Fix napalm vs light units?

When a light units (say less than 500 hp) gets into napalm, it is 100% dead even if it is at 50-60 % life after initial blast. In some sense it is stupid because napalm is supposed to be area denial, not mass destruction. If the units stand on burning ground - yes they should die but if they are just a bit caught in fire - they should be at least healable by cons. In reality they are 100% dead even under heal.

Walks into it I assume.



Isn't napalm supposed to be antiswarm/anti light? Like a riot.

On proper maps in 1v1 this isn't too much of a problem. In big teamgames it sometimes is.

In general i think that big AoE weapons (firebomber, tick, stiletto, even banisher) are too accessible in ZK. They kinda kill the play with smaller units. (~500hp which are most of the cloackbots and spiders) in multi player games.
Or maybe it is a metagame thing and ppl just need to learn to spread out their units by default when playing with those labs.

Apart from the smallest raiders you can save most units from dieing by moving out of the flames immediately. This takes some fast reaction- and mouse speed though.

I have been trying to implement this in my own play lately. I think you can get used to it.

you can prevent that cluttering with proper move orders. You have to do a lot of pathing yourself though. Especially around small hills, you must give multiple small distance move orders to get them to move over a hill without cluttering.

It is good practice to always use a line movement, (even with two units!). When you are moving a larger group that exists of multiple types you want to move each group individually with, again, a line for each group.

You do this by either assigning each type of unit to a control group and go over them like this: 1 mousedrag 2 mousedrag 3 mousedrag 4 mousedrag etc.

Or you use a selection hotkey to select "all of the same type on screen" and go:
click unit, selectionkey, mousedrag, click unit, selectionkey, mousedrag, etc

I do think fire could be re-examined. It's frustrating that you can't save a burning unit even when you have a con nearby.

btw, does archer work as firefighter?

Realism is irrelevant to zk. And besides, isn't napalm-like fuel air bombs used against tanks irl? Zk napalm is generally shrugged off by tanks.

quote: Which napalm?

No answer to this yet. Different fire weapons do different damage over time.

Napalm is just anti-light units. Use hvy units against napalm. Its ok i think. Everything have its counter. Scuttles and penes for hvy and napalm and banisher for light.

Google, this was posted right after anthem napalm bombed his units on ravaged I think.