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Collision Detection in Camelot Unchained: Yes or No?
Kuldebar
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Collison Detection in Camelot Unchained: Yes or No
There's quite a heated debate going on over at the CU subreddit over whether CD should be in the game.
I personally feel that it's all but required, if not mandatory to have in a game that involves defending positions and protecting your support classes and seige. I feel that choke points are an essential strategic part of the game and not having CD would make such a thing meaningless.
The arguments against CD are complaints about getting "trapped" or having a handful of warriors hold off a horde of players. Additional concern was being blocked from joining in on a fight becuase there were too many players. Another concern was about possible game performance issues CD might cause.
So, what do the nice folks of mmorpg.com think about collision detection in the Camelot Unchained Project?
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Its definitely needed, especially in a game which has its entire focus on PvP. Lack of collision detection removes exactly those things which you brought up in the examples you gave for the arguments against it. No collision detection means a smaller force cant make use of strategic choke points and good tactical teamwork to hold off a much larger force. A game like this should not be completely about who has more people, and should allow for people to take advantage of the ability to do things like form walls of bodies to prevent the enemy from pushing into an area unhindered and focusing their firepower on them at chokepoints.
I think I understand why CD get's such a bad rap with some people, I think it's largely due to what happened in Warhammer Online and the awful server performance issues and lag that occured during the Fortress battles. In those times players weren't even being rendered but you'd be unable to move becuase there was an invisible player's collision detection blocking you.
So, I don't view that as a CD problem, that was up and up a server performance issue.
In DAoC the run through issue caysed a lot arguments and drama. Casters would have melee LOS by walking through the caster, it was hard enough to be a successful caster in DAoC without that challenge.
Yeah, I'd be curious to hear Mark Jacobs' take on the whole thing, being that he was there for DAoC, WAR and now CU.
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I'm not saying yes or no... but what i will say is that if it is in, it needs to be on both sides. Meaning... friendly collision detection as well as enemy collision detection. I've played games where it was only on enemies and that was horrible as you could run through your own friends but the enemy couldn't follow. Don't get me wrong, I see that as a strategic idea and all, but it really breaks the feel of the game to me.
I agree, I think CD should apply to friendly and enemy.
If I recall WAR had CD off when out of combat but I don't remember if CD applied to friends or not, that could be another reason people might not have liked it. Having enemies disappear into a crowd of their allies, etc.
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.... just yes. In a game inspired by the original vision of what made DAoC magical, yesyesyes.
However, this is not DAoC2, so... I am not sure whether what I am saying matters more or less... And I like that.
I would like to say "just give me daoc with cd" but that is more than a bit pedestrian.
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Yup, goes without saying, but a shitty engine would ruin a lot more than just CD implementation.
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CD seems to be much more accepted here than on reddit >_>
I already gave my rant there but I have to say yes again. Just adds another layer of depth and strategy that is absolutly necessary for tanks and their casters.
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I agree. I would prefer no CD if the engine couldn't support it
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NO.
Didn't work for WAR
Didn't work for TERA
Won't work for CU
It's a terrible idea.
NO.
I'm not playing a 200v200 battle where every time you move you hit a wall
Not to mention all the bugs and problems with this system being implemented with the low budget they have
This isn't the "solution" to tanks
Go play daoc people ugh
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Seriously... if someone played both WAR and DAoC and thinks CD is a good idea he must be clinically insane.
It's one of the few things war did right. Having cd makes your wow style bunny hopping, fig 8ing and step inside and spam aoe "skills" pointless.
No. Btw maybe it should just be a poll at this point =p
CD in war was trash and easy to get around most of the time. Not to mention with CD you need things to move people like kb and pull which I really don't want to see either.
Actually CD makes you bunny hop more. In war it was a major counter to CD so goodluck with the bunny hopping hate if they put it in lol
I guess I am insane.
DAoC's situation was extremely frustrating to casters, the "run through" problem to go LOS so casters lost target was a big stinking pile. Casters already had quite the handicap on the battlefield with the interupt code in the first few years of the game, the cheap move of walking through you enemy just as his cast completed did not sit well with me and others.
People are conflating WAR, Age of Conan and other games that had performance issues or other flaws with having collision detection system. The problems CD have are of the exception type, where certain game objects have the wrong values on the filter.
Yes, you can have problems, but the larger issues are games that don't render enemy players so you can't see them.
A comment: by bmacisaac states it rather well:
It's even to the point where nobody who plays GW2 WvW even tries to defend anything. There's no point in defending your keep when it's much much easier and quicker just to attack one and trade keeps instead. There's no point in dividing your force to take multiple objectives, small groups are totally ineffective against larger groups. Basically zerging is the only valid and effective tactic, and that's not the game I want to play. Everything CU can do to limit the zerg is a GOOD thing, and collision is most certainly one of those things.
Those who tread with ill intent
Beneath our sacred firmament,
Whether of Hammer or of Tree,
Albion's might shall strike at thee!
Depends on the CD filter, the "stone" method can cause issues like you describe in your bunny hopping. (As in literally being snagged by small objects on the surface of the terrain, thus moving in a hopping manner)
There are different blends.
BTW Every game in existence has collison detection, it's just usually turned off so as to not involve the intersection of player characters.
Collision Detection is a filtering process and can be highly customized and tuned.
Those who tread with ill intent
Beneath our sacred firmament,
Whether of Hammer or of Tree,
Albion's might shall strike at thee!
Yes.
I mean come on.