SP - General Add splash damage or punch thru for Balista

[Ragemaster9999]

Not sure if this is possible with bannerlords physics but would love to see ballistas get a bit of a buff. They do extremely high damage but can only seem to hit 1 target at a time. Considering their long reload time, they could use some small radius aoe splash damage or at the very least the ability to strike through multiple targets. Maybe a cap of 3? If you shoot a balista into a sea of clumped peasants i better see some collateral damage in the kill feed if ya know what I mean ?

 

[Timmortal]

Im pretty sure they are mainly meant as anti siege, so should be used on battering ram and such. Im dont know how it works with hitting multiple targets, but i know other things can, so maybe it could be implemented, but if the goal of them is to be anti siege, then i think its okay they dont have splash dmg, as it would be too powerful when hitting battering rams and catapults and the like.

 

[reapo19]

The ballista's do get multiple kills per bolt, its just the only time i've ever used one was that once upon a time there was a blue moon and the stars had aligned and i was actually apart of a defensive siege

i think the highest i've got with a single bolt is 3 kills

 

[iimstevo]

Ballista can already kill a maximum of 3 enemies per bolt. It should be higher than this, especially when hitting 3 headshots in succession.
The biggest issue with it is hitting a shield - it doesn't penetrate and kill the shield holder like it should. At the very least, the bolt should knock down the soldier and any soldiers behind it.