Why is it so broken

[Bacon_Knight13]

Where is the path finding in this game. Your character gets stuck on everything in his path. The game is not user friendly at all. The first quest given is impossible because you can't find a boulder, And the best tactic for that is walk in one direction for 5 hours.There are invisible bears floating above lakes. Invisible badgers. This game is full of untapped potential and that is a crying shame. It could be a good game if they would fix the problems with the game

[Shrapnelx]

Maybe you should read the ideas threads.. Pathfinding will never be a part of this game, its your own fault if you cant walk around objects.

As for the invisible animals, i have no idea.. never been an issue for me. take some screenshots and post a bug report in the Bugs board.

I agree this game has a ton of potential, however, right now is a very volatile time, the Devs are changing it constantly and some of the changes are very... interesting..

Stick around, im sure eventually the game will turn out 100x better that it is now.. hopefully..

[lachlaan]

Loftar said he's thinking about solutions to the current movement / collision thing at least to make it less of a hassle. It's less that pathfinding (automated) is an issue, it's that every other thing clips you, your trajectory is less than obvious with the way the 3D is rendered. What I'd like to see in the main client as well as in amber, is an extension of the movement vector, if only for just the player character. One that renders along the grid, not a straight magical line from origin to destination. Your character's path over slopes and at weird camera angles would be so much more obvious and people wouldn't have to guesstimate if they'll bump into a tree.

As for "invisible" animals, never seen it happen, and if you mean hidden behind trees and whatnot then just be more observant. Stone will hopefully be solved with the new world as well.

[Rance-sama]

It'd be nice if boulders respawned, same with those mirkwood logs. Even the ore boulders, if they're there for new players on day one, they should be there for new players on month three.
Keeping those as a finite resource only punishes the people who come in the world later, which is the opposite thing that you want to do.

[Audiosmurf]

It'd be nice if boulders respawned, same with those mirkwood logs. Even the ore boulders, if they're there for new players on day one, they should be there for new players on month three.
Keeping those as a finite resource only punishes the people who come in the world later, which is the opposite thing that you want to do.

I didn't know people were still complaining about boulders. You guys know you can just dig on stone, right?

[Kalacia]

It'd be nice if boulders respawned, same with those mirkwood logs. Even the ore boulders, if they're there for new players on day one, they should be there for new players on month three.
Keeping those as a finite resource only punishes the people who come in the world later, which is the opposite thing that you want to do.

I didn't know people were still complaining about boulders. You guys know you can just dig on stone, right?

i agree with the OP on the stone thing. I was ok to find one when i spawned... but during my travels to the edge i went through whole sections with no stone... bowlders or ground.

its not as easy to just find ground stone.

[Thedrah]

stone boulders respawn but are very slow, i watch boulders around my house reform. when i first started i moved a few hours from starting zone and found me a spot and stripped the boulders from around my base for awhile.

now after about 3 months i saw the boulders start coming back, then about a month (4total) the boulders were getting larger. they are just extremely slow growing rocks haha

[apoc254]

Loftar said he's thinking about solutions to the current movement / collision thing at least to make it less of a hassle. It's less that pathfinding (automated) is an issue, it's that every other thing clips you, your trajectory is less than obvious with the way the 3D is rendered. What I'd like to see in the main client as well as in amber, is an extension of the movement vector, if only for just the player character. One that renders along the grid, not a straight magical line from origin to destination. Your character's path over slopes and at weird camera angles would be so much more obvious and people wouldn't have to guesstimate if they'll bump into a tree.

Yes, please. This would make the game so much easier to bring new players into. It gave me endless amounts of frustration to get stuck on every little thing while the animals rubbed their path finding in my face.

[shadyg0d]

Loftar said he's thinking about solutions to the current movement / collision thing at least to make it less of a hassle. It's less that pathfinding (automated) is an issue, it's that every other thing clips you, your trajectory is less than obvious with the way the 3D is rendered. What I'd like to see in the main client as well as in amber, is an extension of the movement vector, if only for just the player character. One that renders along the grid, not a straight magical line from origin to destination. Your character's path over slopes and at weird camera angles would be so much more obvious and people wouldn't have to guesstimate if they'll bump into a tree.

As for "invisible" animals, never seen it happen, and if you mean hidden behind trees and whatnot then just be more observant. Stone will hopefully be solved with the new world as well.

I'm not a master programmer but honestly how hard could this be? Is there some wierd java thing preventing this from happening? Why can't it just automatically align your path to the closest tiles and detect objects on tiles you are walking towards? Is there no easy way to list the objects on a specific tile?

The claim system extends by tile units and it knows which objects have their origin placed within the tiles. At least it seems that way. Is it using some kind of rect to do this rather than looking at tiles?

[Granger]

Nice necro.

There are custom clients that contain pathfinders.
For the official a mechanic is in the pipeline, hopefully arriving soon.