archery bug

[PBarnum]

when ever I shoot an enemy with my bow and arrows. A lot (most of them) go right through the thing and hit the floor. It doesnt register the hit and I lose arrows because of it.

 

[HobbitG]

is the server particularly laggy, or are you on my linux server?

ive heard lag causes that, and who knows what doesn't work on my server yet

 

[Thothie]

ZOMG - finally someone tells me weather or not the changes to the arrow model helped!

Guess not... Oh well. :\

I'll try something else, but yeah, it's mostly lag.

 

[PBarnum]

might be lag related. let me test

 

[evilsquirrel]

i've noticed with frost arrows that if you're at a distance of about 3-10 feet, they always miss...i can snipe with them just fine

 

[Thothie]

Frost arrows use the same model and physics as all the other arrows. They just freeze on hit.

I know all the arrows seem accurate on LAN. So I suspect it's da lagz. I've not figured out how to make 'client side arrows' - and the server side arrows won't help in that situation.

The model alteration involved elongating the hitbox, in case it 'skipped' past a monster during lag. (Guess it didn't work - asked in like 3 different threads if it did, never got a response) I'll see if there's a seperate collision box I can alter as well.

 

[PBarnum]

its not just different arrows. it is also default arrows

 

[Thothie]

All the arrows use same physics and model.

 

[Jelly]

How about even bigger hitboxes?

 

[Orochi]

I've noticed that no matter what I do, my tree/orc bow will ALWAYS shoot off to the side. Is this intentional, or is it a bug?

 

[Thothie]

Actually, my FN character traded his elven longbow in for an orc treebow a ways back, as it's the only one that shot straight, and wasn't affected by lag. (Slower arrows = less lag misses)

 

[Belmont]

Since the last patch, I really can't kill shit with my bow, at 200 ping wich is normal for me, my arrows misses a lot, this only happens on orcs and goblins btw.

 

[Thothie]

Orc + Goblins roaming with no players about = more lag.

I've a patch that may fix that, I may distro it to the server hosts before Oct 1st. Just gotta make sure it don't bugger out on the test server first.