 BushidoSnipr United States. April 24 2011 23:44. Posts 910 | Profile # |
| TIP 277- The sentry's attack damage comes a split second before the attack animation. |
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| HwangjaeTerran Finland. April 25 2011 00:19. Posts 4960 | Profile Blog # |
I skimmed through and didn't see the oldest of all BW-tricks.
280. Use patrol when going for drops, if there is anti air, your pilot chooses to live on his own instead of trying to force way through.
Also if you are preoccupied somewhere else the dropship wont hang aroung in your enemies place like an easy target but head right back home so you can still make the drop another time.
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| ZeroTalent United States. April 25 2011 01:10. Posts 297 | Profile # |
280. You can enable/disable auto cast abilities with alt + ability hotkey. For example alt+r sets an scv to auto repair; alt +c disables zealot charge auto cast, etc.
281. Put zealots with charge on [H]old position if you want avoid having them waste their charge.
282. Shift queue ghosts away from the battlefield after firing their EMPs. |
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| Slurgi United States. April 25 2011 02:31. Posts 114 | Profile # |
| #161 is incorrect - damage is dealt to *ground* units below the baneling when it is destroyed by a lifted phoenix. |
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| P00RKID United States. April 25 2011 02:50. Posts 424 | Profile # |
283. Use Shift+# to add morphing larvae eggs into a control group. F.ex adding extra mutalisks into your muta control group.
284. Get in the habit of setting individual rally points when morphing in Overlords every time so that they don't wander off and die.
285. Delaying injects by 5-6 seconds gives you better larvae per minute by reducing larvae waste and results in extra queen energy over time as a bonus.
Reasoning: Hatcheries produce a larvae every 15 seconds, up to 3 total. Spawn larvae takes 40 seconds. After spawn larvae ends, and if you wait 5 seconds after the hatchery's normal larvae timer starts and then inject again, you end up getting 3 larvae from the hatchery during that inject cycle, before the 4 larvae drop off, which normally interrupts the hatcheries 3rd larvae from spawning(it will be at 10 of 15 seconds, then 4 larva spawn, canceling the timer). This net gain in larvae is small, about 1 larvae per 6.42 seconds vs 1 larvae per 6.66 seconds. But it is a slight gain, and you end up netting more queen energy.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=167278 an old thread about the spawn larvae delay. |
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| XDJuicebox United States. April 25 2011 03:31. Posts 480 | Profile Blog # |
| You should study your keyboard, and where you want buttons to be, then reconfigure your hotkey setup to suit your own needs. While it may sound simple, a surprisingly large number of people don't make full use of their hotkeys. |
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| Godstorm Romania. April 25 2011 03:53. Posts 840 | Profile Blog # |
| 286: Ultralisk make for great tanks, even 1or 2 put in the front of the army can take all the initial tank volleys and give your lings and blings time to get in the middle of his army. Last edit: 2011-04-25 03:53:58 |
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| Everize Poland. April 25 2011 04:09. Posts 176 | Profile # |
| You can camera save hotkeys such as F3, F4, F5 which will instantly move your camera to where you have made a save on specific hotkey. |
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| Komentaja United States. April 25 2011 08:23. Posts 252 | Profile # |
288 : Shift-clicking can be used with any ability, including psi storm and fungal growth on workers and Nukes on key points.
289 : When going mech as T (vs Z) in the late game, get ghosts to kill Broodlords. It takes 5 snipes to kill a Broodlord, or roughly 2 just-spawned ghosts with Moebius reactor upgrade.
290 : When going mech as T (vs Z) in the late game and facing Broodlords, it's possible to buy time by spamming "S" on your seige tanks or spamming attack on other enemy units on the ground. Otherwise your seige tanks splash each other.
291 : To combat seige tanks as any race, lead your army with a few units spread out well to draw tank fire. This way it is often possible to reach the seige tanks with marauders, roaches, etc. before tanks have damaged the majority of them. ***This is SUPER effective, always do this.***
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| Charn Denmark. April 25 2011 08:49. Posts 6 | Profile # |
| 292 : You can make banelings auto-target buildings by setting "attack building" to autocast (Rightclick). |
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| FatalRuin United States. April 25 2011 09:42. Posts 44 | Profile # |
| 293. You CANNOT Fungal Growth moving spine crawlers. (From a game between FXOSheth and Sen) |
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| Yoav United States. April 25 2011 09:45. Posts 52 | Profile # |
Correction to 268:
Ranged units can kill one another 'simultaneously' only if they have projectile attacks.
Melee units and ranged units with instant attack animations (eg. Marines, Tanks, Immortals) cannot do this due to the linear game engine phenomenon that is behind Tanks (and other instant-shot units) not overkilling in SC2. |
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| Barca United States. April 25 2011 10:19. Posts 418 | Profile Blog # |
| 294. If you have vision, Phoenixes can lift burrowed units. Once the Graviton Beam wears out, the unit is returned unburrowed. |
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| AngryPanda April 25 2011 10:55. Posts 21 | Profile # |
| 295. If an overlord is dropping creep on a desired expo and its to maximum spread it takes approx 1 minute 10 seconds for it to disappear before you can drop your expo in that area. |
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| Softboing United States. April 25 2011 10:57. Posts 68 | Profile # |
| 296. When transports (Warp prism, Medivac, researched overlords) are moving at full speed and you use 'Unload all' on them, the units will be dropped and spaced to avoid splash damage. (Unsure if useful. :X ) Last edit: 2011-04-25 10:57:54 |
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| zeonax April 25 2011 11:18. Posts 8 | Profile # |
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| Danglars United States. April 25 2011 12:19. Posts 1919 | Profile Blog # |
| 277: For any position forcefield (single forcefield) on any ramp, it is possible to warp in units above the forcefield by using a proxy pylon near the ramp and vision from units below the forcefield. Use this tactic if you are seeking to overwhelm an opponent utilizing sentries to try to prevent you from moving up the ramp and into the base. Source |
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| Arn Sweden. April 25 2011 21:10. Posts 118 | Profile # |
On April 25 2011 02:50 P00RKID wrote:.... Delaying injects by 5-6 seconds gives you better larvae per minute by reducing larvae waste and results in extra queen energy over time as a bonus. Reasoning: Hatcheries produce a larvae every 15 seconds, up to 3 total. Spawn larvae takes 40 seconds. After spawn larvae ends, and if you wait 5 seconds after the hatchery's normal larvae timer starts and then inject again, you end up getting 3 larvae from the hatchery during that inject cycle, before the 4 larvae drop off, which normally interrupts the hatcheries 3rd larvae from spawning(it will be at 10 of 15 seconds, then 4 larva spawn, canceling the timer). This net gain in larvae is small, about 1 larvae per 6.42 seconds vs 1 larvae per 6.66 seconds. But it is a slight gain, and you end up netting more queen energy. http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=167278 an old thread about the spawn larvae delay.
Wow! If that is true it has great implications. But then again, it requires optimal macro if I understand it correctly. I'll rephrase it to not trick noobs into thinking "Saving energy on Queens = GOOD!". |
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| Roblin Sweden. April 25 2011 21:39. Posts 834 | Profile # |
E 297. if there is/are an/y enemy pylon/s, spinecrawler/s or nydus worm/s building in your base and you do not have any units other than workers, you need to pull 4 workers for each building from your mineral line to "out-dps" the constructing building, given that all 4 of said workers can attack at the same time and that said workers start attacking early enough.
edit: fixed the tip numberLast edit: 2011-04-25 21:41:00 |
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| P00RKID United States. April 25 2011 23:59. Posts 424 | Profile # |
On April 25 2011 21:10 Arn wrote:
Show nested quote +On April 25 2011 02:50 P00RKID wrote:.... Delaying injects by 5-6 seconds gives you better larvae per minute by reducing larvae waste and results in extra queen energy over time as a bonus. Reasoning: Hatcheries produce a larvae every 15 seconds, up to 3 total. Spawn larvae takes 40 seconds. After spawn larvae ends, and if you wait 5 seconds after the hatchery's normal larvae timer starts and then inject again, you end up getting 3 larvae from the hatchery during that inject cycle, before the 4 larvae drop off, which normally interrupts the hatcheries 3rd larvae from spawning(it will be at 10 of 15 seconds, then 4 larva spawn, canceling the timer). This net gain in larvae is small, about 1 larvae per 6.42 seconds vs 1 larvae per 6.66 seconds. But it is a slight gain, and you end up netting more queen energy. http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=167278 an old thread about the spawn larvae delay.
Wow! If that is true it has great implications. But then again, it requires optimal macro if I understand it correctly. I'll rephrase it to not trick noobs into thinking "Saving energy on Queens = GOOD!".
It is pretty hard to do consistently. Hell, it is hard to even inject immediately each time consistently as it is, so trying to delay it is something you would have to practice doing a lot. But I can see this being possible early game. If you do the delay injects roughly 4-5 cycles worth then you will have earned a couple extra larvae and saved 25 extra energy on a queen.
Another reason it is hard is because it is only worth it if you are spending the larvae from Spawn Larvae injects immediately so that the hatchery starts producing larvae again. Otherwise you are still creating larvae waste and the delay is further larvae waste.
You would have to be very accurate and do this technique consistently to see practacle results. |
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