alchemical fire does not hit enemies on marked area when cast on walls or surfaces above enemies [with video]

[daskopo707070]

Alchemical Fire does not hit enemies (sometimes) when cast on surfaces above them or at walls near them, even if the enemy is clearly in the marked area.

Above surface example

View attachment Alchemy_Above.mp4

Above surface 2 (volume warning. Got the alchemical fire volume bug)


View attachment alchemy_above_2.mp4

On wall

View attachment Alchemy_wall.mp4

 

[daskopo707070]

I think I discovered what's happening here. Alchemical fire hitbox is a 2d circular plane that gets spawned at the point of impact. This 2d plane does not respect line of sight.

If this is intentional, then the displayed area in the aim mode and the fire effect do not accurately mark the area of effect.

Video demonstration

View attachment alchemy_solved.mp4

It does seem to travel down slopes (volume warning)

View attachment alchemy_slope.mp4

 

[Ragnaman]

I'd wish it would simply create a circular flame field on the ground indicated.
If you throw it against the wall 3 meters high, the damage DOT field should be on the ground which is located 3 meters lower than the impact.
It just makes sense. Like a flaming fluid that flows down and covers the ground.
altho this is probably harder to implement as the DOT field now needs to mesh with whatever surrounding surfaces and cant just be a magical floating cylinder of DAMAGE

 

[daskopo707070]

There seems to be more going on here. I did some testing with Wraith telekinesis to lift the training dummy into the theorized 2d circular plane or cylinder.
But results were rather confusing.
Sometimes the alchemical fire would not hit at all, when lifted to the height of spot where it landed.
Sometimes it would only tick once. I'm at a loss as to what's happening here

Here's a video

View attachment Alchemy_hmm.mp4