Mission Volley Bonus

[Mentaltyranny]

I am playing Neverwinter nights 2 original campaign, right now without the PRC.  I am playing a ranger, and starting at level 2 I started getting bonuses that were too high when using my bow.  After looking at the combat debugger and the consol, it appears to be from a source called the Mission volley bonus, giving a bonus of either + 1 or + 2 on each shot, depending if I have rapid shot active.  I loaded a character trainer and train my character level 20, and at that level each shot appears to be at a + 4.  Additionally, there appears to be two entries for "versus AC" in the combat debugger, one significantly lower when firing my bow.  I do not know which one is supposed to be correct or if this is even related to my problem.

Scouring the Internet for answers, a few others have noticed this, mainly on arcane archer builds.  Some have tied it to the missile volley teamwork feat, but I definitely do not have that feat, since I am playing the original campaign, and not SoZ.

This is making the game way too easy.  I was wondering if this community, since it is basically the only active Neverwinter nights community left on the Internet, could give me a hand fixing this issue?  Alternatively, I was wondering if installing the PRC would remove this issue?  Any and all help would be appreciated.

[CapnQ]

I am playing Neverwinter nights 2 original campaign, right now without the PRC.  I am playing a ranger, and starting at level 2 I started getting bonuses that were too high when using my bow.  After looking at the combat debugger and the consol, it appears to be from a source called the Mission volley bonus, giving a bonus of either + 1 or + 2 on each shot, depending if I have rapid shot active.  I loaded a character trainer and train my character level 20, and at that level each shot appears to be at a + 4.  Additionally, there appears to be two entries for "versus AC" in the combat debugger, one significantly lower when firing my bow.  I do not know which one is supposed to be correct or if this is even related to my problem.

Scouring the Internet for answers, a few others have noticed this, mainly on arcane archer builds.  Some have tied it to the missile volley teamwork feat, but I definitely do not have that feat, since I am playing the original campaign, and not SoZ.

This is making the game way too easy.  I was wondering if this community, since it is basically the only active Neverwinter nights community left on the Internet,

Have you actually tried the official NWN 2 forum? I keep an eye on it and don't remember any questions about this issue (although it's completely possible that I just missed it). The forum doesn't get as much traffic as it used to, but there are still quite a few people, including some really good NWN scripters, who post there.

could give me a hand fixing this issue?  Alternatively, I was wondering if installing the PRC would remove this issue?  Any and all help would be appreciated.

PRC is for NWN1 only; since you're using NWN2, it's not going to work for you. Also, that means that the people here aren't necessarily the ones most likely to know the answer to your NWN2-specific question.

[DM Heatstroke]

I am playing Neverwinter nights 2 original campaign, right now without the PRC.  I am playing a ranger, and starting at level 2 I started getting bonuses that were too high when using my bow.  After looking at the combat debugger and the consol, it appears to be from a source called the Mission volley bonus, giving a bonus of either + 1 or + 2 on each shot, depending if I have rapid shot active.  I loaded a character trainer and train my character level 20, and at that level each shot appears to be at a + 4.  Additionally, there appears to be two entries for "versus AC" in the combat debugger, one significantly lower when firing my bow.  I do not know which one is supposed to be correct or if this is even related to my problem.

Scouring the Internet for answers, a few others have noticed this, mainly on arcane archer builds.  Some have tied it to the missile volley teamwork feat, but I definitely do not have that feat, since I am playing the original campaign, and not SoZ.

This is making the game way too easy.  I was wondering if this community, since it is basically the only active Neverwinter nights community left on the Internet, could give me a hand fixing this issue?  Alternatively, I was wondering if installing the PRC would remove this issue?  Any and all help would be appreciated.

I don't remember the evil bastard ranger (forgot his name) getting bonuses like that when I played thru NWN2.

[Mentaltyranny]

I do not mean to be difficult, but there literally is not much of a community left for Neverwinter nights 2 at the web sites mentioned above.  I posted on the BIOWARE Neverwinter nights two community forums, IGN Neverwinter nights two forums, and the Atari support forms, and I have not received many views let alone any replies.

I give you guys specialize in Neverwinter nights 1, but I thought maybe somebody could give me a hand fixing this issue myself.  I have a screen shot of the issue here, http://www.badongo.com/pic/9326358

[CapnQ]

I do not mean to be difficult, but there literally is not much of a community left for Neverwinter nights 2 at the web sites mentioned above.

Not a problem. I do keep an eye on the NWN2 general forum, but as I can't play NWN2 on my current setup, I don't follow it too closely and it has been a long time since I posted there, so I don't have a good feel for the traffic.

However, I have a feeling that the main reason you didn't get many responses is because nobody knows what the problem is. I've never heard of a Mission Volley Bonus and couldn't find any info on it. It sounds like you couldn't either, nor could others who noticed problems with it.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help. Maybe someone else here can.

[DM Heatstroke]

Do you think they reused code from KotOR2 for NWN2?  There was a character in KotOR2 named Mission.  Alternatively, could it be something slipping in from the Teamwork Feat *Missile* Volley?

[Mentaltyranny]

Unfortunately, the mission volley bonus appears to apply irregularly. With my level six ranger, with two attacks per round and NOT using rapid shot, there was no mission volley bonus applied to the first attack of round one, a + 1 bonus applied to the second attack of round one. On round two, there was a + 2 bonus to the first attack, but strangely no bonus on the second attack of the round. On the first attack of the third round there was a + 1 bonus, and so on. See my screen sniping here: http://www.badongo.com/pic/9334856.

Upon this inspection, I really do not know exactly how the mechanics of this unwarranted bonus applies. I am not too much of a amateur in coding to see the problem. Anybody here have any thoughts?