What is obstructing me?
Your arrows travel where the target is expected to go. If you are, say, shooting at a jumping person and you are a fair distance away, your arrow may target the location below the ground, thus causing a miss. Here’s a fun thing to try, get a buddy and go into an empty spvp room. Instruct him to stand a decent pace away and sidestep left and right while facing you. Now using a ranger, fire your short bow. Notice that you can’t hit him at all! I haven’t tried this with all the ranged weapons on every class, but I know a short bow thief has magic arrows that track a target. It’d be something to test if I wasn’t tempbanned for saying bad words with a filtered chat. But that’s another story.
That’s not what he means yoshi, it happens in pve too, random obstructions on random things, like the nests in ascalonian catacombs. It’s a pain to range those. I’ve no idea what causes it.
He doesn’t mean the movement calculation system or however you call that in games. He simply means the obstruction bug.
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While the scenarios may be different, it still stems from the fact that the arrow does not have a guaranteed chance of hitting the target. It may also be due to poor collision detection as well.
Between Miss, Obstructed and Invulnerable. Rangers seem to be blind as a bat. Not masters of nature, survival and ranged combat.
Totally agree.
Lol. If you use your ranged damage to hit a target on another platform, let’s say in a jump puzzle for arguments sake. The monster becomes immune+stands still doing nothing and you become perma combat flagged (can’t jump normally anymore), with the only option being re-logging to lose the combat flag and then once you’re re-logged you have to jump to the platform the monster is on to charge it like you’re a warrior.
It’s funny in a sad way.
it’s a bug, hopefully will be addressed in 2 week
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Obstructing is mainly, I think, caused by environment bug(s). And the extremely strict obstruct mechanics.
it is some kind of bug happens for all ranged attacks no matter what class
i love how thief arrows hit the target even if hes jumping/kiting. but ranger arrows are the easiest thing in the world to dodge. hell, you can dodge arrows without even moving with all these obstructed messages that interfere with ranger play. :/
Is this happening WAY more in the past 24 hours?
As others have said its bugged…I’ve gotten it before in a perfectly open field with the only “obstruction” being some grass on the ground…
Careful Ashlotte, I said the same thing basically but with more humor and got “infracted” since the mods don’t seem to have a sense of humor. Nor the ability to piece together the fact that I was indeed contributing my opinion on the subject that a blade of grass obstructed his view. Really, grass really does obstruct you…