Artillery in Master - is it not responding to CB tower?

[tnmurphy]

I don't want to report a bug yet because I don't know if it is one or if I just don't understand some new balance change.

For the past few weeks on master, I find fixed artillery emplacements (howitzers, hellstorms etc) not really appearing to do much even when upgraded to have rapid fire. Most particularly they don't appear to respond to incoming fire when I build a CB tower. Ripple Rockets behave as before - responding quickly - but it always seemed a choice to go the rocket way or the artillery way and now I have to go rockets.

It's not that they never fire at all but just very rarely. Enemy (Nexus AI) howitzers respond to my ripple rocklets very well so I can't work out why this would only affect me.

Anyhow I wonder if anyone noticed something like this?

BTW today (april 1) all buildings started to drop artefacts when destroyed - I'm sure this will get noticed and fixed quickly as I see the code change is fairly obviously missing a condition.

Regards,

Tim

[cybersphinx]

Anyhow I wonder if anyone noticed something like this?

#3267?

[tnmurphy]

That's quite possibly the problem, thanks - if so it's also applying to howitzers (not just mortars).

From looking at the code I can't see a reason why mortars/ howitzers would fail to use cb tower when ripple rockets work so I'm guessing that if there is a problem it might something involving the decision to fire rather than detection.

[_P[KSEN]]

[Reg312]

i've noticed artillery dont use allied CB towers (3.1 beta7)
so each player in team should cover map with his own CB towers in artillery game

[Giani]

i've noticed artillery dont use allied CB towers (3.1 beta7)
so each player in team should cover map with his own CB towers in artillery game

I 'm sure it is a bug.