Aim Assist?

[Xeno]

I have noticed that when you are trying to target where you want a spell to go that the game seem to try make your cursor attach to the closest target, such as a enemy npc. I imagine this is a system that was built in to help console players, like auto aim in GTA5. Since I play with a mouse and keyboard I find it extremely annoying when I am trying to place a fireball and not nuke my warrior at the same time. It also often likes to move just as I am pressing the mouse button causing me to miss my intended target.

Anyone know a way to turn this feature off?

[Nick Vascuas]

Originally posted by Xeno:

I have noticed that when you are trying to target where you want a spell to go that the game seem to try make your cursor attach to the closest target, such as a enemy npc. I imagine this is a system that was built in to help console players, like auto aim in GTA5. Since I play with a mouse and keyboard I find it extremely annoying when I am trying to place a fireball and not nuke my warrior at the same time. It also often likes to move just as I am pressing the mouse button causing me to miss my intended target.

Anyone know a way to turn this feature off?

I don't think its aim assist. If you are trying to make a fireball go through or behind an enemy it won't be able to if you don't have a direct line of sight.

[Nights]

targeting has a line of sight system and when you get close to a units head the head tends to block that line of sight which make the aoe center on them. its not aim assist, though it does looks like that until you start to understand the line of sight targeting

[Alio]

Where you click on on enemy and elevation can make a difference too. Especially with archers. Clicking on enemy legs instead of their head can be the difference between a hit or a miss.

[Uromysitisis]

Originally posted by Nick Vascuas:

Originally posted by Xeno:

I have noticed that when you are trying to target where you want a spell to go that the game seem to try make your cursor attach to the closest target, such as a enemy npc. I imagine this is a system that was built in to help console players, like auto aim in GTA5. Since I play with a mouse and keyboard I find it extremely annoying when I am trying to place a fireball and not nuke my warrior at the same time. It also often likes to move just as I am pressing the mouse button causing me to miss my intended target.

Anyone know a way to turn this feature off?

I don't think its aim assist. If you are trying to make a fireball go through or behind an enemy it won't be able to if you don't have a direct line of sight.

I feel like it wants to snap also. It's the same if the enemy is closest in sight. The fireball wants to hit right at the enemy (snap, thus harming my character as well) rather than putting him in the area of effect. Not a line of sight issue. If "path is blocked" it says so in a yellow text.
You can usually manage to hit the way you want, but you have to be careful.

[Xeno]

Originally posted by Nights:

targeting has a line of sight system and when you get close to a units head the head tends to block that line of sight which make the aoe center on them. its not aim assist, though it does looks like that until you start to understand the line of sight targeting

I think you are right and that was what I wasn't understanding. Some skills can be lobbed and others fly in a straight line. What I wasn't realizing was that even my own characters could block where I wanted to drop the spell. So when I was trying to aim near one of my characters it often seemed to snap to that character because he was blocking the fireball's flight path.

[desrtfox071]

Just an FYI, you can also target spells by selecting the target character image in the initiative list at the top of the screen.

[CINARRA]

Auto Snap is extremely annoying especially for spells like worm tremor where you need to be very exact lest you entangle your own party. I have not found a way to turn it off.

[DeathScream]

Originally posted by CINARRA:

Auto Snap is extremely annoying especially for spells like worm tremor where you need to be very exact lest you entangle your own party. I have not found a way to turn it off.

Im pretty sure there was an option to disable it somewhere so keep looking