[?] Spades hacking? - Page 180

Since I'm a complete nerd I'm gonna give this a shot. Every community should be judged on how it treats its worst off. In this case a low level foreigner pro. He is not a korean pro that has won GSL, probably never will after watching these replays...

However, that is irrelevant, what's important is the evidence against him.



If you ever play TvT above platinum you would build a bay at around this time if your scout was denied. For fucks sake he probably knew what Luci was doing since cloak banshee is one of the most popular openers.

HE DOESNT EVEN BUILD AN EXTRA TURRET IN HIS MINERAL LINE'S BLIND SPOT FFS, IF HE WAS MAP HACKING HE WOULD'VE KNOWN ANOTHER BANSHEE WAS INC AND BUILT ONE. Caps because I got angry at the stupid accusation.



In which he just tabs between production cycles? 9 Seconds is a bit excessive, however there was nothing to do... he was supply blocked.



Doesn't mean anything, I do this to sometimes in games where I think, "Hey I was harassed and this part of the base is not covered by any units."



You know you can move your units by clicking on the mini map right? Does the OP even play sc2?



His camera was over his CC and he built shit, he built supply depots, and he lowered supply depots all in 8 game seconds... could be faster, but Spades isn't MVP, MKP, or MMA. Somewhat slow but not evidence of hacking.







He sent the SCV to the 4 o'clock position and then has the scv back off. Ok? If you think this is strange that's fine, it doesn't prove he's hacking. I've met players with much, much more bizzare and just flat out stupid sc2 habbits (scouting with only the overlord on a 4 player map, or a long distance 2 player map.

4 seconds of camera lock... where he built scvs, cycled through production, then sent shit to gas, also was spamming an scv to a mineral.



At this point I have no idea what to say, you're either a bronze league vindictive troll or you lack all form of game sense.

Unlike in game 1 he got into Luci's base in game 2. He saw there was 1 gas. His opponent (a pro) went for cloak banshee the first game, what makes you think he'd do the same thing twice? This is not uncommon metagaming.



I do this too, it's called moving up the tank and if it gets hit, you move a little bit back... if it doesn't? Siege that bitch up because it's probably gonna hit something important.



No? 2 marines poking around could just as well be Lucifron checking to see if Spades is moving HIS army towards him. Spades eventually moves his army, so fucking what? You want him to just camp his base all game? He moved out after he killed his rocks and he didn't think Lucifron's army was going to be knocking on his front door at any time soon.



Oh ho ho ho ho ho ho, but Spades DOES see something before 14:10 in fact. Something big. Lucifron's scan...

Lucifrons scan + a marine at the watch tower + a few marines already poking = OH SHIT, THE 3 O CLOCK BENEATH MY NATURAL

Lucifron gets a good scan and sees the entire army composition and position of Spade's army. Spades probably knew what was coming next, Lucifron thinks, "Ok, his main ramp is guarded, however the south of his natural might be undefended."

Spades, having this sort of low ground abuse happen to him before (When you play enough TvTs, this becomes second nature), responds in turn because he sees the scan as an impending attack (in TvT this happens quite a bit).

The very worst you could say about this is Spades simply reacted slowly or he was indecisive. If he really was map hacking he should've just put a tank into a medivac and dropped it along with a few tanks in the 3 oclock expo and completely deny the push through pure positioning.



Uhhh..... this doesn't mean shit. There are quite a few players that I've personally played and watched replays of that prefer to have the money over the information given by the 50 energy from a CC.

Also, consider Lucifron was giving Spades information the whole game through engagements and seeing nothing but marines, tanks, vikings...

20 min - 22 min is a reasonable time to scan since the only 2 avenues of approach would be going to BCs or continuing to marine tank.

What baffles me is why Spades, if he were map hacking, wouldn't just drop the ever living shit out of Lucifron since he would know that there was nothing inside the main base for defense, even AFTER the doom drop.

This is getting fun, please. Continue. Your lack of game knowledge and basic awareness amuses me.



He was meandering marines to the natural because his CC was almost done. The marine incoming just so happened to coincide with scvs being transfered because that's around the time you're supposed to, you know, meander the workers there?

4 seems perfectly fine since there would be another from building the CC and another from on top of the ramp building the rax.

Let me remind you he had NO GAS. Also, he does see the marine coming out of the fog of war a split second before he sends his scvs.




What the fuck are you talking about? Do you play this game? He briefly looked (appx 1 game second to 1.4 game seconds) at the natural and the rax. Even I can tell what buildings are what just by looking at them on the mini map, when a big ass square shape is below where the CC should be, that's guess what? A cc....

If you're building a 3rd cc that early in the game... just seeing a 3rd at around 5min indicates you can't have a factory up.

Anyone in masters or even diamond should know this, unless you do some really stupid gas transfer to make the factory then move them off gas to then only be able to produce helions for a while until ----, no wait that's retarded, you're retarded, these examples are horrible.




I've seen streamers like avilio, lastshadow, and even mkp do this every now and then. Hell, even I do it sometimes because of complacency, it's easier to scout with your army than it is to scout with an actual scout then move your army.


More importantly, look at 13:00 when Lucifron's army is moving to Spade's third. So a map hacker is going to risk losing his third by having an army out of position (all he had to do was move it a little bit closer to the watch tower, therefore having the superior concave and giving him time for his tank to be sieged up.

No wait, why wasn't just the tank sieged ontop of the CC at the third? HERP DERP MAP HACKING HERP DERP WE GOT ORB, DESTINY, YOU'RE NEXT SPADES YOU FAT FUCK HERP DERP






Look at 15:49, Lucifron is dealing with a drop and medivacs just barely outside the fog of war.

He looks at the 16:20 mark to see if another attack is coming, or he's seeing if the fucking watch tower is in use or not (HE'S CENTERED ON IT AND SEE'S IT'S LIT UP, BUT DOESN'T SEE THE MARINE BECAUSE IT'S OUT OF RANGE OF HIS DROPSHIPS' VISION.

I seriously can't believe I'm responding to a troll or just a really dumb and bitter player.

Also, a map hacker would definitely just waste time to stare at medivacs instead of looking at the marine or tank count, you know, important stuff.




Yes, let's point out 20:05 instead of 18:00 where Spades the map hacker ATTACKS INTO A TANK LINE THAT LUCIFRON'S MARINES RETREATED TO.

Again, like in the previous game, Spade's army gets scanned, and Lucifron sees that there are unsieged tanks (1 sieged 2 unsieged). In TvT, that's your que to attack.

And this is just common sense... if you were just attacked at a narrow choke and you leave the largest avenue of approach open, then your opponent SCANS THIS and sees only a few marines... well if you don't respond by moving your army to re-secure this avenue then ya I don't know what to tell you.

His marines were also rallied there, you know, like they were for the whole game after the 3rd was taken because believe it or not, it's the best position to rally your army on shakuras after you take the expansion beneath your main.

Why is this? Because it's close to your natural's ramp and close to the third itself! Now once you actually install SC2, you will understand what I mean.




Spamming make a supply depot for 4 seconds, another second to build a marine and rally to the scv in his base.




First of all it's Cloaked banshee.

This part is where I feel bad for you because now I am genuinely curious about your league. No wait, I don't because people that make stupid shit up deserve no sympathy.

You mention 6:00 as if that's when you're supposed to build a blind ebay, but you fail to mention how 5 seconds afterwards Spades gets vision of marines with HELIONS. This means a cloak banshee is out of the question. Also, you don't build a blind ebay at 6:00, you do it closer to 6:30

Ebay = 35 build time + Turret = 25 build time = 60 seconds. Cloak is done at 7:30. And yes he would've had a viking by this point, and since he's one basing that banshee is doing shit.



I sometimes move my army around in my base too, gotta keep them in shape. My army can simply overpower the enemy by being more fit and therefore not need stim.

Or... if he was map hacking he simply would've camped the viking at the cliff. If he got dropped before, you don't think he would check the cliff's edge again here and there?

NEXT



................... When you poke in with helions, see a bunker, and a group of marines near that bunker, you don't go back to the bunker..... the helions got him map control, I doubt Spades thought that he'd actually end the game or even kill workers with them without a drop ship.

He knows he's perfectly safe to kill the rocks at his third because he has vision from TWO watch towers.



What, the fuck. Are you serious? Oh wait you are considering you made this thread, haha I was being rhetorical.

You're right he doesn't see the drop coming, he didn't need to. Spades has his mobile helion army at his natural and not in the field because he has vision of two towers. Lucifron picked a terrible spot to land. Spades had good inbase positioning and army count.

What Lucifron does is equivalent to dropping your army on top of your opponents army and saying, "Bro you're hacking, how did you know where I was gonna drop?"

"Uhhh bro you dropped where I put my army, not the other way around."

For fucks sake he drops his bio army in range of a siege tank, THATS AT THE NATURAL...



No, if Spades was maphacking he wouldn't've moved the helion that was near but not touching the watchtower. He would've moved a helion in his main army, "To scout" Lucifron's moving army and that would've given him an excuse to move his helions to bbq the marines.

Also, this exact thing happened to me as well, where I would see a unit near a watch tower and think, oh shit, then move it to acquire vision and see the enemy army right on top of me.

However, if spades were trying to cover up his map hacking, why move the helion to begin with? It's not like moving that helion prompted him to reposition his whole fucking army, after seeing the drop incoming he moved 2 helions and his scvs to ATTACK the bio force.

Or he sieged the tanks in fear of a counter attack because this is what players do sometimes? I mean, I guess MKP and MMA are map hacking too since I see them siege tanks in their main or natural.



Spades saw the dropships moving north. Lucifron sees helions moving west. HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

Ya, don't reproduce please.



Yes, because he should chase the dropships and potentially have marines shoot them down, bio you know? Good thinking.

Ironically, if he was maphacking he would've known that there were no marine with the marauders, but hey he's trying really hard to not let people know he map hacks, even though killing all those drop ships would end the game.



He unsieges his tanks because it looked like he was planning to move out. If he saw the drop he would've just sent 1 tank down there and sieged it.




????!?!?!?!?!? So you want his army to stay at the third and leave his natural's ramp wide open?

You're basically saying, "Spades took steps to secure his base after an attack, ZOMG HIS HAXING."



You mean how at 21:10 his natural gets scanned? And how he moves his army as Lucifron's army comes into vision? Ya sure man, he's hacking, I suppose your semantic definition of hacking is playing well.



He's cycling through production.... also look carefully at 23:03, you see Spades group and click to the north west of his screen to respond to the drop.



No, shut the fuck up, at this point I can say that with confidence because now you're not even trying to exaggerate. You are straight up

LYING.

He has 6 tanks unsieged that came from the factory and 4 tanks sieged up. He unsieged 2 early then sieged up 2 new ones that came out of the factories.

6 tanks unsieged, 4 tanks sieged...

Oh ya, he also moves these unsieged tanks and a few helions down to the 3rd AFTER his first siege tank at the 3rd gets blown up by marauders. Don't even take into account that his third got scanned before the attack.







Lucifron makes the mistake letting Spade catch vision of his incoming bio force at 25:14 and then getting in range of one of Spade's tanks at 25:24 (Spades sees this as his camera is right over the tanks that shoots the marauder).

If anyone actually takes the time to watch the replay, you'll see that if spades was indeed map hacking, he would've at the very least moved his vikings to the forrest like cliff over looking the third to get a better position to attack the medivacs from.

He responds to this attack AFTER it happens, not before. And even if he prepared for it before hand (he thought Lucifrone would hit the third and sieged most of his tanks there), it doesn't take a GSL winner to know what's going to happen with drop ships + bio vs a siege line.



Lucifron scans, Spades responds by sending a few helions tailed by vikings to check it out. Helions get killed, vikings find medivacs.

Yet, Spades the map hacker neglets to secure his main with vikings and thus allows another drop to occur, instead he sends them to the heavily defended 3rd.



Notice how he leaves vikings in the main, Spades learned his lesson.

Also, he scans and finds Lucifrons army on the move, then he finds the army outside his 3rd. Lucifron is picking him apart at this point. With map hacks Spades would know to just leave a tank sieged in the main, but he doesn't. It isn't because he's map hacking and he knows a massive drop isn't incoming.

It's because he's a common foreigner, he's not mkp or mma.



Because Spades is counting on his vikings to intercept the dropships, therefore not needing any tanks in the main. He thinks the drop will be into the natural, or he has sloppy positioning.

But all thoughts of map hacking to the one out for Spade's blood at this point should be removed when they see how Spades moves his vikings to the north of his main when Lucifron drops a scan that touches Spade's factory.



This is just, I dunno how to put it nicely, just something someone with a brain would do? If you are Lucifrom and you know that the main ramp is secured with tanks, you scan the north part of spade's main, but then you know that spades knows that you know this and responds by positioning vikings there.

Now if you're spades, you realize you secured 2/3 parts of your base, what possible other place could Lucifron come from? Oh ya my third.



If I'm spades and I see the size of the army at the third, I know there's a bio force elsewhere. If Spade's was map hacking he would've just moved the vikings to kill the drop ships.

Spades also knew he was being picked apart, if this sort of style was being used on you, you would know (Well not you, but a competent player anways) that a drop coming from the north would happen, he moved his army there to check, he scans to confirm, he loses his 3rd.

Yes, that's a map hacker, trying so hard not to let people know he hacks that he loses on purpose anyways.

Game 6: Daybreak



Metagaming. You cannot tell me with an honest face that you've never seen pros doing shit like this in a series. I've seen nestea lose to 6 pool because he decided to 15 hatch. I've seen MKP nearly lose to a 6 pool because he went 15 cc. I've seen MC lose a TvP because he went 17 nexus and he got marine scv all inned.



15:30 one of Spades units spots the army moving in the south, spade responds, when said attack doesn't come, spade assumes that lucifron retreated. Spade pursues. DUN DUN DUN WHAT DO YOU KNOW A PLAYER USES INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO HIM IN THE GAME TO MAKE DECISIONS.



Oh ya, you mean those camera blocks where he's macroing up? Or supply blocked so he's just cycling buildings like he's doing something?





dun dun DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN let me tell you something about terran.

Early gas 99% of the time, means some type of air play. And since this is the last game, I imagine Spades wasn't taking any chances.



Yes, because Lucifron moving the banshee there is probably something Spades has never seen before in all his time playing SC2.



Well you see, when you get besieged by another terran for so long, and they force you to lose your stim pack upgrade,
you tend to play a bit more reckless since your opponent now knows you're in deep shit. This isn't an uncommon response I see terrans I play do. I guess they're map hacking too by preparing for round 2 of a terran siege.

Oh ya and Spade catches vision of Lucifron's massive viking ball flying near the cliff, but in a different position from where the original tanks were.

I fucking love how you completely ignore what happens to spades before 14:30. It's as if if there's ever a time where spades has the upper hand he got it by hacking.

To you peasants that simply appeal to authority your whole lives because you are lazy as shit, let me tell you what happened to Spade's push, at around 9:15 encounters 2 vikings and 2 banshees.

He gets all his anti air destroyed and the 2 banshees push a group of 10 marines and 3 tanks back all the way into Spade's main. Yes, a map hacker wouldn't have prepared for this because, HES TRYING TO HIDE THE FACT HES HACKING!!!.





He leaves a tank and 12 marines in his base... 6 of which are directly next to his main cc and 6 more near the tank at the cliff.

On lost temple Spade's position made perfect sense considering if your opponent who plays super aggressive decides to siege your natural from your gold, you're fucked.

He doesn't siege till another tank a few more marines and medivacs come from his base, I guess because he forgot about them in the middle of macroing? Believe it or not, people make mistakes.



Ok, well I think it's more than obvious that you don't play this game and if you do, you are god fucking awful.

I'm not saying that Spades isn't a map hacker, but these replays that are provided as, "Evidence" do not show that he is a map hacker.

I hope the op cuts his finger on some paper as he opens his twilight novel.