Neverwinter Target Lock

[Norrin]

Posted directly from ISBoxer forums
http://isboxer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=3957

I have been playing with Neverwinter lately and today have come up with a fairly easy way to target a certain entity (player or companion).
It is based on two console commands: hardtargetlock and target.

HardTargetLock is pretty much what gets toggled when you hold down ctrl. You can force it on by sending a /hardtargetlock 1 command. This will you to lock onto the first person (npc or player) that you target.

Target is pretty does what you think it does. Its targets something by name. However it targets it for like a split second and does not move your cursor to them.
To use it just send a /target <name> (example if I wanted to target my companion Gwenndy I would do /target Gwenndy).

Note that these are not case sensitive so /target Gwenndy and /Target gwenndy with both do that same thing.

To make these work together we can use several aliases.
An alias allows to create a custom command. For example to make /f1 send the hardtargetlock 1 you would use: /alias f1 hardtargetlock 1
Note that the hardtargetlock 1 did not have the / in it.

Putting it all together would be something like this:

--Create an alias for the target lock
/alias f1 hardtargetlock 1

--Create an alias for targetting someone
/alias fA target Gwenndy
/alias fB target Norrin
/alias fC target Shallabal

--Create an alias that combines the lock and target
/alias ftA "f1 $$ fA"
/alias ftB "f1 $$ fB"
/alias ftC "f1 $$ fC"

--Bind a key to target someone
/bind F ftA

So now the f key with target Gwenndy by Cleric companion.

At this point the character should be facing and locked onto the character.
You can then do a follow, assist, or whatever you feel the need to do.

Once done to unlock, if you need to, just do a /hardtargetlock 0

Sorry my not great authoring skills. I am developer not writer.

Hope that helps.

[Norrin]

Update:

Neverwinter does not allow aliases to be saved.
Once you log out all your aliases are lost and need to be rebuilt.

However to get around this just edit a key bind.

Steps:
1. Create a bound key (like the F in the original)
/bind F hardtargetlock 1

2. Save the key binds to a custom file.
/bind_save_file binds.txt (this will save a text file named binds.txt to the Neverwinter/Live folder).

3. Edit the Binds.txt file.
I updated the F bind from F "hardtargetlock 1" to F "hardtargetlock 1 $$ target Gwenndy"
Save file.

4. Load new binding
/bind_load_file binds.txt

Now I can happily use my F key to target and lock onto Gwenndy.

This seems to persist between logouts as well.

[warthog]

Just the info I needed, thanks. This works quite well, I'm running a 2H Sword Fighter and a Cleric. At least I can have both chars doing something now.

[warthog]

With my cleric target locked and following my fighter, the cleric can Sun Burst as well as use Healing Word during combat. I bound Assist to a key so the cleric uses Lance of Faith (ranged attack) to attack the fighter's target. It is still very awkward, after the ranged target is killed the cleric doesn't heal the hardtarget unless I hardtargetlock 0, then re- hardtargetlock the fighter.

Edit: the saving binds.txt works great, thanks for that info

[ebony]

wow am confused what happen to the simple days off mmo's and dual-boxing.

[Norrin]

wow am confused what happen to the simple days off mmo's and dual-boxing.

Yes you should check out the ISBoxer Neverwinter forums. The hoops you have to jump thru to get simple stuff working is boggling.

[croq]

With my cleric target locked and following my fighter, the cleric can Sun Burst as well as use Healing Word during combat. I bound Assist to a key so the cleric uses Lance of Faith (ranged attack) to attack the fighter's target. It is still very awkward, after the ranged target is killed the cleric doesn't heal the hardtarget unless I hardtargetlock 0, then re- hardtargetlock the fighter.

Edit: the saving binds.txt works great, thanks for that info

Could you post your binds.txt?

[Norrin]

Could you post your binds.txt?

My bind file is pretty simple.


Button4 "+tacticalSpecial"
F12 "setFollow 0"
F11 "setFollow 1"
F10 "Assist"
F8 "hardtargetlock 0"
F9 "hardtargetlock 1"
F6 "team F6"
F5 "hardtargetlock 1 $$ target {Slot5}"
F4 "hardtargetlock 1 $$ target {Slot4}"
F3 "hardtargetlock 1 $$ target {Slot3}"
F2 "hardtargetlock 1 $$ target {Slot2}"
F1 "hardtargetlock 1 $$ target {Slot1}"

Replace the {Slot#} with your characters names.

Also, the ISBoxer forums has a great deal of information for Neverwinter now.
Definitely check out these threads:
http://isboxer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=4102
http://isboxer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=4198