This may just be me

[Varus]

Its been a long time since I have had less then 250 archery so I may be completly wrong.

But is your bow supposed to shoot off to the right?

My current skill is about 66 with new char.

Most of my shots fire accuratly, but like an inch to the right of my crosshairs? Is this a bug, or simply caused by my low skill?

 

[Varus]

I think this is actualy some sort of bug.

I discouvered that if I switch to first person mode the accuracy is fine. I think the skiewed perspective in 3rd person has to do with which way im looking when I get off a horse, while using a bow. It seems to keep the way I was facing when I go off, as where it thinks my crosshairs are aimed.

I will play around with this tonite and try to make it reproducable.

 

[armagan]

Hi Varus,

It's not a bug. It's a feature

You draw your arrow to somewhere near your ear. Whereas the camera is placed in the middle of your head. That is, there is like 10 cm between the camera position and the arrow. That's why the arrow goes slightly to the right.

Players should learn to target by taking that into account. There's really no alternative to it.

 

[Lord Blade]

Yeah, I've been trying, but it gets really hard at long distances.

It's a shame you can't just have the crosshair adjust accordingly when you switch to a bow/crossbow.

 

[Varus]

Actualy its something else entirly!

I use my arrow keys for movement, and had bound the numpad butons to troop orders, so every time I pressed numpad1 (Which I had bound to 'hold position') it would rotate my view just a little bit, since that is not unbound when you rebind the key! After a while where I was looking with my crosshairs, was nowhere near where my shots were going!

 

[armagan]

Varus:
That's one of the remaining debug keys left unchecked. Thanks for bringing it up. I'll fix in the next version:

Yeah, I've been trying, but it gets really hard at long distances.

It's a shame you can't just have the crosshair adjust accordingly when you switch to a bow/crossbow.

Sorry. I don't understand what you are referring to. The distance between the arrow and camera center is only a few centimeters and that is not important at all for long ranges.