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Starcraft Brood War Map Hacker

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BWChart is a replay analysis tool created by JCA. It is the most popular and was widely considered the best of all software of its type. It calculates APM, plots various charts, can be used to organize replays and offers more functions.

• 1Features
• 2Methods to spot Hacks

Features[edit]

General Replay Info[edit]

• Calculates APM (including variance)
• Calculates micro and macro APM
• Estimates total resources and units
• Lists all actions

Charts[edit]

• APM against time
• Resources against time
• Build order
• Hotkey usage
• Action distribution
• Unit and building Distribution
• Upgrades

Replay Browser[edit]

• Scans replay directory for replays to list
• Calculates average overall APM and APM divided by races for every Player
• Supports AKA lists
• Filters and sorts by players, maps, APM, etc...

Methods to spot Hacks[edit]

BWChart was a long time the leading tool to spot various forms of Hacks. The methods changed over time, as the developers of hacks changed their function. Outdated hacks can still be spotted.

Multicommand Hack[edit]

Mutlicommand hacks allow a player to bind macro schemes on a short cut. When this short cut is pressed, a list of commands is executed faster than possible for a human. These kind of hacks are easily spotted with the help of the APM plots. Usually, the APM sky rockets and exceeds often times more than 1.000 actions per minute. The command list will automatically show a number of actions being performed in the same time stamp.^[1] Although the danger of getting a false positive result for Multi Command is very small it exists. If high lags occur during the game, the executed commands are recorded in the same time and could therefore cause similar spikes to the one generated by Multi Command Hacks.

Map Hack[edit]

Map Hacks allow a player to reveal the entire map and thus erase the fog of war. This kind of hacks are very hard to spot, especially when the hack is in its latest version. Older versions are still easy to spot with suspicious actions.

In the first years after replays were introduced a lot of map hackers were caught. BWChart has the option to list so-called Suspicious Actions. Everytime a player selects a building or a unit, which he couldn't see if he would not run a map hack, is labelled as these kind of actions. Such illegal/impossible selections could be confirmed by watching the replay carefully and comparing BWChart's finding with the actual vision of a player. Since this was the easiest way to spot a hack, the coders surpressed the recording of such clicks in their later builds.

However, BWChart often times recorded false positive illegal actions. An example would be a selected enemy unit disappearing in the fog of war. Due to the delay of the unit disappearing and the unit still being selected, the replay will contain a false-positive suspicious action. Hence almost all experienced player with a somewhat higher APM will do several suspicious actions in most of their games. Hackers, using the latest versions of the most popular tools, did not. By scanning a bigger number of replays map hackers could be caught by not causing suspicious actions.^[2] Again, the danger of wrongly accusing a player does exist. Especially players with a low APM often do not cause these warning, due to their mechanics being relatively bad developed.

Automine[edit]

With an automine hack enabled, the starting peons are split perfectly to gather unique minerals. In 2006, many leagues, such as BWCL, discovered this. Ten actions are needed to split your workers (Select worker * 4 + Send to mineral block *4 + Select Main Building + Build Worker). Automine hacks made these ten actions in a single frame, most commonly the fifth frame which is less than 1 second, impossible for a human to do. Whenever a replay features these ten highly unusual actions, a player is guilty of auotmining.^[3]

References[edit]

1. ↑Time Stamp is a different unit for time. Five time stamps equal roughly a second in real time on game speed fastest
2. ↑Thread: Fade Into Oblivion
3. ↑Thread: Source on GG.net

Be warned that some of these tricks and glitches can be illegal in some tournaments (exploits are always illegal).
The icon next to the title means the race that can perform it.

• 1Tricks
• 2Glitches
  • 2.11Selection Glitch
• 3Exploits

Tricks

A trick is a game mechanic that has been used (or abused) in an unintended manner.

Allied Mines

A Terran player places Spider Mines and proceeds to ally the opponent player. When the opponent moves his army over the mines, the player then unallies the opponent. The mines then acquire enemy targets as intended.

Manner Pylon

A player constructs a Pylon or other structure in the enemy's mineral line to prevent smooth flow of resources and potentially trap some workers, slowing down the opponent's economy.

More info in the liquipedia article: Manner Pylon.

Drops to Defuse Mines

A player uses a transport to unload units above a Spider Mine field. The single unit will attract all nearby mines and the splash damage will kill all the other mines or units that may be nearby. It is possible to load the unit as the mines explode to avoid taking damage while still accomplishing the purpose.

Crushing Interceptors

When a Terran building lands over an Interceptor, the Interceptor will be destroyed. This was overlooked but not necessarily a glitch since the Interceptor meets all the 'getting crushed' requirements. Despite Blizzard knowing this for a long time, it has remained in the game.

Using Unavailable Commands

A player can not use Hold Position on worker units normally, but when selected in a group this can be done. A glitch can also allow Terran Flying Buildings to patrol, and some other things like Larva Trick.

Stacking Air Units

When a group of air units are selected and moved, they normally move to a location relative to its current location, instead of stacked at the same target location. When another unit is selected in the group (from far away), this behaviour is nullified and the units then move to the exact position clicked by the mouse cursor.

Lurker Stacking

Burrowing Lurkers on top of one another to attack as one. Burrow each lurker on top of each other one by one by moving onto the previous burrowed lurker, repeat as necessary. It is best used in combination with 'Hold Lurker' for ambushes or on top of ramps/cliffs.

Bypassing Zerg Supply

When a Zerg Drone constructs an Extractor or other structure, the supply count will decrease, allowing the creation of more units. The player can then cancel the structures to retrieve their drones, bypassing the maximum supply.

Hopping/Pushing

A unit can be 'pushed' to hop over obstacles using several different mechanics. This can be abused to hop over obstacles such as walls.

1. Using Workers - In any match up, a worker can be used in conjunction with any unit to push it through minerals. The unit that wants to be pressed through should move towards the minerals, and once it is in position, a worker unit should be told to mine the minerals, and once it is over the unit that wants to be pressed through, the worker should be told to stop mining. Since two units are on top of each other, the units will try to separate themselves. During this process, the player should constantly tell the units to move past the minerals.
2. Using Buildings - A Protoss player can glitch a probe through minerals by having a probe mine minerals, then building a pylon that will cause the probe to jump past the minerals. Then the pylon will be cancelled to save money.
3. Using Landing Terran Buildings - Landing a Terran building then moving units beneath it before it finished landing.
4. Using Add-ons - Simply have a Factory, Starport or Science Facility in place as shown in the picture. Place a unit close to the minerals and on the spot where the add-on will be. Place the add-on and simply right-click the unit past the Mineral Line.
5. Using Burrow - This trick does not require a worker unit or minerals. It can only be done by Zerg. Tell two units to burrow on top of each other next to the area where they should be pressed through. Then, tell both units to unburrow at the same time, and constantly tell both units to move past the obstruction.
6. Using Spells - When vultures lay mines they can be pushed through buildings.

More detailed instructions here:

Mineral Walk

This trick is constantly used by all players. It is basically telling workers to mine a mineral patch or vespene geyser. They will then proceed to walk past all units until told to stop.

Spider Mine Trick

If you have really fast reaction time, you can give a command to place the second spider mine somewhere beneath the first one, on which cast the vulture will most of the time change its path. More info here.

Glitches

Also known as a game bug, it is a situation or event that the game's programming clearly did not account for and is usually unintended.

Stacking workers

This glitch allows worker units to remain permanently stacked while moving and attacking.

Plague on Interceptor

When an Interceptor is plagued and damaged, it will return to the Carrier to repair itself. Once the interceptor receives its one-time repair, the plague causes damage, and the damaged interceptor will 'leave and return' to the carrier in the same frame. Since the repair only occurs when an interceptor from outside enters the Carrier, it becomes stuck in an infinite loop, attempted to return to the Carrier even though it did not completely exit.

Sunken colonies with infinite range

If a Sunken changes its target before ending the 'pre-attack' sequence it doesn't check the range. More info here.

Disable Missile Turret

When a turret targets an air unit at the exact same position, the turret may be unable to reach the angle needed to fire missiles and get stuck. This is usually achieved by placing an Observer over an under construction Missile Turret and holding the position. The owner of the turret can press Stop until the head of the turret faces north. The attack angle requirement will be met and the turret will continue to fire.

Hold Lurker

Lurkers can be hindered from attacking permanently. This can be done with two different ways: the lurkers are ordered to attack a structure under the fog of war or get a hold position command when grouped with an overlord. Even if units come into range the lurkers will not attack.
More info in the liquipedia article: Hold Lurker.

Faster Units

When two units with a speed upgrade (or stimmed Terran infantry) collide when trying to pass each other, they will sometimes pass the other in the same direction, leading them all the way to the edge of the map or until they hit something. This is abnormal because they are twice as fast as they would be if they just moved there normally. This is mostly seen with Zerglings, Hydralisks, and Zealots.

Medic Hold can't be pushed

When a Medic uses Hold Position, the medic will not move from its location, even if they are stacked or pushed by other units. You could order a structure to land, move a Medic under it, and order that Medic to Hold Position. It will never be pushed out.

Recall Glitch

Recall has a very special property which nullifies some unit proximity checks for a single frame if the exit is blocked. This can cause various side effects such as:

Starcraft Brood War Map Editor

• Worker units will gather or return a resource from anywhere on the map.
• Units can completely recharge their shields from anywhere on the map (when moving to a Shield Battery).
• A SCV's terrain collision will be disabled when moving to finish construction on a structure.
• Queens will teleport to infest a Command Center.

Cloak Burrowable Units

For this glitch, you need an Arbiter and any burrowing Zerg units. Set the Arbiter on patrol over a short area back and forth over where the units are cloaked and away to a point where they uncloak. Now, burrow the units uncloaked. Wait until the Arbiter comes to the point where the units would just be cloaking and unburrow. These units should stay cloaked permanently, unless you bring them back near the Arbiter or if you burrow and unburrow them again.

Build Cloaked Zerg Buildings

You must first use the Cloak Burrowable Units glitch on a drone. Then, simply use the drone to build a building. This works for all buildings EXCEPT: Hatcheries, Creep Colonies, and Extractors.

Selection Glitch

This is a precursor to several other glitches. It allows you to control units with a different unit selected. For example, you can have a ghost selected, but when you order it to move, it moves a wraith. The two units (or groups of units) involved are determined by you. In the following steps, source unit refers to the unit you will have selected, and target unit is the unit that you will actually be controlling.

1. Select source(selected) unit
2. Save to hotkey 1
3. Select target(controlled) unit
4. Save to hotkey 1 and recall hotkey 1 within 4 frames (or whatever your network frame delay happens to be).

This can be used for several other glitches. Note that this glitch was accidentally patched in BWAPI. It is used to perform commands that are normally only possible through exploits, and restricted in BWAPI.

Unlimited Flag Beacon Placements

Use the selection glitch with two flag beacons of the same type, and you can place (and replace) one of them an infinite number of times (or until the flag spawn timer runs out).

Enemy Rally Point Changer

Use the selection glitch with one of your factories selected, and the enemy factory controlled. Then set a rally point. Your enemy's rally point will change. Note that the enemy's structure doesn't get hotkeyed, but this doesn't matter since it was the last selection you made.

Infinite Unburrow

Use the selection glitch with one of your burrowed units selected, and one or more unburrowed lurkers controlled. You can issue the unburrow order and the lurkers will play the unburrow animation, even when already unburrowed.

Exploits

An exploit is a glitch that must be performed intentionally (it cannot happen by accident). It is usually initiated using a hack to execute actions that are not available to the human user interface.

Sliding Terran Buildings

The player lands a Terran building, and it moves ('slides') while on the ground to another destination without needing to Lift Off (for example, sliding a Command Center closer to minerals than allowable).
To perform, lift off the CC and order it to land on a valid location, then hold shift and press S followed by a right-click on the location you want it to slide to. The CC stops sliding if colliding with any solid material.
Only works on version 1.04 and lower.

Starcraft Brood War Map Hack

Tank unit under building

A few patches ago, Blizzard had 'fixed' the tank under a building bug. However, little know that it is possible when sieged EXACTLY as the Building becomes registered as a ground unit.

Train Units in the Air

The player trains a unit and lifts off in the same frame. The lifted building retains the unit in the queue. When ordered to land, the unit starts being constructed. When right clicking as the building is landed, the building will lift off once more while still constructing the unit (which will be created where the building lifted off from). This allows, for example, a player to land a Factory in the opponent's base and construct a Siege Tank without needing to build a Machine Shop.

Flying Drones and Templar

The flying drones and templar glitch allows drones and templar to act like air units. This essentially means that drones can take an island expansion without drop tech and templar can storm worker lines without the use of shuttles.
Only works on version 1.10 and lower.

Controlling a Nuke

A.K.A. 'Godly Nuke', 'Nuke Hack' or 'Nuke Anywhere'. This exploit allows a player (with the assistance of an external program) to stop a Nuclear Missile from launching (or landing), and move it around like a regular unit. The player can then proceed to re-launch the nuke at any location on the map (without the need for vision or a nearby ghost). When the nuke lands and deals damage, the nuke death animation can be interrupted and the same nuke can be re-launched infinite times.

Flooding the Order Buffer

The player sends commands with the assistance of an external program in such a way that they are queued in a ridiculous order, preventing any new orders from being executed. This causes all units to stop moving, as well as other major effects such as units unable to execute the 'die' command, resulting in 0 hit point unkillable units, or the 'cancel' command, but still being refunded the resources. Cancelling a Zerg Extractor will also refund several drones along with resources.

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