Huntress improvements (skill focused and controller feedback)
Hey, so I've been playing huntress on pc with controller and it's very fun when everything works, but there are real problems that lead to frustrations. I'm on T15 maps.
Targeting When I played monk, the targeting felt great. I could control who I was aiming at with the right stick and just spam lightning wave. But with the huntress, it's not so easy. Targeting seems fickle. It jumps too easy from mob to mob. Also, sometimes it feels like the left and right stick vie for targeting priority. Like I'll jump in, and try to use rake on the enemy to my right by controlling direction with right stick, but also trying to go up after by using left stick, and it will swipe up instead of right. Like I could be running away and trying to lay spearfield down where I came from, and it will instead do it in the direction I'm running, even though there is no one ahead of me and I was just targeting an enemy behind me. In short, targeting needs more range or a lock on function. R3 maybe? Like other games? Disengage This is a point of massive frustration for me. There needs to be more active control in the direction you jump. Like I'll jump in and swipe with rake, but maybe I'm a little to far in or an enemy move behind me a little, the targeting will switch on me and I'll back flip in a pack further in, or sideways into a wall. This is a skill that needs fine tuning, it has gotten me killed more than anything else. I tend to hold the direction I want on my left stick but that really does nothing to help, except in the times it loses target and backflips in the pack. If this skill was in a game like Nioh, it would work in the way I'm trying, pick the direction I wanna go. Can you please adjust this skill? Rake Inherent in this skill is movement, yet many times I try to use it, it doesn't move, it just swipes in place, even when an enemy is highlighted (Bloodhunt has had similar issues). There are other times when I try and use it, but the game hasn't targeted the enemy, even though I see them, and again it does not move towards them. Also rake is far too slow. There is no way to get it fast enough to compete with other skills in the late game. That 0.4 second increase in attack time on the skill gem itself, makes it difficult to scale the speed up. Please lower it by at least .2 seconds. Currently this skill is not an easy skill to use without getting pummeled in late game. Also rake on pc operates different than controller. Like on PC you can zip around the map by clicking. But on controller the targeting is limited to whoever is in front of you, direct line of sight. In order to use it like you would a mouse, you have to change position and gain a clear line of sight to the enemy you want to target. I don't know what the solution is to fix this, but I hope one does come at some point. Thanks for reading. Fun game. Hope it becomes as close to perfect as it can get on full release. Last bumped on Apr 14, 2025, 7:40:59 PM
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Your feedback sounds well written for controller. I play on mouse and keyboard and wanted to add that Rake works fine with those controls. With the 0,4s attack time, the skill doesn't feel slow and I can quickly jump around within and around enemy groups. I could imagine that using the controller adds to the feeling of slowness.
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