C-c-c-combo Breaker Woes Begone

[Camate]

Greetings!

We are currently looking into creating a marker to be displayed in version 2.0 that will make it easier to determine which way the enemy you are fighting is facing so that combos can be executed without having to worry about whether or not your target is facing the correct way. However, with any online game, there is always the chance of encountering some amount of latency, so it's not a 100% guarantee each and every time.

[yukikaze_yanagi]

Good news everyone

[Babydoll]

Nice! Looking forward to it

[Soukyuu]

It sounds good, but ... why another indicator that needs same update as the monster model itself? Why not just update monster's position more efficiently?

[ESAR]

It sounds good, but ... why another indicator that needs same update as the monster model itself? Why not just update monster's position more efficiently?

Honestly, they just can't really.
No matter how they swing it there's always gonna be a slight lag.
Best they can do is take away as much as they can, but for someone like me, the lowest ping to the servers in japan is 350ms or 1/3 a second.
That's not including lag through my ISP, there's, server lag or lag from my PC.

I'm sure though they can make some improvements on what they had though. At the very least trick us into not noticing it as much.

With online games there's always a little guesswork, like shooters, always aim just ever so slightly in front

[Masamune1004]

Great, I guess. Though I was kinda hoping we wouldn't need this in 2.0, kinda makes me worry.

[Hyrist]

Some monster positioning can sometimes not be entirely clear cut, say with lance wielder beast-men.

I think this indicator has less to do with graphical latency as much as confusion in the middle of all the particle effects and action. Could be wrong of course, but it would be helpful to know where the mobs is facing when it's obscured in a massive explosives and crowding bodies.

[Skies]

It sounds good, but ... why another indicator that needs same update as the monster model itself? Why not just update monster's position more efficiently?

Essentially, during the shower of particle effects of most team efforts it's very, very difficult to keep track of where the frontal side of the enemy even is at all times.
Furthermore, there are certain mobs which have ambiguous fronts, for example the majority of the Amal'jaa. You basically have to aim for their left shoulder instead of the front side of their torso because because stand in a sideways battle stance, making their 'front', that is the side that faces you, closer to their left side than their actual front side.

[SynysterBlitz]

Love the Killer Instinct reference

[Dragonheart]

Greetings!

We are currently looking into creating a marker to be displayed in version 2.0 that will make it easier to determine which way the enemy you are fighting is facing so that combos can be executed without having to worry about whether or not your target is facing the correct way. However, with any online game, there is always the chance of encountering some amount of latency, so it's not a 100% guarantee each and every time.

They're preparing us for the worst :P ? Still hoping in the server structure fix (confirmed) + Regional server.. And then we can talk of "any online game" cause almost every online game has decent structure and regional servers.