Guard Tables Ignoring Camera Alerts?

[Jaemin Glider]

Any advice on how cameras spotting intruders actually calls for guards at a table on-stand by?

Lair is 1 floor where I see this happening. It makes sense if the camera only calls guards on the same floor as the camera + table is.

Agents entered my base pretty far so I tagged them for capture under view of a camera. I have at most 6 cameras but can support up to 10; the leeway so if one minion goes off duty I don't have all my cameras shut down.

I looked at my guard room and saw only 2 muscle minions get up to run after the tagged intruders. I have 2 tables and had at least 10 muscle minions at the table or in the room.

Of course the agents won the fight and body bags began to pile up.

What helps trigger the cameras to send ALL my standby minions? I'm not trying to fight 1:1, I want to send an army after every threat to make sure I contain it immediately.

[Gain]

I have never come across this scenario were only few muscle minions fight while others sit and watch.

Every time investigators enter the lair, get tagged by camera...when disguise goes off..all muscle minions run to the location and fight. I use security check point (item part of in-genius pack DLC)

[Stabbity]

I find my tables will only empty the amount of minions physically capable of engaging the enemy. What I mean is, I made my corridor 2 spaces wide so my tables only sent a few minions. I opened up the space to 6 spaces and both my tables reliably empty.

[Shinobi273]

Distraction tag will only send 1:1 minions. If there is a fight it empties the table.

I haven't noticed the behavior Stabbity is describing but it would be interesting to test.

[Jaemin Glider]

Good info to test and try improving my base with. Most of my hallways are 4-wide and I hadn't considered wider could benefit.

[Dent]

IIRC in EG1 the minions would only attack the agent one at a time like in the movies. The rest would actually stand there cheering. I gave up and used automated sentry guns instead.

[Jaemin Glider]

Originally posted by Dent:

IIRC in EG1 the minions would only attack the agent one at a time like in the movies. The rest would actually stand there cheering. I gave up and used automated sentry guns instead.

Haha, yeah. I don't remember how fights went. I remember having a huge focus on beach sentry guns in EG1. I cheesed through EG1 and I'm trying to understand EG2 to play smarter, not just cheese.