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Jarcionek

30 Oct, 2023 @ 4:27pm

Archers not shooting

I am seeing regular problems with archers and ceiling mounted turrets not shooting at enemies.

Here I managed to screenshot a bat, just next to my rift, while being in sight of over 30 archers:

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3066918870

And here is my defense in one the war scenarios - about 10 laser traps, plus freezing turrets, auto ballistas and archers - where I occasionally experience a bat flying through that straight to the rift... Unfortunately I don't remember whether it was electric immune bat.

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3066923037

The problem is not only with targeting flyers, but flyers make the bug most visible, as there is a very limited choice of traps that can kill them...

Any ideas what's causing this bug? Any workarounds?

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Originally posted by Siopilos:

When there are many enemies on the map all these single target traps are not working.
Archers are lazy when many enemies, also developments are lazy to to fix this issue all these years.
https://youtu.be/B9m3dFaHbgg

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Tam

31 Oct, 2023 @ 8:52am

I am not sure if this is still a thing but when I last played there was a bug that after a certain number of turns everything that targets specific enemies (archers, turetts and i think there were one or two more traps like that) would simply stop working at all.

I believe this problem also only happened in endless (but I migth remember wrong).

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Siopilos

31 Oct, 2023 @ 10:25am

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cricri

31 Oct, 2023 @ 11:18am

if you put archer with fire on this map they cant kill bird they all fire on a bird the bird never died remove fire ;)

Jarcionek

31 Oct, 2023 @ 1:15pm

Originally posted by Tam:
I believe this problem also only happened in endless (but I migth remember wrong).

Nope, the second screenshot is from the Canyon Keep from the Drastic Steps campaign - it's a war scenario, endless not available on those (without using the co-op glitch).

Originally posted by cricri:
if you put archer with fire on this map they cant kill bird they all fire on a bird the bird never died remove fire ;)

On both screenshots you can see that archers have are green , not orange - it means that they have regeneration unique upgrade.

Jarcionek

31 Oct, 2023 @ 1:18pm

Originally posted by Siopilos:
When there are many enemies on the map all these single target traps are not working.

So Guardian Archer, Auto Ballista, Snow Cannon and Confusion Flower?

What about Shock Zapper? It's description says "Strikes enemy underneath (...)" - "enemy" singular.

Last edited by Jarcionek; 31 Oct, 2023 @ 1:19pm

Siopilos

1 Nov, 2023 @ 2:50am

Originally posted by Jarcionek:
Originally posted by Siopilos:
When there are many enemies on the map all these single target traps are not working.

So Guardian Archer, Auto Ballista, Snow Cannon and Confusion Flower?

What about Shock Zapper? It's description says "Strikes enemy underneath (...)" - "enemy" singular.

I am not sure about zapper but all the others traps you mentioned yes they have this issue and this is the reason I do not take these traps on my 100 waves runs

Hungry Lion has Orcs Must Die! 3

11 Feb @ 4:47pm

Yeah this problem persists, I played the second game recently and the difference is glaring. Archers won't engage on their maximum range and enemies can get close to them without firing a shot

maxell86qld 19 Feb @ 5:49am

For your information. You can play any map endless including war scenario maps (26 maps). You need a mod site. It works online as well for co-op when you host even if other players do not have the mod.

Archers stop shooting when the problem occurs with two items, which are:
1: Too many enemies on screen
2: Too many archers in the map

We do not recall how many archers are placed, but yeah over 15 archers the issue probably starts. After round 25 on endless the archers are useless.
Then you try to tell a co-op player to sell the traps and they ignore you.
Because you get no time between rounds to see 1-4 of your own traps.

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