Turret Hacking - Friendly Mode

[RandomSanity]

Anyone else confused about how friendly mode works? I use it on a turret expecting them to target enemies and they don't do anything. Is this just broken like most other things in this game or did I misinterpret something?

[Overeagerdragon]

You can tag enemies after hacking one to have them open fire on their buddies ;)

[AeAeDHPK]

I think it has been destroyed when the combat started

[kale_star]

It doesn't work for me either?

[Shmider]

They start shooting after enemies are agro from my experience.

[RandomSanity]

As Overeagerdragon said, I've figured out that you have to manually tag enemies or the turrets won't attack them. You have to turn on scanning with caps lock (or hold tab) and then middle mouse click on each enemy. The turret will then start shooting whether you're in stealth or fighting.

Being honest the turrets are underwhelming. They shoot like once and then swivel around like idiots. If you manually take control of the turret you can easily take out 6 or 7 enemies in the time the turret would spent taking 10% health off a single enemy.

[Jocko]

I had a situation where enemies didn't know I was there but I hacked the turret and pinged them and the turret killed several of them, they even came running to the turret to destroy it.

However in one of the story missions I hacked a turret and it didn't fire. But i'm sort of sure I didn't 'tag' or ping the enemies that time. Maybe that's why?!?!