is not visible in any way from my view (the person that got nuked)

Screen shots:

My View

Person nuking

Im guessing the other Terran aimed the nuke as close to the top of my reactor without actually selecting it as the target, as possible. So while the nuke dot was there, It was behind something drawn in 3d, that I cant look at from a different angle

EDIT: ^^ My initial hypothesis on what the problem was. This is a bug with graphics settings. Im not sure which, and has nothing to do with being able to hide the dot.

So do people think this is just skillfull nuke aiming or a bug? Or am I just to noob for SC2

Poll: nuke, good aim or bug?

Bug (193)

77%

good aim (49)

19%

Noob styles to noobie (10)

4%

252 total votes

Your vote: nuke, good aim or bug?

(Vote): good aim
(Vote): Bug
(Vote): Noob styles to noobie

victorybell

United States6 Posts

May 19 2010 07:11 GMT

out of curiousity, what settings are you running on?

Mastermind

Canada7096 Posts

May 19 2010 07:11 GMT

sounds like a really lame consequence of having a 3d engine.

Disastorm

United States922 Posts

May 19 2010 07:13 GMT

interesting. whenever people mentioned not being able to see the red dot i think it was usually regarded because the dot is alot harder to see in sc2. however looking at your screenshots it looks like in some cases the dot actually can't be seen at all.

ReketSomething

United States6012 Posts

May 19 2010 07:14 GMT

How interesting...this would be retarded if Blizzard didn't fix this.

love1another

United States1844 Posts

May 19 2010 07:16 GMT

That's actually really cool. Can you reproduce this with another building placement?

Tritanis

Poland344 Posts

May 19 2010 07:20 GMT

Another reason for making nukes

cartoon]x

United States606 Posts

May 19 2010 07:22 GMT

It doesn't actually look behind the reactor from the nuking players perspective. It looks on top of the foot of the barracks.

Licmyobelisk

Philippines3682 Posts

May 19 2010 07:22 GMT

they say that if you play in very low settings you wouldn't be able to see the red dot? anyone can confirm this?

ZenDeX

Philippines2916 Posts

May 19 2010 07:25 GMT

#10

What's so hard in playing where's Waldo?

On May 19 2010 16:22 Licmyobelisk wrote:
they say that if you play in very low settings you wouldn't be able to see the red dot? anyone can confirm this?

Apparently, you need to have your "Light" setting on HIGH.

freeloader625

United States180 Posts

May 19 2010 07:27 GMT

#11

I never play Terran, but can a ghost select a specific point of a structure without the game automatically centering the dot to the center of the structure?

ADeZ

Canada31 Posts

May 19 2010 07:28 GMT

#12

yeah I played a game tonight and got nuked and could find the dot either... I also dont like that the dot is the same shade of the red as they use for the player color

NoobStyles

Australia257 Posts

May 19 2010 07:28 GMT

#13

On May 19 2010 16:11 victorybell wrote:
out of curiousity, what settings are you running on?

Its on the medium settings. I anyone wants I can set it to get it to low/high/ultra and post more screen shots.

andiCR

Costa Rica2273 Posts

May 19 2010 07:31 GMT

#14

no wonder ive been havin a shit load of trouble finding the damn dot

Yeran

Germany23 Posts

May 19 2010 07:31 GMT

#15

You could always change the angle you are looking at your base, so if you have an idea where he might be nuking you can spot it. If hes oercommiting to nukes thats very well justify a sensortower I'd say. If it allows you to kill one ghost and prevent a nuke it has more than just paid off.

Creative use of mechanics I'd say. There are ways to counter it.

Proxyles

Sweden27 Posts

May 19 2010 07:33 GMT

#16

would be nice with pictures of that incident on all different graphic settings?
(if there is even a differance at all that is)

NoobStyles

Australia257 Posts

May 19 2010 07:40 GMT

#17

WOW, just getting the screen shots ready but its very visible on high.

Edit:

High settings

Ultra settings

ooni

Australia1498 Posts

May 19 2010 08:00 GMT

#18

how hard is it to press the "space bar"? Even if a new notification comes out, you can click icon next to "nuclear launch detected" and it will show where the nuke is aimed at. You don't need a small dot to tell u where it is.

ZenDeX

Philippines2916 Posts

May 19 2010 08:02 GMT

#19

On May 19 2010 17:00 ooni wrote:
how hard is it to press the "space bar"? Even if a new notification comes out, you can click icon next to "nuclear launch detected" and it will show where the nuke is aimed at. You don't need a small dot to tell u where it is.

No buddy. Unfortunately it doesn't work that way.