Controlling your minion army

[AussieBoB 0]

has anyone noticed that if u shift click on an enemy, it controlls all of you're skeletons and rallied souls to attack the target? I've just noticed how most ppl say u can't control them in posts.

[Spunky 16]

I learned that you could do it from one of the loading screens in Ice and Blood, it's not always working out perfectly as your summon(s) seem to lose interest pretty fast sometimes.

[Dragon Brother 619]

Yeah...theres meant to be some button to change their attack radius or something...how far they move from you or something like that...

[colif 36]

It is meant to be either a fullstop (.). or a comma (,), I think they expand/deflate the area. People thought it was escorts but no, its minions.

[FrostElfGuard 9]

You can also control whether your minons attack the same target (regularly) or each is free roaming. I had 4 NA skellies and it was like the 3 stooges (each falling over each other and getting in each other's way trying to get to the target).

 

You can also limit how far they range for targets (near, medium, far).

 

These are covered on a tool tip splash screen... which hit me like a wall of text--and then vanished before I could read it! I've got a screen cap of it now (at home). More later (hopefully will post the screen cap on flickr or similar and link it in).

 

At a guess, I think # is one of the controls and I think the others have been mentioned already. Don't know if it works on the console version.

Edited June 8, 2010 by FrostElfGuard

[essjayehm 58]

You can also control whether your minons attack the same target (regularly) or each is free roaming. I had 4 NA skellies and it was like the 3 stooges (each falling over each other and getting in each other's way trying to get to the target).

 

You can also limit how far they range for targets (near, medium, far).

 

These are covered on a tool tip splash screen... which hit me like a wall of text--and then vanished before I could read it! I've got a screen cap of it now (at home). More later (hopefully will post the screen cap on flickr or similar and link it in).

 

At a guess, I think # is one of the controls and I think the others have been mentioned already. Don't know if it works on the console version.

For console, we ran out of buttons a long time ago! I'm quite sure there is no way to do these things with the summons/hirelings.

[colif 36]

The console version was being developed before the minion controls were released, so though pc players have some control, consoles have none.

[FrostElfGuard 9]

I just found the appropriate tooltip harvested (screen capture, save as)

 

 

You can give orders to your familiars and companions with CNTRL + mouse button, they will attack.

With # (default) you can specify the radius in which they will attack on their own.

With - you can specify if they attack as a group or individually.txt

 

This might have been added with Ice & Blood expansion.

 

I found when I repeated pressed the # (shift 3) key I got near, medium (which is quite large) and far (huge radius).

The - (minus key) toggled between attacking as individuals or as a group.

Edited June 13, 2010 by FrostElfGuard