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What I really want to know is why all three worker units float. What caused that design? Was it a result of having to balance spider mines? A happy accident? A
by Waterluvian 2y ago
What I really want to know is why all three worker units float. What caused that design? Was it a result of having to balance spider mines? A happy accident? A conscious design from the start? If so why? This keeps me up at night.
- Havoc 2y agoThere is also a the man in the tower for terrans - doesn't count towards supply. https://old.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/iod6dr/in_response_to_the_missile_turret_guy_realizations/ https://old.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/iod6dr/in_respon...
- Waterluvian 2y agoLegend has it that the missile turret operator and hurl a load further than a devourer.
- Maxatar 2y agoWhat do you mean by float? If you mean that work units can move through other units when mining minerals, that is a conscious design decision that was made for performance reasons. Having upwards of 40 worker units having to constantly calculate paths to and from the command center without being allowed to move through each other or move through other units that might cross their path would have slowed the game down to a crawl. Of course people figured this out and managed to exploit it for other purposes, but those were seen to be too minor to bother fixing.
- Levitz 2y agoHe means that they literally hover over the ground. They don't walk, their movement animation doesn't involve legs.
- philistine 2y agoI had no idea the terran SCV floated. I thought it had wheels.
- campbel 2y agoThe mechanics of spider mines is they "hit anything that touches the ground". There are several units they don't hit such as all workers, vultures themselves, archons etc... This is all because those units "float".
- Waterluvian 2y agoI think “floating” units also have a different movement behaviour. They move a lot more like flying units. Do they also stack and transit through each other? I don’t recall.
- campbel 2y agoWorkers transit through units when mining, but thats the only unique behavior I think. I'm not positive though.
- Lammy 2y agoIt's a remnant of the 1996 “orcs in space” version of StarCraft where the minerals were floating space rocks and Vespene didn't exist yet. Check out this early screenshot with a harvesting Drone for example: https://tcrf.net/images/f/fa/SC-WCII-2.GIF https://tcrf.net/images/f/fa/SC-WCII-2.GIF