Skill Shots and Projectile Physics

ghofmann · April 2015

This is a long shot (no pun intended), but can we have actual aiming with the bow and staves? I want skill shots. Who agrees?

Faugaun · April 2015

Ummm, before the troll train rolls in....I like this idea but for me the damage would have to be completely reworked (possibly upped?) To adjust for the new !mechanic ...also a toggle to activate/deactivate the mod would be necessary

ghofmann · April 2015

I agree, Faugaun. They would have to rebalance everything and probably even reprogram the whole game. Just a wild dream, I guess.

ushanshek · April 2015

hard to do that, there would be major problems with lag and target hitting, sadly

ghofmann · April 2015

But I want an arrow to the knee so badly.

rb2001 · April 2015

ghofmann wrote: »

This is a long shot (no pun intended), but can we have actual aiming with the bow and staves? I want skill shots. Who agrees?

Absolutely. Current projectiles are just a visual effect.

I come from games like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. where there is not even path-tracing, but the bullets themselves are mathematically modeled with muzzle velocity, gravity, wind resistance, weight, armor and material penetration properties. All that works.

Not saying that level is needed here, but some simple aim and gravity would be a huge addition.

rb2001 · April 2015

ghofmann wrote: »

I agree, Faugaun. They would have to rebalance everything and probably even reprogram the whole game. Just a wild dream, I guess.

Ah, it honestly wouldn't take that much work to add path-tracing and gravity. It's a module.

The_Death_Princess · April 2015

This is a fall back of just about any Fantasy style game ever designed. I screamed about it hard in DAOC, it gave casters such an advantage. Frankly its a pipe dream. Not being a programmer, I dont know what it is. ZOS isnt going to take time to rework the game to account for true collison. We are not even talking about siege here, hit so many times by seige INSIDE a tower/keep.

ZOS is better off correcting the real oops we screwed up, like 360 block, perma block, perma dodge.

Valymer · April 2015

Lol @ realistic ballistics in this laggy game.

Arcanasx · April 2015

Valymer wrote: »

Lol @ realistic ballistics in this laggy game.

Or the 4 shots per second from short bows that penetrate plate armor like it was made of paper.

PKMN12 · April 2015

unless you want useless staffs and bows in game to never be used by any players, i would say no.

and yeah, as said above, CANNOT happen without a massive rework of the games engine, which is obviously never going to happen. It is not even a pipe dream of any sort, more of a delusion to think it could ever happen.

Grayphilosophy · April 2015

"FPS mechanics" are not likely to be implemented, unfortunately. However, I too would love it if they had developed a combat system more similar to elder scrolls gameplay rather than hotbars and active abilities that replace attacks.

kendellking_chaosb14_ESO · April 2015

Umm no the damage buff you would need to do to rebalance the game would be crazy

SantaOrc · April 2015

Gameplay/balancing wise it would be fairly easy to give a +5% damage buff or whatever in the case you aimed correctly and leave the old system as it is.

But it's not going to work with this engine.