Nullifier not working

[Rha0]

I've had this happen a couple times, and I'm not sure what's causing it. The nullifier is right next to an emitter or something similar but does nothing - had a thrower I had to leave a couple units next to just babysit it till I finished the level. In this screenshot, I've got it happening again, and I'm just not sure why.

Anyone know what's happening?

https://imgur.com/a/nQ9mwMJ

[cornucanis]

Shields block line of sight for nullifiers.

[Material Defender]

Originally posted by cornucanis:

Shields block line of sight for nullifiers.

very much this.

Gotta have the nullifier in the open to allow it to fire

[Rha0]

Thanks!

[Running Rat]

Originally posted by cornucanis:

Shields block line of sight for nullifiers.

I just found this out the hard way. This really should be mentioned in the in-game shield tutorial.

[ADF]

Yes, it was the shields. This should be in the help/tutorial indeed. IIRC, shields weren't blocking nullifiers in the previous games.

[Running Rat]

Originally posted by ADF:

Yes, it was the shields. This should be in the help/tutorial indeed. IIRC, shields weren't blocking nullifiers in the previous games.

Shields definitely didn't block nullifiers in CW3 and CW4. There was a special emitter in CW3 that randomly spawned creeper around the map (except in your center base area), but it couldn't spawn creeper near shields, so It was a good idea to protect your nullifier and other forward buildings with shields. Similarly in CW4, there was a mission where creeper rained from the sky, so you had to protect all of your buildings, including nullifiers, with shields. I don't know if shields blocked nullifiers in CW2 though.

[Material Defender]

Nullifiers do have at least 1 advantage in this game that they didn't have in the previous games, they can be moved.

The previous games required that you build the nullifiers within range, and couldn't move.

I might be misremembering, but if I recall correctly, that was how they worked.