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Jihce
4th Oct 04, 1:20 PM
It sometimes happens that when right clicking for overwatch, the icone starts flashing but do not queue production/renforcement. Noticed it from the demo and in the final game, though I didn't see it in the beta. Each time it had happens to me (whit Orks in the demo and Eldars in the full game, i didn't try the other races yet), it was around mid game. Of course, i had enough requisition and power, and cap limit wasn't hit as well. In fact, a left click on the icone start production as normal. cancel and re-ordering overwatch doesn't solve the problems, it seems that squads affected by the "overwatch bug virus" keep it until their deaths. More funny even, some of the fresh new squads produced after the bug appears are unaffected...
I hadn't enough time yet to play more than a dozen games, but this thing occurs half of the time... I didn't see any post in the forum bug concerning this... Am I the only one to experiment this bug ?

ÜberJumper
4th Oct 04, 1:36 PM
I've not heard of it yet... if you have a replay of the problem, that might help.

Jihce
4th Oct 04, 1:56 PM
Unfortunaly, you can't see orders like queue building or queue reinforcement in replays. I was just watching one to make sure. Or maybe there is something to do i'm not aware of ?
In that case, i'll post the repalys of the next game where i'll see it, cause i'm not 100% sure the replays i have yet contain the bug.

Lodrin1
4th Oct 04, 2:02 PM
there is a little button near the mini map that is used to pause overwatch. unfortunately it doesn't switch description on mouseover, but a PLAY arrow and a PAUSE arrow show the CURRENT state of overwatch. the use of this button is to stop reinforcements so u can buy a structure or some other unit, and then unpause it.

my guess is you are accidentally hitting this button. it's happened to me quite a few times.

Jihce
5th Oct 04, 4:40 AM
Yeah, you're right. I knew about the pause feature, i use it often when in specific need of something. Generally, i just pause the time it need to get the amount of cash i want and then unpause right after.
But... I could have done this accidentally, it seems weird to me though cause i remenber being able to overwatch some of my squads. I'll have to try it...