Bill Z Bubba

Got it. And in getting video I'm noticing something else. If I'm far enough away, projectile and damage numbers coincide. As I close distance and then fire it off, damage numbers appear before projectile or enemy health bar disappears before projectile hits.

You're on a stalker. See the hide power there? I'll post a vid shortly.

Another option is the Midnighter's Mansion in Night Ward, accessible from the Tunnel portals or base porter setup, so that you can get the badge without having to run the arc, then LFG to Imperious Strike Force.

Also, unless EVERY insta-snipe in the game also lands damage as soon as the power is clicked, then it makes this a functionality bug on TOP of being a graphical bug. 🙂

Oh sure, why not? Go for it. Here's the whole damn build.

I'm not ignoring it. I'm betting you tested nothing and have chosen gaslighting as your preferred mode of forum PvP and since we don't run unenhanced characters around here, it's a damn moot point. But it's easy enough to test and get a video even though it will STILL be meaningless just like your opinion on what a bug is or isn't. Says the pot that entered the thread with such crap from the get go.

Pretty sure he said a lot of silly things. For work, of course, I've had to support everything, but at home, I pretty much went from DOS to 98SE to XP to 7 to 10. Server 2000 and 2003 were in play for a while to learn stuff at one point.

Broken games become less broken when broken code is corrected. PvPers whining about broken powers being corrected are not a concern of mine. As you say, wanna PvP? Don't use builds not suited for this game's PvP. The bug that needs fixing has been logged in the bugs forum as requested by the devs. The bug is repeatable and constant in builds people actually use. Are we done now?

Under Options, Config, Effects & Mths, be sure Arcanatime is enabled for Animation Times. Gloom's cast jumps to 1.32 and Smite to 1.188. Arcanatime will give you a far closer approximation of your in game DPA.

Ummm, no. This happens while solo or teamed, in radio missions or TFs. It happens 100% of the time with insta-snipe. No need to try to downplay the actual broken code by blaming it on me "doing things I'm not supposed to be doing" while trying to get the fix stopped because you enjoy utilizing broken powers for undue advantages.

It's only with insta-snipe. Regular snipe, damage shows up with the hit as expected. Also, yea, yea, standard code rant. I'm not telling the devs how to prioritize their fixes. I'm asking them to get it on the backlog and if the powers team already have corrections like this in the pipeline, then they have another task to add to the list.

Nrg/Bio/Soul Scrapper ET(slow)-TF-ET(fast)-MB-BS-repeat T4 Musc, T4 Degen, T4 Assault (clicked) Edit: All Core side. 3 runs average 1min 21secs

If it's broken, it needs fixing. It's broken. Any other powers in the game broken in this way should also, of course, be corrected. Edit: And it seems I should add that gaining advantages from broken code tend to be frowned upon in general.

Can't find the others. Nosferatu as a +4 AV in Provost Marchand's arc, he had me on the ropes, insps used up, about to eat dirt and he decides to go into rabbit mode. And NEVER left it. He also stopped using any attacks or heals. Just kept running around all over the damn place. REEEEAAAAALY annoyed at this AV behavior. On the plus side, I took him down because of this broken AI business, but geez. I would have rather eaten dirt. Edit: I was on my nrg/bio/soul scrapper.

It's a problem because it's ugly and dumb. And, no, powers have specific timings that can be altered. See below where Animation Time before Effect is lower than the Animation Time. Edit: Even that doesn't explain it though as the critter takes damage immediately.

? FU, Focus and Slash are unchanged as far as I know between the ATs. Spin and SW certainly have longer recharge times... Just checked. .83 cast on all three.

If min/maxing, true. However, I HAD to take it on this guy:

I've skipped a lot of Windows OSs. Not seeing any reason to break that for 11.

I've considered adding gloom to my claws users but I just don't know if I can give up conserve power and phys perf for it.

Time for some arena, mang.

For someone downvoting any post that even hints at a soloist-positive viewpoint, please forgive me for laughing at your opinion regarding forum elitists.

You'd think but Noooooooo. Damage occurs as soon as the game thinks you clicked the attack.

DEVIL! damnit.

Want to stay ranged and not die? Sentinel. Want to go heavy damage but stay solo? Scrapper. Want to never die but be slower? Tank. Team a lot? Brute.