Allow Turrets to target only hostile creatures, or anything "Attacking"

[DrizzintahlTTV]

This way we can set them up in our base and still tame things nearby. As it stands, we need to set the turret in a place where it can't see the tame dinosaur but can still see argentavis, which is kinda annoying, you can't tell sometimes if it's right until you turn it on and it kills the tame. Kind of silly there isn't an option for this.

Also leaving it alone to defend the base from bugs and argentavis, it wastes all the ammo on Pterodons :(
EDIT: "Sorry that we don't agree with you that devs should spend time developing a feature that 90% of the playerbase finds useless."

Apparently 90% of us don't even think the turret has any uses, so I'll update this thread with more and more issues we seem to have with it.

(Census data from Marduk, cheers!)


EDIT: "the damn turrets don't lock, so some trollface jerkwad and just fly up and take all the ammunition out all the time. "

Another issue, I don't play on public servers, is this a thing? If so, just another issue with turrets.

Thoughts?

[Lilkinsly]

I agree. I think they need to give it a setting such as neutral on dinos. Otherwise it is useless for PVE really. It shoots EVERYTHING.

I guess the controllable turrets will be better, but people need to be at them.

[Mr.]

Just turn them off while you are taming? This isn't really much of an issue in my opinion. I can think of many things that should be higher on the to do list.

[DrizzintahlTTV]

Thank you for your overwhelmingly helpful input.

Let's just turn them off while taming, I had no idea. Never thought of that. Hey guys, that fixes them wasting endless amounts of ammo on perasaurs and flyers; just turn them off while you tame. Let's ignore how easy it would be to adjust settings on them and make them useful for PvE, nah just turn them off while taming. Another PvP only item, that's fine.

King Rafiki, on a scale of 1 to all the time, how often do Devs PM you asking you to join the team and help out with feedback?

[Lilkinsly]

Obviously there are things higher on the to do list. Yet they are diversified as they develop.

I would far rather have auto turrets be useful in PVE then something like say... warpaint.

[Aschran]

i agree turrets are always off on pve servers, or they will waste all ammo on passive dinosaures that are close, should have an option to target only hostiles,

[DarthaNyan]

Originally posted by lilkinsly:

I would far rather have auto turrets be useful in PVE then something like say... warpaint.

Infidel!
Pink birds, pink rexes, pink everything should be top priority!

[DrizzintahlTTV]

bump :)

[mike.bassman]

As I understand it, auto turrets are meant above all to be base defense, more specifically while players are offline. Personally I'm confused why PvE needs base defense at all. I know Alphas can wreck sub-metal walls, but if you're building turrets you should have resources to get metal walls too. My main concern would be turret aggro options becoming even more confusing than they already are, what with warning times, distance toggles etc.

[DrizzintahlTTV]

Right, because a setting for "hostile creatures" would be super overly confusing.

I'm really glad development doesn't come to a halt because you're confused why someone would want to use an aspect of the game.

[tom_gore]

What exactly do you need turrets for on a PvE server anyway?

[DrizzintahlTTV]

Are you in the bathroom on your phone?

I'm not sure why people come to the forum if they can't read said forum, it's just weird.

Dal momento che nessuno legge i messaggi in ogni modo, credo che posso solo scrivere in italiano.

[Smikis]

why would you ever use turrets in pve in the first place, i dont know, tame a trex or get walls ?

[DrizzintahlTTV]

I think there is a special needs facility for adults somewhere in the deep south with a rusty macintosh and a safari browser opened up to this forum so people can just med up, relax and read post titles and hit "reply" and blindly smash the keyboard with their helmets and auto correct takes the reins from there. -_-

[Enrell]

turrets are kinda useless atm. they are not wat they are make out to be.

after i tested my first turrets..kinda disappointed. its kinda expensive for the time taken to kill a dino..

[DrizzintahlTTV]

Originally posted by Enrell:

turrets are kinda useless atm. they are not wat they are make out to be.

after i tested my first turrets..kinda disappointed. its kinda expensive for the time taken to kill a dino..

When did you try it? a few patches ago they buffed their effectiveness quite a bit. They used to dump ammo into walls / trees and not in their mark, but they prevent them from firing if the target was behind cover and reduced spread by a large amount so they're much more accurate and deadly.