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Minor Auto-targeting Fix Request: Conjure Flame
Makes sense to me.
Thanks for watching.
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Crypt Cleanser
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minmay wrote:Have you tried using LRD in 0.12? It's awful. The targeter tries to pick a wall that's next to a monster, and it's not very predictable. So every time you cast the spell, you have to look at where the automatic targeter decided to put it, then move it over to where you actually wanted it. The need to wait for additional input before you can actually pick your target makes using the spell take several times as long compared to the old targeting, where it picked the closest monster - you nearly always knew which location it would pick, and could move the cursor where you wanted it without having to look first. Usually, there was no need to wait for additional input at all - you didn't need any redraws at all between pressing z and the next turn, because you knew where the cursor would start without even having to think.
LRD automatically targeting walls was the worst interface change the game has ever had that I can remember. I'm astonished people want to see more of it. I can only guess that none of the people involved actually use these spells in practice. Avoiding deep water/lava with ranged combat would be okay (as long as it didn't end up targeting a different monster than expected), but anything fancier is going to double the real-time it takes to win an archer.
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Aule wrote:It just makes no sense to me that it automatically targets something that it can't be placed upon.
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jejorda2 wrote:My tactics are probably horrible, but I always place the flame cloud next to myself first. If it fails, I have another chance to place it there. By the time I can cast conjure flame reliably enough to cast it beside a monster, I can cast fireball and just kill that monster at range.
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Aule wrote:Not only do they have a chance of stepping into the flame, but casting Mephitic Cloud can also confuse them and increase that chance. You can't place a flame on a cloud, but you can cast the cloud over flame.
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