An interesting observation about target_location not working all the time

[KaizenSoze]

A use the target_location macro a lot.

 

The are occasions when they refuses to work sometimes. ITF towers for instance.

 

I was in a team running those ruin maps with all the werewolf spawns.

 

I use "target_location target" for both tar patch and whirlpool.

 

Tar patch was failing about 30% of the time on that map. Whirlpool always worked.

 

I fired them back to back on the same targets.  

 

Both have the same 25 radius. Tar patch shows as location AOE. Whirlpool is a pseudo pet.

 

Just mentioning it in case it helps troubleshoot these issues in the code.

 

City of data entries:

https://cod.uberguy.net./html/power.html?power=redirects.dark_miasma.tar&at=defender

https://cod.uberguy.net./html/entity.html?entity=pets_whirlpool_defender

[Wavicle]

Yeah, I don't really know why, but there are places where targetlocation doesn't work or doesn't work as expected. I think it's just a side effect of the command being added late in the game not at the beginning.

[KaizenSoze]

1 hour ago, Wavicle said:

Yeah, I don't really know why, but there are places where targetlocation doesn't work or doesn't work as expected. I think it's just a side effect of the command being added late in the game not at the beginning.

That's why I wanted to point this odd difference between those two powers. Maybe it will provide a clue.

[Col. Kernel]

Check my post in the geometry issues thread @Wavicle.  I'd go to that location in St. Martial and check Tar Patch and Whirlpool there.

 

This sounds very similar to what I was getting, where powexeclocation self wouldn't work for FFG but powexeclocation 0:5 would.