Overcharge

[roseneath]

Alright really a dumb question but...

whenever i overcharge units, generally while im running away from them. The acu stops moving. its really so annoying.

Am i the only person doing it wrong or is it a known problem?

[The Mak]

This is how it has always worked since Vanilla.

[Lionhardt]

You can overcome this shortcoming of the game with extensive micro though. I think ZLO made a video on this at some point. Basically you need to quickly give a move order after the OC order.

[ZLO_RD]

if you need to OC while you are moing, and if acu gun is already targetting(or looking that way ) thing that you want to OC, you can make OC order and then make move order very fast, and there will be almost no slowdown, however you can't OC something tnat acu is not looking at and save your moving speed, because acu will have to stop and rotate his gun =/

As bigger angle as more time you need
I have not tested it that hard to know math there
Here is my vid
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_B_CQdCr9z ... ogle&gl=RU

[Marko Box]

OC should be allowed to ignore mobile shields when you are targeting experimentals(they are larger then shield coverage anyways). It would open up some interesting tactics imo

[Mycen]

OC should be allowed to ignore mobile shields when you are targeting experimentals(they are larger then shield coverage anyways). It would open up some interesting tactics imo

What do you mean? If the experimental's hitboxes are outside of the shield they will be ignored. So why would a change like this be necessary? Not all of the experimentals are so much larger than mobile shields that they would never be at least partially protected, so making them unable to take advantage of shields seems nonsensical.

[Hawkei]

Alright really a dumb question but...

whenever i overcharge units, generally while im running away from them. The acu stops moving. its really so annoying.

Am i the only person doing it wrong or is it a known problem?

Yes this is a dumb question. You need to que commands like this:

Move (rightclick) > Overcharge ( O, shift + leftclick) > Move (shift + rightclick) > Overcharge (O, shift + leftclick) > Move (shift + rightclick)... etc.

The result is that the ACU will stop to fire the overcharge, then immediately continue moving. If you manually issue the move command there will be a lag delay.


You can actually que several overcharges by making the walking segments long enough to allow the OC cannon to recharge. Generaly, you will be recieving artillery fire. So, you will be issuing 'zig-zag' move commands anyway. These can be 'pre-microed'. I find it most annoying having to babysit an ACU when it's taking fire.