[Known 7095] Beholders have the weirdest aim

Chow

Sometimes they just turn around and fire their eye spells to a completely random direction. The Director just did Ice Storm to basically the exact opposite way where my backstabbing thief was.

Aramintai

Yea, it happenes to gauths too - they sometimes turn 180 degrees from you and start casting at..whatever. Definetly a bug.

Smilge

It seems to me that they don't fire randomly or behind them, either they fire at a character or at the top left-hand side of the map, which would be coordinates (0,0). Is this what you are seeing?

Jarrakul

That fits what I'm experiencing, yes.

Madhax

I've noticed this frequently. I also randomly had an Efreeti in the Planar Sphere shoot a fireball to (0,0), though no efreeti or other djinn-type has done the same since the first time I noted the behavior.

Chow

Smilge said:

It seems to me that they don't fire randomly or behind them, either they fire at a character or at the top left-hand side of the map, which would be coordinates (0,0). Is this what you are seeing?

Yes, now that you mention it, that would be where they're shooting at if not straight at the party.

Mathsorcerer

Weird. I look at The Director's script and it is wanting to cast Ice Storm on LeastDamagedOf(Myself). That can't be normal, can it?

sarevok57

were you guys using the shield of balduran? because everytime i fought a beholder kin i was using the shield and thats what was happening when i was fighting them

Smilge

Seems to happen with or without the shield of balduran.

AnotherLife

So is it trying to cast it on itself ? :-D

Luigirules

Yeah, I've noticed this too.

The Noble Efreeti in the planar prison was doing the same thing, actually. I kept wondering who they were aiming at...

Emptiness

This just happened to me, also the Director. I was not using the Shield of Balduran. He turned to face a wall and cast Ice Storm (I think) at something he should not have been able to see (I don't know what because the wall blocked my vision).

Neonfisk

I have only fought the Director (Firkraag) and the two Gauths and one Beholder (Unseeing Eye) and it happened both times for me as well.

Even more annoying though, is that they sometimes shoot rays at partymembers they can't see. I like to buff up CHARNAME and send him in to do all the dirtywork, but even if the rest of the party is standning at the other end of the map they still get hit by random Death Rays and paralysis!

Another really strange thing I've noticed is that they will still shoot when unconscious.
I tried using the Sleep Cloud form the Staff of Air, but even unconscious they kept shooting at CHARNAME.
Another weird thing is that they stopped shooting when CHARNAME fell unconscious due to the cloud himself.

Avenger_teambg

Internal bug number for this is #7095, fix is currently under testing.