Siege
MyStIc
Join Date: 2003-11-06 Member: 22339Members
<div class="IPBDescription">How to use it</div> I've been playing for a little bit, I bought my team a awesome victory.. We were pwning the aliens, then I was ejected from CC. I didn't siege the hives, cause I don't know how to use siege. I get one built like, right in front of the hive but it doesn't shoot. I seen games were siege's shot through walls? So can anybody give me any advice/tips?
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But sieges are supposed to have their own line of sight... i'm taking "right in front of the hive" literally here, so i don't know why they didn't fire then.
as a gorge drop an oc ontop of a siege turret
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if u build a tf next to a hive and then put up seige, they will shoot because the marines can see the hive.
however if all your marines die the seige will stop shooting.
As to shooting through walls, seiges have a maximum range unobstructed by walls, all they need is a spotter.
Any building inside that range(as com it looks like a blue shaded region when u click on the seige) that is currently
being looked at by a marine or is under a scanner sweep will be shot) <!--emo&::siege::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/siege.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='siege.gif'><!--endemo-->
one thing i dont know is if a turret <!--emo&::sentry::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/turret.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='turret.gif'><!--endemo--> can spot for a seige. <!--emo&::siege::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/siege.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='siege.gif'><!--endemo-->
i dont know how it worx exactly, but if you build siege and obs later, the sieges wont shoot
What hive was this btw? 2 reasons for me asking. One is if the "right in front of the hive" was say on ns_hera in Archive and you built in the little station room on the 2nd level the sieges are too short to see over the edge and so you need to have a marine look at it so that the hive shows up on his minimap (the only 100% way to see something in line of sight) or to ping it.
The other reason is that there are some locations on maps that for unexplained reasons (too many particles, textures, whatever I dont know map technicalities very well yet) anything built there doesnt always work. One such place is on ns_tanith. Build an arms lab in the back corner by the CC in Marien Start and you can NOT upgrade armor oh I'd say about 7 times out of 10. If its built a little bit closer to the exit closest to Sat Comm in Marine Start, BUT STILL CLOSE TO THE BOTTOM WALL you cant' upgrade weapons. Also with tanith sometimes the West Access RT can be electrifed, but it just takes the time and res without electrifing it!
So chances are this was just a fluke and you shouldnt worry about it. If it happens again and in a diffrent spot or on a diffrent map post it again. It will frighten me then and make me do things . . . to try to help fix it.
-Red