Engagement System

[Tugor]

With the engagement system coming up will huntable NPCs be getting additional skills to compensate for lack of ranged attacks? I don't mean ALL of them but some would make more sense than others.

Modan Kuchos - it would make sense for them to hurl boulders or something, they are huge and live up in the mountains

Darga Vei - they do that flying debri attack, I think it should already be a ranged attack yet it can be parried
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it would also be great to tell which creatures are the ones that are a direct threat to you.

right now if you see "a gamojab advances on you" and there are three gamojabs, then you have no way to know which is the threat.
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A bright-eyed Thekko Ku Kalla dressed in a dapper sailor suit takes to flight and careers through the air toward the Modan Kucho and slams into him!
With a high-pitched cry, The Modan Kucho collapses in death.

[the blue fairy]

I noticed that engagement has been added to more than just the fens now, can we get it to where while were advancing critters cant just walk away out of combat?
Was in guards and would constantly get to pilum or even melee right before attacking and they would just walk away, so I would have to follow and start all over again.

example:
You continue to advance on a royal guard and are now at missile range.
A royal guard strolls in.
A royal guard scans the area guardedly.
You continue to advance on a royal guard and are now at pilum range.
You continue to advance on a royal guard and are now at pole range.
You stop advancing, since you're about as close to a royal guard as you could hope to get.
A royal guard strolls east.
A royal guard is no longer around to advance on you. You feel safer, or something.
double guard head
You're not close enough to attack.
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Mellie Amresh says, "Send someone with a bigger dick."

A set of breast implants fall from the sky with a soft plop.

Caretaker Jornnoj Vunn looks up at the sky.

A passing guard suddenly shits himself.

[HR-Trevor]

I believe Marduk is adding these aspects while increasing the areas that support the ES as creatures in those areas are modified for it. He and I have spoken about the walk off issue specifically (about 2 days ago) so I know it's something on his list.

Keeping posting comments on the ES though, so we can shake out any bugs or imbalances.
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[Daedalus]

[the blue fairy]

A royal guard continues to advance on you and is now at missile range.
hide
You become one with the shadows and disappear from sight.
Roundtime: 2 sec.
You begin maneuvering to stalk a royal guard.
You move into place and ready yourself to follow a royal guard.
Running more on luck than skill, you slash a finely-honed gladius with an obsidian hilt inlaid with shadowy onyx at a royal guard. Somehow, you land a strong hit to her head as a royal guard fails to block with a vyeftium round shield.
[You are fairly well balanced, healthy, and well rested.]
Roundtime: 3 sec.
A royal guard continues to advance on you and is now at melee range.

Guard started advancing on me, got to missle, I hid, I come out using an attack (by the way ambush is able to be done at range again) and he suddenly is at melee with me.

Seems they can keep on advancing even though they can no longer see me
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Mellie Amresh says, "Send someone with a bigger dick."

A set of breast implants fall from the sky with a soft plop.

Caretaker Jornnoj Vunn looks up at the sky.

A passing guard suddenly shits himself.

[the blue fairy]

also on a side note was the stalking times tweaked? It seems to be taking me alot longer now to stalk

hmmm maybe I was just lagging a lil

yup ignore this post, it was just some oddly time lag or something
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Mellie Amresh says, "Send someone with a bigger dick."

A set of breast implants fall from the sky with a soft plop.

Caretaker Jornnoj Vunn looks up at the sky.

A passing guard suddenly shits himself.

[Daedalus]

[Dzynna]

Another thing I've noticed specifically about guards (and this may affect other creatures too, I don't know because I haven't checked).

If they use a melee attack (like the guards use shield bash, etc.) AND a ranged attack (the guards casting spells), they never use the ranged attack before getting to melee. Meaning since the changes, I've yet to see a guard cast anything at me, and I've been hunting almost non-stop while logged in.
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Dzynna Zol
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The Retreat
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[HR-Marduk]

[Tugor]

[Dzynna]

[SoulTorn]

Scavenged corpses, and the ES:

1. ES Critter vs. ES Critter:

[Tugor]

[SolitaryTurnip]

Is there some way to hang back at pilum range or something? I tried to do it this morning by advancing and then retreating, but I made it to melee with a guard like, instantly. I meant to say something about that, but I had to get to class. So, in conclusion... how do you hang back and was I supposed to get from missile to melee in around 1 second?