Anyone else try cannon rushing an insane AI since the patch? the probes now notice you the second you get onto their base. this makes the insane blitz much harder for me... Maybe I'm not doing it right?
I thought they always noticed? You have to put the pylon far enough away that they won't happen upon it. It isn't very easy to do..
i tried everywhere, hugging the wall as much as possible, i even tried putting it right next to the front, as soon as i start the pylon, all the scv's come together at once
I got it by starting without a pylon in their base, took a while but here is the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzmoS6rMfEg
It's easy to cannon rush Insane AI, it just requires you to build outside of their base first. Like since 1v1 maps. Build a pylon and forge outside of the base, next to a ramp or whatever and build a cannon outside. then once that cannon is almost complete simply build more in their base. Need to be careful doing it to zerg all of a sudden though, they mass roaches and hit the cannons. Nearly lost a few times to them. I have noticed though on some maps where there is no ramp to get into base you just can't do it without starting very far away and working up to it. There is this 1v1 map with a highground in the middle and everything else is low ground. Tried doing it everywhere on that map and got eaten by workers over and over again.
i know, thats what i did, i put the video up, although it was not that easy. took me a long time to figure out. like 2 hours.
I figured it out on my first try I think. They hit the pylon when I built in base so I was like... Build outside and work up. And it worked for me.
