Skullgrin wrote:Ok, this may open a whole can of worms, however I've run into a few situations over the past couple of days that have me wondering about how some game mechanics are intended to work. I have three main situations that I have encountered, and as the subject states, was wondering what category each would fall under and what can be done to report if they are considered to be an exploit.
1. The first situation seems to happen most often in Thunder Mountain, due to the prevalence of cliff tops being the dominant landscape. Often during fights against opponents that have a self-punt ability I have found that they are positioning themselves near a cliff edge, and using the punt to launch themselves off the cliff if they start losing the fight. They take no falling damage (is this a bug?) and escape the fight. To my mind this is exploiting game mechanics to their gain, and wonder if this is a punishable (if minor) offense. If it is a bug is there a possible fix for it, or are we just stuck with it for the time being?
2. The second situation I've encountered recently involves the White Lion abilities Fetch & Pounce. There used to be a problem where Fetch could be used to basically pop the target straight up in the air, taking the target out of the fight for a few seconds, while still being able to be damaged (giving the White Lion an advantage in the fight). I thought that it was patched a while back by adding a minimum range to fetch. However in the last two days I have had what looks like the old bug used against me on three separate occasions, all by the same White Lion. When we are in combat he moves away from me, and at a certain distance he pounces toward me at the same time that Fetch seems to be triggered - popping me straight up in the air. The first time it happened I thought it was a visual bug - the server had been acting wonky that evening. I encountered the same White Lion later that evening and he performed the same move with the same result. I tried to contact a GM, however none were on. The next night I encountered the same White Lion several times, once solo and several times in groups. The one solo encounter I had he did the same maneuver (with the same result) but when he was in a group he never tried using it. So my question is, is this an exploit (since I haven't seen any other Lions using it), a bug with the abilities, or a server lag problem? Please note that this is not a complaint against White Lions, as I defeated him 2 out of the 3 times we met in solo combat.
3. My final situation involves the Chosen ability Touch of Palsy (A DoT that damages the target every half second they are moving). I found recently that if you have Touch of Palsy applied and the punt your target away, it damages them while they are flying through the air. Is this the intended behavior of the ability or a bug? Or even worse an exploit? I first discovered it when punting an Engineer away from his healing keg, however can see that it could be used in other situations that might be considered a borderline exploit.
So, there are the situations I have found myself wondering about. Any thoughts, GM rulings or discussion about whether these are bugs or not would be welcome, because I really don't know how they should be classified.
Right to answer OP:
1. Its not an exploit and we are aware of it (and yes it was like this on live as well), we have not decided if its something we should fix or not yet either.
2. This seems like an issue, something that we will look into but it may or may not get fixed.
3. This is the intended behaviour