Detector Towers

[Vik]

Pretty funny of the devs to start a campaign against the bots but still not fix the bug where hellbombs can't be called in on detector towers. I think that's really funny.

[Doombunny]

oh for the love of....I thought this was NEW! got so frustrated i tried airstriking it, UGH

[ImHelping]

Fixing bugs means we win faster, and the devs have literally complained online they were horrified people were beating high difficulties already.

See also: Apologizing for breaking arc weapons to crash the game... but also too bad so sad that you failed that major order during the first leg of arcmageddon gosh guess you didn't try hard enough.

[Foxtrot39]

There is a small dirt ramp leading to the tower base enclosure, drop it right there or same with a 500kg with the tower right behind you due to the bombing pattern so it lands right into it

Or send a 380mm

[Botji]

You can call it in but its very fiddly if you dont know where to do it so I went looking for a Detector Tower on Diff 5 just to smuggle out this valuable intel for you!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3205646806
^ This is kinda facing the tower itself, as you can see it has 2 ramps leading up to the highest level. Beacon is where I called down a Hellbomb.


https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3205647411
^ next to the now armed Hellbomb but wanted to show this as well, the ruins there is a former bot fabricator with its door about where I am aiming which makes for a decent "marker" of where you should be looking to throw your Hellbomb.


As you can see from the first image the ground has a slight incline near to the edge where I put the Hellbomb, that is close enough to blow up the tower.

I think there is another Detector Tower template with higher walls(maybe higher difficulty missions?) but unless I am mistaken I am pretty sure you want to be looking about the same area on those as well, facing the tower from the inside of the base and then on its left side... but usually people just bomb them with stratagems so its tough to check and im too lazy to be running around 7-9 checking it.

[The Raving Dragon]

who cares use the laser orbital it instagibs the tower

throw it from out side the compound and run the other way

[Billy]

I've started just bringing the precision strike (yes, the starting strategem) to bot dives, it's actually super good against turrets and pesky special buildings like this.

[Redeyeflight]

Drop a 500 on it.

[ImHelping]

Originally posted by Billy:

I've started just bringing the precision strike (yes, the starting strategem) to bot dives, it's actually super good against turrets and pesky special buildings like this.

I just got burnt out on too many scatter debuffs making it pointless, but I did use it for a long, long time as "semi fast cooldown bug grenade" before debuffs hit it so very, very hard.

500 bomb with +1 ammo is basically a precision strike with pretty particle effects, which is why I am bringing that nonstop as a lazy "Factory vents are facing away from me again ♥♥♥♥ it"

[Billy]

Originally posted by ImHelping:

Originally posted by Billy:

I've started just bringing the precision strike (yes, the starting strategem) to bot dives, it's actually super good against turrets and pesky special buildings like this.

I just got burnt out on too many scatter debuffs making it pointless, but I did use it for a long, long time as "semi fast cooldown bug grenade" before debuffs hit it so very, very hard.

500 bomb with +1 ammo is basically a precision strike with pretty particle effects, which is why I am bringing that nonstop as a lazy "Factory vents are facing away from me again ♥♥♥♥ it"

The scatter debuff is both a rare effect and completely avoidable in my opinion, just read the debuffs before you go on an operation and decide your strategems.

[Vik]

Originally posted by Redeyeflight:

Drop a 500 on it.

500 markers bounce too and land off target