behind battlement attacks

[foolou]

A few days ago i found out that some scouts could shoot me from outside keep while i stood 1 step behind battlement.

That scout kept me in focus all the time giving me the chance to check out the distance to battlement very exactly, shooting me everytime he had the chance to.
I didn't jump or anything, just moved back and forward to check the distance.

2 steps behind battlement is safe while 1 step behind give at least scouts the chance to shoot arrows.

I didn't have LOS all the time .. (surprise ).

So what I want to know .. is this a bug or a feature?

 

[old.Niljindil]

I think that somewhere in the code that determines who you can see and vice versa mythic fucked up something really bad...

It seems that the farther away from an obstacle you are, the more you can see(which is incredibly stupid, but thats how it seems to me)....

 

[Riddler]

yes, the "not visible" and "too far away" codes are really REALLY bugged, or badly coded if u prefer

 

[Ensceptifica]

Thinking about the arrow's path, wouldn't it be like cover bonus if you're closer to battlements?

 

[belth]

Hehe, don't think about the arrows path, they're not arrows, they're target-locking mini-missiles that can ignore any obstacle as long as they've been shot when their target's been visible. In case of NPC fired missiles, they ignore every obstacle anyway

Anyway, the LOS check is messed up, it's checked from some obscure point in the body, unlike in FPS's

 

[old.Atrox]

you can fire you arrow even thou the target is behind 50 MG and 4 keeps, aslong as you have LOS and get the "You will Release your arrow automaticly" or what ever it says...

 

[foolou]

I don't think you understand me here ... there was no line of sight.
I didn't jump or anything.

I just approached the battlement step by step. And when i was one step behind battlement i got shot. Directly behind battlement i got shot, too.

I can never attack ppl from down when they stand behind battlement even if i can see their heads. All other casters don't seem to be able to do it.

But there is some option to use arrows on ppl that stand behind battlement and i want to know how that works.

 

[belth]

Propably jump-shooting.

 

[bishibosh]

shooting ppl from the floor when theyre on battlements is almost impossible the cant see target msges are almost always there so u just end up jumping and hammering the shoot button even tho u can plainly see them standing there, so it sucks both ways i guess , defending and attacking, but at least defending archers can get a shot on the ones below no questions asked

 

[old.Thanatlos]

I had a new one today.. you know the room above the gates in hib keeps?
Well, I got shot there by a scout multiple times, usually I just dismiss that as a shot prepared when I'm at the front of the wall so they can see me and then I move back and they can't .. well.. not this time, stood at the back of this room being continuously shot by a scout..
Ah well, line of sight is buggy anyway, nothing we can do about it but inform people that you can be shot there if targeted (by scouts at least, don't know about other archers)

It's not the path of the arrow , probably the path of the center of the playermodel of the attacker to the center of your playermodel, anyway you can be hit quite a bit back from the battlements ..