If you encounter a level one Laser Turret...

A guy did this the other day, built a level 1 lazer turret in a nub that had just been remade into a nub. I had $1200 built up to fully upgrade and level 3 hack a rock-it turret. Pissed me off something fierce...

...I call upon all of the Gods of Rage and wipe out a small civilisation or two. There is no need for these, especially when quicker classes dart in front of the nub I was about to build on and build it. Waste of my time, your money and our defense. Let it die. Rebuild Rock-It.

(By the way, that rage face, is that the Face of Boe?)

Playing support today, I was surprised to find my team had built three lazer blazers, and even more amazingly hadn't upgraded them. I just kept away from that side of the base and built on the other.

I yell to myself "Who the hell built Lazor Fail!?" and then I upgrade it to 3. Sadly. Because I want the achievement. Yeah I know I know.

The real achievement is having that count on your Steam profile stay at 0.

I will try to make the best of it in the future, by making a shaveice nearby, and hacking both the shaveice and the laser blazer. We shall see the results.

Was on a sever last night when another team had done this. Sadly, one taunt later my tank cleared way beyond hard...

Laser Blazers ATM are just really, really bad. Would only see them partly viable if a) you remove the aspect of while taunting it gives juice ( thought I think this is an aspect of taking hits WHILE taunting gives juice, and LB's with it's weak damage output and high RoF... ) and b) lowered the Price to something like 20/40/80...thought even then it STILL ends up 10$ more expensive then a lv1 Rock-It, but then it's dealing damage at a far faster rate and keeping bots away from the Moneyball in a quick fix. Then again I think that's about their only REAL use anyway: to keep bots off the moneyball when under HEAVY pressure.

....But as it stands it's still almost more saner to just buy a lv1 rock-it because then you don't have to worry about a 6 man juiced team abusing that one turret...

Let their bots push up and they kill it. Just keep the pros away from it.

Not if you play Blitz for scoring.

In Blitz you get score for killing bots, RockIts are obviously better to survive in the endless challenges since they destroy most bots pretty quickly, but you don't gain money from their kills.

The Laser Blazer in the other hand won't destroy stronger bots, but it will chip enough health so you can finish them yourself quickly and get the most money for the kill, plus when used with ejectors are enough to contain the middle area of the map if overrun.

i think a cool fix to this would be if they set lazer blazers to have increased range, when attacking enemy bots/pros who are within the range of a nearby Shaved Ice turret..

So units nomrally out side of the lazer blazers range, could be hit, if they are inside the effects of a nearby shaved ice turret..


now it would have to be like on nub away, not 2 or 3, or across spaw.. but if they were close enough, it would increase the range.


Not sure if it works, but sounds cool, and will help bases be less , LAWl we have 5 rocket turrets.. that gets kinda stale.

leave it and hope it gets destroyed.

On a side note, what do you do if you see an enemy lazer blazer?

I usually just let it be. taking 0.001 dps from it is worth it to hold them back with 1 (or more) useless turret nubs.

yeah, read what I talked about under the feb 11 update thread..


ive seen strategies that revolve around leaving all lazer blazers alone, until you are ready to push, since they get built early, and by late game, when the enemy has the cash for rockets they now cant destroy them..

thye need to add the ability for pros to deconstrut turrets that "they built" off of a nub, and not destroy the nub, but it costs like 100 cash or something.. I cant figure out how to do this, and account for other people upgrading the turret though... so its kinda a pain.. but it would be nice.. right now if you build a lvl 1 lazer blazer on every nub and go afk, you can actually grief your team.. thats pretty bad, where buiding defenses can be used to grief lol...

actually now i wanna try that.

i'm gonna go support, build a lvl 1 lazer blazer on every nub, and heal the ones near the bot lanes so they dont die.. and thats all i'm gonna do..

than laugh as my team has no chance at victory....


nah.. i cant do that..