Again, fix corpse targeting

shardfenix

shardfenix

Banned

Join Date: Dec 2005

Il Power Overwhelming Il [HaX]

After many emails, 50 in game bug reports, and threads in many forums, corpse targeting still has not been fixed.

If you have no clue what I'm talking about, the corpse targeting bug is this:

If you have a corpse targeted, and you want to use a skill on it, like res or animate, and it gets exploited before you activate the skill, you stop targeting the corpse. Does it seem like a big deal in words? no. However, trying to res someone, failing, retargeting, and ressing again more than doubles the time it takes to res.

Now, more than 90% of players keep a res in slot 8. Because we don't have enough fingers to cover 8 buttons, most of us use the mouse to use a res. Then it fails because you have an invalid target. Then you move the mouse back to the party window, and back to slot 8.

Im sorry if it sounds like im whining, maybe i am, but this bug takes 1 line of code to fix, and its been pissing me off for over a year.

unholy guardian

unholy guardian

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Mar 2006

Lost Haven

A/Mo

if you are trying to rez.. just click on their hp bar on the party window, it's fast and simple.

Wait.. you tryed that.. er what exactly is going on. If your trying to be an mm, you should just hit the spell to summon a minion, its easier than clicking a corpse, and usually makes it so you get it off before computer necromancer.

Really you shouldn't have problem if you click the dead person in the party menu actiate the rez and that should be it... i have never heard of a bug that makes you just stop doing things... are you sure your not moving or hitting escape or something?

The Hand Of Death

The Hand Of Death

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2005

Cavalon

The Last Pirates (SaVY)

N/

How do you know that more than 90% of players keep a rez in the 8th slot?

Raiin Maker

Raiin Maker

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2005

England

Blood On The Worlds Hands

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by unholy guardian
if you are trying to rez.. just click on their hp bar on the party window, it's fast and simple.

Wait.. you tryed that.. er what exactly is going on. If your trying to be an mm, you should just hit the spell to summon a minion, its easier than clicking a corpse, and usually makes it so you get it off before computer necromancer.

Really you shouldn't have problem if you click the dead person in the party menu actiate the rez and that should be it... i have never heard of a bug that makes you just stop doing things... are you sure your not moving or hitting escape or something?
He is saying that while he is ressing someone their corpse gets 'used' by a necro, making a minion or putrid explosion etc, and when this happens it cancels the res, meaning he has to res again.

shardfenix

shardfenix

Banned

Join Date: Dec 2005

Il Power Overwhelming Il [HaX]

Quote:
Originally Posted by The Hand Of Death
How do you know that more than 90% of players keep a rez in the 8th slot?
1: When they give you a skill bar, res comes last.
2: Screenshot exposition.
3: Common sense.

And in reply to the other post, exploiting a corpse does not cancel the res. It makes you stop targeting the corpse so if you haven't clicked the res button yet, you can't. It's a hassle having to basically res someone twice because arenanet's programmers can't add.

dgb

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2005

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by shardfenix
1: When they give you a skill bar, res comes last.
2: Screenshot exposition.
3: Common sense.
It's rare that I agree with Shard but agreed here. Also do we really have to nitpick at the most inane garbage. Having res on eight doesn't make much difference, it's still a bug.

bigwig

bigwig

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2005

Nova Scotia

#Dismantle

Better teamwork is the solution, not rewriting code.

TheMadKingGeorge

Banned

Join Date: Dec 2005

None

Mo/W

i dont see a problem maby its just you

TheMadKingGeorge

Banned

Join Date: Dec 2005

None

Mo/W

maby we would have a resserection skill like necro summon skills

1 allly in your radius is resserected no targetting needed

yunthi

yunthi

Academy Page

Join Date: Jul 2006

War Friends [WF]

W/

ppl plz... theres a lot of gaming styles and even if a bug doesnt affect urs and even if it is only a minor one... its still a bug...

this should not happen

/signed

Helll is for Heroes

Helll is for Heroes

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2005

True Cinema

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Quote:
Originally Posted by bigwig
Better teamwork is the solution, not rewriting code.
opponents can exploit your corpses.