Hai there,
Back in 2012, projectiles would get randomly obstructed all the time. Then they got fixed. I’m here to talk about the sad little puppy that was left out, ie Net Shot. To make a long story short, it gets “Obstructed” randomly.
I think the problem at stake here is due to the fact that when your opponent move while you fire a projectile, the game calculates a trajectory for that projectile. If your opponent stop moving or changes direction, you might then get “Obstructed” because the trajectory proves to be ineffective (I think the 2012 problem was about the same thing). Now of course, the projectile speed and the range at which you fire it matter.
This is where my little video barges in : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd9yPQ1xRe0
It’s in 6 parts :
1) My opponent strafes quickly while I fire my rifle auto-attack (AA)
->everything lands
2) Quick strafing while I use Net Shot 5 times
->1 success out of 5 attempts
3) Slower strafing that is much more likely to happen in actual PvP
->1 success out of 5 attempts
4) my guardian friend AAs me with scepter while I strafe quickly
->almost everything gets obstructed
5) my thief friend AAs me with shortbow while I strafe quickly
->almost everything gets obstructed
6) my thief friend AAs me with shortbow while I strafe slowly
-> quite a few of the hits land, I just noticed we got a few “Out of Range” though but you can still see my point, 50% of the hits get obstructed and the rest lands.
Quick strafing can’t really happen in PvP because you need to move around, the point of 1), 2), 4)and 5) is to show you that the projectile reaching his target depends highly on the projectile speed. Indeed, all the Hip Shots land while any slower projectile fails to reach the target most of the time.
Now 3) and 6) are more interesting because people strafing then changing direction or just not moving anymore are much more likely to happen in PvP. And the video is quite compelling there, Net Shot fails almost every time while the shortbow AA is much more reliable simply because it is quicker. Not a whole lot quicker, mind you, but a bit.
I’m not claiming this is all there is to Net Shot getting obstructed all the time because it just gets randomly obstructed even on targets you just cc-d with Overcharged Shot, but it should be a start.
I also would like to mention that I understand the need for Net Shot to be relatively slow because it is strong and needs to be dodgeable, so how about you make it a tad quicker and in exchange increase its CD? You could also give it a cast animation and make it much quicker, like pin down.
I would love to get a little red around here :>
While I’m at it, I’d like to thank Salty Pepe for the recording and Xephania Pureheart for participating.
