I really don't think its aim because I've direct hit turrets from point blank range like 20 times with bile bombs and only seen maybe a couple squares of damage.
Now the manual says this:
Swipe, 80
Acid Rocket 50, lesser splash damage
Bilebomb, 80/160(), radius 500
This can't be right because I take out turrets fastest with swipe. Next fastest is Acid Rocket. Third fastest is Bilebomb. In fact I don't think I've ever finished off a turret with bile bomb. I usually give up and go swipe it or switch to acid rocket if there's no marines around.
Just today I was bile-boming a base and couldnt ever get more than 4-9 dmg on a structure. humans would drop like flies but i saw nothing but "9" rise up...
and i was spraying them all over - some of them HAD to hit dead on or close enough to cause at least 90% of the potential damage... <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
Same thing again today. Was bombing turrest through a tiny crack in a hallway Z. Launched atleast 50, none of them died. I know i was hitting them because the splash was eminating from chest level, so the bombs were exploding on the top of the turrets. The marines that tried to take me out died very quickly from the bile bombs, but the turrets just wouldn't fall. Eventually some Onos ran in and took them out.
the bile bomb is buggy, it has to do with siege turrets, something where if a siege is attacked by bile bomb while firing, both the bile bomb and the siege stop doing damage. i know it is true cuz i was playing today and we had a **obscenity** command who bulid like 10-15 siege and they were shooting at some alien turrets for a good 15 minutes and never did any damage, and fades were constantly bile bombing our base for little or no damage for that time
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Now the manual says this:
Swipe, 80
Acid Rocket 50, lesser splash damage
Bilebomb, 80/160(), radius 500
This can't be right because I take out turrets fastest with swipe. Next fastest is Acid Rocket. Third fastest is Bilebomb. In fact I don't think I've ever finished off a turret with bile bomb. I usually give up and go swipe it or switch to acid rocket if there's no marines around.
and i was spraying them all over - some of them HAD to hit dead on or close enough to cause at least 90% of the potential damage... <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->