Can Spider-mines be Recalled?

[n00bonicPlague]

Shouldn't you be able to recall them while burrowed? You can recall burrowed Zerg units after all.

You know what? I'm gonna make a map to test this right now.

BRB

[n00bonicPlague]

Unburrowed Spider Mines can be recalled, stasis fielded, and passive cloaked by the arbiter, but once they burrow they can't be touched. I think later I'll see if they can be subject to other abilities like lockdown and stuff like that. Also, if you position your Vulture correctly, you can stack mines perfectly on top of one another — it'll all look like one mine. A similar thing can be done with Lurkers.

[Pandonetho]

lso, if you position your Vulture correctly, you can stack mines perfectly on top of one another — it'll all look like one mine.

Yeah, and if you kill all of them except 1, it'll trail whichever enemy activated the mines all the way across the map until it explodes.

[LoTuS]

Shouldn't you be able to recall them while burrowed? You can recall burrowed Zerg units after all.

If i could i would have recalled 100 stack lurks

Yeah, and if you kill all of them except 1, it'll trail whichever enemy activated the mines all the way across the map until it explodes.

I have tested this and the distance iis pretty far, but not "OMG WTF ACROSS MAP far." Just far as uhh..5 CC's in a line? Give or take 2 or 3

[n00bonicPlague]

UPDATE: Finished list.

Okay, so I tested out every single ability from each race out on my own Spider
Mines and on enemy Spider Mines, and here's what I've found that works:

While burrowed OR unburrowed:
— Parasite
— Optical Flare
— Restoration
— Defensive Matrix
— Yamato Cannon
— Psionic Storm
— Hallucination
— Disruption Web

ONLY while unburrowed:
— Ensnare
— Plague
— Irradiate
— Recall
— Stasis Field

Abilities that don't work:
— Spawn Broodling
— Consume
— Lockdown
— Heal
— Repair
— EMP Shockwave
— Mind Control
— Feedback
— Maelstrom


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[Hammy]

When you say Irradiate you must mean the splash damage that emanates from the irradiated unit. Because you can most definitely irradiate and kill a burrowed unit^^

Also, what do you mean by "target abilities that don't work"? Don't really get it. Because you can broodling/consume/MC/Feedback a burrowed unit...

[Sheliek]

When you say Irradiate you must mean the splash damage that emanates from the irradiated unit. Because you can most definitely irradiate and kill a burrowed unit^^

Also, what do you mean by "target abilities that don't work"? Don't really get it. Because you can broodling/consume/MC/Feedback a burrowed unit...

He means that the mine is immune to those spells. For example, the mine is immune to Spawn Broodling, much like (I believe) the archon.

As another example, heal also doesn't work on spider mines. This is because the mine is mechanical, and heal only works on biological units such as marines.

[Hammy]

Oh yeah... I totally forgot we were talking about mines Thanks

[LoTuS]

I HAVEN'T FINISHED THIS POST SO DON'T TAKE IT ALL IN JUST YET!!!


Okay, so I tested out every single ability from each race out on my own Spider
Mines and on enemy Spider Mines, and here's what I've found that works:

While burrowed OR unburrowed:
? Parasite
? Optical Flare
? Restoration
? Defensive Matrix
? Yamato Cannon
? Psionic Storm
? Hallucination
? Disruption Web

ONLY while unburrowed:
? Ensnare
? Plague
? Irradiate
? Recall
? Stasis Field

Target abilities that don't work:
? Spawn Broodling
? Consume
? Lockdown
? Heal
? Repair
? Mind Control
? Feedback

AoE abilities that don't have any affect
?
?

wow ! u put alot of effort into this it seems. i didnt know u could hallu mines though, nice , flare mines too hehe.

[Rogueleader89]

I'm surprised lockdown doesn't work on unburrowed mines, might test that one again