Auto balistas

[Florian]

Is there a way to position auto balistas so they don't end up all shooting the same target, thus wasting their shots, without having to put them 10+ squares apart?

So far every pattern I've used results in them consistently targeting the same stuff. Are we supposed to only use like 1 balista per hallway? Cuz it doesn't shoot anyway near frequent enough to make that worth it.

[Min]

The only way I found was to place them one behind another far enough from each other, around 3~4 ballistas apart. This way if an enemy dies the Ballista behind will fire on the enemy behind instead of two or more of them wasting shots on overkill.

[RittenhouseHero]

The targeting system in this game sucks A$$. Just the truth of it

[Florian]

I mean, the basic archers seem to switch quickly enough for it to work without wasting half their shots, even if you have a large group of archers, so it should definitly be possible for balistas to work reasonably as well.

[Min]

I think it might have something to do with their delayed fire. If an enemy gets in range of 2 or 3 Ballistae they'll lock-on on that enemy and fire all at once at the hapless thing regardless of how much health it has. This becomes a big problem since the Auto Ballista fires much slower than Archers.

[Ackooba]

Yeah the targeting/firing is very slow. I usually just make a line of them (vertical not horizontal) that you won't have like 5 of them blast the same orc.

[feeWAIVER]

you definately gotta space out your ballistas so they don't all target the same orc.

[feeWAIVER]

I feel like Ballista's and Snow Blowers are best used in Coop.
They are ancillary traps. They are the traps you bring to squeeze into the corners of kill boxes just for extra combo...

They aren't reliable enough to be the bread and butter ceiling traps... but they only take up 1/4th of a tile, so what can you expect. Best used for extra flourish when playing with a friend.

[Florian]

The snow blowers work fine, even when stuck quite closely together. But that's because 1) they have a relativly short range, so they don't all activate at the same time the moment an orc turns around the corner. and cuz 2) it's an AoE. Even if the first orc dies it'll just shoot whatever is coming behind it, and next to it.