Shadow mimic and allies


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Ziggurat Zagger

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Post Sunday, 30th August 2015, 20:31

Shadow mimic and allies

Bug or feature? If I aim a ranged attack at an enemy and there's and ally behind said enemy, my shadow mimic's ranged attack may miss the enemy and hit the ally thereby making it hostile. Of course my own ranged attack was targeted to stop at the enemy. The shadow mimic does not copy the targeting exactly.

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You shoot a sling bullet.
The sling bullet hits the deep elf blademaster!
The sling bullet freezes the deep elf blademaster.
The deep elf blademaster is heavily wounded.
Your shadow shoots a sling bullet.
The sling bullet barely misses the deep elf blademaster.
The sling bullet hits your ice beast!
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Post Sunday, 30th August 2015, 22:10

Re: Shadow mimic and allies

I'd call that a bug, unless we're going for some kind of flavor where your shadow jealously hates your other allies and passive-aggressively turns them against you
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Ziggurat Zagger

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Post Sunday, 30th August 2015, 22:21

Re: Shadow mimic and allies

I was thinking it might also be a deliberate decision to make Dith not so good for ranged attackers with summons... But of course if I target a square I would assume the mimic to target the same square the same way. I'll put it on Mantis and see.
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