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Let's talk detect hidden

GrimbeardGrimbeard Posts: 3,082
in General Discussions
Not the passive that seems OK. When actively searching I try a grid like I'm digging a map but it seems crazy random I can look to my south and it reveals a chest to my east where I had literally just searched 

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  • JamesJames Posts: 114
    Grimbeard said:
    Not the passive that seems OK. When actively searching I try a grid like I'm digging a map but it seems crazy random I can look to my south and it reveals a chest to my east where I had literally just searched 
    Correct, I have not found any logical pattern from where you click to where the chest appears. Also, re clicking a spot can also reveal the chest.
  • TheoTheo Posts: 264
    Yeah it’s super weird. Sometimes I’ll search at my feet and nothing. Move a couple tiles and search and it’s where I was just standing. So odd. 
  • LilyGraceLilyGrace Posts: 1,090
    Yep, it’s whacky. Not to mention how it shouldn’t work passively at all for someone mounted and running full tilt. 
  • keven2002keven2002 Posts: 2,518
    Theo said:
    Yeah it’s super weird. Sometimes I’ll search at my feet and nothing. Move a couple tiles and search and it’s where I was just standing. So odd. 
    I think that is because you (we) are failing to detect when you are right on it but the next time around you are successful. I think the only thing they could do is maybe give a message on a successful attempt of a spot that is the wrong location like "You reveal nothing but you are certain there is nothing hidden"
  • UrgeUrge Posts: 1,337
    Kevin is correct. 100 detect does not mean 100% success. 

    +1 for a failed detect message 
  • SethSeth Posts: 2,967
    It could be randomly moving every x seconds.
    If it ain't broke, don't fix it. 
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  • azuldemogoguazuldemogogu Posts: 34
    Maybe this was fixed. I went chest hunting and couldn't find crap. Id search all around me. Then another hunter would come up and search and pop the chest where I know I searched on the exact spot 5 times, but I guess they were all failures. Today, I did probably 10 chests in the time it took to find 1, or rather for another T-hunter to come running up and steal my unfound chest. Not really steal, it is fair game but you get my drift. Today, I was popping them left and right. 

    A better failure message would be nice. The way it is now, I get the failure message and I move on to other tiles. I think all of this character build is a neat design with detect hidden and sorts. I do think it needs to be refined a bit and hopefully continued to expand the uses of that skill in the future. 
  • MariahMariah Posts: 3,515Moderator
    Are you using a Crystal Ball of Knowledge? 
    If not, please try it. It does help you narrow down your search area.
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