Things in Oblivion that make you laugh!, Exactly what it sounds like :) Options

[Callidus Thorn]

So I saw something I found funny as hell earlier, and went looking through here to find an approprate thread to post in. After several pages I was in the threads that had been dormant since 2006, so I figured it was time to start one instead of indulging in a little graverobbing.

Playing Telindil's game earlier, and he was headed north from Chorrol, but as he made is way to the north gate something caught his eye. Honditar and Lum gro-Baroth were round the back of the fighters guild practising archery, nothing new there. What caught my eye was that they were both shooting for the same target, each using different arrows. Iron for Lum, steel for Honditar. Yet despite two shooters, the number of arrows stuck in the target didn't seem to be increasing at the right pace, so Telindil and I took a closer look.

Honditar had fired 23 steel arrows while we were watching, and only one of them had hit the target!

All the others had overshot.

Honditar shouldn't carry a bow around, he clearly can't shoot

[ghastley]

I've been on the other side of that with mod-making. My NPC Enilwen in this quest is found practising her archery outside the Skingrad city walls, so that nobody walks into her line of fire and causes problems. I set up her target and an X-Marker Heading configured to point her at the target, supposing that it would make her fire her arrows into it. Instead she just gets pointed in the right direction, but her arrows can fly all over the place. I don't think I've found one in the target yet! I spent a lot of time looking for a way to improve it, but the CS just doesn't provide one. On the other hand, I don't think an enemy archer can miss the player, unless you actively dodge after the arrow is fired.

In Skyrim, I have the same situation with an archer set up with a target. Admittedly, she's a bit closer, but she hits the centre ring half the time, and never misses the target completely. They obviously learned from Oblivion, and now the AI has a marker target that you can place right at the bullseye, and the AI package includes controls on accuracy. Enemy archers in Skyrim can miss you, even if you stand still, depending on their skill.