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Re:To win at Starcraft, machines need to figure out how to lie by realharo on Saturday April 23, 2016 @11:23AM (#11555914)
If you team up two humans, they need to be very well coordinated to work together effectively, otherwise they'll just get in each other's way.

Starcraft 2 has a mode like this called Archon Mode, where two players control the same units. The conflicts that can arise from this can be pretty fun to witness.

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Re:To win at Starcraft, machines need to figure out how to lie by duskwuff on Sunday April 24, 2016 @04:15PM (#11561173)
A similar mode was present in the original Starcraft, albeit without the cool name. (It was simply called "team melee".)
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Re:To win at Starcraft, machines need to figure out how to lie by hobarrera on Monday April 25, 2016 @07:53AM (#11563642)
No, it's a completely different thing. In Archon Mode, two physical players share control of a single in-game player. A lot more coordination is required or they'll both be giving counter-orders most of the time.
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Re:To win at Starcraft, machines need to figure out how to lie by duskwuff on Monday April 25, 2016 @01:48PM (#11565925)
It's been a long time since I played team melee, and I've never played Starcraft 2 multiplayer, but reading back, I'm pretty sure they're the exact same thing:

http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Team_Melee

http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Archon_Mode

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/314e28/archon_mo...

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Re:To win at Starcraft, machines need to figure out how to lie by cmdrfred on Saturday April 23, 2016 @12:54PM (#11556304)
It appears the starcraft developers had the same conversation we are having here.
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