Archer Tower Revision in Latest Update Results in Opposite of Desired Effect

The latest update caused the archer tower to shoot twice as fast, but with half as much damage each shot. The update stated that the revision was done in order to "better take down weak hordes" (i.e., to increase the effectiveness of the archer tower in killing massed barbarians, archers, goblins, or minions).

However, the update has actually resulted in making arch towers WORSE at killing massed weak hordes. Take archers for example. A level 10 archer tower before the update would kill a lvl 5 or 6 archer in 1 hit, and would shoot one shot per second, resulting in a kill rate of 1 archer per second. The same archer tower after the update will now kill the same archer in 2 hits, and will shoot one shot every 0.5 seconds, resulting in a theoretical kill rate of 1 archer per second--identical to the pre-update kill rate. No improvement there. But that’s not even the worst part: in actual game play the kill rate is EVEN worse than the theoretical kill rate, because the archer tower always fires a third shot at the already-dead archer! This means that in actual fact it is taking 3 shots per archer, so the real kill rate in game is 1 archer every 1.5 seconds. So in actuality the revision has made the archer tower less effective against weak hordes.

The same issue arises against other weak troops like barbarians, minions, and goblins, since the archer tower always fires one unnecessary shot at the troop after the troop is already dead.

If Supercell really wants to make the archer tower better against weak hordes, then they need to get rid of this unnecessary last shot fired by the tower.

Great point and so true hopfully the same for loons and minions ie. Making it easier

No, before update they would shoot every second but take about half a second retargeting anyway

incorrect.

The old archer towers shot 2 arrow to kill one archer. because they had shot the second arrow before the archer had died. It was known as 'the dead arrow'

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Originally Posted by Dimechelis

incorrect.

The old archer towers shot 2 arrow to kill one archer. because they had shot the second arrow before the archer had died. It was known as 'the dead arrow'

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Wasn't that only the case if the archer was a certain distance away or something? not sure...

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Originally Posted by Dimechelis

incorrect.

The old archer towers shot 2 arrow to kill one archer. because they had shot the second arrow before the archer had died. It was known as 'the dead arrow'

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I don’t remember that to be true, and unfortunately I don't have any pre-update replays to watch so I cannot check whether what you say is correct. It doesn't sound reasonable to me though--if the tower is shooting once per second, the only reason a second shot would be fired would be if it took an entire second for the first shot to get to its target--while possible, it seems unlikely. Perhaps if the archer was on the very edge of the towers range it might take a whole second for the arrow to get there, but not at closer ranges for sure. After the update, even close range archers get the unnecessary third shot.

Also generalisations like this can't be made as it really depends on the level of the archers and ATs. I have Lvl13 ATs and they can now 1 shot all lvls of archers in half the time.

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Originally Posted by Gama321

No, before update they would shoot every second but take about half a second retargeting anyway

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I do not know what the retargeting time actually was before the update. However, I have not seen anything suggesting that the retargeting time--whatever it actually is--has been changed by the update. So while taking the retargeting time into account would affect the kills-per-second statistic, it would affect the pre-update and post-update rate equally, and thus would in effect cancel out. Thus ultimate conclusion that archer towers now kill archers slower would still be true.

If the AT shoots a last arrow, even to a dead opponent, wouldn't it have done that before? And if so 3 shots at 1.5 sec is better than 2 shots at 2 seconds. Ad those half seconds per archer, it adds up.

You try to say that 3 shoots of 0.5 second (1.5 s) is longer than 2 shoots of 1 second (2.0s) , I'm confused.