Com can't build AND fire?

When was this changed? It's a shame, considering that being able to fire while building defenses allowed a lot of various com-centered tactics.

I also see an issue here : a com put on fight order, will seemingly not fire while it's reclaiming. That's a quick way to lose your com to raiders while your attention is elsewhere.

This is one of the things that are fixed far in the future.

In the age of 91.0, though, builders can build, repair, and assist and be able to fire.

However, reclaim and resurrect block firing and there's nothing you can do about this. Try not Fighting your commander on reclaim heavy maps (and coms dont have any smart UnitAi anyways)

Oh, also all of the above causes the builder to decloak, but resurrection doesnt.

There's an easier way, and it requires less micro. When u are building anything and u see raiders approaching, order your com to attack all of the incoming units (with area attack command) and then tell it to finish the thing it was building. The com will keep yellow attack orders, which can be cancelled with ''stop'' order only, and it gets build command too, so it does two things at once.

Be warned tho, that in cause of many targets killing one may interrupt whole sequece and u'd be forced to do the whole thing again.

Ah, that must be it... they fire while building, but they won't automatically turn to face nearby enemies.
I pretty much ended by microing the com like mojjj says. I'll try settarget and area attack.

What is weird is that I don't remember having this issue while playing Zero-K circa 2 years ago...

So, firing while reclaiming, repairing or assisting is fixed in Spring 97?

this always bothered me too, too often you are put in a position where you know your com is going to die unless he can quickly get up an LLT while fending off attackers but the behavior is so buggy and erratic that you have to keep repositioning him because he wont fire then you lose your com for stupid reasons