0005716: Plasma Bolt trajectory curves at certain angles - Arcen Idea Tracker (Bugs and Features)

ID	Project	Category		Date Submitted	Last Update

0005716	Valley 1	Suggestion - Spell Ideas		Feb 9, 2012 11:11 pm	Apr 15, 2012 2:02 pm

Reporter	BobTheJanitor	Assigned To	Chris_McElligottPark
Status	resolved	Resolution	fixed
Product Version	0.573
Fixed in Version	0.929

Summary	0005716: Plasma Bolt trajectory curves at certain angles
Description	I'm not sure if this is intentional or not, so I'm not sure if this is a bug report or a feature request. Plasma Bolt seems to fire straight when aimed directly vertically or horizontally. When aimed along a diagonal, it seems to come out curving in one direction or another depending on which way you're facing when you fire it. This can cause it to impact on walls and ceilings quite often. Trying to use it to attack an enemy hiding in an upper corner of a room, for example, can require some tricky aiming. If said enemy is selected by the auto-targeting feature, the shots will always fail, hitting the ceiling next to the enemy instead.
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Internal Weight	Fix Before Major Release

Nypyren Mar 18, 2012 3:50 am reporter ~0020966	I'm finding it frustrating to aim as well.

Chris_McElligottPark Apr 15, 2012 2:02 pm administrator ~0022066	Thanks! * Finally found and fixed the issue that was causing some spells (most notably plasma bolt, but it applied to any of them, really) to be super inaccurate when fired at certain angles. The problem was that the spells were gradually accelerating to their full speed, and so when a spell had a high speed but lower acceleration the errors would compound and then either the spell would "bend" as it traveled, or it would just plain miss. This was also causing some oddness with enemy spells that were missing where the enemy was aiming, although that was less obvious to folks. This has been fixed so that now spells pretty much instantly accelerate to their max speed, whatever that speed is, and then retain all their accuracy. In practice this shouldn't affect much except that spells don't miss their targets anymore. It might also give you slightly less reaction time with a few enemy spells, but we don't think that any of them had a low enough acceleration paired with a high enough speed where that would make a material difference. Finally, when players were using shot speed enchants this problem was exacerbated, but this solution also fixes that issue.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
Feb 9, 2012 11:11 pm	BobTheJanitor	New Issue
Feb 10, 2012 11:39 am	tigersfan	Internal Weight	=> Fix Before Major Release
Feb 10, 2012 11:39 am	tigersfan	Assigned To	=> Chris_McElligottPark
Feb 10, 2012 11:39 am	tigersfan	Status	new => assigned
Mar 18, 2012 3:50 am	Nypyren	Note Added: 0020966
Apr 14, 2012 4:57 pm	Terraziel	Relationship added	related to 0007069
Apr 15, 2012 2:02 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Note Added: 0022066
Apr 15, 2012 2:02 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Status	assigned => resolved
Apr 15, 2012 2:02 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Fixed in Version	=> 0.929
Apr 15, 2012 2:02 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Resolution	open => fixed