Omoiyari's Prefire kodachi widget on display here.

Can also be seen on B845909 2 on Otago 1.1 to a smaller degree.

Personal opinion is that, whilst tanks do need something to give them a competitive edge in 1v1, this is a little over the top. Thankfully, I'd already been through the pain of knowing that reaver+knight invalidated tanks (up until the mino phase). I don't think Randy got the same memo.

This is 100% a "performance enhancing" widget getting optimal use and micro reduction out of the kodachis to a level that a human player simply cannot perform (and still maintain any reasonable expansion APM etc).

Thoughts?

Have you ever used attack move? Then congratulations your units are employing micro beyond human ability. Only difference is that kodachi unit AI doesn't implement this widget yet.

I think it should be made into default behavior for this particular unit, as it's otherwise quite bad at anything but early rushes. No other unit comes to mind that could use it.

Maybe claymore could employ it too.

I'd be fine with this widget being added, but unless/until all players have it I think it creates an unfair advantage for only some to use it.
I also expect GF would tweak stats for Kodachi too if this widget was default, as I imagine it is currently balanced for the no widget Kodas.

Time to disable local widgets?

This widget essentially gives Kodachi more range with a few caveats. I do not want to include it as-is because it spam commands, is dependent on latency, and it sometimes misfires (see Kodachi vs the jumping commander). There are two essentially equivalent actions that could be taken:

• Work on the widget until it is polished enough to be a default replacement of Kodachi targeting AI.
• Block widgets and increase Kodachi range.

The second option is significantly easier.

The difference between Attack-Move and this widget is that the former is reliable and unaffected by latency.

I'd hate the decision to disable local widgets. I think in the long term it'd kill creativity and unexpected improvements for the game such as original attack move command.

It also goes against the zero-k/spring tradition to embrace technology/tinkering developpers instead of censoring them.

Why for example global build command widget is available to everyone but disabled by default... It does not make sense that it would be available only because it's non local.

If anything, if you want to enforce "fairness" in some special occasion, make server option to disable local widgets for events like tournaments.

I guess I should day something since I created the Widget.

Yes, it is clunky with its command spam and I am ashamed to say that I don't know how to polish it further into something that could be integrated into the base game. I simply don't know how to do that.

My widgets are pretty much limited to the available Lua Callins to simulate very simple, yet often occurring scenarios to force the unit act the way I would like them to in most cases, such as my FelonTargettingAI avoiding hitting armored targets, and even that results in loss of the games own targetting priorization and introduces some problems with ping.

Still, despite Kodachi Prefires clunkiness, it still gives very noticeable advantage, making using it advantageous over not using it even if it might screw with things like jumping commanders or slightly missplaced shot due to ping despite my best efforts trying to compensate it.

I knew making all my Widgets public would cause some outrage as they would become more common and thus more noticeable, but I would be really sad if it resulted in disabling local widgets altogether. I think it should be given that any Widget that does semi-decent job would give at least some kind of advantage, as otherwise the Widget would not even exist in the first place. Most of this is aimed towards lowered APM usage or increased reaction time, like with Kodachi preFire making the Widget do the attack predictions for the player, resulting in increased range. It seemed that automating that was somewhat given, considering most other units also used to predict shots before the retreat advantage was removed from the game.
On the other hand some actions, such as SweepAttack Widgets are just impossible for player to perform effectively while chasing cloaked enemy units without the help of the Widget.

PreFireKodachi is the widget that does that. SweepAttack widgets are mostly for just saturating the are in front of the unit with attacks in order to find stealthy units such as scythes.

PreFire Widgets are responsible for firing weapons in an attempt to hit nearby, visible enemy before they are in actual range.

Line of fire is just settarget with alt-drag

the creator could also put that efford into learning the game itself.

"As far as I'm concerned local widgets are "equalizer, bitch" cards and should be celebrated and applauded."

if this is meant to be a competitive game i don`t get where this is coming from.

Anyway, if you want to allow widgets i think they should be really fully implemented in a stable. It is a bit adventurous to call things that you get to via a link in a forum-post "public".