I understand that may take a lot of coding, or maybe it won't, I don't know much of anything about programing but with some of these creatures having a lot of lore, power, expense backing them up it seems like a silly thing for them to be left weakened like that. Given the huge number of creatures you put out in this mod it seems like you have the skill and time needed to rectify this issue.

it requires things i don't know how to do. I'm a conceptual person and character designer/animator. Not exactly a coder.

Besides, i did some experimenting to combat this back in beta with the Centaur females, where they would actually turn their chest more (and thus look up and shoot up better) when they looked. In other words, unlike most creatures that just turn their head and neck with their aim offset when they look around, the female cenaurs would look around more with their chest.

The result was.....

...weird.

I might experiment again using the divine archer, though. We'll have to see.

Also consider though, ark has limitations.

and a humanoid can only bend back so much before it starts to look awkward.

That seems like you could solve that by having the movement in the shoulder and arms instead of the torso but I'll take your word for it. I take it that colaborating with someone isn't an option right now.

its not just code. It's a bunch of other things too.

I tried adding homing to the Divine Archer's projectiles before, too, and well, that didn't work out too well either.

also i can't change the movement in the arms either, for modder-obvious ark limitations.

Trust me when i say i understand what you mean, but ark's just not letting things happen.

ok then, if it's not possible then so be it.