Quicker Burrow Micro - Page 3

On April 07 2011 12:12 Nisco wrote:
Such an awesome find.



It wouldn't work quite as well because blink required a target point, but I can imagine holding down B for blink, then click on a unit --> clicking behind army --> repeat to work well.

On April 08 2011 05:06 ruiyang wrote:
Sick im gonna make the changes for sure, as should all zergs. Great find, cant believe i didnt think of this myself.

On April 07 2011 10:50 Bio0rMech wrote:
He had 700 APM, thats kinda impossible...

On April 08 2011 05:13 nitdkim wrote:

there is really no need for binding burrow on 2 different buttons imo. instead of holding down R and waiting for my roaches to get to red life, i'd rather try microing and burrowing the red ones when i see it. Watching the battle unfold and waiting for red roaches doesnt really seem like something I'd ever do because i wouldn't be able to macro since I'll have to be holding down R (burrow).

On April 08 2011 05:12 HEROwithNOlegacy wrote:
After seeing that guy micro pure roaches against the same number of roaches + infestors I have also been trying to do this micro and I am almost positive that he was cheating, it is so ridiculous that he had 700 APM during that and I am almost positive he was using a 3rd part program. However, I do think burrow roaches can be micro'd efficiently and will continue to work on ways of improving burrow roach techniques, thanks for your thoughts and post!

On April 07 2011 10:29 Severian wrote:
I very recently saw a replay in this thread that showcased some phenomenal Roach Burrow micro. The consensus seems to be that the person in that replay was hacking, but nevertheless it made me wonder if there was a way to come close to that level of speed when Burrowing injured Roaches individually (or indeed any other Zerg unit, but it's most applicable to Roaches due to the increased health regen). Currently you have to select a Roach then hit the Burrow hotkey (repeat), which adds a small delay to each Burrow. This can result in the Roach's death.

After a few minutes I came up with the following, which I couldn't find anywhere in a search:

First of all, you might want to turn your keyboard repeat rate up, and the repeat delay down. This will probably already have been done for most Zergs as it helps when building units from multiple larva, but it also helps here so I thought I'd mention it.
Next, bind the Roach's Burrow and Unburrow commands to different hotkeys. It doesn't matter what they're set to, as long as they're different and comfortable.
Then, once you have your group of Roaches and they're fighting the enemy, select an injured one and then HOLD DOWN the Burrow hotkey.
After that, click on injured Roaches one-by-one as fast as you can, without letting go of the hotkey.
When you don't want to Burrow any more Roaches, let go of the hotkey.

That's it! You can Unburrow regenerated Roaches in the same manner, or by box-selecting, or by selecting all your Roaches and hitting the Unburrow hotkey.

I find this method to be noticeably faster than hitting Click-Burrow-Click-Burrow (it's essentially limited to how fast you can spot an injured Roach and click on it, which I think is optimal -- it removes the delay from pressing the Burrow button individually), and you can't accidentally Unburrow any Roaches you want to keep Burrowed.

The only problem I can see is that it might take a bit to get used to the different Unburrow/Burrow hotkey for Roaches, depending on what you change one/both of them to.

As an aside, this idea was based on my attempt to perform quicker Blink micro by holding down the Blink button. Unfortunately, though, the disablement of the Blink hotkey isn't immediate, so you'll sometimes try to Blink the same Stalker twice, which seems to kill that idea.

On April 08 2011 08:30 vojnik wrote:
i just tried what you suggested and the part where you unburrow the roaches from a control group doesn't work instant, you need to press tab + unburrow, if you think there is any other solution than please share with us?

On April 07 2011 11:30 MrCon wrote:

I think he had 700 APM because he held down the burrow hotkey with a very quick repeat rate.

On April 08 2011 15:38 Nightsend wrote:
those who find the default repeat rate is still too slow when set to max can increase it further by editing some registries.

info here

http://www.pbdr.com/ostips/keyrrate.htm