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Efficient Specter Practice For Noobs

Big credits to AL for teaching me how to play. In this guide I will pass on what I learned from AL to you.

How to Practice Specter Efficiently

  • Start a Sandbox Game
  • Choose specter and select your specter unit (if you don't select your own unit you won't get the buffs from the commands below.
  • Now type in the following commands on the left for easy practice
  • p reveal
  • p buff AllTheShields
  • p buff NoCost
  • p level 12
  • Reveals the entire map
  • Makes your specter immune to death
  • Removes all cooldowns so you can spam Snipe!
  • Makes your specter lvl 12

Video 1: Typing in the cheat codes

All that's left now is to spawn some Ammo Boxes. Then spawn some practice zombies.

Practice on slow ones like Gourmands.

And practice on fast ones like Thresher Maws.

Goal: Your benchmark for being good is being able to kill a Thresher Maw in 4 shots with the BG (Big Game Hunter) SI in quick succession. There is a technique written below using SC2 way points that will help you achieve this.

Shot Placement

Shot landing distance to the zombie matters more than what part of the zombie the shot lands on. Don't rely on bpen which does crap damage.. You want to land direct distant shots on the zombies for maximum damage. The closer your shot is to the center of the zombie the more damage it will do.

F, Hold Shift + F+Click, F+Click, F+Click, Release Shift

Every wonder how good specters fire off 4 shots in a row so fast? They use Starcraft waypoints with the shift key! Practice this technique in sandbox to get better at the timing!

How to Rapid Fire

  • Snipe your first shot like normal
  • Hold Shift
  • Queue your future 3 shots with three F Clicks
  • Let go of Shift

See the 2 videos (Normal Speed + Slow Mo) below with button overlay for demo!

Video 2: 4 Rapid Shots (Normal Speed)

Video 3: 4 Rapid Shots (Slow Mo)

 

Other useful commands

There are other commands you can refer to by clicking on the ? mark button in game. But these commands below weren't documented.

  • p hide
  • p unbuff NoCost
  • p buff Suicide
  • p heal
  • Brings back the fog of war so you can practice
  • Undos the NoCost command
  • Causes a unit you selected to die
  • Heals your selected unit.