Simple Questions, Simple Answers - Page 12

Okay now that I'm back, hopefully I can explain this scouting pattern that I myself use and I adapted it from Savior actually from seeing him playing on afreeca.

Assuming you spawn at the orange cross, your overlord should follow the yellow scouting path in that direction up till the yellow circle area. In FS, it is a standard that your overlord should always move towards the natural of the main in which your overlord should arrive behind the natural min line. This way, you are keeping your overlord safe.

To fully utilise this scouting, moving to the yellow circle helps you to spot the timing of his probe. If you spot his probe with the first scouting overlord at the yellow circle, it means a few things.
1. He spawned at bottom left
2. He spawned at top right
3. He fast expanded at either of these two expansions.

At this point, it is fortune on your side. It is critical to be keeping a look on your overlord nearing the yellow circle so that you can judge the angle of his probe arrival to determine either spawning locations.

If however, you do not see any probe, then you will need to drone scout to fully reconcile the overlord scouting pattern. The drone timing is standard as with 11 pool and 12 hatch, with using one of the two drones that pop after the second overlord.

The drone scout should follow the pink path. From here, you need to keep an eye on your overlord and drone to see which unit intercepts the probe. In both cases if either your drone or overlord intercepts his probe(location at green and red cross), then his spawn location is confirmed to be diagonally across. In which case, you should send your drone right to the top left location and check out if he has a simcity or not.

The timings of this should be just before your pool is at 75%, allowing you to decide if your third hatch should be in base against a 1 base play or at a third base if he fast expanded.

NOTE: If neither drone nor overlord intercept a probe but a probe arrives at your base, check for proxies in the middle.Sorry the underlined section is wrong. I forgot to add that if neither your overlord nor your drone meet a probe at mid-way but then your drone meets the probe at the natural that it is headed to, then he spawned at the location in which your overlord is moving to. This can be applied to 4 player maps as well but your first overlord needs to move to an intersection in which two nearest spawning locations would have the scouting probe move to if he decides to scout to your location first.

Okay hopefully this paints a better picture.