Dark Artilerry Stop Firing w/out LoS

Posts : 279 Join date : 2014-01-20

The new mechanism to stop an artillery from firing if it loses LoS seems to be affecting dark artillery. Even if I set it to ground fire an area behind terrain it stops firing after one round. If I manually reassign ground fire it fires another round, then cease fires.

Every time I assign it to fire at a unit behind terrain it fires for one round then immediately stops.

The Unyielding Posts : 802 Join date : 2013-05-31

Heyyy, we saw this bug or such sometimes on test server. and no one expected to see it in this update O.o LOS and such + arty still needed work.
Ah well, think of it as super-thick fog?
Though kinda annoying for us ranged people.

Posts : 3124 Join date : 2012-11-13

LSLarry wrote:: The new mechanism to stop an artillery from firing if it loses LoS seems to be affecting dark artillery. Even if I set it to ground fire an area behind terrain it stops firing after one round. If I manually reassign ground fire it fires another round, then cease fires.

Every time I assign it to fire at a unit behind terrain it fires for one round then immediately stops.

Is the artillery unit able to see the unit behind terrain?

If not, then you should actually assign a "Attack Ground" command, otherwise the artillery unit will cease shooting once the target is not visible anymore. This is valid for all artillery units.

Posts : 279 Join date : 2014-01-20

LSLarry wrote:: Even if I set it to ground fire an area behind terrain it stops firing after one round. If I manually reassign ground fire it fires another round, then cease fires.

Posts : 3124 Join date : 2012-11-13

LSLarry wrote:

LSLarry wrote:: Even if I set it to ground fire an area behind terrain it stops firing after one round. If I manually reassign ground fire it fires another round, then cease fires.

Ooops

Posts : 585 Join date : 2013-10-21

it doesnt even fire one round. i doubt, that i got misfire 7 times in a row

Posts : 1043 Join date : 2013-07-09 Age : 42

RuneSlayer wrote:

LSLarry wrote:: The new mechanism to stop an artillery from firing if it loses LoS seems to be affecting dark artillery. Even if I set it to ground fire an area behind terrain it stops firing after one round. If I manually reassign ground fire it fires another round, then cease fires.

Every time I assign it to fire at a unit behind terrain it fires for one round then immediately stops.

Is the artillery unit able to see the unit behind terrain?

If not, then you should actually assign a "Attack Ground" command, otherwise the artillery unit will cease shooting once the target is not visible anymore. This is valid for all artillery units.

AI artillery cheats and even though it has no units around it can still fire even though not being able to see that unit.

Posts : 124 Join date : 2013-11-10

I've noticed this too. I just had a coop where I could clearly see the units I was firing at, but my arty still would not fire. I would pick a target and my arty would pause to fire, but then they would decide to go idle again.

My targets were behind objects, but I could still clearly see them because my ally was scouting the area.

Posts : 63 Join date : 2013-09-11

after 3-24-14 update;

Dark artillery work normally when targeting enemy units but still cannot Attack Ground when there is an obstacle between them and the targeted area, regardless of FoW.

Posts : 295 Join date : 2013-05-13

On it Broodzero,

thanks for pointing that out. Smile

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