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[Trick] Rebirth of the Viking Flower

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sockfolder
Profile Joined September 2010
United States9 Posts
March 25 2011 03:02 GMT
#1
Oh, though that fierce Winter of Patch 1.3
has scoured the world of the majestic Viking flowers,
with Spring comes rebirth! Rebirth of air units stacking proudly!
Stalwart fleets against the incursions of foreign powers!

Yet soon shall return the mighty Blizzard's wrath,
that inescapable extermination deemed once a pest;
So cherish these glorious beacons that guide your path
to Victory in war, until finally in peace, they rest.

In the recent patch, Blizzard removed the traditional 'Viking flower', a way to stack air units on top of each other. Just in case you don't know, this was done by spam right-clicking in the middle of the units to cluster them up, and then issuing a patrol command on that spot. This was removed by disallowing patrols that only goes a small distance. However, a few months ago, I found a different way to stack units, and it turns out that that method still works. In short, you can still make Viking flowers until Blizzard again patches out this trick.

The method is basically just as simple as the original. Select your air units, issue a patrol command that would cause them to stack up (by magic box rules), and then press shift+(stop) before they reach the patrol destination. All air units will go to that exact point and stop, never spreading out. This is actually a perfect stack (with some rounding errors), but it does lack the attractive spinning motion of the original flower.

To expand a bit more on the trick, after the patrol, you can use either shift+(stop) or shift+(hold position). In fact, even after they are clustered, you can switch between stop and hold. Of course, the only difference is how the AI behaves. Also, the trick does still work even if the units are in a magic box and hence will preserve formations, but it just doesn't have the stacking behavior. This is important because if you already stacked them, you don't have to worry about magic boxes and can patrol+shift+stop them to any other spot still stacked.

Here is a video I made demonstrating the trick. My apologies for any issues you may have with its quality.

tsuxiit
Profile Joined July 2010
1305 Posts
March 25 2011 03:03 GMT
#2
Damnit, one of my friends figured this out earlier. I'm sure Blizzard will patch it =/
Avrion
Profile Joined June 2010
36 Posts
March 25 2011 03:09 GMT
#3
Nice trick, but it probably will get patched soon.
MrMotionPicture
Profile Joined May 2010
United States4327 Posts
March 25 2011 03:09 GMT
#4
Oh man. People always find loopholes heheh.
"Elvis Presley" | Ret was looking at my post in the GSL video by Artosis. | MMA told me I look like Juanfran while we shared an elevator with Scarlett
Hikko
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States1126 Posts
March 25 2011 03:10 GMT
#5
Sockfolder, you definately have the most revolutionary and meaningful content per post ratio on this entire forum. Thank you for your great OPs once again!
♥
Danzo
Profile Joined March 2011
2820 Posts
March 25 2011 03:12 GMT
#6
oh man how awesome! Why get rid of our beautiful flower
Getting too old for this..
dezi
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Germany1536 Posts
March 25 2011 03:13 GMT
#7
Nice find
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ArvickHero
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
10387 Posts
March 25 2011 03:14 GMT
#8
why does Blizzard have to keep patching away any cool trick that's "not intended by design" :\ I'm glad they werent patching BW past a year or so, otherwise it could've been bye bye Muta stacking
Writerptrk
JustPlay
Profile Joined September 2010
United States211 Posts
March 25 2011 03:19 GMT
#9
Hopefully they don't patch this one out because it also works on offense.
underdawg
Profile Joined January 2011
United States399 Posts
March 25 2011 03:22 GMT
#10
awesome! in team games when fooling around, nothing is cooler than viking flower into landing all of them...SO..MANY...VIKINGS!
insufficient
Profile Joined February 2010
Germany33 Posts
March 25 2011 03:22 GMT
#11
Wow, I wonder if that wouldve influenced the GSTL finals Neat thing, great work!
iSometric
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
2221 Posts
March 25 2011 03:24 GMT
#12
Wow, good stuff.
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TitleRug
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States651 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-25 03:33:56
March 25 2011 03:33 GMT
#13
haha i remember sockfolding, the one that boosted mining.
nice trick btw.
coLCruncher fighting!
NET
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States703 Posts
March 25 2011 03:42 GMT
#14
Good find Stockfolder. Its too bad it most likely will be patched.

Lol Great poem as well, very well thought out.
"Dark Templar are the saviors of the Protoss Race." -Artosis
loving it
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada271 Posts
March 25 2011 03:44 GMT
#15
hmm, this seems pretty neat. Better try this before it gets removed.For now i'll just use this to confuse other players. Thanks for the finding!
Stay gold.
Ezekyle
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Australia607 Posts
March 25 2011 03:47 GMT
#16
Let's hope Blizzard realises that these cool tricks actually help the game and lets it stay in this time.
KillerPlague
Profile Joined June 2010
United States1386 Posts
March 25 2011 03:49 GMT
#17
wow i accidentally did this with phoenix, but couldn't figure out how to do it again. i was tellin everyone i know i stacked them, but nobody believed me :/
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xOTian
Profile Joined January 2011
United States53 Posts
March 25 2011 03:50 GMT
#18
I havent been able to play, so we cant stack mutas anymore?
Inschato
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
Canada1349 Posts
March 25 2011 03:50 GMT
#19
On March 25 2011 12:47 Ezekyle wrote:
Let's hope Blizzard realises that these cool tricks actually help the game and lets it stay in this time.


That would likely require a complete change in design philosophy if all their past patches are any indicator, they've had a ton of chances to make such a "realization" and have not yet done so and I fail to see any reason why they will in the future.
3.
vectorix108
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States4633 Posts
March 25 2011 03:53 GMT
#20
lolol very cool find. lets see if players attempt to do this now
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