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Author Topic: Targeting Friendlies w/ ranged weapon?  (Read 741 times)

Misterstone

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Targeting Friendlies w/ ranged weapon?
« on: July 20, 2008, 11:14:03 pm »

I was wanting to have a crossbow expert PC go up onto the roof of a castle and start sniping people in the streets below.  The problem is, if you shoot a crossbow at a non-hostile NPC the game assumes that you are not aiming at them, so you (apparently) never hit.  Is there a way to shoot someone who is not a hostile, or do I have no choice but to bash someone over the head with my crossbow so that they will all be hostile, and I can start shooting them?
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Tibbles

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Re: Targeting Friendlies w/ ranged weapon?
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2008, 02:11:39 am »

Ranged targets need to be hostile. Everything misses otherwise. So you CAN'T kill that Human Hammer Lord without getting up nice and close to him.
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kelderan

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Re: Targeting Friendlies w/ ranged weapon?
« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2008, 02:34:04 am »

If you really wanted to range him, kill a random member of the civilization near the outskirts of town to declare "war" on them. Then you can shoot all you please.
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