Torment Pulse seems to go through the opaque side of a cosmic veil, alerting the owner to the presence of enemies (a Mo and Krill found me in a juke room with this so that is how I noticed). I suspect this could be a bug so I tested a few items/abilities in the sandbox.
I didn't seen an obvious rule to explain the behavior (results below), so it's not obviously a bug. I think it kind of de-values juke rooms, so it's worth considering making Torment Pulse explicitly rely on line-of-sight and make it veil respecting. For consistency, it might also make sense to clarify line-of-sight behavior or change veil behavior for Vortex Web, Warden Ult, Cold Front, and Abrams Siphon Life.
Sandbox results (build #5889):
- I call the gray side of the veil the "opaque" side and the rainbow side the "translucent" side
- Effects are categorized as either veil-respecting (go through translucent but not opaque side) or veil-piercing (go through both translucent and opaque side)
I didn't seen an obvious rule to explain the behavior (results below), so it's not obviously a bug. I think it kind of de-values juke rooms, so it's worth considering making Torment Pulse explicitly rely on line-of-sight and make it veil respecting. For consistency, it might also make sense to clarify line-of-sight behavior or change veil behavior for Vortex Web, Warden Ult, Cold Front, and Abrams Siphon Life.
Sandbox results (build #5889):
- Player-targeted Items
- Knockdown: respecting (can't target through opaque side)
- Environment-targeted Items
- Vortex Web: respecting
- Environment-targeted Abilities
- Kelvin Grenade: piercing
- Vindicta Stake: piercing
- Bebop Ult: piercing
- Abrams Ult: piercing
- Untargeted Items
- Cold Front: respecting
- Torment Pulse: piercing
- Untargeted (or Facing-Targeted) Abilities
- Seven Ult: respecting (explicitly says enemies don't take damage when outside of line-of-sight)
- Billy Ult: respecting (explicitly relies on line-of-sight)
- Warden Ult: respecting
- Abrams Siphon Life: respecting
- Infernus Ult: piercing
- Dynamo Ult: piercing
- Pocket Ult: piercing
- Haze Ult: piercing
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