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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: redalert on June 13, 2006, 04:10:46 am

Title: turrets
Post by: redalert on June 13, 2006, 04:10:46 am

can turrets hit directly above them? for example im right above a turret as a dretch, can it hit me

Title: turrets
Post by: OverFlow on June 13, 2006, 06:48:12 am

yes.

Title: turrets
Post by: Captain Ventris on June 13, 2006, 07:51:25 am

That was a quick thread...

Title: turrets
Post by: DarkWolf on June 13, 2006, 09:07:09 am

Well, the advantage of jumping on a turrets with a dtretch is that the turret has to turn around his axle, so when the turret is aiming up, it has to turn like ( or ), so you can get a single turret as a dretch if your good  :wink: .

Title: turrets
Post by: next_ghost on June 13, 2006, 09:46:45 am

You don't have to be good. Brain, enough strafe space and no humans around substitute skill very well.

Title: turrets
Post by: Vector_Matt on June 13, 2006, 02:42:48 pm

Quote from: "next_ghost"

You don't have to be good. Brain, enough strafe space and no humans around substitute skill very well.

Unless there's more than one turret, and there usualy are.

Title: turrets
Post by: icono[celt] on June 13, 2006, 10:09:28 pm

Don't know of its of any use, but turrets are limited in the angle of depression they can achieve.  So if one is hanging over the edge of a platform or some such ledge you can hit it from below without getting shot up.

Title: turrets
Post by: Markimedes on June 14, 2006, 03:43:49 am

That could be useful actually..
I've seen a lucky dretch run across the top of two turrets and get away intact, and any dretch (lucky, stupid, or fast) can get past one lone turret.
Which is why you shoudl never leave turrets by themselves.

Title: turrets
Post by: Neo on June 14, 2006, 09:18:10 am

yeah, dretch bunnyhopping can build up insane speeds, just hope there isn't a door in the way. If the base is open enough you can actually get past the turrets before they start firing.

Title: turrets
Post by: icono[celt] on June 14, 2006, 05:33:16 pm

The inability of turrets to shoot straight down is really useful in nexus, where you get some human teams that place turrets hanging out over the edge of the platform the default base is on. The edges provide enough cover that a dretch can wall walk under and destroy basically the entire perimeter defense if the turrets are accessible from below.  :D