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Some bugs, like animation cancelling, turned out to make the games why more technical and challenging. It would dumb the game down to take it out. It's not a bu

Some bugs, like animation cancelling, turned out to make the games why more technical and challenging. It would dumb the game down to take it out. It's not a bug anymore, it's a feature.

3131s 10y ago
What's an example of animation cancelling in Starcraft? Thanks for introducing me to a new concept! Any more bugs / features like this?
- shultays 10y ago
  I don't know if concept exists in SC but in dota 2 (dota and warcraft 3), casting a spell, making an attack has a "backswing" animation that does nothing. if you give a new order, you can cancel this animation and go to next order. For example attacking and ordering moving towards as soon as projectile is launched. It does not make you attack faster but it lets you to move and attack at the same time. I am not sure if this exists in SC though
- dragontamer 10y ago
  Magic Boxing is one of the more important ones. Its not so much a "glitch" but an idiosyncracy. There's a special magic box "size" that you eventually learn in Starcraft. When all the units are "inside" of the Magic Box, they will move as a group, synchronously. However, if even just one unit is "outide" of the Magic Box, they will all move individually. The technique of "Mutalisk Stacking" involves burrowing a Zergling, and then making a group of 11 Mutalisks + 1 Zergling as a group. The burrowed Zergling is always outside of the box, and therefore the Mutalisks will "stack" on top of each other (moving as if they were individuals). You control them perfectly synchronized. Because the Mutalisks are all flying units, they'll "stack" together. Here's an example video of JaeDong's expert Mutalisk Stacking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4ipBj1sO3M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4ipBj1sO3M . Notice how the Marines instantly die before the Medics can heal them... but the intense focus-fire and micro ability of JaeDong allows the Mutalisks to instantly KO Marines. ----------- In contrast, the Protoss player would use the Magic Box to perform Dragoon Dancing instead. In this case, the Protoss player wants to keep the Dragoons all together inside of the Magic Box (while the Zerg Example above was the opposite). You want your Dragoons to stay in formation during a Dragoon dance, which requires them to be "inside" the magic box. Because the Dragoons are grounded units, they'll bump into each other as the AI pathfinding gets confused. In contrast, look at how Reach uses these Dragoons. They are perfectly synchronized, because of the "opposite" effect of the Magic Box. https://youtu.be/zXZdGqWttic?t=6m21s https://youtu.be/zXZdGqWttic?t=6m21s
- ajsalminen 10y ago
  Watch this for lots of details about these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWvoMrYCQBU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWvoMrYCQBU

Some bugs, like animation cancelling, turned out to make the games why more technical and challenging. It would dumb the game down to take it out. It's not a bug anymore, it's a feature.

3131s 10y ago

What's an example of animation cancelling in Starcraft? Thanks for introducing me to a new concept! Any more bugs / features like this?

shultays 10y ago
I don't know if concept exists in SC but in dota 2 (dota and warcraft 3), casting a spell, making an attack has a "backswing" animation that does nothing. if you give a new order, you can cancel this animation and go to next order. For example attacking and ordering moving towards as soon as projectile is launched. It does not make you attack faster but it lets you to move and attack at the same time. I am not sure if this exists in SC though
dragontamer 10y ago
Magic Boxing is one of the more important ones. Its not so much a "glitch" but an idiosyncracy. There's a special magic box "size" that you eventually learn in Starcraft. When all the units are "inside" of the Magic Box, they will move as a group, synchronously. However, if even just one unit is "outide" of the Magic Box, they will all move individually. The technique of "Mutalisk Stacking" involves burrowing a Zergling, and then making a group of 11 Mutalisks + 1 Zergling as a group. The burrowed Zergling is always outside of the box, and therefore the Mutalisks will "stack" on top of each other (moving as if they were individuals). You control them perfectly synchronized. Because the Mutalisks are all flying units, they'll "stack" together. Here's an example video of JaeDong's expert Mutalisk Stacking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4ipBj1sO3M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4ipBj1sO3M . Notice how the Marines instantly die before the Medics can heal them... but the intense focus-fire and micro ability of JaeDong allows the Mutalisks to instantly KO Marines. ----------- In contrast, the Protoss player would use the Magic Box to perform Dragoon Dancing instead. In this case, the Protoss player wants to keep the Dragoons all together inside of the Magic Box (while the Zerg Example above was the opposite). You want your Dragoons to stay in formation during a Dragoon dance, which requires them to be "inside" the magic box. Because the Dragoons are grounded units, they'll bump into each other as the AI pathfinding gets confused. In contrast, look at how Reach uses these Dragoons. They are perfectly synchronized, because of the "opposite" effect of the Magic Box. https://youtu.be/zXZdGqWttic?t=6m21s https://youtu.be/zXZdGqWttic?t=6m21s
ajsalminen 10y ago
Watch this for lots of details about these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWvoMrYCQBU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWvoMrYCQBU