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Thread: ... my pets are slacking like never before

JMShunter
Mon May 23, 2005 5:07 pm
#1
I am a mbh with 4-4-0-0 carbs. I have not lost a duel or gcw fight when it was 1-1 in a week. This of course doesnt include jedi. I use a proton carbine as my mainweapon and good assault armor. I most frequently use my greater plains stalker and dino my level (1) blurrg. If you dont like me using a level 1 pet then we can debate that someplace else.


Anyways I usually beserk my pets beforethe fightand duelist stance. Then I send my pets in on the jedi or player and we have at it. Today a jedi force ran away from me across the grass. I burst ran afterhim expecting my gps to be any second passing me and attacking the jedi. I caught the jedi and my pet stayed back and chilled. After a little bit of exercise my blurrg and gps were done. Then it was me vs the jedi. I kinda feel cheated like my pet let me down. Before the CU I had visions of my gps catching anything and not giving up till he or it was incapped. Now my pets stop attacking on a whim and often decide not to follow me. They also seem to have trouble going through spaceports. The last 2 times I was chasing somoene througha onemy blurrg who was using his ranged attack stopped attacking the person.


Im wondering if anyone else is having these problems of pet disobediance and no longer attacking people. Will this get fixed?


Sorry if this post seems a little negative... With this and no resists and pets generally becoming meat bagsI sorta feel like my pets are losing there soul... if that makes any sense.



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theorb22
Mon May 23, 2005 5:27 pm
#2

Yea, they nerfed the speed of every pet in the game, they'll move almost as fast as each other now. Many of my pets can barely keep up with me just doing a basic run, and if I run too long, they'll fall very far behind and take a good deal of time to keep up. As for jedi, there's little hope formy petsto keep up, once the jedi realize im a CH, (Or if they enjoy the fine art of walking, something most people would say is a benefit in PvP)they'll just step aside and my pets freeze in place. Also, PvP with pets is riddled with pathing issues generally whenever a pet has to *Gasp* run after someone, and will commonly lock up, not attacking anything or anyone unless it gets attacked. It's even more hilarious when they start responding again and chase after your target whois 130 meters away....LONG after your dead.No word from anyone on any issues directly to us ever since the JTL beta, butpatch 17 has a whole bunch of CH fixes, but if what I read about TC is true, calling certain pets makes everyone in an 80m area crash, including yourself of course. I've only seen one post about it so I don't know much, but it sounds very....fun...


At any rate, one of the patch notes mentions something about A.I. and target acquisition or something, we're hoping that might be the fix for this, but it's described extremely vaugely. So, guess all we can do is wait....

Message Edited by theorb22 on 05-23-2005 05:27 PM





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Traie
Mon May 23, 2005 6:46 pm
#3
I usually hunt with my twin Greater Sludge Panthers (not the highest levels, but I like em) and I've noticed alot lately that they fall behind when I'm running, or they stop running and casually stroll to catch up with me. Really sucks when I send them into combat ahead of me and they gingerly walk over to the target and seem to just kinda "slap" the target.



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Selko
Tue May 24, 2005 3:30 am
#4
Any idea why they changed creature speed, I haven't been a CH in a long time but the Respec and playing with my cats again makes me really want to take it along with smuggler as my template. Yeah I know I am a glutton for punishment.




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Ultron69
Tue May 24, 2005 4:03 am
#5
I think my pets follow better now , then they did before they generally stay within 35 meters behind me ;not as fast but I don't have to keep hitting the follow me command every time I cross a ditch now.
ArchiieBarrett
Tue May 24, 2005 1:58 pm
#6

I know where your coming from it is out of control..... NONE of my pets keep up with me. My stalker and other cats would follow me on a landspeeder... and my peko would be able to keep up with my swoop. Now they dont follow me on those unless I spam follow. When going up a hill forget it, they take thier sweet time. In a duel the person can tie thier shoe before my pet makes it from me to them. They can easliy root both pets and disarm them making them completly useless... this has happend to me already 4 times.. so since the CU I have yet to duel with my pets The funny thing is i use the same combo.. MY level 1 blurrg and my stalker or boar or squill, best combo. So I feel ya 100% They stand around and do nuthing in duels, I am not kidding, they dont even like attack half the time.


Creature movement and obidience should be the top priority right now for CH bugs. At least the are fixing the cap, didn't affect me though.


I miss my fast cats and birds, and my torton running at full speed. Now pets just waddle to where they have to go and expect you to wait for them.


It is like a sad game of the tortios and the hare, I could take a nap before my pet makes it to the destination.





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KzinKiller
Tue May 24, 2005 5:06 pm
#7
My Gurrek used to keep perfect pace with my X-34 on relatively flat terrain, made it *great* for hunting on Lok and Naboo ..... all my other pets could easily keep up with my mounts (Brackaset, Cu Pa, Dewback) unless I galloped for a long time, and the Gurrek could easily stay with any mount at a gallop.

Now .... worthless, you can't have another pet out if you're mounted, they all fall behind before you can say 'What were you smoking when you wrote this code?'




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SioBabble
Tue May 24, 2005 5:22 pm
#8

Do you want to know just how bad pet slacking is?


Zantiused to trail a peko peko behindhim on a swoop, and the peko paced him. No problems, probably was slowing the peko down.


NOWTazz's new giant peko peko cannot keep up with him when he's riding a dewback.


There's no point in having the cats now, one of their most useful qualities was speed. My gurreck, aside from all the other vicious nerfing done to it in the CU, is now no faster than the rancor.






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JMShunter
Tue May 24, 2005 7:20 pm
#9
this is bull and I dont mean bull rancor. My cats and other pets should be the FAST efficient and deadly fighting machines they once were. I do think CH is better after the CU but pet movement must be fixed. If I thought it would do any good id start a petition but I dont think it will.... To add some more insult to injury I was chasing ... running through the swamps of rori with my carbine out and my gps got lost and was 200 meters behind me. I was jogging and he couldnt keep up. When I was within 15 M of the jedi I recalled him and the blurrg and by the time the two 15 second timers were up my jedi had a safe house in sight. She made it and while she eventually came out and made me 160k richer it would have been nice to not have to waste the 10 minutes outside her house because my pet has turned into a chain smoker and needs to rest at what should be walking speed for him.



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