Cover or concealment - poorly programmed in some cases?

[ColonelBurton 145]

So after playing for 200 hours I had some weird experiences with cover and concealment. To make it clear what I mean:

 

Cover: protection from enemy fire

Concealment: visually being concealed / harder to spot

 

First off, I noticed that grass and plants hinder you when sniping, but do not offer concealment when being scoped. That is a bit of a nuisance and obviously needs to change in some way towards finalization. I suppose that all plants that surround a player should go through a separate rendering process.

 

What I also noticed is that you can take fire through, say, a wooden wardrobe, but will find cover hiding behind a bush (or at least certain bushes)?

 

Also, I blasted a guy through a mesh wire fence with the sawed off (less than 4 meters distance) and he didn't take a scratch. Could be chance, could also have been lag (I always have bad lag and rubberbanding in Polana) but it seemed like the fence was giving him cover.

 

Anybody else consistently notice stuff like this?

[JiJi (DayZ) 223]

First off, I noticed that grass and plants hinder you when sniping, but do not offer concealment when being scoped. That is a bit of a nuisance and obviously needs to change in some way towards finalization. I suppose that all plants that surround a player should go through a separate rendering process.

 

:(

I've mentionned it to Dean Hall, but no solution found so far.

And if even it would become possible to fix that with the new renderer, he said that change is "not very high on the priority queue"

[syrax 14]

Also, I blasted a guy through a mesh wire fence with the sawed off (less than 4 meters distance) and he didn't take a scratch. Could be chance, could also have been lag (I always have bad lag and rubberbanding in Polana) but it seemed like the fence was giving him cover.

 

I think the Sawn offs are bugged at the moment and only fire 1 or 2 pellets :/ Thats Alpha for you

Edited June 15, 2014 by RMC

[ColonelBurton 145]

I think the Sawn offs are bugged at the moment and only fire 1 or 2 pellets :/ Thats Alpha for you

 

Thanks. That pretty much explains a lot. You don't happen to know if the ordinary 12-gauge is better? Had the impression that it's more lethal than the sawed off.

[rotteck 104]

the mesh fence is like a concrete wall right now, AND the sawn off is completely bugged.

 

the worst combo you could have ever had :D

[syrax 14]

Thanks. That pretty much explains a lot. You don't happen to know if the ordinary 12-gauge is better? Had the impression that it's more lethal than the sawed off.

 

Yes the IzH43 (Not sawed off) is fine.. tried and tested managed to hold out on my own against 3 fully geared bandits on NEAF...they didnt wall glitch so I thanked them :)