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I've decided to finally bring up something which I see somewhat often, but never really thought much of it. In short, sometimes a single SCV will be sent to attack a scouting enemy worker, and the SCV will simply not give chase until it is close to the enemy unit. Terran players may be familiar with the scenario where a Toss scouts you quite early, and harasses the SCV building the first rax. Obviously this is easily countered by simply pegging another SCV on the probe, but sometimes this annoying bug gets in the way.
Here is a 4 panel illustration that I hope clarifies what I mean.
In #1, the SCV is sent (from a fairly far distance) to attack the probe. As you can see by the blue targeting circle, the attack button was pressed and the probe was left clicked.
#2, Though the probe appears to still be targeted by the SCV, the SCV is not heading in its direction...
#3, ...and the SCV has seemingly ignored the probe, moving past it even though the attack command is still active.
#4, the SCV finally attacks the probe after manually being brought closer to the unit.
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/2aW3t.jpg)
So.. why does this happen and how can I stop it? Is this due to the enemy clicking on the minerals to move? Seems strange since attack move was not used, but a direct attack command.
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you sure you didn't click on the ground after you right clicked the probe? if not, then there is no way for him to make you drop your command AFAIK
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You clicked the ground instead of the probe. Image 2 shows hes going towards where you clicked.
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On February 24 2012 12:11 Silidons wrote:
you sure you didn't click on the ground after you right clicked the probe? if not, then there is no way for him to make you drop your command AFAIK
The SCV is selected, and there is a blue attack ring around the probe simultaneously.
Interesting problem.
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I've had this happen with my workers as well...
I have no explanation, but my remedy is just to keep issuing attack commands as you approach.
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On February 24 2012 12:15 Torte de Lini wrote:
You clicked the ground instead of the probe. Image 2 shows hes going towards where you clicked.
but the attack command is highlighted and there is a blue circle around the probe. I've noticed similar problems, but I always just assumed it was because I mis-clicked or something.
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On February 24 2012 12:15 Chargelot wrote:Show nested quote +On February 24 2012 12:11 Silidons wrote:
you sure you didn't click on the ground after you right clicked the probe? if not, then there is no way for him to make you drop your command AFAIK The SCV is selected, and there is a blue attack ring around the probe simultaneously. Interesting problem.
The attack ring is red, not blue.
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I hate this, always happens to me. Only as Terran though.
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This has happened to me, although I don't recall it completely moving past the probe. It usually just goes in the general direction, and then without doing anything it's like "oh yeah, I'm supposed to attack him"
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This is the most annoying thing while a zerg is trying to kill the scv trying to build that 1st rax
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My biggest issue with this is for example when you have to pull your SCVs to hold a 4gate or something and they decide to go off on their own and end up getting blocked or Force Fielded by not attacking from the angle i wanted.
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maybe it's because it's mineral walking?
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this happens to me with my stalker/zealot against a scouting worker sometimes
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On February 24 2012 12:19 Torte de Lini wrote:Show nested quote +On February 24 2012 12:15 Chargelot wrote:On February 24 2012 12:11 Silidons wrote:
you sure you didn't click on the ground after you right clicked the probe? if not, then there is no way for him to make you drop your command AFAIK The SCV is selected, and there is a blue attack ring around the probe simultaneously. Interesting problem. The attack ring is red, not blue.
The pictures are from a replay. The attack rings from the blue player will be blue.
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upload the replay and we can see where you clicked.
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It is happening to me aswell, it is pretty annoying, blizzard sure tests things out before releasing them :>.
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I've never experienced this, but I think I always right click on workers to attack them.
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As Terran, this is really fustrating. Blizzard really needs to fix this ASAP. Can't tell you how many times this has cost me an scv from harrassing workers.
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On February 24 2012 12:37 kofman wrote:
As Terran, this is really fustrating. Blizzard really needs to fix this ASAP. Can't tell you how many times this has cost me an scv from harrassing workers.
Yeah, You have to babysit the SCV like in BW now TT.
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On February 24 2012 12:36 Saria wrote:
I've never experienced this, but I think I always right click on workers to attack them.
Same here, why are you using attack+left click command for them? Seems like just unnecessary apm for something where a single click does the exact same thing. I've never had this happen to me in a game o.0
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EPT
