So one day I played on a very old version of my my Cat & Mouse map and found this exceedingly strange glitch: watch the red probe and read the player messages.
(No, really, watch it, it's hilarious)
In short: My probe became invulnerable to all ground attacks, could not move, but was able to mine from across the map and deposit to a nexus as normal. It could also attack remotely.
There are a few possible causes for this, but I could not replicate it on the first try.
1. Moving a ground unit to an air-only location.
2. Continuously moving a ground unit to the same location.
3. Glitching onto terrain with bad building placement.
If anyone could figure this out, it might become very useful for maps, since a unit with essentially infinite attack range could have...many applications.
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This is caused by constantly moving the worker to an non walkable location. It makes units have a hard time to kill it and allows you to mine from a distance. This was done since a while already and is used in most maps made by Clan Mp (My clan).
Also, if more units would have attacked, you would have most likely died.
Interesting; does it apply to all other ranged units as well? It could be nice to have a DDS based off of this mechanism.
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According to what I remember, it only applies for resources. Maybe with a simple test, you could find out.
looks like it's stuck on the water.
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looks like it's stuck on the water.
If it's stuck on the water, that means it would be doing doing the same effect as moving to a non walkable locations I think.
It's not actually on the water, and I'm fairly certain that it's a trigger-based effect as outlined by apos.
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post the map. It could be that the probe is being constantly moved to its location (on the water), and thus is stuck there.
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Me and a friend discovered it and we discovered too how to do it. Place a location where ground units can't go, for example water or any tileset indexed tile. Make a trigger to constantly push it to move to that location. You can attack the unit but you need to be nearer and spam SHIFT + A and click on it, it can attack but it can't move. After you stop moving it to the unreachable place, it is a normal unit. I made that trick in
Cat vs Mouse Caves for the Drone (Gravity Miner)
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