Spells turning mid cast

[Bazerker]

I've had multiple instances where spells just turn and go off in their own direction with a mind of their own. Sometimes even doing 90 degree hard turns. Is this a bug?

Here's an image of my burning head spell just curving off away from the direction i cast it so it completely misses all the archers.
https://imgur.com/x6VovaP

[Android Poetry]

That's how wind spells work . . . they change direction with the wind

[Andrewbh2003]

all wind spells "except for penumbral pendulum" have a small turning angle thats intended

[Ruinae Retroque Rursus]

Sometimes even doing 90 degree hard turns

I've seen slight deviations as seen your image, but the only time I've ever seen hard turns is when a wind spell collides with a wall - it bounces off at an odd angle and position.

[Xaphnir]

Originally posted by Ruinae Retroque Rursus:

I've seen slight deviations as seen your image, but the only time I've ever seen hard turns is when a wind spell collides with a wall - it bounces off at an odd angle and position.

They have a tendency to do more than just bounce off walls. Usually if I try casting a wind spell anywhere near a wall (not actually colliding with it, just near it) it will just go off in some random direction, often as far as 180 degrees away from the direction in which I actually had it pointed. Unless you've got nothing else to use, you just shouldn't use wind spells in siege battles. As juicy as that infantry stack looks for your Wind of Death, it's probably going to go in a direction other than you intend and be a waste of 24 winds of magic.

[Bazerker]

Fire spells are wind spells? Also really annoying that I can't pick up the sword of khaine as archaon. Sword just goes back to the shrine instead of giving me the option to pick it up. Killed tyrion who had the sword in a settlement and the sword just flies back across the map.

[THE_RaBiD_CanuK]

Originally posted by Bazerker:

Fire spells are wind spells? Also really annoying that I can't pick up the sword of khaine as archaon. Sword just goes back to the shrine instead of giving me the option to pick it up. Killed tyrion who had the sword in a settlement and the sword just flies back across the map.

It should say in the description. Burning head is a wind spell. Every spell that moves in a large straight line is considered a wind spell. There's always some deviance from your line of choice, that's intended. Vortex spells also move out of your control.
The picture you posted looks pretty normal.
I've never seen a wind turn 90 degrees, but maybe in certain circumstances like others have said. I think it's not supposed to deviate more than 20 degrees, which, yes, can often cause it to miss. Be careful when you're placing it, sometimes the angle is hard to read.

[BigJ]

Careful with settlement walls and edges, if thr head spawns anywhere near them it may just turn 180, oddly enough similar bs happens with penumbral pendulum when casted near a wall which makes it really dumb.

[Inardesco]

Originally posted by ۞Big J۞:

Careful with settlement walls and edges, if thr head spawns anywhere near them it may just turn 180, oddly enough similar bs happens with penumbral pendulum when casted near a wall which makes it really dumb.

All spells bounce of walls if they get too close

[BigJ]

Originally posted by Inardesco:

Originally posted by ۞Big J۞:

Careful with settlement walls and edges, if thr head spawns anywhere near them it may just turn 180, oddly enough similar bs happens with penumbral pendulum when casted near a wall which makes it really dumb.

All spells bounce of walls if they get too close

Too close?Its way off then, its literally 4/5 units from the "spawn point" where your units appear after going down, its ridiculus.