Can Siege Turrets Kill Kharaa?

P-Khan

<div class="IPBDescription">Always wondered if it worked....</div> This is a stupid question, but I must ask.

I know that siege turrets can destroy alien structures, and fire through walls. But, can it kill aliens by actually aiming at it, not that by accident the aliens was between the line of fire?
I mean, I see people droping siege turrets at the base to be safe from Onos attacks as they say, but I don't know if that is true.

Deathclaw

I don't think so.

p0larize

yes, they can kill an onos if it's manual siege <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->


but with the default siege, the blasts comes from the middle of the nearest structure that u scan with, and if a kharra is near by, b00m <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

FlatlineUTD

Aliens can only be killed by the siege cannon's splash damage. You'll usually be able to get a gorge or something if you siege it while it's still building.

Manual siege is a plugin, you won't find it on 90% of the NS servers out there.

SkitZoFrenic

Manual siege eh? so my prayers HAVE BEEN ANSWERED! lol

TreaclyWheat

Manual Seige!? Can someone enlighten me please....

Xenogearz

Yes and no...

Basically the siege only targets on buildings/hives.. but if a kharra is close to the buidling that's been sieged, it will suffer quite a bit of splash dmg

sk84zer0

The manual siege would pwn all

Error404

I've played the manual seige on NS 1.04, basically you walk up to the seige and press your 'use' key, and then you get a target dot which the aliens can also see, and you press fire and it'll cause splash damage in the area you are aimed at even if there are no structures there. It takes some time before the seige recharges itself before you can use it again, so with this mod, most commanders build several seiges and you can move from seige to seige after firing each one.

taboofires

Manual siege is available as a plugin, I'm pretty sure. Still, it's pretty lame, so you aren't missing out on anything. Imagine GL spam that can fire through walls.

Standing next to a chamber when it gets sieged results in you taking loads of damage, moreso the closer your are to the center of the explosion. Skulks die pretty instantly, gorges sometimes survive one shot, lerks I think barely survive, and onos/fades can take a shot or 3.

Marines can be killed by siege as well (which is really funny). The only time I've actually ever seen it happen was with sv_cheats 1, but I wouldn't think it would change that aspect of the game.