05-17-2006, 05:16 PM
Side-stepping works well when you're being shot at. Sometimes.
The enemy AI has a masterful ability to lead a moving target at the last possible instant before loosing a shot.
While I was on the Gold Road just west of Skingrad I encountered three bandits: two melee fighters and an archer. The mace-wielders were coming at me from the left shoulder of the road, so I strafed right to open the distance between me and them. The Dunmer archer was on the road, a good ways behind the other two bandits, and loosed a shot while I made this fast strafe.
From that distance and the high deflection angle he needed to make the shot, I could not help but admire (or lament) his marksmanship as his arrow slammed into my chest.
But most of the time, it's a bit of a fun dance when you try to take on an archer with a bow of your own. You can either try blocking the shot or evading it, and the other fellow is doing the same against you.
Then I got caught in the crevasse within Goblin Jim's Cave and woke up a whole mess of Whiteskin archers on the ledges above me. I soon found out what a Western-style box canyon ambush feels like.
The enemy AI has a masterful ability to lead a moving target at the last possible instant before loosing a shot.
While I was on the Gold Road just west of Skingrad I encountered three bandits: two melee fighters and an archer. The mace-wielders were coming at me from the left shoulder of the road, so I strafed right to open the distance between me and them. The Dunmer archer was on the road, a good ways behind the other two bandits, and loosed a shot while I made this fast strafe.
From that distance and the high deflection angle he needed to make the shot, I could not help but admire (or lament) his marksmanship as his arrow slammed into my chest.
But most of the time, it's a bit of a fun dance when you try to take on an archer with a bow of your own. You can either try blocking the shot or evading it, and the other fellow is doing the same against you.
Then I got caught in the crevasse within Goblin Jim's Cave and woke up a whole mess of Whiteskin archers on the ledges above me. I soon found out what a Western-style box canyon ambush feels like.
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