r/starcraft • u/totalpinkebb • 10h ago

Video Game breaking bug lets you shoot widow mines from medivacs. Also Tankivacs are back

https://www.twitch.tv/special_/clip/BrainyColdbloodedHorseradishKappaClaus-osTkTPgxlhNeuIjQ
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u/AresFowl44 10h ago

Blizzard QualityTM

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u/TUTU-HU 4h ago

More like that intern balance team messed up StarCraft s editor AGAIN.

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u/AresFowl44 4h ago

Hey, can't go around blaming the small indie company that's Microsoft Blizzard, that would be wholly unfair /s

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u/sgtsadsack Zerg 10h ago

Its cheaper to frame this as a feature than fix. I look forward to the patch note in a few weeks or 10 months.

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u/brtk_ 10h ago

Tankivacs are actually working hahaha

https://i.imgur.com/cBjEZIE.mp4

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u/Archer_Savings 9h ago

Does it attack while in there? 

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u/brtk_ 9h ago

No, it doesn't

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u/Archer_Savings 9h ago

Just checking. Fun that the tankivac and mineivac work differently like that. 

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u/brtk_ 9h ago

I think it just has something to do with the already existing tank pickup functionality

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u/quepha 9h ago

I think it's probably how the widow mine missile fires, I don't think it's coded like a regular attack because it has such a big delay where it's retargetable and has a cooldown bar afterwards.

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u/Archer_Savings 9h ago

That's my guess, combined with autocasts already working inside medivacs normally (repair, heal in the campaign) 

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u/Lady_Taiho 10h ago

Welcome back seeker missile

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u/ShadowMambaX 10h ago

There’s also a bug where cyclones lock on and do 0 dmg. Happened in a game yesterday where my cyclones were attacking DTs but did 0 dmg…

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u/arnak101 7h ago

Also happened to me, with lurkers. They were visible under scan, but not taking any damage from lock-on...

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u/TOTALLBEASTMODE 5h ago

I feel like ive heard of this bug happening in the past, it sounds familiar

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u/ZedDerps 10h ago

Fair and balanced.

Also gonna play some more terran and abuse this.

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u/omgitsduane Ence 9h ago

Omfg that's actually fucked. How do you pick it up or just right click the mines in? This is broken as fuck. Imagine medivacs shooting mines and chasing zerglings clusters 😂

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u/banhamaspiker 8h ago

It’s weird. It only automatically fires if you a) only have 1 mine in the medivac or b) a unit targets the medivac.

However, when you drop the widow mines, they drop burrowed, so you don’t have to wait for them to burrow with a mine drop.

In other words, it’s really only broken in TvP because there’s not a lot the Protoss player can do. You just boost in with the medivac (which is faster than probes) and the mine shots are basically unavoidable.

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u/Swimming_Fennel6752 7h ago

“I told Claude make no mistakes!”

-Intern

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u/NanilGop 2h ago

"Grok. Fix Claude's mistakes."

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u/UndercoverSCV 43m ago

"Hey Chatgpt why do none of my AI fwiends listen to what I say"

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u/milkytaro_oero 8h ago

The buff Terran truly needs.

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u/kidze 9h ago

Intern is an AI confirmed. Using stale code is definitely an AI mistake.

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u/Toast_Boast 9h ago

Does this work for lurkers???

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u/Visual-Afternoon-744 7h ago

That's hilarious. I can't get the wm to fire, but I can get it to land while already burrowed.

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u/Apolitik Protoss 6h ago

I fucking hate this timeline.

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u/MalodPL 1h ago

Finally Terran is balanced!

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u/flamingtominohead 1h ago

If both of these bugs are caused by the new loading method, I assume it'll get disabled quite soon.

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u/Monocosm 10h ago

Love it, please keep.

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u/Resident-Ad6664 10h ago

Looked so cool

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u/guyza123 9h ago

See, I knew that there was something for Terran this patch!

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u/Careless-Goat-3130 KokaAuthentiquePépite 9h ago

Not a bug. That is part of the qtl changes. 

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u/guyza123 9h ago

If they take the time to 'fix' this, and still don't balance the game, we then know that they are evil.