Blink Ability And Crouching

explodingheadboy

<div class="IPBDescription">Hrmmmm.</div> Since 2.0 I've seen people play fades in pubs (not as much in other games) and they either use scripts or spindly fingers to crouch the entire time they are blinking. The only reason for this is because they know it shrinks their hitbox.

I don't think blink was ever intended to work that way, and it seems as if people are simply exploiting it for an advantage that they really shouldn't have.

Perhaps blink could be changed so that while blinking crouch is disabled. I do know that this would make blinking into vents nearly impossible, so perhaps while blinking crouch could be disabled, the collision hull could shrink to a size that accomodates vents, and the hitbox stays the same.

I'm not trying to say this is something that desperately needs to be changed, but for the sake of making the game more fair for the players on public servers maybe it could be.

Ryse_Slade

The fade hitbox should be increased to the size of the crouching fade model (I remember in discussions on these boards someone mentioned they are much smaller). No lifeform (alien or marine) should have parts of its body that are not covered by the hitbox.

Until this issue is solved shoot at the fade's feet and you will hurt it.

Rue

Yeh I just shoot their feet if they are ducking, its anoying but if its not fixabe I'll be able to live with it

Amped1

I use crouch blinking to get into vents. I'd really rather they didn't remove crouch blinking.

Xyrcai

I crouch as fade... But I don't fight. =P I suck as fade, so all I do is blink around in combat games when I go fade unless they attack the hive.

That_Annoying_Kid

I would say fix the hitbox instead of tweaking the collision hull


in the meantime just be sure to aim for the feet

explodingheadboy

<!--QuoteBegin-George_The_Gorge+Jun 4 2004, 09:58 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (George_The_Gorge @ Jun 4 2004, 09:58 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I use crouch blinking to get into vents. I'd really rather they didn't remove crouch blinking. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I thought of that when I made my post, if you'd go back and read it more carefully you'd see that blinking into vents would still be possible.

KaMiKaZe1

I crouch as a fade to lower my point of view, I find it much easier to hit a blink/swipe from about waist level on a marine.