So, looking into this, it seems that if your demigod is not facing the target, you will enter a permanent waiting for target stage. If at some point your target travels into your path, then you will execute the ability.

This seems to be caused by the demigod needing to face a target to use an ability on the target. This conflicts with the CanCastWhileMoving tag, while prevent the ability from interupting the current move action.

Looking into the lua I tried a few things.

Idea: CastingTime

• Default: CastingTime = 0

• Increasing it to 0.01 does not fix the issue.

Idea: CanCastWhileMoving

• Default: CanCastWhileMoving = true
• Setting it equal to false does fix the turning issue, but it behaves like a normal ability, interupting whatever action you were doing. In essence it makes it a normal ability with a 0 cast time.

Queen of Thorn's Bramble Shield

• It is a castwhilemoving ability that targets another, but I was unable to find something that would translate and work.

I tried looking for a turn, face, or similiar function that would rotate the demigod to face the target, but was unable to find anything appropriate.

A roundabout solution would be to create an invisible projectile with infinite homing and speed, but that seems rather inelegant.

An oddity I noticed is that with the unclean beast, using the ability will also cause you to move to a location on the otherside of the demigod you targeted. I'd assume this is true for all melee demigods.

At this point I'm out of ideas, however I'm posting this if anyone else is interesting in approaching the problem.

I have had this problem... parisite egg and sludge slinger are completely useless due to the bugs!

The Sludge Slinger and Parasite Egg already are cast while moving. The reason we don't notice this is because of the targetting problems. The potential fix I proposed that does fix the targetting problems removes this, my failure was to allow for the usage of cast while moving and not have the targetting errors.

So, I've been looking at AbilityTask.lua as ntropy suggested, and it is very interesting. It inspired me to try some other things, which eventually lead me in a full circle back to the item code for the sludge slinger and the parasite egg.

What I found was unexpected, the fix to part of the problem, I think. All you have to do is add "IgnoreFacing = true," to the item code, and the "stuck while in range but not facing the target problem" is eliminated.

Now, my initial intuition was that IgnoreFacing = true would lead the caster to cast the spell without changing facing, however this isn't the case. The caster does face the target, trigger the effect, and then resume the previous command. That this can happen also suggests that all abilities may be able to resume previous orders. So, for example, the wand of speed could possibly be made so that you don't stop moving to trigger it. That however is a balance issue, and not seemingly a bug fix. I

However, when the target it out of range, the behavior is different. In this case the caster moves within range, casts, and then shifts to autoattack status.

For ranged demigods there was another oddity that I'm trying to understand. After cueing a move order and then using an item, the caster starts attacking. This may be because the move order is converted into a move attack order. Further testing is required.

In conclusion, adding "IgnoreFacing = true" to the item will mostly fix the problem.

*bump* I really really hope this gets fixed in the next patch. Right now the Sludge Slinger and Parasite Egg can be a "random self destruct" button.

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Still not fixed

All they had to do is setting 'IgnoreFacing' to true...

Can we get this and wand of speed fix please.

bumping this everyday until this gets fixed...

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