Explosive hitboxes

(AnimeDude) #1

They seem completely broken to me. Seriously, if 4-5 guys step on a mine or something of the sort you will almost always only get 2 (or if every planet is aligned, 3) kills. I don’t know if this has something to do with bodies blocking the damage like walls do but christ. I’ve had times where an enemy would walk right over me as I martyrdom and go off unscathed.

(MarsRover) #2

Bodies block explosive damage. I think this was introduced along with explosives gib nerf.

Same thing with objectives. A few times I’ve carelessly run with the objective without noticing a mine. I got hit for most of my health but survived.

That being said I also noticed a few times that my martydom didn’t do any damage but it’s hard to pinpoint the cause - sync problems, some invisible edges on the floor or just a plain ability bug etc.

(Dawnlazy) #3

I’ve survived C4 blasts on my face when defusing at times.

(Amerika) #4

[quote=“MarsRover;161649”]Bodies block explosive damage. I think this was introduced along with explosives gib nerf.

Same thing with objectives. A few times I’ve carelessly run with the objective without noticing a mine. I got hit for most of my health but survived.

That being said I also noticed a few times that my martydom didn’t do any damage but it’s hard to pinpoint the cause - sync problems, some invisible edges on the floor or just a plain ability bug etc.[/quote]

It’s actually been around a lot longer than that. It was one of the original nerfs targeted at Fragger’s grenades but it wasn’t an announced change (they might not have even known it was changed and it could be a bug). Explosions used to go through bodies and allowed you to throw one nade and gib a room of 5 people. Then after the patch you would throw the same grenade and 1-2 would die out of the 5 with 1-2 of them being completely untouched…all based on if somebody was body blocking the blast or not.

Interacting with anything (especially delivering) causes a lot of oddities with explosions. Some have been fixed but not everything. Also, getting something like a health pack when delivering still interrupts the delivery too.

(BananaSlug) #5

that, explains, A LOT

(XavienX) #6

Yea I know it’s bullshit at times. One time I snuck around my enemies seeing like 6 players on top of a healing station not noticing me so I threw my molotov and it hit the healing station so it only burned half of the side of the healing radius but all the players happened to be standing at the other half…and I ended up dying.

(Sorotia) #7

Yeah…Molotovs are extremely buggy sometimes…you can throw them and quickly cause a nice area of fire and sometimes you can toss it and get no flames or the flames go through the floor.