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do explosions travel thorugh walls
Sarin:
B is right. The line is from center of your soldier to center of alien. I had a few similar hits too.
TDarklighter:
Explosions do not travel through walls, though I would like to tweak the range on mine so they damage a bit further out than they do (like one or two more squares tops). My people can't seem to throw hand grenades to save their lives.
--- Quote from: Eaun on June 17, 2010, 08:34:37 am ---Speaking of which. The game needs more half sized civilians that run a lot, are a harder-to-hit-target, and will run into your soldier's LOS at every given chance. I mean those little human vermin known as Kids.
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Great, something else for an alien to try to hide behind when I'm using my flamethrower!
Funny story - I was at a farm earlier today with one of my flamers searching through a house. Alien ran by her and ducked into a bedroom. My turn came up and my flamegirl walks around the corner - there's the alien, standing in front of a civilian in the corner of the room, apparently thinking that I wouldn't risk hitting her.
Russia paid well for that harvester a few minutes later and we kept the story of the flame-broiled civilian between us. ;)
Siim:
--- Quote from: dfscott on July 01, 2010, 03:46:58 pm ---Maybe it was a bug, but I had a situation last night on the bridge map where it appeared that a sniper shot when through a wall (a fence, rather). I was hitting the space bar to step through the alien targets when I saw one that I thought my sniper has LOS on.
As I clicked to hit, I noticed too late that the green line went through a fence about 2 squares in front of him and then turned red the rest of the way to the alien (although I did have a cross hair). However, I had already clicked, and the shot went off, killing the alien.
So either, a) it went through the fence, b) my shot was a little off line, far enough to miss the fence but not far enough to miss the alien, or c) the "blocked" red line wasn't accurate.
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The sniper rifle shots DO go through walls. I have used it multiple times to kill a camping alien and my soldier wasn't even close to seeing the bastard. Use IR goggles to spot aliens behind walls and sniper rifle to eliminate them safely. I am not yet sure if the shots also travel through the walls of a UFO or only human-made structures.
Game version is 2.3
dough:
--- Quote from: Siim on July 12, 2010, 05:22:30 pm ---The sniper rifle shots DO go through walls. I have used it multiple times to kill a camping alien and my soldier wasn't even close to seeing the bastard. Use IR goggles to spot aliens behind walls and sniper rifle to eliminate them safely. I am not yet sure if the shots also travel through the walls of a UFO or only human-made structures.
Game version is 2.3
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Yes, I've seen the same thing. I was quite surprised the first time I saw the bullet trail coming through the wall, and just today I got the opportunity to target and successfully take down an alien hiding in a building. I am now looking forward to testing out my other weapons to see what else can fire through walls. I enjoy using heavy lasers, but unfortunately they don't pass through
Duke:
@Slim & dough:
We should be able to shoot through japanese paper walls and some other things in the future, but right now, shooting through walls is a bug.
If you find such a situation again, please report it with mapname, weapon, position/screenshot (of the place and the targeting, not the bullet).
It shouldn't depend on the weapon afaik.
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