need help on ranged attack

[Kartron]

how do i make ranged attacks pierce throught enemies?

 

[Malhorne]

What do you clearly want ?
You want a missile that go like a normal missile and then it pierce through the target and deals damage to the unit behind the target ?

 

[Chaosy]

I cant show how to do it atm.

Anyway, I don't know any way to do that without triggers. This could actually be a little tricky.

However you need to use a DDS and a lot of location useage. This wont be performence friendly I tell you

 

[Cokemonkey11]

Take a look at the values used by units like the catapult and ballista, this will hopefully be sufficient for your uses

 

[Malhorne]

If it's like i said yes it could be non performence friendly as you said ^^

But there is one solution : replace the auto-attack by a shockwave based spell but you will need to use the hotkey each time you want to attack :/

 

[Cokemonkey11]

In that case it's better to use breath of fire, which won't cause terrain deformations

 

[Malhorne]

Ah yes breathoffire's op since it's PANDA XD

 

[Kartron]

well ... is there anyways to make shockwave auto-cast?

 

[Malhorne]

Nope
But as said before : use breath of fire

 

[Cokemonkey11]

well ... is there anyways to make shockwave auto-cast?

No, but it's a triviality simple trigger. Just register when the unit begins attacking (no requirement for dd system), then order the attacker to breath of fire the location of the target.

 

[Malhorne]

Yes you can

 

[Erkki2]

You could use orb of slow to make the spell cast on attack. However, that does only work if the unit is ordered to attack. That issue can be fixed with a trigger like:

e:
unit is attacked
c:
current order of attacking unit not equal to "attack"
attacking unit has ability orb of slow
a:
order attacking unit to attack attacked unit

 

[AngkySaputra]

use shockwave by triggered attack or
vorpal blades from night elf glaive thrower

 

[Malhorne]

Breath of fire > Shockwave since it doesn't deform terrain.
Vorpal blades can be used that's a good idea .

 

[Spartipilo]

Add the Shockwave as a hidden ability inside spellbook and make it have the same orderstring as attack ("attack") and 0 cooldown. If that doesn't work, trigger "A unit is attacked" and order the attacking unit to cast the hidden ability to the target.

 

[Malhorne]

Use Vorpal blade that's the best way

 

[Vinz]

You can even do without upgrades or triggers, just use 'Missile Line' and configure some lines in the Combat-Attack fields, such as Damage Spill Distance or Damage Radius. But if you want to damage units in front of the target(closer to you) use a Carrion Swarm + Orb of Slow.

 

[Malhorne]

Why don't use vorpal blade xD ?

 

[Xonok]

Vorpal blade is a dummy ability and thus, utterly useless for this.

 

[Malhorne]

Dummy ability ?
It's the ability to make the missile to pierce units

 

[Xonok]

Dummy ability ?
It's the ability to make the missile to pierce units

Not really. Check the upgrade that enables it.
The ability itself is only for showing, it doesn't do anything.
It's just like Flying Machine Bombs.

 

[Malhorne]

Ah ok it changes the data fields.
SO you need to change those

 

[Dr Super Good]

The Night Elf siege weapon has piercing attacks. It will damage units behind the target area.

Players should be aware that the process used to pierce is very resource intensive and can easily cause performance problems if abused excessively.

 

[Vinz]

So Carrion Swarm it is..

 

[Kartron]

rep+ for the one with the idea of using orb of slow , well it works when you command the unit to attack, but it doesnt work when the unit attacks automatically

 

[Spartipilo]

When a unit acquires a target, order the unit to attack the target, that will work