Ranged bugs

[Baahb3]

Welcome back after the holidays Devs.

I wanted to see if we could get some word on the progress on two major ranged bugs right now.

1. Lost shots when attacking.
--Simple repro, just hold down attack button and tab to new target. With a bow you will not register 2 or 3 shots before it recognizes the new target.

2. Shots not registering when persistent effect is cast upon you until you move out of it.
--Simple repro, start attacking a caster and let them put Ice Storm, or a rune on you, your shots will stop registering until you move.

These two bugs really kill all enjoyment out of ranged builds and I feel need to be set as priority right now. Both of these have been bug reported by me and others I am sure, both in game and out.

[Stoner81]

In addition:


Inquis are missing Law Dice which we should have (nerfed).
Inquis are missing applied Doubleshot (also nerfed).

Stoner81.

[Oxarhamar]

Welcome back after the holidays Devs.

I wanted to see if we could get some word on the progress on two major ranged bugs right now.

1. Lost shots when attacking.
--Simple repro, just hold down attack button and tab to new target. With a bow you will not register 2 or 3 shots before it recognizes the new target.

2. Shots not registering when persistent effect is cast upon you until you move out of it.
--Simple repro, start attacking a caster and let them put Ice Storm, or a rune on you, your shots will stop registering until you move.

These two bugs really kill all enjoyment out of ranged builds and I feel need to be set as priority right now. Both of these have been bug reported by me and others I am sure, both in game and out.

Indeed

Missed shots can be reproduce targeting boxes as well for a non combat test

[droid327]

I think it might not be restricted to ranged attacks, but it certainly affects ranged attacks a lot, so I'll include it...

- Ranged Epic Destiny attacks (FS for sure, possibly others) will not register hits while moving

[Wizard1406]

I want to add:

I lose my hard target all the time (doesn't matter if auto-target is on or not, and yes I had precise shot, so I could aim at mob in the back too), and it starts targetting and hitting another mob !

This makes focusing on dangerous mob that need to die ASAP (champ, reaper) difficult, and ranged builds basically unplayable at the moment for me :-/

I noticed it is worse on bows than x-bows (didn't try throwing)

[Oxarhamar]

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php?&postid=6472437#post6472437



We do have a theory about why this is happening, and happening more frequently in recent years. If we're right (specifically about the interaction between homing angles and the Precise Shot feat with IPS turned off), the key components are all working as designed, but it means there are cases where you fire arrows and they do not hit your intended target (or any other target), offering no feedback in the process, which isn't good. We're hoping to do some further investigation post-U51.

Probably happen more now that they nerfed IPS since players are more likely to have it turned off