valid Smooth collisions

[Dopamine 2,161]

I believe it would really improve the gameplay experience if you would not get stuck on every little corner or protrusion you bump into.

Ideally, corners of buildings and other structures would be breakable, but I am not sure what possibilities HTML5 offers in these regards.

Another possible solution would be to refine the hitboxes of structures and/or add a slight pushback when you bump into a structure (Newton´s third law of motion in essence).

[Maf 32,300]

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I'm not sure how that could be implemented with a reasonable budget. Making corners completely and permanently destructible would be a gargantuan task that requires changing the way buildings and their collision boxes are processed by the server. Alternatively, they could make it so that tanks can phase through building corners with a visual effect, but then it would look a bit like that one scene with ghost riders smashing through glass in Harry Potter (but the glass itself doesn't break). Looks kinda weird and low-budget.

Playing around with physics might be an option too, which includes things like the "slight pushback" you mentioned, or perhaps low friction that allows tanks to slide off the corner in case of most collisions, instead of getting stuck on them.

Either way, it's a decent idea, but I don't see this being implemented anytime soon, if ever.

[LambSauce 1,884]

On 2/14/2022 at 9:26 AM, frederik123456 said:

Another possible solution would be to refine the hitboxes of structures and/or add a slight pushback when you bump into a structure (Newton´s third law of motion in essence).

To be honest a tank would probably drive through most structures, even solid concrete walls.

[Dopamine 2,161]

3 minutes ago, LambSauce said:

To be honest a tank would probably drive through most structures, even solid concrete walls.

You mean in real life? Yeah that is a fair point, this is a Sci-fi game though so let´s pretend these are some really strong futuristic walls  and ...let´s not complicate things .

[Iron_Man 2,376]

4 hours ago, LambSauce said:

To be honest a tank would probably drive through most structures, even solid concrete walls.

In my opinion, tanki is actually quite far from reality.

_{Maf making flying tank noises}