Was watching a Mistpedia tournament recently and Blu mentioned they banned Asura characters. Honestly I can see why (or rather I CAN’T! IT’S TOO SMALL! :p ), and I believe there is a general consensus that the size differential between various races makes it harder to follow what’s happening in combat. This is especially the case since there’s no bodyblocking and an Asura could LITERALLY CLIP INSIDE A NORD and be completely invisible! Between that and the excessive particle effects it’s too easy for smaller characters to become simply invisible and add an unfair element to combat.
Additionally, I really absolutely LOATHE the “feet-to-feet” targeting mechanic. For anyone who doesn’t know what I mean, line of sight in this game is drawn from your character’s feet to your target’s feet. This leads to many absurd situations, where you can see your target, you know your character can see your target, but you’re still getting an “obstructed” message because your character’s eyes are apparently in his toenails . I’ve been playing since BWEs and I’m still not used to it, and I frankly don’t want to because a world in which I’m staring at people’s feet is a dark and terrible world I do not want to live in. Unless of course I’m playing Quake and shooting at their feet so I can launch them into the air and then hit them mid-air with a second rocket.
So I’m just asking: how difficult (technically), would it be to make everyone the same size while in pvp? Would it be simply a matter of scaling, or would it involve a massive amount of work and redoing every race’s running and casting animations from scratch? Cause if it’d be easy I really think we should get together and ask the devs to do it!
Once that’s done, how hard would it be to make them shift LOS to eye level, since everyone’s eyes would be on the same level? Any programmers reading this willing to comment?