Stuck behind turret?

[benexclaimed]

I deployed a turret in a narrow hallway and now I'm stuck behind it. I can't find any way to remove it or kill it -- is there any way to proceed?

[Mick]

I think you should be able to shoot it if you hold shift... assuming you are not out of ammo.

[Winge]

Holding shift allows you to attack ground.  This works on allies, so you can kill it that way.

Edit:  ninja'd

[benexclaimed]

Ah, thanks. That did it.

[keith.lamothe]

Yep, the usual solution to any problem in this game: shoot it

[Toranth]

I ran into the same problem, and had to abort an early mission.  Didn't realise the shift-force-target command till a few hours later.
Perhaps I just missed it, but if it isn't already there, I suggest making that ability more prominent - it really helps with Sieges, too.

[PokerChen]

We should have written all this up in the wiki and made that into the game manual.

The first page simple have this line:
"if it doesn't die when you click it, try shift-clicking."

[Mick]

I can't check in the game right now, but this made me think.

If you are really in a stuck situation - you can't reach the exit, there are no enemies left, and you are out of ammo. Is there any way to "surrender" a mission?

If not, that basically means you could reach a "no possible progress" state in the game.

[Toranth]

I can't check in the game right now, but this made me think.

If you are really in a stuck situation - you can't reach the exit, there are no enemies left, and you are out of ammo. Is there any way to "surrender" a mission?

If not, that basically means you could reach a "no possible progress" state in the game.

You can Abandon a mission, which counts as losing.  This can produce odd results - for example, on one mission against a Robot Command Center, I destroyed it using a Shadow Torpedo Launcher, then aborted.  I lost 1 HP on my HQ, but 5 days passed.

[keith.lamothe]

I ran into the same problem, and had to abort an early mission.  Didn't realise the shift-force-target command till a few hours later.
Perhaps I just missed it, but if it isn't already there, I suggest making that ability more prominent - it really helps with Sieges, too.

Where would you suggest noting it?

There's already a tooltip that shows at the bottom of the mission screen whenever your cursor is over an empty tile that says "WASD to move, right-click to attack, hold shift to ground-fire, mouse-wheel to zoom, arrow keys to pan."

Is that not showing up in your case?


Not that it's impossible that someone just won't read that (and I don't mean that in an insulting way, sometimes there's just a glaze-over effect), but if a one-line tooltip that shows as often as that can't get the info across, what could?

[BobTheJanitor]

I do see that tooltip on the ground, but when hovering over a friendly turret, you actually don't see that. You just get the turret tooltip. Perhaps a "shift + right click to attack your friendly turret, you monster!" or something would help. I actually had the same problem, and I knew someone would be here asking about it.

[benexclaimed]

I noticed the "ground fire" command fairly early on but didn't really understand why I'd ever want to use that. Didn't even consider it here, obviously.

[Toranth]

I ran into the same problem, and had to abort an early mission.  Didn't realise the shift-force-target command till a few hours later.
Perhaps I just missed it, but if it isn't already there, I suggest making that ability more prominent - it really helps with Sieges, too.

Where would you suggest noting it?
There's already a tooltip that shows at the bottom of the mission screen whenever your cursor is over an empty tile that says "WASD to move, right-click to attack, hold shift to ground-fire, mouse-wheel to zoom, arrow keys to pan."

Is that not showing up in your case?

Not that it's impossible that someone just won't read that (and I don't mean that in an insulting way, sometimes there's just a glaze-over effect), but if a one-line tooltip that shows as often as that can't get the info across, what could?

Ah.  It's attached to the "Suppress Bootstrapping hints" toggle, which I turned on really early.  I suppose making it more obvious wouldn't help, not when it was something that I had suppressed myself.   

[PokerChen]

I ran into the same problem, and had to abort an early mission.  Didn't realise the shift-force-target command till a few hours later.
Perhaps I just missed it, but if it isn't already there, I suggest making that ability more prominent - it really helps with Sieges, too.

Where would you suggest noting it?
There's already a tooltip that shows at the bottom of the mission screen whenever your cursor is over an empty tile that says "WASD to move, right-click to attack, hold shift to ground-fire, mouse-wheel to zoom, arrow keys to pan."

Is that not showing up in your case?

Not that it's impossible that someone just won't read that (and I don't mean that in an insulting way, sometimes there's just a glaze-over effect), but if a one-line tooltip that shows as often as that can't get the info across, what could?

Ah.  It's attached to the "Suppress Bootstrapping hints" toggle, which I turned on really early.  I suppose making it more obvious wouldn't help, not when it was something that I had suppressed myself.   

Too tough to accept a helping hand, eh?