Bug Exploiting Gorgs
V_MAN
V-MAN Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 6217Members, Constellation
V-MAN Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 6217Members, Constellation
All to often I have started seeing gorgs building a wall of OC and DC in the same positions time and time again because they cannot be destroyed by siege guns. Namely the bottom of the large lift on blast and on the other side of the airlock on blast. At first I though this was a clever use of DC to protect the OC but I soon realised that this is a bug in the game that some people have dubbed the "siege bug".
What I want to know is if their are any plans to fix this bug or if their are any strategies to counter it short of shooting the turrets with a hmg?
What I want to know is if their are any plans to fix this bug or if their are any strategies to counter it short of shooting the turrets with a hmg?
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1.03B KABOOM to said tower
The other day skulks kept doing runs on our command console, getting in that little room and chomping on it. The commander just built a spare console and let them chomp that one down (if they were wasting their time chomping there, they weren't stopping expansion elsewhere or attacking/defnding a hive).
Well that was all fine and dandy, until a skulk got up there, morphed into a gorge, and built a couple defensive chambers. I had a brief moment to stop that gorge there, but I had too little health from earlier fights to kill him. Well he kept building a wall-o-lame right there, on that second level above the marine base. Skulks were making suicide runs through the vents to get up there where they'd heal and morph into lerks. We had 2 of their hives at the beginning, but that wall of lame and those lerks in our base kept distracting us.
Soon into it I realized we needed siege guns to quickly solve that problem.
And so the commander built 4.
But none of them fired.
They all faced the wall, and stopped turning, but none fired, or had the firing graphic. They just froze.
My only thought there is that there is a glitch on the map itself (perhaps with the glass window up there?) that prevents those siege guns from working properly.
Grenade launchers and hmg runs at that wall couldn't kill it, and our siege guns weren't working. They eventually took a 2nd hive with all that harassment, then we had fades shooting acid from up there, with plenty of defensive chambers to keep them perpetually healed.
There's walls of lame, and there's walls of REALLY lame. This was definitely the latter.
I hope they fix that siege bug too. Siege was the only way we could have taken that stuff out....especially since we tried to get it early on.
If the fire coming onto your base from the wall was such a problem, why didn't you just move your center of operations?
And I didn't think guns had fire angles.....
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They do, if you're a skulk on the ceiling above a regular turret it doesn't fire on you either.
Of course! Hindsight is 20/20
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Yeah, turrets have *lots* of limitations - the 30-degree rule being one of them. They also only scan for targets once every 3 seconds, only attack the alien that is closest or attacking it at that moment, etc.
They also don't fire continuously - the animation makes it look like they do, but they really only fire 1 powerful shot every 3 or 4 seconds.