Aerial Assault Aiming Issue

Bug Reports
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Aerial Assault changes its drop location to what ever direction you are facing while moving instead of where you aim it with mouse. This happens with and without movement skills following cursor movement.
Not sure if this is intended but it makes kiting while using the skill for damage almost impossible.

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Can confirm, this does happen with the Storm on the Horizon node skilled.

Here’s a short video demonstrating the bug: https://youtu.be/2omnZuUyAdY

Edit: Oh looks like HDR messed up the Steam recording, sorry about that. It looks a bit dark.

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Yep, this is happening to me too, would really love a fix for this! Just been running around without the storm the horizon node now

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Now imagine how abysmal this feels on keypad/controller :slight_smile:

Basically, impossible to kill anything that is closer to your character. Can’t play Aerial Assault with gamepad AT ALL at the moment, the damn bird usually targets some empty space far away from any mobs. :slight_smile:

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Having the same issue, very annoying and makes it hard to aim the skill and move away.

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Would be nice to get an answer if this behaviour is intended or not.
If yes the build is nearly dead for me since it plays really really bad this way…

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Same issue

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It’s borderline unusable. I thought “Hmm, maybe it will work without the jankinesss if I try WASD”. The result? You can keep your mouse hovered over the area you intend to attack, but the second you move your character with WASD the bird flies off to an unintended spot the exact same way. Same somehow with controller.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a skill in an ARPG with this bizarre mechanic. Skills sometimes have animations which lock you in place, but never one that has you to trigger the skill and then forces you to touch no buttons that move your character or else the skill randomly ends up elsewhere.

For those that haven’t tested it, the reason it’s such a big issue is that not only do you have to stand still for the skill to go where you want it, you can’t place your mouse where you intend to move after the skill finishes, which makes it feel twice as bad.

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I want to add to the conversation that, assuming people don’t already do it, we should send in this info via report bug feature in ESC menu in-game.
Playing aerial assault with WSAD / controller is impossible, playing with mouse is horrible as you are punished with skill fully missing monster packs if you do not hold your mouse for at least one or two seconds extra after casting.

Very anti fun skill behaviour, to the point if it’s intended (which I can’t imagine being the case) it shouldn’t have been.

My guess for the developers, it is travel skill tag interaction combined with new character control system. The skill most likely still reads as traversal by the engine which then interacts with characters (predicted, or arriving) position creating this interaction.

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When using Featherstorm, Storm on the Horizon, and Twilight Strike I was also able to trigger four visible failure states for Aerial Assault while using click to move:

  1. Clicking with the mouse cursor elsewhere immediately after casting moves both Featherstorm and Twilight Strike to the newly clicked location
  2. Clicking with the mouse cursor elsewhere immediately after casting moves both Featherstorm and Twilight Strike to the very edge of the screen/off screen in the same direction as the newly clicked location
  3. Clicking the with the mouse cursor elsewhere immediately after Featherstorm starts results in Umbral Blades triggered by Twilight Strike to cast at the new location
  4. Clicking the with the mouse cursor elsewhere immediately after Featherstorm starts results in Umbral Blades triggered by Twilight Strike to cast at the very edge of the screen/off screen in the same direction as the newly clicked location

In all failure states I see my Falcon move to the initial target location. In failure states 3 and 4 the Falcon remains in the initial cast location, while in failure states 1 and 2 the Falcon also moves.

Possibly the cause is that the passive “Intuitive Connection” has no effect - my cooldown without the passive is 2.8s, with the passive it remains 2.8s. It should be either 2.9s or 2.95s due to the added cooldown, which makes me think the instant cast effect is also not applying.

A video: https://youtu.be/jSWNv5hKAbA

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Same issue, sent in a bug report a day or two ago. The more i play and further i get the worse this is since dodging damage is super important and the bug gets worse as the content gets harder and tier 4 dungeons are getting to the point where you cant do reliable damage while avoiding damage, its super frustrating.

The bug is 100% related to storm on the horizon and issuing a click to move within .5 to a second after casting it. usually results in completely missing the ability.

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Bug makes abberoth nearly impossible to deal with :expressionless:

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how long it takes to fix this kind of problems? since its ruining my experience with game and I wonder should I try and respec to something other or just wait.

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im lvl 96 with the maxroll umbral blade and use a controller. it was impossible until i turned aerial assault into the transit skill and made smoke bombs “vanilla”. if you jump into your target with aerial assault it kind of works but fights where you cant “leap attack” are brutal (such as t4 julra dungeon)

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Please fix it :frowning:

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Bump, please fix

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Bump, also having this issue…really annoying

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Bump, I really regret re-speccing out of heartseeker for the aerial assault build as it’s basically unusable on controller.

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bump, pls fix.

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Yes please fix it. I just respected my leveling rogue for end game build just to see my Aerial Assault target empty spaces, not enemies/bosses. I couldnt hit a boss for like 5 times in a row.

Playing the game on 65" TV + controller is awesome but now have to stop :confused: