Why is hitting pathfinder a headache?
I sincerely think this character has a broken hitbox. Every time I tried to shoot one it always misses even sometimes my bullets make the touching sound but didn't dealt any damage. Had a coupl...
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@DaAceXD wrote:
@Wingmannedbro wrote:Certain characters have visible components that are NOT part of their hitbox, Pathfinder more than anyone when accounting for his fleshy legendary skins.
Gibraltar has that thing on his back, you can hit that, but won't deal damage since it's not his body, Bloodhound helmet has parts you can hit, but wont deal damage since you didn't hit Bloodhound's head.
Etc.
Stop blaming his hitbox, it's an actual proven FACT that his hitbox is very accurate.
''Certain characters have visible components that are NOT part of their hitbox, Pathfinder more than anyone when accounting for his fleshy legendary skins.''
There you go, one of the problems.
When you shoot a pathfinder you feel like you hit him but you din't becouse of visible components bla bla bla bla bla.
''Stop blaming his hitbox, it's an actual proven FACT that his hitbox is very accurate.''
A verry accurate hitbox is a hitbox that when you shoot the target you HIT him.
If there are 2387465237864523874 components on the legend that don't count as a hit then its a proven FACT the hitbox is terrible right?
If removing those components is a indirect solution to the hitbox problem thats fine by me.
The definition of a verry accurate hitbox should include all components.
So bullets not hitting pathfinder when you feel like they should could verry well be becouse of those components you keep talking about.
But by no meens is it OK now.
I think even when you make Pathfinders hitbox accurate when components are removed.
You still have a way to hard hitbox to hit considering his INSANE best ingame skills.
Every other legend has either a small hitbox OR good skills.
At the moment pahtfinder is the king in both.
And some legends have neither ( They should receive a buff BUT they are not ruining the game atm. )
And saying people should play pathfinder to find out hes not harder to hit does not work.
If you play a legend you can't see if a bullet shot should have hit you or not.
I don't know if the person shooting me is a potato or if its hitbox problems.
Was this part of your research to prove FACTS?
This goes the other way as well.
People playing pathfinder to state they get hit a lot less is the dumbest way to claim a hitbox is good or not.
You can only see if a hitbox is broken by shooting it yourself.
So yes, Lets start by removing all the components on the pathfinder.
A good hitbox has WAY more value to over cool skins.
And after that lets see again.
I wanna touch on this comment.
"A verry accurate hitbox is a hitbox that when you shoot the target you HIT him.
If there are 2387465237864523874 components on the legend that don't count as a hit then its a proven FACT the hitbox is terrible right?
If removing those components is a indirect solution to the hitbox problem thats fine by me."
This is a wrong way of thinking. In that same logic, shooting Bangalore's puffy hair should count as headshots right?
Ofc not, that would be dumb, since it's hair, and not her head.
Stop aiming for Pathfinders skinny limbs (which have the grappling hook gadgets fitted on them) and just aim for his huge torso for a change.
How hard is to aim at his body? You must be really bad if you can't that, his torso is huge and easy to hit.
According to reddit Pathfinder is going to be fixed for season 2
Pathfinder's hitbox
We’ve been investigating Pathfinder’s hitbox and looking at player feedback. At Season 2 launch we’ll be making adjustments to the hitbox that we’ll talk more about closer to Season 2.
https://www.reddit.com/r/apexlegends/comments/c0q1fi/updating_known_issues_post_6142019/
His hit box is non existent and very inconsistent. Also people like to bring in the "pro's" to make their point relevant and I've seen and heard a lot of the top streamer's, and pro's say Pathfinder has Broken hit boxes.
- @RevenanT-G7 You really believe hes gonna be “ Fixed” Lol this is a devs team that makes the game worse each update they’ll probably make another legends hitbox broken during the process of fixing pathfinders, Respawn entertainment does not have game testers so good luck getting your hopes up..
@SethCurry wrote:
@RevenanT-G7You really believe hes gonna be “ Fixed” Lol this is a devs team that makes the game worse each update they’ll probably make another legends hitbox broken during the process of fixing pathfinders, Respawn entertainment does not have game testers so good luck getting your hopes up..True, Titanfall 2 did this a lot with every update. lol
What game doesn't mess something up with each update?
It's part of writing code they won't know until the code goes live on servers and played. No developer can predict how the servers will respond to the new code being implemented. It's not like Respawn made a single player campaign where you don't need servers to be fixed in the back end so the code doesn't go wonky.
Should be fun to see what gets messed up though. It's alway's fun reading the forums when something breaks or doesn't work right.
/shrugs
@RevenanT-G7 wrote:
@SethCurry wrote:
@RevenanT-G7You really believe hes gonna be “ Fixed” Lol this is a devs team that makes the game worse each update they’ll probably make another legends hitbox broken during the process of fixing pathfinders, Respawn entertainment does not have game testers so good luck getting your hopes up..True, Titanfall 2 did this a lot with every update. lol
What game doesn't mess something up with each update?
It's part of writing code they won't know until the code goes live on servers and played. No developer can predict how the servers will respond to the new code being implemented. It's not like Respawn made a single player campaign where you don't need servers to be fixed in the back end so the code doesn't go wonky.
Should be fun to see what gets messed up though. It's alway's fun reading the forums when something breaks or doesn't work right.
/shrugs
Me being a programmer in completely other field so i have 0 xp in game design but i can tell code is absolute.
All the things you have to take into consideration changing just a little thing is harder then most people can imagine.
BUT,
They managed to get a good hit box on 7 other legends.
Hit box technology has been out for years and years now.
its not like they write the code from 0 on every legend.
Code gets reused.
I'm not sure, But i don't think they even use code for the hitbox on game design level anymore.
Its just dragging a box over a 3d model of the thing they want to give a hit box.
And its the exact same technology and code for all the legends.
Peronaly i don't think Pathfinders hitbox is the problem anymore.
But his model is.
And fixing that issue is going to be problematic for respawn.
You can't just make the hitbox different ( Bigger ) then the model.
But chaging all the models is going to take a whole lot of time.
But they have to do something.
Becouse pathfinder is ruining the game as he is now.
I hope they have a better and faster solution.
And i realy hope they nail it start Season2.
Becouse almost everything i hate about this game has something to do with pathfinder.
And fixing his model / hit box is a good start.
Even messing it up that its to big again would be amazing for this game.
Then finaly pathfinder and all his BS won't bother me as often anymore.
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