Archers sometimes cannot fire even in perfect conditions. If you let them charge they will get up very close to fire.
Resolved Archers not shooting
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Same here, happens everytime, I usually move them about 20 meters away and toggle fire at will, that usually does the trick.
I have had the same issue when using Vlandian Sharpshooter's and lower tier Vlandian Crossbows at night time.
They do not shoot until they are about 5-10m away from the enemy despite ordering them to hold fire/fire at will, being in front of my infantry, changing formation to loose/line and finally toggling AI commands where they would form a 'Skirmish Line' and continue not to shoot.
However my Archers do shoot normally at night during bandit camp raids and Horse Archers work fine in normal night time scenarios.
They do not shoot until they are about 5-10m away from the enemy despite ordering them to hold fire/fire at will, being in front of my infantry, changing formation to loose/line and finally toggling AI commands where they would form a 'Skirmish Line' and continue not to shoot.
However my Archers do shoot normally at night during bandit camp raids and Horse Archers work fine in normal night time scenarios.
They will shoot when you let them move 1 step in any direction. This happens when you wait for the enemy after starting a battle without giving any command...
If you read my case above no movement, formation, fire orders or even AI command would let my archers shoot despite clear line of sights with top tier crossbowmen unfortunately. They only start shooting when the range is short enough that they fire one volley before being in melee range.
I experienced this while playing e1.0.3 last night but unfortunately I forgot to take screenshots.
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Ah ok i got it. That must be buggy on some races than. I play the southern empire and never had the problem.
Btw did you noticed that some horsed archer are shooting over the whole map. I think this is buggy too.
DrDruGs
Did you fight during daytime or nighttime? When it comes to archers it's a feature implemented that during nighttime archers can't fire very far. Reason: Without lightsources, you can't really see jack **** at night.. you would know, if you've lived in the wilderness without electricity.
When it comes to banditcamps, they are meant to have lightsources, campfires etc, hence you can see the enemy. Archers can fire.
When it comes to archers fire over the whole map, it all comes down to the speed of the arrow and how they coded falloff speed etc, the math behind etc, so it would not be the horsearchers that's buggy, but the math behind it and the bows they're using etc.
KaKeGo
Recruit
ehh... man for u archer cant shoot very far u mean its range 10m ? u can create army only archers and this same is in day time
Yay!
Karl_Magnus
Sergeant
It should be reintroduced with maybe a graduated accuracy debuff... Archers not being able to shoot down enemies by nighttime the same way they do in sunlight was a nice idea, but it was just a bit extreme that they wouldn't even attempt to shoot just because it's dark.
It should just be a medium to big debuff for them to hit the further the target is and becomes less and less of a problem when they get closer.
I mean... maybe casual players would dislike it, or they won't notice (maybe even make it part of the realism difficulty), but I feel like this would give some meaning to what is pratically the only environmental change in the game (maybe someday introduce weather changes and repercussions on movement speed, missiles trajectories, visibility, etc. I wish that becomes a thing, but maybe I'll have to wait on a M&B3)
It should just be a medium to big debuff for them to hit the further the target is and becomes less and less of a problem when they get closer.
I mean... maybe casual players would dislike it, or they won't notice (maybe even make it part of the realism difficulty), but I feel like this would give some meaning to what is pratically the only environmental change in the game (maybe someday introduce weather changes and repercussions on movement speed, missiles trajectories, visibility, etc. I wish that becomes a thing, but maybe I'll have to wait on a M&B3)
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Karl_Magnus
Sergeant
Yeah, for sure. I'm not complaining, just crossing fingers that it comes back in the future. It's far from being a must at the moment I understand it fully well.
Good job on the devs for the fixes. Let's make one of the top games ever made.
Good job on the devs for the fixes. Let's make one of the top games ever made.
I have the same problem. Fix it please taleworlds.
Karl_Magnus
Sergeant
It's supposed to be fixed with the patch they just released. (e1.0.4)
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