ECA Howitzer Long Range Barrage Artillery Barrage, How to make it work? Options

[delta297]

Ok, just a recent user of ROTR. The Howitzer Position structure has a secondary firing option where it claims to be able to fire "anywhere" on the map as long as the target is marked. So, I marked an enemy structure on the other side of the map with the Marksman and pressed the secondary fire button. Nothing happened.

Also tried to force fire with and without the marker, but it just won't work. What is the direct requirements for the long range barrage to work anyway?

[Maelstrom]

Ok, just a recent user of ROTR. The Howitzer Position structure has a secondary firing option where it claims to be able to fire "anywhere" on the map as long as the target is marked. So, I marked an enemy structure on the other side of the map with the Marksman and pressed the secondary fire button. Nothing happened.

Also tried to force fire with and without the marker, but it just won't work. What is the direct requirements for the long range barrage to work anyway?

That ability still requiers to point which marker you bombard. It is a targetted ability, not an automatic one.
Once you've marked the target, select the second barrage mode, and click on the purple marker.

[delta297]

That ability still requiers to point which marker you bombard. It is a targetted ability, not an automatic one.
Once you've marked the target, select the second barrage mode, and click on the purple marker.

Hmmm....it works now, but it seems that it only works if I click on the marker itself and not the actually marked structure. Kinda annoying, but it works so there's that.

Thank you for the response. Back to turtling!

[Shalom]

That ability still requiers to point which marker you bombard. It is a targetted ability, not an automatic one.
Once you've marked the target, select the second barrage mode, and click on the purple marker.

I struggled a lot with making that ability work, the exact requirements need to be clearly explained in the tooltip - I tried using the Marksman's ability and the Howitzer secondary option countless times without any success. The quirk that one needs to put the crosshairs exactly over the purple marker needs to be explained in the game, I targeted the marked building and it flat out doesn't work.

I assume it's a flaw in SAGE, but this only makes the necessity of an expanded tooltip even more apparent.

[Shiro]

The big ammo marker is an object, you have to attack it, not the structure. I generally click the big floating bullet cases. Sadly we haven't found another way to make this work (yet).

[Jet02]

The colour of the designating laser used for the arty strike is different from that of the default laser. I can't rememeber if it's red or green. Either way, if it's the default laser that shines(shines lol??) Instead of the other one, something's wrong.

[Shalom]

The big ammo marker is an object, you have to attack it, not the structure. I generally click the big floating bullet cases. Sadly we haven't found another way to make this work (yet).

I understand that SAGE has its limitations and little if anything can be done about it, but I would rather find out about those limits from the game itself rather than luckily stumbling upon forum posts. But beta is beta, I can understand that there is little point in refining tooltips until the final version is out.

This post has been edited by Shalom: 23 Dec 2016, 23:36

[atmospheric]

With or without limitations by SAGE. If a mother does not want to get pregnant, you can't force a baby out of her

It is simple to figure out the long range artillery as how it works. I got it the second time once I played around the bullet marker which appears after the marksman marked the target. Also once marked, it takes a few seconds for the long range artillery to fire the shells on the target. This is one of the coolest things SWR have created in ROTR. Kudos to them

This post has been edited by *atmospheric*: 30 Dec 2016, 7:13