Nuke dot behind things

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?

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

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.

On May 19 2010 17:02 lolaloc wrote:

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

On May 19 2010 17:59 Shouryu wrote:
Can you see it if you press the "delete" button (rotate camera angle)?

On May 19 2010 17:59 Shouryu wrote:
Can you see it if you press the "delete" button (rotate camera angle)?

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.

On May 19 2010 22:45 nemetroid wrote:
Can you upload replay so people can investigate?

On May 20 2010 01:06 da_head wrote:
yeah this happens to me all the time. when i'm red protoss >.<
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.

On May 19 2010 16:31 Yeran wrote:
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.

On May 20 2010 01:01 DTown wrote:
Has anyone else noticed the other nuke bug?

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.

On May 20 2010 01:21 PROJECTILE wrote:
I've always tried to put my nukes right on the health display, since most players have that option set to on all the time

On May 19 2010 17:18 sdvc wrote:


It does, or at least it did. Not sure if they fixed that.

On May 20 2010 01:01 DTown wrote:
Has anyone else noticed the other nuke bug?

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.

On May 20 2010 03:43 Drakonis wrote:



This happened to me in a TvT where I was 40 food ahead and then lost like immediately. First I thought that i just didn't catch it but I watched the replay and there was no warning at all.

On May 20 2010 04:27 onmach wrote:
Wow, I didn't realize you could override the nuke warning. I wonder if nydus roar could similarly be overridden by suiciding a speedling into his mineral line at just the right time. I bet they are programmatically the same.

On May 20 2010 03:43 Drakonis wrote:
I'm not sure if it's a bug, or just poor design on Blizzards part. Only one sound file will play at any given time, they will not overlap. So if you get attacked immediately after the nuke is launched, the nuclear launch detected message is overridden by your forces are under attack. Perhaps blizzard should implement a message priority or something, because knowing that a nuke is on the way is too important to miss.

Another problems is cloaked units like ghosts/dt/obs/banshees don't make a moving blur like in BW ,so without detection they can walk right through your screen and you can't see them.

On May 20 2010 01:06 da_head wrote:
yeah this happens to me all the time. when i'm red protoss >.<
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.