almost 6 years ago - /u/NickDonaldson - Direct link

Hey guys, let's talk about "Ghost Peeking".

When crouching up-hill, you can sometimes fire over cover without actually being seen by your target.

Here, I've enabled some developer debug to show what's happening:

(gif) Ghost Peeking with developer debug

The yellow line is a trace from the center of your camera. The green line is supposed to be the bullet trace.

Side view

So why is that happening?

Our animation system does some adjustments to the character to make sure that the feet are always positioned nicely on slopes, like this:

(gif) Foot adjustments

Unfortunately, in some cases this can sometimes lower the character mesh down far further than we intended. Oops!

In 5.10, we've included a fix for this issue so that any time you can shoot someone, they will be able to see you, and shoot you. This is what it looks like now:

(gif) New character height

If I can shoot you, you can head-shot me.

Let us know if you're still seeing any issues with “Ghost Peeking”, and we'll continue to see if we can improve in this area!

Nick (Designer)

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