Sub_Rosa

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This bug your talking about is no different from any other interuptable power, when you click it you use end, even if its interupted. I have drained my self silly using heal self on my blaster

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No, sorry but you are wrong there about this. The AS bug we are talking about happens even by stationary mobs who are unaware you are there. There is no reason for it to be interupted. The animation starts the mobs havent moved. The animation just stops PLUS the next time you start AS, the animation is bugged and for example with the martial arts AT, the blue animation of AS doesnt happen the 2nd time round. This is definitely a bug not just player error.
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Mobs dont randomly see through hide. Ambushes autotarget you when they spawn but thats about it.

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Again, you are i am afraid also wrong there. I know the ambush mobs auto target you but i am talking about again normal mobs stationary who have no reason to be able to see you. Lvl12-24 helions or skulls are one example of this. From time to time a mob will see you while hidden as you position yourself to do an AS. No reason at all to be seen.

I've got 2 stalkers on the go atm.

1. Ninja Blade / Energy Aura
2. Martial Arts / Regen

Now both are quite fun to play as expected but BOTH suffer from the same bugs.

1. Assassin Strike end usage bug - The one people have complained about since CoV release. On so many occassions, i click AS and i use up end, i get no too far away message, i start the AS animation then midway through the animation, my pc forgets my character is midway through an assassin strike and stops doing anything... On one occassion recently (a couple of days ago so its VERY fresh in my memory), i used up half (yes 50%) of my end stood next to a stationary mob trying to cast AS but it just wouldnt complete successfully.

2. Mobs seeing through invis for no reason - This is not anything to do with AoE attacks or any other reason for a mob seeing me. This is not refering to PvP either. This is purely numerous occasions where a mob has seen me while in "hide" as i get into position for AS. And seeing as AS is the one thing that really makes a stalker unique, the fact that mobs regularly see through "hide" makes a bit of a joke of one of their primary skills.

Neither of these issues is tricky to reproduce DEV's, just play for an evening on a stalker and you will see this happen almost 100% garaunteed atleasst once in an evening.

Please sort this out.

Thx

[EDIT: the AS bug happens ALOT more frequently... More like atleast once every group of mobs. The hide one is alot less frequent but none the less, equally annoying.]

i'm not a noob to mmo's or coh/cov but having read the list and thread from an interest point of view, the one thing imho i think would make it alot more useful is if someone compiled a list specific to coh/cov while compiling a seperate general mmo list of abreviations.

i have on several occasions just been attacked by normal mobs who shouldnt be able to see me... my group mates have each time thought that i had attacked and missed or something but this is not the case. Mobs like Skulls or Helions or similar... nothing special. just ordinary minions.

well i'm not going to enter into the pro's and con's of pvp or generally enter into much of the discussion here since both sides are on the whole correct in their own beliefs of the situation.

however, i wanted to highlight a particular situation which since at the moment, i am happy to PvE (since i've been a fairly long time WoW player on PvP servers and in that respect i've had enough of PvP for now) i found rather annoying.

I had a story arc on the go and only 3 other new contacts available. I went and spoke to one of them and got a nice normal mission, i went to speak to the next one and it wanted to give me a mission in Warburg so i ignored that contact. I went to the final contact and i was amazed to find it also wanted to give me a mission in Warburg.

I think this is where people who are saying it is optional (although they are technically correct) they are not completely accurate in saying it is optional since i hate grinding mobs, i like the story based missions alot but to have 66% of my contacts offering me PvP zone based missions is a little annoying.

Plus, my story arc seems to be broken at the moment since after the update of CoH/release of CoV, the current sewer zone for the next part of the mission gx lags to the point where it is unplayable while the rest of the game is fine so i am stuck with 2 out of 3 missions i'd either rather not do or cannot do.

Great eh?