EPTi just eliminate the mineral lines one by one and quickly tell my army to kick it.
Nuke dot behind things - Page 2
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hoovehand
United Kingdom542 Posts
i just eliminate the mineral lines one by one and quickly tell my army to kick it. | ||
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Izzy2011
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Drakonis
Canada97 Posts
For example: try building something like a missile turret and floating a building over top of it to hide it. From certain angles, the missile turret will not be visible, but if you move the screen left or right a bit, you will be able to see it, despite the fact that the building floating over top of it has not moved. | ||
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Shouryu
Norway132 Posts
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R1CH
Netherlands10340 Posts
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. This was patched a while ago not to work for nukes. | ||
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Nokarot
United States1410 Posts
On May 19 2010 17:59 Shouryu wrote: Can you see it if you press the "delete" button (rotate camera angle)? I've often wondered if it would be feasible to rotate the camera to place a nuke behind a building, but alas, I'm a zerg so I've never tried. | ||
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Robinsa
Japan1333 Posts
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Shizuru~
Malaysia1676 Posts
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RoosterSamurai
Japan2108 Posts
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spinesheath
Germany8679 Posts
On May 19 2010 17:59 Shouryu wrote: Can you see it if you press the "delete" button (rotate camera angle)? Even if this works, it is not practical to search all your bases in normal view, rotated to the left and rotated to the right. It only makes sense if you know where to turn the camera. | ||
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nemetroid
Sweden33 Posts
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zealing
Canada806 Posts
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gedassan
Lithuania83 Posts
There should not be a difference in vital information between graphics settings. | ||
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onmach
United States1241 Posts
No nexus? Try nuking right on the tip of minerals. Almost as good as the nexus corner, but less situational. | ||
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HeyheyLBJ
Sweden160 Posts
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Bill307
Canada9103 Posts
That makes no sense. This must be one of those things that is a low priority for Blizzard (or a bug that hasn't been reported yet), because I can't imagine them deciding that this is how it should be. Technically, it's very easy to draw the nuke dot as a sprite sans depth test (so that it is drawn over top of everything), among other possible low-tech (though not very aesthetic) solutions. There's no technical reason why anyone should need advanced lighting capabilities to see the dot. Furthermore, if you can actually hide the dot behind structures or units (e.g. rotate the camera and nuke behind a stationary overlord) then that's just bad gameplay. Assuming this is not the case, at higher graphics settings, I'd imagine the dot is treated as if it were a laser coming from the camera's point of view to avoid having it hidden behind something while still achieving some kind of realistic-looking 3D effect. Or if that's too resource-consuming, they could go with the simple sprite solution. A lot of people seem to think that this is some kind of limitation on 3D games, but it's not at all. | ||
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Bael
Australia49 Posts
On May 19 2010 23:22 Bill307 wrote: Wth, you need your Light settings on High or Ultra to see the dot?! That makes no sense. This must be one of those things that is a low priority for Blizzard, because I can't imagine them deciding that this is how it should be. Technically, it's very easy to draw the nuke dot as a sprite sans depth test (so that it is drawn over top of everything), among other possible low-tech (though not very aesthetic) solutions. There's no reason anyone should need advanced lighting capabilities to see the dot. Furthermore, if you can actually hide the dot behind structures or units (e.g. rotate the camera and nuke behind a stationary overlord) then that's just bad gameplay. Assuming this is not the case, at higher graphics settings, I'd imagine the dot is treated as if it were a laser coming from the camera's point of view to avoid having it hidden behind something while still achieving some kind of realistic-looking 3D effect. Or if that's too resource-consuming, they could go with the simple sprite solution. A lot of people seem to think that this is some kind of limitation on 3D games, but it's not at all. Yeah, things like nuke dots, force fields and cloak unit movement should be standard across all of the graphics settings. At the moment this is penalising anyone who runs on the lower settings for whatever reason, making nukes that much more powerful against them. | ||
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NoobStyles
Australia257 Posts
On May 19 2010 22:45 nemetroid wrote: Can you upload replay so people can investigate? yes Rep: http://bit.ly/9Cywrj (the nuke is a 21mins) This has nothing to do with placing nukes behind buildings. that was just my first though/explanation of why I couldn't see the red dot. Having changed the graphics settings I cant seems to replicate the 'invisible' red dot now. | ||
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DTown
United States428 Posts
Apparently, (and I learned this the hard way the other day), if your enemy attacks you with traditional units either a split second before or a split second after (not sure which) launching his nuke. The "Nuclear Launch Detected" Warning literally does not go off, and is overridden by the more standard "your units are under attack" or whatever. My opponent attacked me and I watched his small force of marine and marauders try to harass my expo and laughed as I cleaned up with my roaches/hydras. I was not laughing quite so hard when a nuke dropped on my Liar 5 seconds later with zero warning. My partner in 2v2 also did not get a warning, we watched the replay and verified, so it was not just me. | ||
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da_head
Canada3350 Posts
i was literally staring right at my nexus as it was getting nuked and i couldn't see the fuckin red dot. BLIZZARD FIX THIS. | ||
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