Crossbow accuracy

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The Industriallist
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Crossbow accuracy

Postby The Industriallist » Sun Aug 22, 2004 10:41 pm

In the past two days, a thief has drawn 4 crossbow shots. All four shots have missed.

Is this a bug, a freak of chance, or a reasonably probable event? My character is wondering whether it is possible to hit with a crossbow at all.
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Spider
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Postby Spider » Mon Aug 23, 2004 2:01 am

Very possible to hit with a crossbow, its just chance that you missed.
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kroner
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Postby kroner » Mon Aug 23, 2004 2:43 am

but suppose there's a 1 in 3 chance of missing. the chances of missing 4 times in a row would be 1 out of 81. that's pretty unlikely, although obviously not impossible.
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Postby trage » Mon Aug 23, 2004 4:17 am

THats funny, I have done nothing but miss recently. Ha ha and I have heard others complaining about missing a lot, I geuss as of recently the game favors theives :P.
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jeslange
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Postby jeslange » Mon Aug 23, 2004 1:43 pm

The new combat system was designed to give more balance to fighting, so I suspect that it is quite intentional that the crossbow misses as frequently as it does. However, I'll ask those who worked on the combat system to double check that the chance of missing is what they in fact intended, just to be on the safe side.

No further posts are necessary, and we'll get back to you soon.
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Postby jeslange » Tue Aug 24, 2004 1:13 am

Okay, the chance for crossbows to miss is not a boo boo, and any "problem" related to its accuracy is more a matter of player perception than anything else. I hope that was cryptic enough :P

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