[Suggestion] Demigods occlude each other's movement?

By DroopyTheDog on December 23, 2008 7:31:52 AM from

It's not really a new or radical idea but I'd quite like for demigods to have some kind of occlusion radius vs other demigods, both friendly and enemy.

With the sheer number of NPC grunts I think it's better to be able to walk through them, but with other demigods it could help with a few things:

Firstly it would make rook's large size count for something more than being a more obvious target.

Secondly, without it currently demigods that focus on the same target tend to stack up on top of each other, which it makes very hard to target any specific one.

Thirdly it just adds all those little nuiances of "body blocking" which gives careful positioning more value.

Finally, if it were added to a general's minions too it would give a purpose to the high-hp/low-damage minotaurs as well as benifits to controling minions rather than box select -> mass attack. It would even make "knocks back small units" a more useful effect.

On the other hand I can't think of any definitive drawbacks to having demigods block each other's movement, no maps are tight enough to completely block a lane so that won't be a problem.

Thanks

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I think your onto something here. Giving Demigod's a collision radius would provide many benefits like you have stated, most noteabley when Demigod's stack on top of one another.

At the moment I'm pretty sure you can hide 'inside' a friendly players Rook and be virtually untargetable.

Wanted this for a long time.

/Signed

You'll have to be careful with this. In previous builds you could block a portal so that all the grunts got trapped, meaning that when you let them out you had an uber-storm of grunts flooding out, not to mention the denial possibilities...

What kinda build did you play?? This was not in either beta's.

Also, you don't have collision detection with creeps, and friendly general minions.

P.S. Instead of full collision, make it a sort of push through system: when you try to walk through a other DG, your movements speed is lowered.

Yah, this was in the last Beta, LK. No one used it but it existed.

I remember the giant's inadvertantly blocking the path on the lava level as well, that was a real map killer.

To clarify here I'm talking about Demigod vs. Demigod collision, I believe Demigod vs. Grunt collision should remain nil, as it is.

What I'm thinking of here is demigods opperating on a different "layer" (for lack of a better word) than grunts when it comes to blocking where they only affect each other not the little guys.

I've just remembered the Sup com engine has a tendancy not to recognise pathing obstacles in messy situations and repeatedly "bounce" off them. That might be less than fun if that part of the engine remains untouched.

Just make you slow if you go through other DG's.

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[Suggestion] Demigods occlude each other's movement?