Sniper priority.

[phantom]

Am I the only one annoyed that strong prioritizes the bigger blimps over black blimps? I have lost multiple games over this because they want to target the bigger balloons a mile away. And changing their targeting to first seems to do barely anything to help because then they are burning time on the smaller balloons that spawn from them.

[NimrodAbsolution⁧⁧98]

Originally posted by phantom:

Am I the only one annoyed

Probably
Sounds like your defense is inadequate, even without diversifying towers the sniper still has bottom and mid paths for less single target focused dps

[Na]

Snipers are weak late game.
Use a heli instead.

[Shiroe (cortana)]

402 snipers aint so bad, stunning moabs all day long :)

[MjölnirT95]

Isn't this exactly what the Elite targeting is supposed to solve? That being said, I almost never use snipers unless co-op kind of forces me to sometimes.

[phantom]

Elite does not help it at all. That is the same as switching them to target first except they wait longer to do it. I would be happy if elite made them target the first blimp.
I find it a bit worrying if an over 40k cost sniper has fallen off of relevance by that point. It is not like I expected a ton out of it. I just expected them to shoot the black blimps. at all.

[󠀡󠀡]

Originally posted by ;1744515852428701690:

Originally posted by phantom:

Am I the only one annoyed

Probably
Sounds like your defense is inadequate, even without diversifying towers the sniper still has bottom and mid paths for less single target focused dps

mid path isnt really worth it unless you want the abilities, you can just put all of your sniper monkeys withing range of a camo detecting village.

[NimrodAbsolution⁧⁧98]

Originally posted by Freshwater Shrimp:

Originally posted by ;1744515852428701690:

Probably
Sounds like your defense is inadequate, even without diversifying towers the sniper still has bottom and mid paths for less single target focused dps

mid path isnt really worth it unless you want the abilities, you can just put all of your sniper monkeys withing range of a camo detecting village.

i wouldn't use sniper for multi target dps in the first place but rebounding rounds and shrapnel seemed relevant to OP's specific issue here

[󠀡󠀡]

sorry, i forgot about the bouncing bullet upgrade

[traviniperv]

Originally posted by Sodium:

Snipers are weak late game.
Use a heli instead.

I dunno about that. Late game I've seen a 205 sniper have about a million pops which is nothing to sneeze at.

[Ekimmak]

Snipers Moab upgrade is more for holding the big ones at the entrance, so that the other towers can handle DTDs. If you want DTD targeting, then give them first, because by the time that they start coming in swarms, anything in front of them will likely vaporize in an instant, so they're more likely to hit the Black Blimps.

[Vertex]

Originally posted by phantom:

Elite does not help it at all. That is the same as switching them to target first except they wait longer to do it. I would be happy if elite made them target the first blimp.
I find it a bit worrying if an over 40k cost sniper has fallen off of relevance by that point. It is not like I expected a ton out of it. I just expected them to shoot the black blimps. at all.

If you want to kill the black blimps spawn some monkey ace - figher planes and give them radar with a monkey village. This is much cheaper and more effective if the map has adequate space.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1960249438

Originally posted by Ekimmak:

Snipers Moab upgrade is more for holding the big ones at the entrance, so that the other towers can handle DTDs. If you want DTD targeting, then give them first, because by the time that they start coming in swarms, anything in front of them will likely vaporize in an instant, so they're more likely to hit the Black Blimps.

I don't use snipers at all for late game because they're too weak. Super glue can target 6-8 DTDs per shot. Sniper has no utility for late-game DTDs. There are too many DDTs to target.

[phantom]

Just saying but I was not asking for ways to deal with them. I just found something else whne I realized the snipers did nto work.
Also they had a tower for camo detection lol. The problem I had was the snipers were pretty lousy at killing the balloons that spawned from DTDs they would waste to much time killing those if I had them target first.
As for having them hold back the blimps behind the DTDs that is about worthless. Well they are good at holding back blimps for their cost by the time DTDs spawn you have much stronger options for that.
*Edit*
Actually after a quick consideration even in that cost range there is better turrets for holding backlines. The advantage of stunning as a sniper was they could do it across the map.