no idea at all. ive tried using multiple copies of the weapon in the weapons field, copying a weapon and adding it, changing a weapons "count" to a high number, nothin i try works.

i have actually found a way to manually force your unit to attack severl units simultaneously if it has multiple weapons. target one unit, then quickly target another. this seems to be the only way i can manage my units to fire multiple weapons at all.

What is it?

The short answer is to add a Search effect between the weapon and damage effect links so that the weapon calls a search effect which calls multiple damage effects in your desired search radius.

Special thanks to Frozen.Firebat
http://www.sc2mapster.com/maps/battlecruiser/files/
-example map

video demonstrating a battlecruiser with "multi-shot", he is simultaneously firing at several marines.

still not working. does it matter if the base weapon i am using is thermal lances?

finally got it to work. unit is just a black dot though, cant select it with a box, and weapon targeting takes a few seconds, i can make that a good thing though.

got over my unit duplication difficulties, and tried again with 5 different weapons with different periods. still worked, but it doesnt work the way i need it to. a loop of different weapons fire that cant target a new unit until it finishes its current event period really isnt what i need. i need the weapons to fire independently, with thier own non-linked cooldown periods. attacking different units simultaneously isnt something i desperately need, though the tutorial doesnt seem to do that either.

AHA! finally figured it out, it is a FAR simpler way than that search effect, works better and more often, and is far closer to what i need. pretty much just give a unit multiple weapons, and on every single weapon set "backswing" to 0. then you uncheck "linked cooldown" and the attack only attack target boxes. at one point, i got an archon to attack two nexi and an overlord at the exact same time with all five weapons spread around them. a bit sporadic though. put muta, hellion, ATG laser, photon cannon, and thermal lance weapons on. lances would ALWAYS fire at anything roughly in front of them, even when the chon was attack/following an ovie at max range, which is great. the infernal flamethrower and ATG laser weapons were sporadic at times though.

EDIT:
retested with a total of 10 weapons, adding acid spittle, prismatic beam, lanzer torpedoes, spine crawler tentacle, and stalker disruptor gun. in addition to being far more weapons than anyone would realistically use, and therefore being very unreliable getting all 10 weapons going at once, every time the prismatic beam locked onto a target for more than about a second all other weapons would stop firing. i dont know why, it might have just been its charging effect interacting badly with the other 9 weapons.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Aug 11 2010, 3:17 am by DevliN. Reason: Use the edit button, please.

Channelling attacks may stop all other actions