@Psions said in Target priority:
And this isn't information made available in the game UI why exactly?
From your later post it suonds like the options you are suggesting are part of the mod itself , and not in the base game?
I also agree with above, default priority for OC should be on the selected attack unit not on some random engi.
The original post didn't say whether it was a regular shot, or an OC, that went against the engineer. If you're not on snipe mode, and you have auto-OC on, I think the ACU looks for the "best" target for an OC, which could be a clump of units, rather than the one you are shooting at. If the ACU is on an attack order (told to attack a single target), I believe all shots, including all auto-OCs, go into that target until it stops being in range of the ACU.
Why isn't this described better in the UI? The target priorities updates have been going on for more than a year now, but it's still a relatively new thing. And it's pretty complicated to try to explain (even though it's obviously very important). It would be a lot more simple if every unit was allowed to target an ACU, but a lot of people complained about that (it made it too easy to kill an ACU, even if it had units protecting it)