We tested around a little bit yesterday doing duels. By accident we found out some buggy things regarding positional styles and probably hitboxes.
By correctly timing when hitting, I can apply a backstyle while running frontally to the target. If I turn 90° while running into an enemy, I also can apply sidestyles. This even works if the target is constantly facing me.
Also, it is possible to stand behind/beside a character, face away, and still auto-attack and even apply positional styles.
My friend Bavaz made a video demonstrating this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIEbm_EBbqk
I managed to reproduce this with some NPCs, however not always. It is not possible to reproduce it with "pookah" horses next to Druim Ligen. There I correctly got the error message that my target is not in view. But with a human NPC "Dorbal" and lurikeen NPC "alp luachra" right next to them I could perfectly reproduce all the stuff shown in the video.
Maybe there is a visibility check missing in the server code handling the positional styles in some cases. In fact I should get a "target is not visible" error or something. Also, the "true" position of the characters within the hitboxes seems to be wrong, i.e. not centered in the middle but behind the position the client displays.
By correctly timing when hitting, I can apply a backstyle while running frontally to the target. If I turn 90° while running into an enemy, I also can apply sidestyles. This even works if the target is constantly facing me.
Also, it is possible to stand behind/beside a character, face away, and still auto-attack and even apply positional styles.
My friend Bavaz made a video demonstrating this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIEbm_EBbqk
I managed to reproduce this with some NPCs, however not always. It is not possible to reproduce it with "pookah" horses next to Druim Ligen. There I correctly got the error message that my target is not in view. But with a human NPC "Dorbal" and lurikeen NPC "alp luachra" right next to them I could perfectly reproduce all the stuff shown in the video.
Maybe there is a visibility check missing in the server code handling the positional styles in some cases. In fact I should get a "target is not visible" error or something. Also, the "true" position of the characters within the hitboxes seems to be wrong, i.e. not centered in the middle but behind the position the client displays.