Idea to break down zealot wall EASIER

On April 09 2011 00:50 Baby_Seal wrote:
To be honest, I'm a little surprised that that hasn't been fixed yet. I thought Blizzard was going to patch the ability of workers to walk through enemy units.

Anyway, I haven't seen this yet, so I'll keep my eyes open for it.

On April 09 2011 01:11 Chronald wrote:
Has anyone tested to see if this would move the Zealot when you issue a Hold Position command right on the Zealot? It would have to by my theory, because if you unburrow a roach under another one it shifts them both into place.

Wouldn't that same shifting apply to a drone moving through a Hold Position Zealot?

On April 09 2011 01:04 Potonho wrote:and baby_steal if they take the worker passing through units there are 2 major problems one is that when they are mining they will colide with each other

On April 09 2011 02:44 Skrag wrote:


That wouldn't change at all if mining workers simply couldn't go through *enemy* units, which is what baby_seal said.

Regardless of whether they ever intend to fix it or not, it still feels like a bug. The whole point of putting units in a choke on hold position is to keep enemy units from passing through, and using game mechanics to get through that wall seems like exploiting a bug to me.

Before everybody freaks out that I'm calling them exploiters, I know it's been a part of the game forever, and it would also be silly to think that blizzard isn't aware of it, and that if they wanted to fix it, they could have done so long ago, so obviously they're ok with it, which makes it an actual game mechanic and not a bug exploit.

It still feels like something that should be fixed though.

On April 09 2011 02:03 P0ckets wrote:
So does anyone know the time of when the first sentry can come out for the toss if they go for the zealot wall? If so we can determine if 2 drone behind 2 in front might be successful with a 8, 9, 10 or overpool since this will be completely worthless if a sentry is out.

On April 09 2011 01:13 RoachyRoach wrote:


Patch 1.3 fixed hold position moving enemy units.

-Fixed an issue where you could push Hold Position units by Move/Hold Position spamming.

On April 09 2011 03:25 Chronald wrote:


This is different than a drone drill however, because the shifting happens when the drone is no longer moving towards the minerals. You aren't spamming move/HP (i know that trick got removed) you are just putting it on HP when it is underneath the Zealot.

I'm gonna try it when I get home from work.

On April 09 2011 03:35 zhurai wrote:

that one was to fix people having speedlings run right next to the zealot and hold positioning or something like that iirc?

On April 09 2011 03:25 Chronald wrote:


This is different than a drone drill however, because the shifting happens when the drone is no longer moving towards the minerals. You aren't spamming move/HP (i know that trick got removed) you are just putting it on HP when it is underneath the Zealot.

I'm gonna try it when I get home from work.