Rookie mistake Highlight 1: Repairing Enemy Ant!?!

Hey so I have been casting some games in the rookie comp and I caught this little gem.



Direct link to the moment http://youtu.be/hAk3DBo1uyE?t=16m14s

Where in the video did it happen?

The Ant repairing is 16 minutes in.

Gorgeous.

I hope you asked for permission from the players before posting. he might find it embarrassing. assume must hve got the reclaim and repair buttons mixed up.

Woops it did not maintan the time start when it came in to the forum. Its 16 mins in.

Not going to lie I did not, that said both players knew the game was being cast. If the player has an issues with it I will take it down. Accidents happen its nothing to feel bad about.

bahahaha. Whoops.

Looks like a new bug.

It's quite doable. Sometimes the AI Commanders need a little help to avoid their dying of attrition.

It's not a new bug - it's been in the game for ages. Right click by default makes you repair buildings or construct buildings. I've had fabbers repairing enemy commanders. It's gorgeous.

Yeah I suspected as much I really hope they change that, the vast majority of the time you dont want to repair enemy units

Those bots look so confused.

Set tasers to repair?

nothing new, right-click reclaim is a known non-implemented feature.

Still funny to watch.

I'm pretty sure everyone has learned about the lack of right-click reclaim by doing exactly this, though. I don't think anyone needs to worry about being embarrassed over it, since it has probably happened to most of us.

Hes also has commented on the video on you tube, in good spirit saying he did just right click on the enemy tank.

It would be embarrassing if I had clicked on repair, but I deliberately selected reclaim and the context command apparantly overrode the command I was trying to issue. This is a bug. You cannot reclaim a damaged enemy unit. I tried the reclaim command again after the tank was repaired and the fabbers did nothing. That is why you will see them just sitting there getting popped after the "repair" was complete.

I made a lot of bad choices in that game but that repair was not one of them.

Also, no need for everyone to jump in and coach me on what I did wrong. I just need to practice.

You didn't ask permission to post the video but I really don't care. I just don't want to be mocked or get a bunch of "you poor little idiot, what were you thinking?" posts.

Brad ya drongo!You misspelled "moment" and "planetary"!

No one really asks for permissions to play games. There's no real need to. Besides, this is the PA community, not the COD community.

Anyone who gives you a hard time will receive a hard time from me.

This wasn't a mistake – not in the slightest.

In this situation, reclaiming an enemy Ant was a very good move – one that most new players wouldn't think of and I'm impressed that you did. You would have been successful if it weren't for a bug.

Good move @Nullimus. You were just short changed by a bug.

It's not a bug... Beta is beta. The contextual difference between friendly units and enemy units hasn't been implemented yet.

Imagine if it was the reverse situation - and the default was to reclaim friendly units.