Ever seen a Revenant missile go in a circle?

[Balrog]

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Now you have.

[Ænima]

All the time.

[Balrog]

Really? This was the first and only time that I had a Revenant missile go in a circle infinitely like this.

[DevilHunter]

I had a Video where there was at least 3 or 4 going in a Circle, and another where the Blood Demons in Hard-Doom would just chomp at invisible walls or whateva. Sadly though, I got rid of them when I took a week off raging over Certain Events. It's fun to watch, but after awhile its like Meh.

[Cruduxy]

I like orbitting them around me :P
Reminds me of orbitting icon of party pinkies as well

[Qent]

Yep. If you dodge missiles a lot, it's bound to happen once in a while.

[Ænima]

Yep. If you dodge missiles a lot, it's bound to happen once in a while.

Or if you die while it's chasing you, there's a very small chance that it will orbit your corpse. But that's probably a different cause.

What's probably causing it in the video is the fact that the missile is only allowed to turn a certain number of degrees per A_Tracer call. Even if it passes extremely close by you, it still has to wait til the next A_Tracer call to adjust its angle, which doesn't turn it enough to face you, so the cycle repeats.

This is a very old behavior, too. I doubt it's a Zandronum bug.

[President People]

I hate when this happens in Co-op. It's sometimes hard to dispose of them without hitting a teammate, or vice-versa. :(

[Espio]

Plenty of times actually.. I guess it likes to orbit around us Doom marines..

[Armour]

It's orbiting.

[-Jes-]

It's arguably one of the most consistent traits of Doom.

[Luke]

I might be wrong, but that seems a Magic Circle against Evil to me.

[Lord_of_D:]

is there a way of make a projectile always move like that?

[Ænima]

is there a way of make a projectile always move like that?

Probably with A_SetAngle.

[SpaceMarine]

Happened just today while playing Hell Revealed II online in MAP28

[Cruduxy]

If you think encircling them is interesting you should see their seeking behaivour http://zdoom.org/wiki/A_Tracer :P

[HeX9109]

This is a well documented behavior.

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[UnTrustable]

All the time.

[Dusk]

Even Lee Killough has something about it:
http://rome.ro/lee_killough/memorabilia ... html#orbit

[Cruduxy]

Now try to orbit projectiles of other monsters with homing (seeker) traits... most easily is probably the mage boss from hexen -they nearly orbit all time if you dodge.. too bad he'll shoot again to stop your fun-... hmm dunno if its possible to orbit bishop projectiles