Deer as Henchmen

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Lilah_Novi
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Deer as Henchmen

Post by Lilah_Novi » Fri Jan 14, 2022 8:18 pm

I notice that deer sometimes have issues with following as henchmen.
It seems like some of them follow you just fine and run behind you, while others just stand like statues and sometimes end up having to teleport to you (this was especially true of the deer in the Lye Astaldera. Perhaps this is because the animals are more fixtures than animals, and usually don't hostile.)
It can be difficult to get them to move with you or follow. I thought that doing associate tool on them and turning it off fixed this, but it didn't seem to be the case. Once they moved through a transition, they stopped working again.

I know people don't really often choose deer as henchmen (I like to because my character loves deer a lot) - but it was just something I noticed.
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Re: Deer as Henchmen

Post by Kenji » Tue Jan 18, 2022 3:20 am

Can you supply more details?

- Which area did you get these deers
- Which server was it
- How did you get them: Animal Empathy only? Or did you do something else prior (engaged in combat, dominated the animals, AoE hostiled them by accident, or etc)
- What are your character and class levels (shouldn't matter but just in case, send me a pm if you don't feel comfortable sharing in public)
- Provide a screenshot of these deers with their names if possible, present the combat log of the AE rolls would be great, too
- Anything else you can think of

Note to self: Certain creature files don't have a proper AI set and this could be the case. Script-wise Animal Empathy should provide all the necessary AI override but that's not always the case.

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Re: Deer as Henchmen

Post by Lilah_Novi » Wed Apr 27, 2022 2:39 am

Apologies, Kenji - I never saw this.

The area was River Source in the Arelith Forest, on Surface server. It was also at Ansrivarr pond, and maybe also the Lye Astaldera.
Animal Empathy was used to get them. The ones at River Source were fighting.
The character levels were 21/9 Archer, Arcane Archer.
Sorry, I don't have the screenshots.
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