Why can emp missiles track their target while other missiles cant?

The tooltip says nothing about that Emp missiles can track their target making them hard counters to heavy units. It can basically stun a Dante even if you lose LoS and radar on the dante after you fired the missile. 2 missiles is enough to emp the Bantha in LoS. 4 missiles is enough to stun a Detriment for 15 seconds Every additional additional rocket gives an additional 15 seconds.
Krows are easy to hit if you got LoS on them but even with just radar you usually hit them.
You can also hit a Licho if its flying straight in LoS.

never thought that they can track :) thats definitly weird

Rember that OTA trick where you had a unit (cheap like a weasel ie) guard a solar, and then shift queued an attack on the enemy commander as soon as you saw it.
You could tell the position of the enemy commander from there on by holding shift and selecting the weasel. Because the attack order would still work outside of LOS. :-)
Can we now do this again with 0K?

It's still costly, requires a costly silo, and can't be used well on it's own.

Now we have tracking in two senses of the word! I'd like to add definitions.

Tracking can be what bomber noticeably do, they return to a refuel pad and set out in the right direction even if the target is not in radar or LOS. All units track, it's an engine thing.

Homing is what certain missiles do that makes them unable to miss their target (if missile fuel doesn't run out). If a target leaves LOS and radar the missile will stop homing.

Anyway EMP missile Homes, which Godde said before Luckywaldo introduced ambiguity in terminology. They have had the tag for a very long time yet it used to not do anything at all. Maybe an engine change or some other recent change has caused the tag to be used. Anyway I don't think it should home as it does EMP absolutely everything and not hitting mobiles is suppose to be it's disadvantage.


"Rember that OTA trick where you had a unit (cheap like a weasel ie) guard a solar, and then shift queued an attack on the enemy commander as soon as you saw it.
You could tell the position of the enemy commander from there on by holding shift and selecting the weasel. Because the attack order would still work outside of LOS. :-)
Can we now do this again with 0K?"
This exists to some extent. The attack command exists but is not drawn on units outside of LOS and Radar. So you cannot pinpoint a commander outside of LOS and Radar but if you lose radar and regain it the attack command will point to the now "unidentified" radar dot.

"All units track"
"Anyway EMP missile Homes, which Godde said..."

WOW! IT DOES TOO! I had no idea, that is amazing.

The game sort of has somewhat of a lack of dedicated anti-heavy weapons that arent tied to a factory. But that does make the EMP missile much much better in my estimation than i thought. Dunno how i feel about it though.

So what is missile silo supposed to be good at? Atm its good vs anything on the ground. Thats porc AND mobiles. It should be only good vs porc. Tremor cost 1500 metal and got way less range, cant break heavy shielding and is not effective vs units. Now i know that each missile costs some metal but it will break any porc no matter how much shields he has (shockleys ignore shields).

Through its still support and shoulndt be used as a mainbattlebunker.

If he has 10 shields 1 tremor wont do it while missile silo can even kill 100 shields pretty easily. In addition to that its also effective vs mobiles. Did you ever see a tremor killing your detriment or roasting your glaives?

On top of that it also outranges tremor by far.

"The fact that you can order a missile to attack something out of range and once it gets in range, the missile launches"
That part is unavoidable. To be completely clear I think it should not flawlessly hit mobile units.