It only survives if you damage it first? Useless Facts #92

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[@uThermal]

The first one is actually super cool xD sick

[@nikolaysitnikov796]

I never noticed that a shading adept has the ring on their back enter an active animation.

[@nikolaitolstoy7355]

Keep them coming feardragon! Here is my own useless fact: The adept shade last longer if the adept gets hit by a reaper grenade.

[@pinky797]

cant wait to use this trick on my archons

[@jeanphilippecroteau]

I have seen the emp + hallicination thing before, I can only guess it was from another useless fact because it's the best starcraft source of information. Not presented the same way but Useless Facts #17 has the "same info".

[@callslightning]

The EMP + hallucination thing reminds me that I really have no idea how bonus damage to shields works. All the other damage bonus types are constant for a given unit. Does the shield bonus damage apply first? What if the shield bonus damage is enough to burn through the shields?

[@feardragon64]

A future video will actually be covering this but the quick explanation is that bonus shields applies first and foremost. If shields go to 0, then the excess bonus shields is expended then the normal damage is applied. Example: Zealot with 20 shields gets hit by the splash of a widow mine(40+25 vs shields). Zealot will lose the shields and 40 hitpoints. The excess 5 damage to shields is effectively lost. Hope that made sense. Good question!

[@Garryl367]

Hallucination dying to EMP sounds like a bug. Either EMP is supposed to work like a dispel and kill it outright, or the extra damage taken modifier for hallucinated units is dropping the vs. shields only part of EMP's damage for the multiplier's added amount. Situationally killing the hallucination doesn't sound right. When you do the future video regarding bonus damage vs. shields, could you please check how it interacts with hallucinations as well? There are a lot of possible outcomes and edge cases based on total shields before impact and where exactly in the damage application process the hallucination effect applies the extra damage taken to the vs. shields bonus damage.

[@deathcraft2299]

alg

[@RedGunnerguy]

First!