TheMoncrief Posted March 6 Posted March 6 Is it just me, or does the Voltaic Sentinel from Electrical Blast have abusively bad pathing? Like, I play Masterminds and Controllers fairly regularly. I'm used to pets being kind of dumb, but the Voltaic Sentinel takes it to the next level. It will get hung up on some piece of landscape geometry and just stop there. Forever. Still costing me endurance, of course, and not showing up on the map so I can't easily figure out where I would need to go to pick it up again. Even civilian escort targets keep up with me better than the Voltaic Sentinel! Do other Electrical Blast users just skip this power, or cancel the toggle and summon a new one every time the old one gets lost, or what? Also, how does Electrical Blast stack up without Voltaic Sentinel's damage contribution?
Wolfboy1 Posted March 6 Posted March 6 I find it has issues but not nearly as bad as what your making it out to be. If it DOES get stuck then yeah, just cancel and summon a new one is what I do. I like having it around though as it just goes zzzt to baddies and whittles them down a bit. I once was in that "lost city" map with all those portals and the little guy had a bit of a pathing issue but it turned out to be a blessing. It just constantly attacked the portal and I let it go for a bit. When I went to see its progress, it had almost taken the thing out and no villains had spawn from it. I call that a win. 1
TheMoncrief Posted March 6 Author Posted March 6 I'm in a mission sequence with a lot of natural caves. Not the smooth Snake caves, the jagged ones with the enormous rooms and the narrow, twisty tunnels connecting them. So I'm definitely noticing the pathing issues more than I have in other map types - but it really is constant in those missions. And it is absolutely worse pathfinding than anything else I've seen in City of Heroes. Maybe the pathfinding isn't worse, but the tendency to get stuck permanently on a jagged bit of cave wall or a railing or whatever.
Wolfboy1 Posted March 6 Posted March 6 I have been in those caves as well. Though, my Voltaic kept up with me pretty well. It got stuck once but eventually it got to me. I really don't notice it being TOO horrible really. Again, though if something does happen it's not hard to just re-summon it back. I have the opposite situation to yours with my Mastermind...they do keep getting stuck (bots) but the built in teleport thing they do usually works on BIG open maps. Stair's are their weakness I have noticed. I am not saying your not having issues, far from it. I just am not having the experience you are having with the sparky guy...or maybe it doesn't bother me as much perhaps. It's odd the things we pick up on that don't seem to matter to others or its not a bother to them. Each one experiences the game differently. Take my pet peeve...the AH. Everyone seems to be able to make billions on that damn thing but I can't make a decent amount to save my life. I still have yet to hit 200 mil much less the 500m that I am told is what it takes to make a "great" build. 😞 Also, i have only ever received one purple recipe in my 8+ years of playing. RNG is my bane and I want to murder it with every fiber of my being.
TheMoncrief Posted March 6 Author Posted March 6 36 minutes ago, Wolfboy1 said: Also, i have only ever received one purple recipe in my 8+ years of playing. RNG is my bane and I want to murder it with every fiber of my being. OK, that is horrifyingly bad RNG. You have my sympathy.
Wolfboy1 Posted March 7 Posted March 7 Yeah, if I didn't have bad luck I wouldn't have any at all. Plus the purple wasn't even applicable for my build...of course this was also before converters were a thing. The purple was on live...I have never gotten a purple on Homecoming.
TheMoncrief Posted March 7 Author Posted March 7 On the plus side, my last several missions have been outdoor and office maps. My Voltaic Sentinel does a much better job keeping up in those. I still wish the VS would just leash to me or port near me when I end up leaving it behind. Or just be something purely cosmetic like a Targeting Drone and fire its bolts from where I am. It's a *TOGGLE* that only cosmetically resembles a pet. It shouldn't even be possible for it to get lost or stuck.
Wolfboy1 Posted March 7 Posted March 7 I would agree that it could be better. Having it behave like the mastermind pets with the teleportation would be a nice QoL change.
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