"Friendly-fire Will Not Be Tolerated"

[Mindless]

Hi everyone,

How to stop friendly-fire in Warcraft? i.e. stop allied units from trying to force attack another allied unit? Like in DotA.

P.S. for all you guys that played CoD, look at the title...

 

[KaerfNomekop]

Detect when a unit is attacked, and if the two units are allied, order the attacker to stop.

 

[Mindless]

Ok, thanks a lot. Just wondering though, can I do it this way? Once a unit is given an order "attack", order it to stop.

 

[WolfieeifloW]

Or..
Set the targets allowed on heroes to not have "Allied/Friendly" checked.

 

[Mindless]

I think by default all units have Combat - Attack 1/2 - Target's Allowed Allied/Friendly unchecked... but they are still able to attack allies...

 

[xAnaMorphine]

Can anyone tell me how to use GUI tags?

Nevertheless here is the trigger:

Friendly Fire
    Events
        Unit - A unit Is attacked
    Conditions
        ((Owner of (Attacking unit)) is an ally of (Owner of (Attacked unit))) Equal to True
    Actions
        Unit - Order (Attacking unit) to Stop

 

[Mindless]

Thanks xAnaMorphine. However, WolfieeifloW's solution seems much neater, if I can get it to work, or if he can explain it a bit more...

 

[KaerfNomekop]

Use block brackets containing "wc3" and "/wc3" at the start and end of the code, respectively, so it would look like this:

• Friendly Fire
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Is attacked
  • Conditions
    • ((Owner of (Attacking unit)) is an ally of (Owner of (Attacked unit))) Equal to True
  • Actions
    • Unit - Order (Attacking unit) to Stop

 

[WolfieeifloW]

Apparently that doesn't work.
I swore changing targets allowed to Enemy worked.

In light of that, just trigger it.
You can use 'stop', which I just checked and it seems that's what DotA uses.
Optionally, for cool effect, you can add a text message to the attacking player.

Or, get SimError, and just call the custom script:

Custom script:    call SimError(GetOwningPlayer(GetAttacker()), "Friendly-fire will not be tolerated!")

 

[Mindless]

I swore changing targets allowed to Enemy worked.

I tried that, doesn't work...

However, I'll go with DotA's technique. (If it's good for DotA, it's good for me! And plus this way I can test if the unit's below certain amount of HP so I can allow denials etc.)

Thanks guys! And by the way, thanks for the SimError thing, gives a unique tweak to my map!