Lightening Lance micro

If the Lance changed its weapon height reasonably on its own to fire over things and it couldn't move while shooting, managing many of them would be easier. I think it is cool to have multiple energy beams utterly disintegrate a strider. However, they can be a little annoying to use currently in my opinion. Some kind of nerfing would probably be necessary if the adjustments were implemented.

Main thing that makes them annoying to use for me is that they require eternity to reload, so wasting any shot for any reason is painful. Giving it better innate target prioritization might make them too fiddly though.

For now I just set them to hold fire and manage the shooting myself. However, I very rarely play hovers anyways.

You mean "Cobbled wubblestone".

I agree mostly with how lances teamkill way too often. Although move fire rarely seems to be doing it. In my experience it's always shooting each other in the back. :|

I didn't even know Lance's beam dealt sustained damage until now. Sounds like kind of an exploit to use it to damage multiple units, albeit one that is more cool than practical.

If its hurting the unit's usability though, I'd second making it immobile while firing. I personally never used enough of a lance ball to have that shooting in the back problem.

Maybe, instead of units trying to avoid the beam, Lance could turn the beam off if an allied unit crosses the beam. I think checking who it is hitting with the beam a few times during the beam's duration probably won't be computationally expensive.

i have the same problems

the first time i ever lost a game of ZK was of the lance planet, with my comm ON THE RAMP TO THE ARTIFACT (i didn't know of air back then) and laces shooting at AA (yup the aa there was how i learnt that ZK had air) killed my comm

sigh

and because of it i now hate the hoverfac

(gonna play amph/sea/air/gs for sea maps and i main rovers so flat maps i dont need hover anyways)

there should be a toggable option for lances to either
- stay still when shooting
or
- not shoot if a allied unit will cross the beam (based on current paths) during the 1s burst