well I'm excited about this news and i won't lie

but this thread is about speculating how the "projectiles" will be treated in the MMO TES

do you think they will be heat seekers (god I hope not)

or will players actually have to aim to hit anything !!!??

just wondering what you think

since we don't have any game play footage this will be purly for guessing fun (if you don't like MMOs or TES MMO thats fine but don't freak out in here XD)

I don't believe we will have the ability to aim our bows, they will most likely be "heat seeking". I just wish they would make this mmo with the general ES combat system.

that's what I was hoping

but with 3rd person view its hard to imagine

hmmmm well one can always hope I guess.... maybe arrows will be really fast and so they would at least look good when they hit/fire

I hope that they won't be "heat seeking" it will allow players to dodge, I find it frustrating to run around a corner and still get shot.
Of course arrows should move reallt fast so that they can hit stuff.

guys gothic 3 had a great archery system and it was 3rd person so their is hope

If not free aim firing, aim assistance could seem valid, aim assist such as, hit it in the area of the reticule and the projectile will hit the location, because if there is completely no aim assistance, then archers would be at the upmost disadvantage in my opinion.

I think projectiles will probably be heat seeking. From a computation standpoint calculating/verifying the planes for the projectiles for 10,000 or so people on a server would be a very difficult and expensive task. This also opens the game to all sorts of exploits when you handle the targeting client side. The reason why hotbar and cool down buttons are used in most MMO is that all the mechanics can be handled server side, thus reducing modification exploits. Some MMO's have done FPS elements in their game, Age of Conan/planetside, but I highly doubt we be seeing any true FPS style game play. Especially since it is using the hero engine.

check these videos out

i know its gothic 3 but the system might really work for TES MMO !!! I mean sure it needs tons of refinement but 3rd person archery and melee has been done before (as you can see )

and I don't think archers will be at a disadvantage cause mages will have the same problem and ranged attacks should be deadly to offset this, I mean in BF3 for example part of the fun is dodging fire and grenades and such, I know its a poor comparison but games like BF3 and other fps are more fun because they are exciting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8nPSQHXID0&feature=related

some archery game play in the middle of the video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK-jmUO3kh0

general melee

I think it could work well (with much improvement)

Oh, I bet it will be TAB targetting, and character skill based. In other words you won't be aiming your bow. I just know they planned this game around hundreds of players battling each other in PVP - that many characters moving on your screen will create latency which will make bow aiming kinda painful. Sorry.

oh well one can hope against all hope

a fool's hope like some wizard once said

but i play mage in like every fantasy game so no biggy I guess if its not as I hoped

It will be tab targeting. While Age of Conan did have some fps elements, at least when I played it, the magic and archery was handled like most mmos before it.

I just hope we don't wait too long for a gameplay video

but D3 is around the corner so that should keep me busy for a few months I think

I look forward to D3 as well.