EPT[Trick] Rebirth of the Viking Flower - Page 2
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Treadmill
Canada2833 Posts
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LetoAtreides82
United States1188 Posts
On March 25 2011 12:47 Ezekyle wrote: Let's hope Blizzard realises that these cool tricks actually help the game and lets it stay in this time. How does it help the game to hide the number of units you have? It doesn't even make sense for planes to stack up on top of each other. Hopefully this will be patched soon. | ||
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Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
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nataziel
Australia1455 Posts
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Bear4188
United States1797 Posts
On March 25 2011 13:00 LetoAtreides82 wrote: How does it help the game to hide the number of units you have? It doesn't even make sense for planes to stack up on top of each other. Hopefully this will be patched soon. It's not even about hiding the number of units, which I think shows how little Blizzard actually understands about micro. It's about having all units on the same spot so that they'll all open fire simultaneously. It's a tactic that sacrifices mobility for stronger defensive presence, a fantastic complement to siege tanks and an interesting dynamic to Terran play. How does removing it make the game better? | ||
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Jesushooves
Canada553 Posts
On March 25 2011 13:00 LetoAtreides82 wrote: How does it help the game to hide the number of units you have? It doesn't even make sense for planes to stack up on top of each other. Hopefully this will be patched soon. You seriously think hiding information from your opponent isn't a good idea? Sure it doesn't make sense for planes to stack up on top of each other, but then again it doesn't make sense that all zerg units come from the same larvae, or that a BC is about a tenth of the size it should be in game, or that if protoss is so highly advanced, how come they lose to purely biological units? This is a game, it doesn't have to make sense. (Notice I didn't say "just" a game  ) | ||
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nikj
Canada669 Posts
Edit: It appears so http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=152345 Cool trick man. | ||
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NicolBolas
United States1388 Posts
On March 25 2011 13:08 Bear4188 wrote: It's not even about hiding the number of units, which I think shows how little Blizzard actually understands about micro. It's about having all units on the same spot so that they'll all open fire simultaneously. It's a tactic that sacrifices mobility for stronger defensive presence, a fantastic complement to siege tanks and an interesting dynamic to Terran play. How does removing it make the game better? How does keeping it make the game better? It requires very little APM to use and virtually none to maintain. Anyone can do it, even a Bronze-leaguer; all they need to know is how to do it. You can do that just by reading this thread. Now compare this to Mutalisk micro from SC1. This requires constant APM. A "Bronze-leaguer" can't even begin to do it well. Hell, even among professional players, there are some who do it better than others. That is skill depth. These two kinds of things aren't even in the same ballpark. The Viking flower is problematic because it doesn't increase skill depth. It detracts from the game by making Vikings en masse far more powerful than they should be, while requiring nothing from the Terran player. | ||
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pt
United States813 Posts
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RebirthOfLeGenD
USA5860 Posts
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ApBuLLet
United States604 Posts
On March 25 2011 12:14 ArvickHero wrote: why does Blizzard have to keep patching away any cool trick that's "not intended by design" :\ I'm glad they werent patching BW past a year or so, otherwise it could've been bye bye Muta stacking Agreed, same with stop lurkers. I mean there are some things that are clearly broken but I don't think this trick is one of them, it made the game interesting. I wish they would keep this kind of thing in the game. Not to mention I can't make my scouting overlord spaz out on their main base anymore :/ | ||
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Mailing
United States3087 Posts
If you see a ball of vikings spinning, would you attack it with air anyway? What's the difference if you can't tell if it's 5 of 15. It also leaves the vikings extremely vulnerable to a thor shot. | ||
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holy_war
United States3590 Posts
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L3g3nd_
New Zealand10461 Posts
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tehemperorer
United States2183 Posts
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RedLuck
Canada253 Posts
nice find :D | ||
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mastergriggy
United States1312 Posts
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netherDrake
Singapore1831 Posts
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italiangymnast
United States246 Posts
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tenordrummer
Canada36 Posts
On March 25 2011 13:25 Mailing wrote: It never needed to be removed in the first place. If you see a ball of vikings spinning, would you attack it with air anyway? What's the difference if you can't tell if it's 5 of 15. It also leaves the vikings extremely vulnerable to a thor shot. or a well placed fungal growth! :D | ||
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