How do I make an enemy charge at the player?

I want to make a boar enemy that 'charges' a charge attack against the player.

To do this I'm adding dt to a counter called chargeTime.

Every tick, I make the boar face the player.

When chargeTime is > 3, I increase the bullet behavior on the boar from 0 to 400.

my capx:

drive.google.com/file/d/0B6VzyBaaZXG7ZERhbU1ZZWtpLTg/view

THE ISSUE is that this only works half the time.

Sometimes the boar rushes at the player, other times it just goes forward - missing the player.

I made Bullet.angleOfMotion = Boar.angle degrees but it didn't seem to have an effect.

Why is this happening? How can I fix this?

thanks.

Interesting! This seems to work perfectly.

Is there a logical reason why or is this method just less prone to bugs?

Ah yes there is. Its like a car. When standing still, you can turn that steer wheel as much as you want, the car is not changing direction.

You can not change the angle of movement for a bullet that has speed zero. Since that angle was zero, the moment you give it speed, it starts from that angle.

Now, i am not sure about this statement (i should check that): the bullet gets its speed at the end of the tick, so, changing angle immediately after giving it speed is not gonna help.