Author Topic: How do you aim spells?  (Read 1342 times)

Offline Martyn van Buren

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How do you aim spells?
« on: September 27, 2011, 01:53:22 am »
Just to chime in with the crowd ---- it looks great.  Just from the first screen, there's a feeling of a lot of depth to be plumbed.

But I'm confused by the controls already :(.  How do you aim spells like fireball and energy burst (I assume you can)?  I would have assumed they went in the direction of the cursor, but it seems like no matter where I have the cursor they go up at a 45-degree angle from the direction my character is facing.  Great for fighting up staircases, kinda useless for anything else.  Am I doing this wrong?

Offline OobleckTheGreen

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Re: How do you aim spells?
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2011, 01:59:27 am »
Sounds like you need to submit a bug report. Here's the link:

http://www.arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,9129.0.html

Offline Martyn van Buren

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Re: How do you aim spells?
« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2011, 02:05:47 am »
Yeah, guess so.  Kinda figured it must be my fault.

Offline Lancefighter

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Re: How do you aim spells?
« Reply #3 on: September 27, 2011, 02:21:35 am »
how are you casting things? if you press buttons on your mouse, it should go to your mouse cursor. if you are casting them from 1-5 on the keyboard, maybe something is wrong.

There are a few other control styles too, that might modifying stuff
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Offline tigersfan

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Re: How do you aim spells?
« Reply #4 on: September 27, 2011, 06:45:42 am »
Martyn, are you on a Mac? This seems to be a Mac issue that we're working on.

Offline mrhanman

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Re: How do you aim spells?
« Reply #5 on: September 27, 2011, 02:23:46 pm »
I was about to report this myself.  I'll go find the existing bug instead.

Offline Martyn van Buren

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Re: How do you aim spells?
« Reply #6 on: September 27, 2011, 05:38:27 pm »
Hi, I am on a Mac; I've put the report on Mantis.

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Re: How do you aim spells?
« Reply #7 on: September 27, 2011, 05:44:49 pm »
Thanks. We're aware of and working on this issue. The hope is to get it fixed very soon.