Major Lag

There is a thread on the official StarCraft 2 HotS forums called “Major Lag.” Yesterday, I experienced the bug first hand.

Most notable is that I wouldn’t have called the phenomenon lag. The game appeared to work perfectly in other ways. The zoom functions of the game worked fine. The problem was clearly not latency. It was as though the game speed had been dialed down to the slowest setting possible.

While it made for a bizarre and in many ways, boring game, there was a slight novel effect. With the game speed so slow, I was free to micro incredibly well. My timings were spot on. I was able to micro like a god, and so was my opponent. Was it any surprise that we both went for rushes. He went for a ling rush into banes. I went for a five gate. It was actually quite close. In the end, he resigned, but I felt it could have been anyone’s game.

Subsequent games were without incident.