Things you learned about SC2 years into it - Page 3

On April 13 2013 16:49 romelako wrote:
After thousands of games, I learned the Starcraft 2 is probably the most frustrating game I've ever played in my life...but the game I love the most!

On April 13 2013 12:30 aurum510 wrote:
When I was watching Polt's stream 2 days ago, he told the audience something that I don't think even some pros know. He said that if a siege tank is in range of a planetary fortress, it will target the PF rather than units. He used this knowledge to drop in the opponent's main while his PF was being sieged by a half dozen tanks. While the opponent was focused on handling the drop, he took a dozen marines and killed the 6 tanks while taking no damage.

Pretty sick.

On April 13 2013 17:08 ZenithM wrote:

That's actually not how that works. Stacraft 2 targetting mechanisms are such that a ranged unit in A-move mode starts attacking the closest target it can hit, and continues targetting this thing until either 1) the target dies 2) the target goes out of range.
That's an important thing to know for micro purposes: for example, when you want to use pull back micro, you actually have to make the unit you want to save go out of range of the attacking units, not just make it so that it's not the closest unit to them anymore.

It works the same in the case you're talking about: siege tanks switches to siege mode, if the PF is the closest target they have, they start firing at it, and as both the PF and the siege tank don't move, the siege tank stays in range and continues firing at the PF whatever happens :D
You have to retarget manually to make them stop shooting at the PF.

Edit: My comment was just to precise that PFs don't have a higher "siege tank targetting AI priority" or something, it's just how the core auto-targetting mechanics work. What Polt said on stream is still a very gosu pro-tip :D

On April 13 2013 17:16 Dman wrote:


Actually, it is completely true. PFs do have a higher "siege tank targeting AI priority" unless it got patched out (which I'm fairly certain has not happened). If a siege tank is attacking a PF, then manually changed to target 1 of 2 marines in range (closer than PF) after the first marine is killed it will return to attacking the PF until the target is manually changed again.

On April 13 2013 12:30 aurum510 wrote:
When I was watching Polt's stream 2 days ago, he told the audience something that I don't think even some pros know. He said that if a siege tank is in range of a planetary fortress, it will target the PF rather than units. He used this knowledge to drop in the opponent's main while his PF was being sieged by a half dozen tanks. While the opponent was focused on handling the drop, he took a dozen marines and killed the 6 tanks while taking no damage.

Pretty sick.

On April 13 2013 17:27 ApocAlypsE007 wrote:
That the voice actress for Kerrigan is also EDI in Mass Effect :p

On April 13 2013 16:09 Emix_Squall wrote:
When playing Zerg (I'm Random), sometime you get all your queens in the same place to defend air attacks or drops or anything.
It took me about 2 years to realize I don't need to manually send each and everyone of them back to their hatch to inject; but I can just box them all and inject all hatches and they'll all go to a different one! Saves lots of time!