Lhun
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Occasionally, while waiting to respawn, "player target only" abilities on various characters will persist after death and can can sometimes be returned when spectating by spamming ability keys. This gives some knowledge that could be shared with your team, as the position of a hero behind veil, shroud, and other locations that should obfuscate them and allow escape, like breaking line of sight should. A simple ping or voice chat to your team gives them competitive knowledge they should not have.
Theory: This is likely related to similar bugs with teleport causing raycasts to go beyond expected values and the player's camera render distance getting "behind" occlusion and collision layers and therefore extended (quite frequently as needed for various abilities like Owl).
Abilities that require raycast line of sight should rely on separate layers for sanity check and always have a max theoretical distance possible just a little bit further when accounting for all physically possible stacked modifiers at level xx and no more.
I suspect there will be several abilities at the moment with only variable precision limit max values while the team is working on balance but this is one of the consequences.
A good hard limit for now would be the limit of the camera's max distance which should be no longer than the furthest two points on the map itself, I imagine.
Theory: This is likely related to similar bugs with teleport causing raycasts to go beyond expected values and the player's camera render distance getting "behind" occlusion and collision layers and therefore extended (quite frequently as needed for various abilities like Owl).
Abilities that require raycast line of sight should rely on separate layers for sanity check and always have a max theoretical distance possible just a little bit further when accounting for all physically possible stacked modifiers at level xx and no more.
I suspect there will be several abilities at the moment with only variable precision limit max values while the team is working on balance but this is one of the consequences.
A good hard limit for now would be the limit of the camera's max distance which should be no longer than the furthest two points on the map itself, I imagine.
