How does Track work ?

[Gonzoforever]

Hey, I'm thinking about making a ranger or druid for tracking skill.
How does it this skill works ? You just click it and it shows all named within a certain range ?

[Jimjam]

Yea, classically the window would be limited to showing the top 20 items, but we have a scroll bar.

The higher you skill the greater the range for tracking.

As a ranger you can sort by how recently the mobs spawned (normal; i.e. the most recently spawned mob is at the top of the list), their level (ascending or descending) or distance (again ascending or descending).

Tracking players doesn't seem to works so well.

To start tracking you select what you want to track from the window and click track. You will then get text based instructions for the tracked character's direction relative to your facing.

[phacemeltar]

tracking works differently depending on which UI you use.

[Jimjam]

Originally Posted by phacemeltar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

tracking works differently depending on which UI you use.

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[fadetree]

Originally Posted by phacemeltar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

tracking works differently depending on which UI you use.

? No it doesn't. It might LOOK different, but tracking is tracking. It's server side.

[Bummey]

it doesn't

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Originally Posted by Jimjam [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Tracking players doesn't seem to works so well.

To start tracking you select what you want to track from the window and click track. You will then get text based instructions for the tracked character's direction relative to your facing.

I'd say track sends you after a ghost about half the time. Sometimes it will lock on to where the player was at the moment you started tracking them, and if they keep moving you'll be heading to an empty location rather than track updating as they move.

[Freakish]

I saw some comment by a dev where tracking players was unintentionally broken by some anti cheat code that prevented players who used third party programs to see where everyone was.

If I'm wrong, please correct me.

[phacemeltar]

Originally Posted by fadetree [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

? No it doesn't. It might LOOK different, but tracking is tracking. It's server side.

wth is this supposed to mean?

[surron]

Originally Posted by Freakish [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I saw some comment by a dev where tracking players was unintentionally broken by some anti cheat code that prevented players who used third party programs to see where everyone was.

If I'm wrong, please correct me.

its true, PC's should update their position to your client zone-wide but they only update their position to you within about 200-250 units (ranger track limit.) Group players however will always update their position zone-wide, so track works for them.

[indiscriminate_hater]

the tracking window interface is different between UIs, but the mechanism for tracking (what tells you where to go to find a tracking target) doesn't change