Sniped scvs

Zergalicious, as I just said in the post above; check the damn link. It's all there.

 

Nowhere in that first post, that has the information does it say it can ONLY hit the units it gains bonus from. If it does I'm a fucking idiot. :|

 

The standard attack can be used against anything, but the Snipe is restricted to biological units.
Both gain damage bonuses against light.
The standard attack does 5 damage against anything, and Snipe does 50 damage to biological.
If the enemy unit also is light, the standard attack would do the initial 5 damage and the +30 vs. light, and the Snipe would do the 50 damage +100 vs. light.

 

Well Blizzard hasn't said it is restricted (or did they) But if you cannot click Snipe then click a mech I think thats a small problem cuz, why not? I might have a reason I want to snipe a mech you know.

And yes I understand how it works I am just saying Blizzard hasn't told us that you are not allowed to click snipe for anything other than light armor and biological.

I wonder if you're allowed to snipe air units.

 

Here's what Karune said on the B-net forum while talking about the Nullifier;

"One key thing to note about Nullifiers being 'Mechanical' is that it will not be affected by certain abilities, such as the Snipe ability from a Ghost."

He said it here: http://www.battle.net/forums/thread.aspx?fn=sc2-general&t=577526&s=new&#new

As long as they are Biological.

 

Will not be affected, but not cant not use... Im sure the ghost is able to use it, but it will only do 0 damage (or 5 or 1)

 

"Not be affected" means that it won't do anything... That excludes 5 damage furrer. XD

 

I know, therefore i said 0 dmg too!!?!?!? That was just my ideas, that it could do 5 or 1 dmg, not what Not be affected means... therefore it was ()

 

I doubt that Snipe can be used against mechanical units when it won't do any damage, don't you too? It would just be a waste of energy.

 

I doubt too, but Blizzard did not say it couldnt be used, they just said it "Not be affected". But i think I should stop this word bla bla bla.

 

He only said they won't be affected meaning it won't activate any damage bonuses. But hey who knows, I guess it doesn't really matter at the end of the day.

 

if the attack didn't do the extra damage but you still could target a player could hide his snipeable units under BC or carrier so that they could not be sniped.

 

The bullet would pass through the units and still hit the snipeable units anyways. This is SC2, not some Supreme Commander crap. And mechanical units probably can't even be targeted, just like how spawn broodlings couldn't target non-biological.

 

That was because that is a one hit kill attack. Snipe might not kill every unit in one go, or will it.

 

It's the same principle. Blizzard could have made mechanical units targetable for spawn broodlings, but they didn't because it would be stupid to let players try using some ability on a unit it doesn't work on.

 

Sniping something is the same as shooting something tho. The Spawn Broodling was an actual biological something which burrowed into the victim and burst out, the reason it wouldn't work on mechs is because the creature/egg the Queen launched probably wasn't strong enough thus targeting softer units. Its an ability with an effect not an attribute.

 

Excuse me? I demand some respect here! SupCom is an excellent game and just cause you're a Starcraft fan doesn't mean you have to bash other RTS's.

On topic though, the only reason snipe works is cause the ghost targets vital organs. It won't work on mechanical units cause it's just bullets. A sniper rifle won't do jack squat against a tank no matter where you hit it.

 

That doesn't make any sense, since the standard attack can cause 5 damage to Tanks, etc.

 

Exactly. So if a normal attack does damage why can't Snipe since it is stronger...

 

Snipe should be target able on mech too (so the noobs need to read the manual ), and then just do 5 damage IMO; Or not be targetable on mech...