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C4TAA / 4TAA Update


Deathcon

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Hello everyone,

For the update next Monday we've taken steps to address C4TAA (Continuous 4 Tick Auto Attacking) in RuneScape, as we've mentioned in the past we planned to have something in place before Solak's release at the end of the month.

Before we get into what we've done we thought we'd explain the processes behind C4TAA, what the bug was, how it was used in combat and how it is being addressed.
 

Continuous four tick auto-attacking (C4TAA)


To understand C4TAA you need to understand the auto attack speeds of magic weapons:
 

Magic 2H weapon (auto attacks every 6 ticks)

 

Magic dual wield (auto attacks every 4 ticks)

The table below breaks down the rotation required for C4TAA.

 

 

 

 

Time (Ticks) Next auto attack (ticks) Action
0 6 Staff auto attack
0 6 Dual wield switch - Wand & Orb
0 4 Dual wield ability
0 - 4 4 Magic staff switch
4 10 Staff auto attack

 


Looking at the table above you can see that the dual wield ability is setting your auto attack delay backwards, this is the bug. This allows the use of staff based auto attacks every 4 ticks rather than the 6 intended by the system.

The fix going live Monday will be preventing your auto attack delay from going backwards and thus preventing staff auto attacks at a faster rate that intended.

With that being said you're likely going to ask us, why have you removed C4TAA?

In short, C4TAA was a byproduct of the bug and caused an imbalance to the Combat System; when used effectively the damage per minute was increased significantly.
 

Four tick auto-attacking (4TAA)


4TAA revolves around delaying your abilities to weave auto attacks inbetween, thus increasing your DPM, this does not manipulate auto attack delays and thus is not a bug, as such with this update, 4TAA has not been removed.

 

 

 

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From Mod Pi on reddit. :xd: 

 

  • With 4taa and with the fix, the system prevents the auto delay from going backwards meaning you cannot staff auto at duel wield rate. Abilities with DW do still however only add a delay of 4 ticks to your next auto time. This means you are still able to perform a staff auto 4 ticks after the ability with DW on row 4. 4taa still remains.
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Feels comfortable knowing that I can always expect disappointment when reading anything posted by Jagex.

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Neat

 

I'm choosing to read this as "We don't know how to get rid of 4TAA entirely without breaking the whole game, so we're just getting rid of C4TAA because we actually know we can do that."

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