So, many of us saw the usage of patrol stacked vikings in TvT that enabled boxer to snipe off some incoming units in his RO64 match. What many might not have seen is something that was shown in mvp's match against SoundWerra (I dont know if he did it intentionally, but its where I first noticed it).
What is this thing? A way to dodge missiles from vikings. This can be used in the early game to conserve as much energy as you possibly can, and can be used against patrol clustered vikings to let your own vikings get in unscathed for the first volley (put the cloaked banshee slightly ahead of the vikings then cloak as it runs in). There may be other uses as well, but this is what I came up with so far.
As it turns out, SC2 has its own share of tricks that are still in that we havent seen yet. This trick with cloak works with any units that use missile attacks, I dont have a list... but marauders and stalkers and other units like that have missile attacks.
This sounds nice, at least in theory, but it's pretty much impossible to know his number of vikings when they are patrolling like that, so if unless you happen to be pretty much equal in vikingcount, I dont see how nullifying the first volley will really help you. Nonetheless, this is certainly interesting, and has its uses if you know how many vikings he got
Well, if you keep Banshee's infront of your Vikings will the enemy Vikings prioritize your Banshees over Vikings because of proximity? If so you could decloak / cloak to eat up more vollies during a fight.
not new :p also most tvt players have a raven in their mix on top of that u almost never see more than 5 stacked vikings because u dont want to overkill in case opponents viking comes in for a battle
On October 26 2010 20:52 MorroW wrote: not new :p also most tvt players have a raven in their mix on top of that u almost never see more than 5 stacked vikings because u dont want to overkill in case opponents viking comes in for a battle
How is the Raven detection range compared to the 9 range on the Vikings? I assume keeping the Raven in front of the Vikings will be a terrible idea in most cases. Although the PDD will prevent the enemy Vikings from sniping your own patrolling Vikings, the banshee can still cloak, basically just making sure the PDD will even out the battle, instead of giving an advantage
it´s a mechanic that was fixed in one of the patches .... first it was the case that marouder missiles hit an other unit if the targeted unit was load in a medivac, than they fixed it that the missile hits nothing .. its the same case with cloak .. the units vanish and there is no target anymore
On October 26 2010 20:52 MorroW wrote: not new :p also most tvt players have a raven in their mix on top of that u almost never see more than 5 stacked vikings because u dont want to overkill in case opponents viking comes in for a battle
How is the Raven detection range compared to the 9 range on the Vikings? I assume keeping the Raven in front of the Vikings will be a terrible idea in most cases. Although the PDD will prevent the enemy Vikings from sniping your own patrolling Vikings, the banshee can still cloak, basically just making sure the PDD will even out the battle, instead of giving an advantage
Vikings devour PDD energy, it takes two shots of the laser to stop each salvo (of two missiles) from each viking.
The bigger question is whether or not something like this should be allowed to stay in the game? You have to look at it objectively for all it's uses and abuses. Could a perfectly executed cloak/decloak/cloak potentially absorb all damage?
I think the use of this is mostly just lucky and would only work on a player who doesn't know about it. Once players are aware of it, I don't see it being very useful at all really.
I think this should be patched. would love to hear counter arguments though, because i'm too tired to think up any of my own atm.
I think it adds some twitch gaming sense, the missles fired from vikings are not exactly slow. It also adds an opportunity cost to leaving vikings in a stacked patrol ball.
EPT
