Auto Gun clarification

Szlat, can we get more of a clarification as to how these work?

I've not been able to nail down a consistant behavior on the game. Sometimes it seems to shoot at whatever it wants, other times it doesn't shoot at all (and monster should be well within range).

I can't tell if you have to "hit" a target for it to shoot at it or just look in it's direction (I thought you had said that, in another post).

Anyway... these are neat little guns, I just am having real trouble nailing down how to use them effectively.

(typically, i'm using them as sent specialist and have 2 def sents and 2 autoguns in the same general area)

Every fifth of a second the autogun checks what you are looking at. If it is an enemy, it will target the enemy and start firing at it.
And it will keep firing at that enemy until it is dead, or out of range, or cannot be seen by the autogun - at which time it will check for another enemy.

I have seen where occassionally the enemy can no longer be targeted by the autogun, but the autogun keeps firing anyway - usually horizontally. Which can be confusing.