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Crushing with Terran buildings?
Aug 6 2018, 3:17 pm
By: UndeadStar  

Aug 6 2018, 3:17 pm UndeadStar Post #1



Hi,

I just finished some tests on the behavior of landing with Terran buildings in Starcraft 1 Brood War.
Here are the results:
-If the building need to move to reach the landing point, and an unit get in landing zone before, you will get an audio message "landing sequence interrupted" (but no text), and the landing won't be done.
-If the building is already at right position, start landing, and you quickly slip an unit under, the building will land, and the unit will start moving to get away (like a SCV that just finished building something)
-If the building is already at right position, start landing, and you quickly slip a tank that will go in siege mode, a zerg that will burrow, or a spider mine deployed by a vulture, then that unit will get destroyed.
-If the building is already at right position, start landing, you quickly slip an unit under, then use Lockdown, Stasis Field or Maelstrom, the unit will ignore the special status and move to get away after the landing (could be considered a bug I guess)

Now based on the section, you may have guessed my question, but how does it work in Starcraft 2?
The most boring, but possible answer, would be that now the landing sequence can be interrupted and reversed at any point and this is what always happen, but even if it's that, I still want to know.




Jan 13 2020, 6:04 pm UndeadStar Post #2



So, I have tried to answer my own questions regarding behavior in SC2:
Code
-Case 1 (unit moveable go at landing position after building start to move):
        The unit under will move out of the way (like units do when attempting to place a building in general)
-Case 2 (unit moveable go under building landing just before it land):
        The unit under will move out of the way (like units do when attempting to place a building in general)
-Case 3 (unit slip under building landing, then become unmoveable thanks to burrowing (only had the window mine, could have tested tank too, but probably the same):
        The building will give an error message and not try to land.It is reactive no matter how you try to replay the scenario.
-Case 4 (unit slip under building landing, then become unmoveable due to spell):
        Those Terran idiots don't have any proper spell for that anymore, could not test.


Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Jan 13 2020, 6:05 pm by UndeadStar. Reason: To make those "tab" visible in text presentation




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[11:38 pm]
Symmetry -- :wob:
[2026-6-21. : 4:56 am]
Ultraviolet -- I suppose we'll likely never know, but my guess would be that they already saw it operating successfully and there was no monetary incentive to finish the original work. And the dev cycle in old school Blizzard was so hectic, it's possible it just got forgotten about after the original game got released. Plus there's an element of existing MPQ files that were packaged with the original discs becoming outdated if they updated it. And it's not like they remade the original MPQs, they just made new ones for BW specifically
[2026-6-21. : 4:26 am]
Oh_Man -- so that makes me think maybe the theory they are unfinished is not true and its a deliberate design decision, coz why not finish them wen ur making brood war?
[2026-6-21. : 4:25 am]
Oh_Man -- the thing is thos buildings are from classic. that means they went ahead and made brood war without ever finishing the 'unfinished' buildings
[2026-6-20. : 6:15 pm]
Ultraviolet -- Yeah he's talked about a lot of that stuff in his casts before. It seems plausible. Especially knowing how Blizzard of yesteryear operated.
[2026-6-20. : 3:47 pm]
NudeRaider -- to clarify: couldn't recall the behavior for every single Protoss building but I was aware the disparity exists.
[2026-6-20. : 3:43 pm]
NudeRaider -- Contained nothing new for me. Didn't know all building's behavior, but very much all unit's. Also Terran balance whine - also nothing new :lol:
[2026-6-19. : 9:57 am]
Oh_Man -- makes me wonder if SEN knows anything about the topic
[2026-6-19. : 9:57 am]
Oh_Man -- artosis dropped pretty interesting vid: https://youtu.be/EqZHB8Blra4
[2026-6-18. : 5:01 pm]
Ultraviolet -- :wob:
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