Alt + Right Click reclaim no longer works?

[johnk419]

I've been watching tutorial videos as I'm new to FA, and one of the most important things that I believe I need to know how to do is how to reclaim efficiently. I just played a game with a person on my team that was 1000 ELO on Seton's, and he was able to reclaim entire forests without missing a single tree. He had to be using some sort of automated command, so I searched through the tutorials and it tells me to patrol or alt + right click, none of which works. My engineer just travels to the location when I press alt + right click and doesn't reclaim, and patrol doesn't do anything either when I have no mass storage.

Has these commands been patched away previously or am I somehow doing it wrong?

[Lyr]

Alt right click is from factory, just alt click near the reclaim and due to a bug the engy will reclaim all reclaimables within a wide range. Patrol I believe only works when you don't have full storage. You can also right alt click with just the engy, which will keep reclaiming when storage is full. I'm fairly certain patrol doesn't reclaim when storage is full, and alt click (attack move reclaim) does, but I may have switched them around.

[ZLO_RD]

alt+right click (attack move) engineer, will not reclaim when storage is full, no matter if send attack move from factory or not

[speed2]

If you provided replay as well, we could find out what you did wrong. WIthout replay, its just guessing...

[da_monstr]

I always give my engineers a move command in the queue first, and only then attack move.

[johnk419]

I just played a ranked game and it works! For some reason the commands didn't work when I was playing against AI or in sandbox but it works just fine when playing against other people. Weird.

Thanks for the help!

[tatsu]

it just doesn't work with the commander. it has to be patrol when using the commander for some reason.

[codepants]

If you float mass at any point when an engineer has an attack-move, they will walk to the end of the move and do nothing.

If you really prefer attack move to patrol, I suggest putting a patrol on the end, so if you do float mass, they will go to the end of the attack-move and then patrol.

Some people say attack-move terminating if you float is a benefit, but (A) you shouldn't be floating at all, ever, and (B) if you (eg if reclaiming an exp) then when you're no longer floating you usually want your engies to keep reclaiming.

The downside of patrol is that if they reclaim everything in range, they do not go on idle. If an attack-move engie runs out of reclaim, it will show as idle.

If you attack-move from a factory, the reclaim range is tripled (?). Very good on maps like Syrtis where there's tons of reclaim but it's in "corner-ish" locations.