Replay: https://replay.faforever.com/14230328
I have seen this in game quite a few times, where sometimes units waste all their firepower at an unbuilt Aeon PD. Possibly also other structures.
It was easy to reproduce.
It seems the Aeon PD is underneath the ground, units target it and hit the ground instead.
It does NOT affect UEF, Cybran or Seraphim PD. Also tested this in the same replay.
@FtXCommando said in Aeon T1 PD under construction cannot be hit sometimes:
That’s because Aeon structures begin underground and rise up unlike the other factions.
Yes, that is why this happens.
However this is not desirable as it can be exploited and has in fact affected games I was in.
Last night, real game
https://replay.faforever.com/14274895
ACU shoots on Aeon PD under construction instead of something else. The ACU will keep shooting at it, hitting the ground, achieving nothing.
This is a bug.
He said he tried to manually focus the real PD, but when he moved it resumed shooting the PD under construction which was unhittable with direct fire.
Sounds like an easy hitbox problem, just change it to be on the surface ? But given it has been like this for ages and has never been fixed, i bet it is not so easy in practice ...
Funny stuff : if you manage to change the hitbox and put it on the surface, aeon will finnally be able to block shots with unconstructed buidling like all other faction do (you know, when you try to save an engi by building a pgen or a fac in front of it ... which is considered a feature not a bug :p)
