Spectral Shield Throw broken (after 3.28 patch)!

https://youtu.be/I6ng7bst0PU

Previously, regardless of the cursor position, the thrown shield flew to the maximum possible distance for it. After patch 3.28, something broke and now the shield can fall to the ground a meter away from me, although there are no visible obstacles preventing it from flying further.

A simple example. I stand in my shelter (there are no obstacles around) and throw my shield to the left, it flies to the end of the screen. Then I turn to the right and throw, but the shield only flies a couple of meters and falls to the ground, as if crashing into an invisible side. If I start to change the position of the cursor, then sometimes the shield starts flying a little further, and sometimes it shatters into fragments right in the character model, without even flying out of it.

After testing, I came to the following conclusions. The projectile should be fired from the center of the character model, but my shield originates somewhere near the character's shin and flies along the ground rather than above it (similar to a Spark projectile), resulting in it catching on various terrain irregularities. I definitely didn't have this problem before the patch; I watched old stream recordings. Furthermore, my friend hasn't had this problem after the patch either; his shield flies high above the ground at the maximum possible distance.

We swapped skill gems with my friend and found that they weren't the issue. I then launched another character (to rule out the influence of gear), bought them the level 1 shield throw skill, and repeated the test. The shield still flies too low and shatters into pieces a couple of meters away from the character, and sometimes even on the character itself.

it looks like there's some Y-axis added into the aiming of the skill now so when you're on level ground it goes out along the floor and returns further up if you have returning projectiles(first image.) But when you aim on lower ground it instead throws the shield directly into the ground at your feet which then bounces back and explodes behind you on the ground if you have returning projectiles (second image.)

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Èlsefýr#4990 wrote:

it looks like there's some Y-axis added into the aiming of the skill now so when you're on level ground it goes out along the floor and returns further up if you have returning projectiles(first image.) But when you aim on lower ground it instead throws the shield directly into the ground at your feet which then bounces back and explodes behind you on the ground if you have returning projectiles (second image.)

https://youtu.be/I6ng7bst0PU

I specially removed the returning projectiles so that they would not blur the picture and recorded a video. If you zoom in on the camera, you can clearly see that the projectile does not fly out from the character’s center, but as if from his shoe. Since the projectile flies very low after the patch, it crashes into any unevenness even on a flat surface in an empty hideout. The skill has become practically unplayable, since now you never know whether it will reach the target or fall under your feet. From the first map I felt that the clearing had become terrible.

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Clint wrote:

Thanks for the reports, we're looking into this now.

Edit: We've released a fix to address this, but you'll need to restart your client to have the visuals updated accordingly.

Thanks, now it works correctly!