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Thread: is cover messed up with pub20?
And again, same result.
Against level 35 - 37 Saronyi Witches, I was able to stay at 65m --- just barely inside range --- and get off THREE conceal shots from cover (more than enough to kill them since I am level 80). I find that if I am JUST barely inside my range, after the first conceal shot, they don't move at all... after the second, they move toward me but don't actually rush to attack me... so I can get a third shot in.
If I am at 64.999m though... after the FIRST conceal-shot, the target will move toward me 5 - 20m or so, looking around... then after the second one they charge close enough that I THINK they're going to attack me anyway, so I root (thx pistoleer 0004) and sniper-shoot them...
While there was no exp involved (I was just doing a kill-X quest) it was fun to actually FEEL likea sniper... being under cover, NEVER having my cover broken as I one-by-one picked off the foes.
When I was at 65m from the closest one (my target) I was usually 66m away from any other one --- hence they might get the " ! " symbol when their buddy takes fire, but they never turned to me.
Foes that are stacked on TOP of each other, now, that's problem: almost always after the second conceal shot they will rush me.
Thanks for the replies guys. Its definitely not an auto-atack issue -- I never set one. Must have just been some really atrocious luck on my part. I've seen a lot of weird things happening since the CU went out -- getting smacked from 50m only to find post-mortem that the mob was really on top of you, LOS issues where you can't shoot a target you are practically standing on, attacks that cycle on the toolbar but don't fired (anyone else seen this one? pisses me off it does), that kinda crap. Maybe I just got into some weird bugged state.
I'll try it out again see. How I miss the old cover and conceal days.
I am having the same problem. Cover breaks after the initial concealshot. On another note, is it on a timer. I have tested to fire only one shot(pre pub. 20) and the creature always finds me after a short while. If so It is stupid and artificial imho.
A better way would be that the first concealshot has a 10% chance of breaking cover the second 20% and so on.
It could be adjusted so several shots are regarded as belonging to the same series as long as the time between thelast shot and the next does not exceed a certain amount.
The chance of breaking cover would only be reset after 10 min .of non combat (with that particular target) to prevent people of spamming concealshot. I.e. it would be balanced against the creatures regen rate so that there is no point of waiting for the concealshot to reset.
If that were to happen we could get of four or more concealshots but we could also break cover with our first. Makes things feel less predetermined.
My 2
I was under cover and the first one to get to mission lair. When a group member drove up near me, the cover was broken,
Tested it a few times.....same result. Cant go under cover when aynone from my group is nearby.
Cover does not break with group members..as for their vehicles....well...
Va-Mei wrote:Check something... Do you have an auto attack selected? I get real PO'd when I spend a good long time sneaking up to a target, /conceal, and blow my own cover with a ranged shot.
LOOOL I did this when I was supposed to be single pulling npc's from our cities imp bases. I forgot I had set headshot to auto attack.
I got one conceal shot off, then suddenly ten stormies came running after me.