Tactical battle mouse problem

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Hello, I couldn't find anything pertaining to this issue in a search of the forums, but forgive me if it's already been brought up somewhere else.

Whenever I'm in a tactical battle I have problems sometimes selecting units with my mouse. If I try to click on the model of the unit(s) it sometimes will not select the unit or it will select a square/unit around the unit I wanted to select. I've also tried click on the square the unit occupies and it didn't help. Often I will have to rotate and move the camera a significant amount to select some units on the battlefield.

Also, I'm not sure if this is related, I'll have problems selecting a target for archers during a tactical battle too. I will try to right click on the enemy I want to attack, but instead of attacking the archer will try to move to a square adjacent to the target.

This issue has actually been around for me since release, but I am running the 1.07 patch right now.

Setup:

1680x1050 window mode

Windows 7 64

patch 1.07

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Yeah, it's not just you. As far as I know, SD's aware of it and it should hopefully get fixed soon. Rather than wiggling the camera around, you can select by clicking on the portraits on the left and right edges of the screen, as long as you know what's what.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

This issue has actually been around for me since release, but I am running the 1.07 patch right now.
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Are you still seeing it now? We changed unit selection in tactical to use the bounding boxes, so it should be easier to hit them.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Yes, I was still seeing it since the 1.07 patch actually. I have only played one game since the 1.07 patch came out though. I loaded up a save game after I patched to 1.07, got into a battle with an enemy city and then I had trouble selecting my sovereign and some other units. My army consisted of, if I remember correctly, 3 groups of ogre units, a dragon, a soldier group, my sovereign and his wife. I had trouble selecting some of the units but I mostly remember not being able to select my sovereign in the way back until I did lots of camera movements.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

Confirm. Had this problem both in v1.06 and 1.07 - initially I thought this might be due to my system being exceptionally busy, but this time all four CPUs were only concentrating on the game...

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

This is a problem i had throughout the beta but awhile ago it was fixed (not sure which release but it has been many releases ago) now in 1.07 i have this issue again.