How do you multitask so effectively in halo wars? Is there a certain technique that you use to do it besides using the dpad? How do you do it with such precision? Do you have a answer to these questions, if you do, can you answer them, and will you?
The rules behind micro-managing units can be pretty basic.
Example: Moving units as much as you can so that if someone starts dropping MAC blasts, you don’t get hit.
Example: Circling your Gauss around a Scarab so that the Scarab won’t focus down any single unit.
In terms of controls, the d-pad is only used when moving between flares, bases, units and leader powers. Holding LT and A makes a circle that moves over groups of units.
Example: You can break off task forces and have your main force still surge ahead. No use of individual unit selection.
And that’s pretty much all there is to it. If you need anything more, talk to me on Xbox. If you want more high-level stuff, don’t ask me, and I wish you good luck finding someone considered high-level these days who will give a direct answer.
Try checking out marcostyle nl’s channel. If I had more time I’d probably say more, but in all honesty Microing units well comes with experience. However macro and strats can be taught.
Holding A go get the circle select allows you to grab only a few units of your group, with left trigger + high sensitivity you can grab sections of units, send them in a direction, downclick, repeat. This, for example, is how you’d split a group of hogs if you get caught by an arbiter.
Basically micro is a combination of using the circle unit select, the d pad and the left trigger to scroll quickly and the all units, local units and other d pad locations to quickly navigate.
With regards to multi-tasking I find that it’s all about remembering to do that thing that you really should be doing at that time, such as collecting resources with one of your hogs while remembering to collect with the other hog at the other side of the map, while remembering to build on your base. There’s no real trick to it, you just have to be alert.
One thing that will help you is to use the d-pad in order to get to your base or units instantly. Another is to program your hogs so that they will collect supplies around the map. I may be teaching my grandmother to suck eggs here, but, what you do is send your hog to the first lot of supplies that you want to collect, then move your cursor over to the next lot that you want to collect and hold down the blue button. After the hog has collected the first lot of supplies, it will then automatically head over to the next lot and will start collecting. You can program the hog to collect as many resources as you can see on the map. This means that you will no longer have hogs sat around not doing anything and also means that you don’t have to remember to go back to the hog to get it to collect more resources. The programming is cancelled if you hit the “All Units” button and then move all of your units so beware
With regards to micro, I feel that it can be summed up with one statement: “Who cares, wins”. If you don’t feel like moving your hogs around too much you will get a MAC or carpet bomb raging them down
from above so always remember to move them at all times when attacking so that this does not happen.
Try not to use “All Units” all of the time. Try to use the “Local Units” button and the expanded cursor (holding down the green button).
If you have a whole bunch of tanks with canny then make sure that you don’t get all of them to canny a single tank as this is a waste of your canny. Try to get 3 or 4 of them to hit one tank and then the rest to hit another tank. This wins games.
Try to move damaged units to the rear of your army before you engage the enemy so that they don’t just die as soon as your armies meet.
Micro is also about practice. The more you do something, the better you will get at it. These are just a few examples of good micro but there are many more that I don’t have time to discuss. Remember though, it is mostly about “Who cares, wins”.