Archer's Movement!

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Elaviel

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Ha anyone noticed that the archers in the arena, notably named opponents, have extrmely unrealistic and annoying movement? you go to swing at them with a sword and you cant get a good swing in cos their shaking side to side and in circles etc. By pure chance you'll hit them overhead.
 
You want to stand there like a dummy? The current situation isn't good aswell, as it is hard to get the at all without a horse which was surely not the case. The main problem is the headshot which both they and me tend to do at low distances. There should be something like a head-strike.
 
just that my archer enemies seem to shudder impossibly and i find that not only is it irritating, it detracts from the reality of the game.
 
A good solvation would be giving a close combat weapon to the archers in the arena. On the other had they would be just like normal archers and it wouldn't as fun to hunt them down. How do they behave in you M&B? In mine they strafe to left&right while running back & shooting my poor chest.
 
Yeah, but they do it IMPOSSIBLY fast, to the extreme where i cant hit them without having a 5:1 miss ratio or have a horse or ranged. only in the arena, outside its fine
 
Tip 1. try to perform a sideways swing on them. you'll have a better chance to hit.

Tip 2. Get some athletics. If you can't catch up with a fast swerving archer, you'll resemble a piece of corpse.
 
agreed with ingolfis.

I personally like the dificult stuff, unless it's completely unrealistic or simply impossible... this isn't the case. When you are on lower levels ou have to use strategy to those guys, when you're on higher levels you need a bit dexterity (personal physical... mind-finger one).

those archers are quite interesting to beat. And even on higher levels, if you only have a 2h blade and you are alone, almost impossible...

cheers
 
What bothers me about archers, and anything for that case, is that you can notch an arrow while running backwards... that's totally unreal. not only running backwards doesn't slow you down, but you even get to shoot or stab enemies in the process.
 
what you are saying is "it would be better if i could kill them archers in one hit so they stop bothering me" , right?

i think archers are good as they are now
 
lol. No. I mean, as an archer I would like not to be able to run as fast as hell while shooting arrows, it is just a too great help for my archer capabilities. I really don't care that the enemy is able to do that in the arena (read - because they don't have hand to hand weapons, or they would certainly use them), it's nice, and avoids turning those archers into sitting ducks.

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I add this tought... while arming the bow (well, arming in portuguese, direct translation... meaning puting the arrow and pulling the string), i find you can run as fast as you want, but while you're holding the thing at maximum strength, and "aiming" it, i think you can't run that fast. I did some archery myself, never tried to run though, but i don't think it's possible at all.

But putting aside realism, and considering this IS a game, I like it how it is, just think that maybe the archer (we) shouldn't run so fast with bow "armed".

PS: i said arena before, because I never saw an archer in a battle running from you and keep shooting arrows, because as soon as you get close to theguy he just pulls his cleaver, sword, whatever.

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I'm gonna say something really dumb, yet wise. ARROWS CAN'T CHANGE DIRECTION WHILE IN FLIGHT(there are no homing beacons on my regular ones at least :lol: ).
Run at them and when they ready their bow you just stop and wait till he shoots THEN you dodge and continue charging(i prefer waiting for him to shoot than keep running at them because it makes easier seeing the arrow) =)
I saved my skin hundreds of times in the tournment by doing this =D
Just try it a little then come back to tell me how it worked =)
About the realism i agree they shouldn't be able to run backwards holding the string but it is possible to run foward while pulling the string (with it ready, running is just plain stupidity :lol: ).
OOOOOOOOOOOOkay!
Cya
 
Oh!
Strafing and poking the archers with those pointy wooden greatswords or stealing horses also work like hell!
Oh! Stop the excessive comments Praetorians :lol:
Were you abducted by those so called in-game peasants?
Tournment is too easy/boring =D
 
HINT: when you run BACKWARDS the chances are there are some STONES or ...the tree thingues... and you might TRIP on them... im guessing that would be hard to implement in the game.. but it would help since you cant just run backwards and never trip....
 
Maybe our characters had some kind of ninja training so they never trip on things or other kinds of accidents. I guess we just can't drink that ale we buy because we all are Shaolin monks with full kung fu training :lol:
Maybe not :wink:
 
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