Daemonhost targeting

[Faglight]

When it wakes up, does it attack the person closest to it, or does it always attack the person who woke it up, even if the person who woke it up is veyr far away?

[bacon]

it attacks the person who aggroed it. not sure about the second target, if it is based on damage, aggro, proximity.

[Hexagoros]

It attacks at random.

Some say it has a higher likelihood to target psykers, but I don't think this is the case.

Originally posted by bacon:

it attacks the person who aggroed it. not sure about the second target, if it is based on damage, aggro, proximity.

No, I've seen it completely ignore the person who aggroed it plenty of times .

[bacon]

Originally posted by Hexagoros:

It attacks at random.

Some say it has a higher likelihood to target psykers, but I don't think this is the case.

Originally posted by bacon:

it attacks the person who aggroed it. not sure about the second target, if it is based on damage, aggro, proximity.

No, I've seen it completely ignore the person who aggroed it plenty of times .

literally never seen that even once. the first target is the one who aggroed. the second target seems harder to predict.

[DancesWithDoggos]

In my experience it's whoever it was the hit it right before it woke up. You get two hits. First hit, it stands up. Second hit, starts attacking. Whoever hit it that second time is the one it kills first in every game I've had.
Once it kills the person it targeted first, it will randomly go after a second person in the party. Though I think chances are higher if you were attacking it just before it finished off your teammate.

[uSIHitMan]

Originally posted by Hexagoros:

It attacks at random.

Some say it has a higher likelihood to target psykers, but I don't think this is the case.

Originally posted by bacon:

it attacks the person who aggroed it. not sure about the second target, if it is based on damage, aggro, proximity.

No, I've seen it completely ignore the person who aggroed it plenty of times .

probably before veteran infiltrator change. back then u could remove agro from u by using infiltrator. besides that i never seen dh targeting someone else

[Niju]

Originally posted by Zhou Bi Dan:

When it wakes up, does it attack the person closest to it, or does it always attack the person who woke it up, even if the person who woke it up is veyr far away?

It always attacks the person who woke it up.
It will teleport to the team member who triggered it, if necessary.

Originally posted by Hexagoros:

It attacks at random.

Some say it has a higher likelihood to target psykers, but I don't think this is the case.

Originally posted by bacon:

it attacks the person who aggroed it. not sure about the second target, if it is based on damage, aggro, proximity.

No, I've seen it completely ignore the person who aggroed it plenty of times .

There was a bug, where going into stealth made the DH attack another target (the one with the highest damage on it, or -if no damage done- a random team member besides the one in invis).

That bug is fixed now, the DH will attack the invisible team member who triggered it.

[Jhea]

Originally posted by Hexagoros:

No, I've seen it completely ignore the person who aggroed it plenty of times .

No you haven't.

[519B.]

Originally posted by Hexagoros:

It attacks at random.

Some say it has a higher likelihood to target psykers, but I don't think this is the case.

Originally posted by bacon:

it attacks the person who aggroed it. not sure about the second target, if it is based on damage, aggro, proximity.

No, I've seen it completely ignore the person who aggroed it plenty of times .

False, stop making stuff up, smfh. I hate people like you and so does everyone else, just talking for the sake of attention even though you don't know sh*t , then look like an idiot.
That is the main strategy, letting Ogryn with shield attack it for aggro.

[Auzi]

Originally posted by Hexagoros:

It attacks at random.

Some say it has a higher likelihood to target psykers, but I don't think this is the case.

Originally posted by bacon:

it attacks the person who aggroed it. not sure about the second target, if it is based on damage, aggro, proximity.

No, I've seen it completely ignore the person who aggroed it plenty of times .

This only happened in patch 13 when you went invisible as the zealot after pulling the DH, it was patched out very quickly.

[2D > 3D WEEB 4 LIFE]

It's supposed to attack whoever woke it up and then switch to whoever dealt the most damage but it's not uncommon for it to bug out and pick a random target or kill more than 2 if people are downed during combat.

[Sea Base]

Originally posted by bacon:

Originally posted by Hexagoros:

It attacks at random.

Some say it has a higher likelihood to target psykers, but I don't think this is the case.



No, I've seen it completely ignore the person who aggroed it plenty of times .

literally never seen that even once. the first target is the one who aggroed. the second target seems harder to predict.

It is worth pointing out that they are kinda bugged atm, but not consistently. Most the time they act exactly as they should, but a few games I've seen them trigger without anyone doing anything to trigger them, and in one of those occasions go after the furthest member of the party who was 2 rooms away still catching up xD

[JustSmile]

It always targets whoever woke it up first. Afterwards it goes after whoever got the most aggro, killing at least one more person. Pretty sure if everyone else ignores it and runs away it will kill only the primary offender and warp out afterwards.

[ridjess]

Originally posted by JustSmile:

It always targets whoever woke it up first. Afterwards it goes after whoever got the most aggro, killing at least one more person. Pretty sure if everyone else ignores it and runs away it will kill only the primary offender and warp out afterwards.

no, he always kills two players before leaving the portal, but if, for example, he killed one player, and the other player flew off the map and crashed to death, then the host will disappear, the second death will be counted as a trigger for leaving

[FeedMe]

Originally posted by 519B.:

Originally posted by Hexagoros:

It attacks at random.

Some say it has a higher likelihood to target psykers, but I don't think this is the case.



No, I've seen it completely ignore the person who aggroed it plenty of times .

False, stop making stuff up, smfh. I hate people like you and so does everyone else, just talking for the sake of attention even though you don't know sh*t , then look like an idiot.
That is the main strategy, letting Ogryn with shield attack it for aggro.

Ahhh yes because the ai behaviors in dark tide are perfectly balanced and never bug out at all there for justifying you branding people as liars if they report seeing behaviors that are out side an enemy types scripted actions... Lol

[40oz to Freedom]

So, the reason people are disagreeing in this thread is because they misread what was happening when the DH woke up. Here are the rules:

1. The Demonhost will be asleep and if someone hits it or moves too close to it, it'll become aware and levitate, then the team only has one more aggro before it wakes.

2. When it wakes, it will enter a wake up animation and scream, DURING THIS ANIMATION if someone attacks the DH it will aggro them and NOT the person who woke it. Otherwise it will pursue whoever woke it relentlessly.

3. After it consumes the soul of the first target, it will go after a second target, which is whoever has done the most damage to it. This is why you see teammates completely ignoring it while it rips apart the first teammate, which is a ♥♥♥♥ move. If the team focuses fire on the DH while it's going after the first target, they will usually have enough time to kill it before it finishes the second one.

4. If the person who has Demonhost aggro disconnects and is replaced by a bot, the DH may go after a second and then a third target. This is also a ♥♥♥♥ move, if you aggro the DH stay and let it finish you.