I talked to Sesshi a while ago about it as well, and I’m pretty sure it always happens to me when cannon shots are aimed
- at locations that are out of the cannon’s LoS – then the cannon shots hit the obstacle on the way and spawn there instead of the telegraphed spot.
This happens in my example, you can even see the cannon shots from Mai’s tower aimed behind the tower I’m standing near.
https://gfycat.com/DampDeliriousBlackrussianterrier
- on players that are not standing on the even terrain – ie. jumping or standing on a bump or lower terrain when they are aimed at.
Basically when a cannon starts fire, it does the following:
- choose a player
- randomly choose a firing pattern (sometimes a “cross” for example)
- save player’s location, telegraph pattern on ground exactly at that location
- shoot the actual curved-path projectiles, aimed at the telegraphed location, which might hit obstacles on the way, or pass through the targeted location if it’s not solid (ie. it was mid-air)
We agreed with Sesshi that he never has it is because he doesn’t go near walls/obstacles much. Still a lame and buggy mechanic, though, and having to do that narrows down the moving room even more.
It might be a hard fix however. What they should definitely do, though, is fix the cannon shots (both Horrik and cannon phase), so they don’t damage player hitboxes they pass through (see: first few seconds of https://gfycat.com/DampDeliriousBlackrussianterrier ), only their impact location they are aimed at. It’s irritating as hell and doesn’t make the fight more interesting or skillful.
The Mai Trin one looks like the 2nd case I described, when the shots were aimed at you, you were on higher ground (small rock due to fgs3).
The Molten Duo one is fairly unrelated, it’s just a bug where Firestorm’s AoE’s just last a lot longer than their animations. You can actually catch how the animations for that AoE despawn at the start of your VoD, the actual field just lasts longer because reasons.
