ZombieSurvivor
Banned
It is now working fine for me. Before A18.1 I would miss and miss and miss...more like go through the zombie. That all seems to be fixed now.
PC BOOM HEAD... shot? HEY! No fair!
- Thread starter Xane Tempest
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mr.natural
New member
It is so bad on a server that I hardly use melee anymore
Xane Tempest
New member
Not sure if I missed a patch, but I'm noticing a LOT more headshots making contact... No idea what changed, but it's like night and day (namely, I CAN hit them in the head now)
Hope things are working well for the others who noticed a difference
Hope things are working well for the others who noticed a difference
Ghostlight
New member
I think it is fairly obvious that melee in general is not working at all correctly in A18, never mind headshots. Anyone who mines a lot will have seen the same effect with your Pick. You can have your cursor sitting right over that block of iron. It's dead centre, no question, yet when you swing your Pick, you hit a block off to the side. I mean MILES off depending on how close you are!!!
If that same algorithm is used when you swing a club at a zombie head, it's no surprise that it misses a LOT, as it's obviously bugged to all hell.
If that same algorithm is used when you swing a club at a zombie head, it's no surprise that it misses a LOT, as it's obviously bugged to all hell.
Kalarro
New member
It definately doesnt feel right, no matter if it is working right.
yesterday i played coop for the first time, and I saw my mate trying to hit zombies, and the weapon was passing right through them and hitting the wall behind. Sure, he probably wasnt aiming the reticle fine since it was his first time playing, but that's just terrible mechanic, both gameplaywise and compared to how it would really work.
I think, the typical mele combat where the weapon has physics and the game checks if it collides with the enemy somewhere in the swing arc, may be pretty hard to code, and they just did some easier implementation where they check if the reticle is on an enemy at a specific moment during your swing. No idea if this is true, but it sure looks like it. Mele physics is the thing that works worst in this game IMO.
yesterday i played coop for the first time, and I saw my mate trying to hit zombies, and the weapon was passing right through them and hitting the wall behind. Sure, he probably wasnt aiming the reticle fine since it was his first time playing, but that's just terrible mechanic, both gameplaywise and compared to how it would really work.
I think, the typical mele combat where the weapon has physics and the game checks if it collides with the enemy somewhere in the swing arc, may be pretty hard to code, and they just did some easier implementation where they check if the reticle is on an enemy at a specific moment during your swing. No idea if this is true, but it sure looks like it. Mele physics is the thing that works worst in this game IMO.
ZombieSurvivor
Banned
OOOHHHHH!!!!! thats why my friend keeps beating the crap out of me when we are looting together. They need to fix that.
Need to watch out for that, as DoT effects (fire, bleed, electricity) will land on allies even from accidental glancing blows.
On the topic, it feels many times that the hit is happening on the other side of the zombie. Detectable by damaging blocks behind them. Something about us having such long melee range (it's practically telekinesis) might be involved here.
Xtrakicking
New member
As with most first versions in this game, glancing blows are broken and the devs probably know it already. In the following
(minute 28:24) you can see how the glancing blow completely ignores the zombie right in front, and knocks down the one behind it instead (with delayed reaction as well).
