Achilles targetting infantry.

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[Hicks58]

This supposed "Feature" has point blank pissed me off.

On two separate occasions, I had a 5% health neutral building with an enemy MG team in it which could have been wasted piece of piss had the Achilles simply auto-targeted it at max range like I wanted it to. Instead I had to fuck around with manual targeting which results in the tank doing a lolk zerg rush to likely get in range of every single bleeding window on the building just to shoot at the one guy nearest.

Not only that, I had plenty of 1 man squads I've wanted the tank to make max range pot shots at. I do it all the time with Fireflies when enemy tanks aren't around and the Achilles has the exact same damned accuracy as the Firefly.

It's saddening because the tank otherwise performs pretty well (Except it's horribly long aim time on a target, which could use looking at. Moving and firing is pretty much impossible with how long the aim time is on the Achilles).

To put the icing on the cake, I can't even scare off small squads purely by firing at them, or trying to luck out killing the last guy on a support weapon. Hell, the tank even gives off a damned aura of safety because it isn't firing at you unless a tank is around.

Also, when I'm trying to crush infantry, I want the tank to try shooting at them too. I know it's a snowball's chance in hell but it CAN happen. As it stands, I have to choose between pot shots and crushing a squad when I'm in their face, which is frankly stupid.

To summarize:

1. Turn it's auto-targetting against infantry back on. There is NO legitimate reason as to why it should be off.

2. Do something about it's horrible aim time. Moving and shooting is a pipe-dream as it stands, not because of accuracy but purely because it just won't fire. May also be the ridiculously slow turret turn rate (Which is pretty unjustified considering how low range and paper thin it is - Don't invoke historical accuracy on this one either, the goddamned M10 turret at the moment can spin like a mofo).

[nikomas]

3rd time's the charm they say...

By that I mean, please fix this crap already.