Retarded lobsters

So you wanna put Lobsters on guard to follow your unit ready to be thrown? Guess what happens if an enemy unit damages the guarded unit! The lobster throws your units directly at the enemy!

So you have some units grouped on hold fire or return fire? You quickly select them and put them on fire at will. Guess what happens! All your units go flying towards the enemy!

So you want to attack a specific target? You select your units and attack it. Guess what happens! All the units go flying towards the enemy!

What I really want is a Follow command rather than a Guard command. So that X unit follows Y unit without chasing everything that damaged Y.

quote: So you want to attack a specific target? You select your units and attack it. Guess what happens! All the units go flying towards the enemy!

there is a setting for lobster to disregrade fire commands (the weapon also counts as a dgun so you can still fire it)

quote: So you have some units grouped on hold fire or return fire? You quickly select them and put them on fire at will. Guess what happens! All your units go flying towards the enemy!

pretty sure fire at will gives attack commands, which lobster will disregard with the above setting
EDIT: Nope lob still fires while on autofire

quote: So you wanna put Lobsters on guard to follow your unit ready to be thrown? Guess what happens if an enemy unit damages the guarded unit! The lobster throws your units directly at the enemy!

again, pretty sure guard gives attack commands.
EDIT: nothing happens for me while lob is on hold fire


EDIT2: Image of the option

gounson8989 set the allow attack commands option to blocked and use manual fire to control lobs.

I don't know exactly what the block command currently blocks. It could probably be made to block more.

There are a few TAisms in the engine that make units track and respond to the last thing that damaged them. It runs the Return Fire state and affects target priority in annoying ways.

He had us in the title

Can we not use the R-slur? K, thanks.

Like I appreciate nuance discussion on mechanics of the game just don't throw in slurs to describe your frustrations. ^-^

The euphemism treadmill continues...

gounson8989 force fire is the D-gun. bound to the same command as the dante rocket salvo and scorp multistunner.

GoogleFrog iirc does not block Dgun

@Godde set lobs on hold fire. why would you ever need to set on fire at will or return fire anyways? should all your scallops be on fire at will in the first place?