The Wizard AI is a complete joke. This needs to be fixed, immediately.

[Dresden]

Wizards are target the goblin that is being killed by other defenses. So no AI is not broken. But that was a coincidence that the weren't able to attack. If you got Archers they would have wiped goblins faster. Better luck next time

You are 100% wrong, and I'd appreciate it if you don't excuse blatant issues with fanboyism. Yes, they were caught in a recalculating target loop since their target keeps dying, but that's NOT how it should work. The AI IS broken. And you can't call it much of a coincidence if it happens all. The. Flipping. Time.

Source: 15 years in simulation and model programming. I'd be ashamed of myself if my targeting model failed so spectacularly. Moreso, I'd be fired for complete incompetence.

[Dresden]

This is what happened....

Technically, all the Wizards that tried to fire died just as they fired. That's why the initial group of Wizards glitched fired blanks.

That last surviving Wizard only glitched fired blanks multiple times because it was technically dead.

Look at it's health bar compared to the other wizards, all of which exited the Poison cloud with the same HP level - at the brink of death - but this last wizard somehow didn't lose any HP or die with the other two.

His HP bar was visually glitched (didn't go down as he was losing health) and his firing animation was glitched for what seems like 4 shots.

Definitely a few visual glitches in here but no mechanical glitch. If your wizard dies in the middle of it's attack animation, you'll see animation finish without a projectile before it goes *poof*.

Jebus, you game "specialist" should stick with helping players and keep your brand loyalty to yourselves. I get where you guys get the name, though - it does take a certain kind of "special" to watch that and think it's totally okay.

[Kingzenith]

^ No need to get huffy... Watch the language. This is a family friendly forum.

[DrManiacal]

the problem is that the goblin they target dies before it shoots its spell, so it stops casting and begins on the next goblin... who does the same thing.

[J1M808]

I had 6 wizards following around 100+ goblins, and they never took a single shot at them. The just ran around, pretending to sneeze while the goblins took whatever they could. Most of the battle was behind buildings, so I couldn't get a decent vid, but the last few seconds of the battle pretty much says it all. There's no excuse for this. What a joke.

That is wierd

[Alisreal]

You are 100% wrong, and I'd appreciate it if you don't excuse blatant issues with fanboyism. Yes, they were caught in a recalculating target loop since their target keeps dying, but that's NOT how it should work. The AI IS broken. And you can't call it much of a coincidence if it happens all. The. Flipping. Time.

Source: 15 years in simulation and model programming. I'd be ashamed of myself if my targeting model failed so spectacularly. Moreso, I'd be fired for complete incompetence.

Jesus, you game "specialist" should stick with helping players and keep your brand loyalty to yourselves. I get where you guys get the name, though - it does take a certain kind of "special" to watch that and think it's totally okay.

Good grief! Didn't get your coffee today?

Chill out, mate.

[EvilEmpire]

Lol. That's funny. but not broken. Wizards attack every 1.5 seconds. Archer towers every 0.5 seconds.

goblins can be 2 shotted by ATs. So wizards are a poor choice to defend against goblins. Because they never get a chance to attack.

Wizards ARE NOT broken. You need better CCtroops.

You got problems dude. They are broken. They're the only troop with this problem. No other troop is as stupid as wizards when it comes to attacking a moving/already targeted target.

[AxionXD]

Jesus, you game "specialist" should stick with helping players and keep your brand loyalty to yourselves. I get where you guys get the name, though - it does take a certain kind of "special" to watch that and think it's totally okay.

I watched the video multiple times. The wizard that stays alive stopped in the same part of the outer border of the poison spell. His buddy on the left died. He didn't, from our perspective.

It looks like a visual glitch. I agree - firing 4 blanks back to back looks odd - and the only explanation is that that wizards particular glitch happened to stick around when it was supposed to be dead.

I never said it was OK. Visual glitches still need to be worked on so it doesn't happen anymore. This thread should be in the Problems & Bugs section, and should be viewed by the Dev team to see if there's any way to prevent the visual glitches but visual glitches have been a part of most, if not all, video games ever invented.

I remember back in the day, after completing a game, you'd go through just looking for glitches just to say you found one.

No need to get toxic over it.

[playitlikegabo]

You are 100% wrong, and I'd appreciate it if you don't excuse blatant issues with fanboyism. Yes, they were caught in a recalculating target loop since their target keeps dying, but that's NOT how it should work. The AI IS broken. And you can't call it much of a coincidence if it happens all. The. Flipping. Time.

Source: 15 years in simulation and model programming. I'd be ashamed of myself if my targeting model failed so spectacularly. Moreso, I'd be fired for complete incompetence.

Jesus, you game "specialist" should stick with helping players and keep your brand loyalty to yourselves. I get where you guys get the name, though - it does take a certain kind of "special" to watch that and think it's totally okay.

I agree wizard's AI could be better but I don't agree with your toxic attitude! Please show some respect for our specialists.

[Dresden]

The only thing toxic in this thread is airing the mentality that game-breaking bugs like this are okay to exist. Looking at this and turning around and making excuses for it is the exact opposite of help and what "game specialists" should be doing. This is a legitimate issue, and one that shouldn't be diminished simply because we know why it is happening.