Did you guys know that you can feedback using the minimap and it autotargets?

On the Korean forums they're saying that's how MC feedbacked so many ghosts against Thorzain at once. Not sure if everyone knew this already, but yeah.

I guess all individual spells are like this?

edit: oh you have to be pretty precise on the minimap, easier on smaller maps

andiCR

Costa Rica2273 Posts

April 29 2011 14:47 GMT

so, wait.. you just spam click the minimap in the section where ghosts are and thats it? Gonna try this out :O

Nation_

United States111 Posts

April 29 2011 14:47 GMT

Oh, wow. Does it auto target at random, or does it target the nearest unit that the spell can be used on?

Deadbread

Germany143 Posts

April 29 2011 14:47 GMT

This is ridicoulus. i think it should be fixed . Way to easy to feedback things like that. :l

EDIT: seems like it doesn't autotarget so it isnt suuuuch a bug deal .

blubbdavid

Switzerland2412 Posts

April 29 2011 14:48 GMT

nvm I am an idiot and deserve to die

Battlekiller

United States37 Posts

April 29 2011 14:48 GMT

I bet you could do this with ghost snipe too.

Bliznako

Serbia165 Posts

April 29 2011 14:48 GMT

I must say I was surprised how MC managed to target all of ThorZain's ghosts so effectively, especially when they were mixed in the ball of marines...

SpiZe

Canada3640 Posts

April 29 2011 14:49 GMT

You mean like larva inject ?

I didn't know about this but this seems very weird to me as you just have to spam click your minimap to feedback any unit with energy in range. I guess all spells with a single target are like this, so transfuse too but it wouldn't be very precise so I doubt that's a good idea. Can you Graviton Beam via minimap ?

Dakota_Fanning

Hungary2369 Posts

April 29 2011 14:50 GMT

I guess all spells work like this. Just think about how you can spawn larva through the minimap...

Chaosvuistje

Netherlands2581 Posts

April 29 2011 14:50 GMT

#10

It autotargets? What? -.-.

Well there goes the only thing I liked to watch microwise on the protoss side in PvT. If its indeed an auto-target, it is hardly impressive anymore at all.

GagnarTheUnruly

United States655 Posts

April 29 2011 14:51 GMT

#11

Whaaaaaaaaaa.... MC's godmode was just minimap clicking? LAME. FIX IMMEDIATELY.

You could make a credible argument that Thorzain would've won that game if MC had missed a few feedbacks...

andiCR

Costa Rica2273 Posts

April 29 2011 14:52 GMT

#12

hmmm on the unit test map it doesnt work.. gonna try it out on regular 1v1

Gfire

United States1699 Posts

April 29 2011 14:53 GMT

#13

Oh, I hadn't thought about this. All individual spells? The only other one I've heard of people using it for was Inject Larva.

Probably wouldn't be very effective for Snipe, 250mm Cannons or HSM, if it even works for them. Even for feedback you might want to more closely select what ghosts to hit... Ones which are a bigger threat or have more energy, or you might want to targets ghosts above medivacs, or whatever.

Noev

United States1105 Posts

April 29 2011 14:55 GMT

#14

Thats insane never thought to try that, gonna do a practice game later today and give it a shot if so it would really help, might also help stop drops if you hotkey HT at expansion you see the red dot floating and just take it out

Kenod

Austria32 Posts

April 29 2011 14:55 GMT

#15

Tried it on the unit test map... it is possible to select feedback/snipe/neural-targets via minimap but it doesn't autotarget , i don't think that it will be different in 1v1?

Maliris

Northern Ireland2557 Posts

April 29 2011 14:55 GMT

#16

wtf.. thats pretty lame, makes feedbacking ridiculously easy if there are no medivacs in view :/

RevThirteen

Sweden116 Posts

April 29 2011 14:55 GMT

#17

I've been using this for larvae inject for a long time.. never thought it could be used with feedback..

fabiano

Brazil4644 Posts

April 29 2011 14:56 GMT

#18

haaa?

So SC2 is really aimed to noobs after all. Acti-Blizzard gotta profit more you know.

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TangYiChen

Korea (South)195 Posts

April 29 2011 14:58 GMT

#19

I tried it on the unit test also. It's actually harder to do than you might think. I'm spamming F and clicking vigorously on the minimap where a lot of templar are, and it doesnt't register most of the time

Edit: just kidding, tried templar vs ghosts and it's actually incredibly easy xD

scatmango2

United States408 Posts

April 29 2011 14:59 GMT

#20

On April 29 2011 23:58 TangYiChen wrote:
I tried it on the unit test also. It's actually harder to do than you might think. I'm spamming F and clicking vigorously on the minimap where a lot of templar are, and it doesnt't register most of the time

Just did the exact same thing, it's way harder to do this way and unreliable. Unless an entire army is comprised of spellcasters this doesn't really break the game or anything.