Line of sight

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is this not a thing anymore? in bgs or world pvp ill stand behind a hill and still be shot with spells etc

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I think it depends on the type of terrain? I’m not sure. :woman_shrugging:t2:

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“Hide in the trees.”

- Quin69
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It’s a thing, but Blizzard can be very inconsistent with terrain “collision”. That and spells usually have travel time and they may just be reaching you after you got to your hill. Or your hitbox or whatever was high enough to still hit, remember you’re higher than the ground, and spells lock on to basically the middle of you so it can exaggerate the “LoS breaking” occurrences.

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Ground terrain typically does not provide LoS blocking. Objects like pillars and structures generally do, but not always.

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so in other words poorly designed
Got it.

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Hills dont really effect LoS. Random rocks though… man those things are annoying…

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If you stand in a corner, face the wall, and cover your eyes, they can’t see you.

That’s because you can’t see them.

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Technical Support truism:

The end user not understanding how a system is intended to work does not make that system broken.

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its poorly designed. its not a hard concept to understand. if i have a hill or a mountain in front of me spells etc should not be able to travel through them. lol

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It really isn’t. The game engine uses a much simpler form of raycasting than you want it to. More complex raycasting could be done, but would most likely have a negative impact on servers and server stability.

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meaning the design could be better but isnt HUH weird.

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You lost me at “it”

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No, it has nothing to do with the design. It has to do with the implementation, which is always done on a cost/benefit basis. You can design a photorealistic world with near perfect real world physics – but if nobody has a computer powerful enough to do those calculations, then you make precisely zero dollars on it as a product because no one can run it.

You can try to twist this to suit your narrative, but that won’t make what you’re saying accurate. Still, if you want to complain about it, don’t let me stop you – not like I could anyway.

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Design (as a verb: to design) is the intentional creation of a plan or specification for the construction of an object or system or for the implementation of an activity or process.

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You’re being purposely argumentative at this point.

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uh sure. lets go with that

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Congrats, you can dictionary. But if you’ve ever had to actually build something, you know that having a plan does not mean that the final product will reflect that plan perfectly. A phone with a GTX 1080 could be designed, but it would never be implemented in the final product because the product would be too large and expensive to market.

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Argued Subjectivity . This is the circumstance in which a person is arguing something that does not actually coincide or agree with the way that they actually live or think.