GM / Master map hacker and general hacking and cheating th…

On November 28 2012 08:34 NbForLife wrote:
Hi everyone,

Im Mid Master Terran and what i can say for my opinion, there are very scary move from lot of players. A move in the dark is fun, but definitely so strange.
Last Maphacker is "Cone" Mid Master Terran play all game right without any scan, any Xel'naga all game, counter blind hellion, see blind my attack on her fourth, drop in the dark on my tank... and everything with 50 epm all game long...
I was pretty upset during the game, just feel something was wrong and apperentyl right...
After some search on the net, i found ValiantChaos is that the only maphcck available ?

On November 27 2012 14:06 nunez wrote:
@3:15 probe queues up without selecting the nexus (selection, training and deselction happens within one frame)

On November 28 2012 10:58 korona wrote:

Please note that since v. 1.5.x? (not exactly sure when this began) selecting the main building and then building a worker often happens in same frame, when manually selecting the building by clicking it. This happens very frequently in the beginning of game (nearly every match at least based on my replays).

Examples - zerg (there was also variation where there was delay between select hatch & s. larva, but no delay between select larva & train drone in my last couple of replays):
132 [censored] Select Hatchery (102f8)
132 [censored] Select Larva x3 (102fc,10300,10304), Deselect all
144 [censored] Train Drone

terran:
168 [censored] Select Command Center (1025c)
168 [censored] Train SCV
200 [censored] Select SCV x5 (10260,10264,10268,1026c,10270), Deselect all

protoss:
168 [censored] Select Nexus (102dc), Deselect all
168 [censored] Train Probe
180 [censored] Train Probe
212 [censored] Select Probe x3 (102e4,102ec,102f4), Deselect all

But in your example there should have been delay between 'train probe' & 'select probe - deselect all' actions

On November 26 2012 16:19 nunez wrote:
Player: CrazyAPM (he has really low apm, around 60 usually), protoss, http://eu.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/135792/2/CrazyAPM/
Server: EU
League: Master, 1214 points, 64 wins / 65 losses. http://sc2ranks.com/ru/135792/CrazyAPM

Description / Replays:

CrazyAPM (p, bot left) vs soulbrother (z, bot right) @ shakuras

pool firs vs forge first
@2:06 probe dodges the overlord outside soulbrothers (my) natural without vision, and runs up to start pylon block.
puts down a nex
@6:25 looks into my base clouded by FOW.
@7:40 going stargate, takes another look into my base.
@8:20 souldbrother making roaches and starting a nydus.
@8:40 sets the rally into FOW where an overlord his, he has no vision.
@8:50 puts a plyon to cover the left side of his base where the overlord is. pays absolutely no attention to the right side of the base, where there are no overlords spotting.
kills of the ovi as soulbrother takes his natural and goes hydras.
@14:00 moves out for a gateway stargate attack. gets fended off.

CrazyAPM (p, top left) vs flyHigh (t, bot right) @ ohana

no probe scout, goes nex first. flyHigh going 1 rax exp.
puts down 2 gates and chronos out the zealot, flyHigh is pulling scvs to pressure nex.
@6:56 is losing probes to the marine pressure, has no scouting, is still on 2 gates and 1 gas. puts down a third nexus. flyHigh is making his third nex.
@9:35 is going doulbe forge, with no scouting still. flyHigh is starting +1 +1.
@10:25 has still not turned his gateways into warpgates. flyHigh moving out to pressure his third. loses third but cleans up with some probe losses. leaves game when the next attack kills his army.

CrazyAPM (p, bot left) vs ChrisJ (p, bot right) @ entombed valley

no probe scout from CrazyAPM, ChrisJ scouts him first.
@4:45 ChrisJ going for a 4 gate, CrazyAPM going 3 gate.
@4:50 completely walls of his front with no scouting info while going 3 gate with stalkers.
dies to the 4 gate.

CrazyAPM (p, bot left) vs Spirates (t, top right) @ tal'darim altar

nexus first, no probe scout, into gate. spirates going 1 rax exp with scv scout, scouts him second.
@3:40 slects his probe and moves towards were the scv comes up just as it does come up the ramp, the gate was not done so it was not to place a building.
upon scouting the nex spirates sends some some marines across map to pressure. crazyAPM is chronoing gate.
@4:20 takes a glance into fow at marines
spirates putting down 2 more rax
@5:50 jukes out spirates marines with the zealot that chased away the marines, outside the bot right natural. he doesn't even know if spirates spawned there.
goign robo and double forge off 1 gate, spirates going into stim getting reactors and adding another cc.
@7:46 adds on a third nexus blindly, off one gate with double forge. still no scouting.
@9:04 looks straight Spirates marine force outside Spirates main.
@10:35 spirates moving out with first two medevacs towards the third of CrazyAPM. he moves his army down and has a peak at spirates force through FOW.
@11:02 spirates stims up a few marines into nat and third, CrazyAPM moves his army to the natural ramp where spirates is moving up. cleans up attack.
@12:25 another look at spirates army into fog of war.
@13:50 looks into fog of war on double drop outside his third and moves his army down, and warps in hts to feedback medevacs at his natural. is looking at his natural as they come into vision.
@15:20 looks into fog of war at 3 misrallied medevacs and moves to kill at the xnt outside his nat.
@15:40 gets caught off guard by a double drop at his third. this is a nice example of how the argument about 'he let X happen, clearly he is not maphacking' is not a good one. maphacking doesn't give you good multitasking, only good scouting.
@16:57 warps in zealots to the 11 o'clock main where spirates is building a cc, he has no vision.
@19:22 takes a peak at spirates army through fog of war
@20:54 looks at spirates big drop through fog of war

three first replays are pretty suspicious, but the last one vs spirates is beyond conclusive.

On November 29 2012 05:40 nunez wrote:
i have assumed control of the OP and done a provisional update. pm me if you have any ideas, contributions etc.

On December 01 2012 01:59 korona wrote:
This replay also contains usage of auto-chronoboost hack. At 9:26 while IIIIIIII is doing a warp prism + warpgate attack to terran's main all his 5 warpgates are chronoboosted via minimap during one frame while he actively microes at the terran's main.

The auto-chrono sequence is (happens during one frame):
1) Hotkey Select 2 <-- nexuses
2) Chronoboost several individual warpgates via minimap
3) select previous selection


Action lists from sc2gears:
+ Show Spoiler +

This is first replay where I have seen/noticed auto-chronoboost in action.