Broken (or fixed) airblast in x64 beta TF2?

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Published on February 18, 2024 6:45:17 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5v1MIw59PQ

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Team Fortress 2 (2007)

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It seems they changed the airblast box behavior (when you aim up or down) or its detection box size a bit. I have no idea, send it to @shounic maybe? The problem is there is no intuitive sign between working and not-working angle anymore you probably need to guess if it's working or not. Some pyro combo styles are impossible with these changes. The size of the airblast detection box seems unchanged it just moves differently with your aim now. Aiming down works as same as before means you still able to airblast from your back nevertheless

I don't think this is a solution given that other problems people complain about persist. Playing further on x64, I still think this is the wrong behavior, considering that airblast is not lag compensated, but player movement on the client side is, there will be a real issue with real game network conditions. If the player is standing directly in front of the Pyro (less than melee range), intuitively aiming 89 degrees up should work in any circumstances, but right now it's less than 45 degrees, sometimes it does not register.

If we are considering that fact that we are at the point that x64 brings no balance changes at all (as stated at the present moment) it is not a deliberate change it is a bug.
Once again other characteristics as airblast aiming, the airblast hitbox appears as huge as before - unchanged

Added this bug to the Valve's github https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Source-1-Games/issues/5522

Additional visualization for airblast box (unchanged) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ0axNXvNik&t=46s&ab_channel=wget

#tf2gameplay #teamfortress2 #bugs

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