[GAMEPLAY] Minions clip within each other.
DESCRIPTION For the last few patches (like, since 6.8 or so), I sometimes notice this really weird thing happening. No matter which lane or which phase of the game, I stumble upon minions, that stand exactly within each other. Like, two minions on the exactly same spot, to the point, that their health bars start flickering and it's impossible to understand which one is which. It happened to me 4 times throughout patches 6.8-6.13. All times it was when minions proceed and change position to hit a new aggro target. It seems like they were fully able to move in that position (alas they were not stuck in each other). Last time it happened today, in a match where I played marksman bot, and I missed a minion just because I could not target the minion with lower health, that clipped inside another minion with full health. He was still focused by other caster minions, so he died before I could even get a chance to click on him. Just to break everything down, with no extra water:
- Minions get stack exactly within each others model, making one of the minions unclickable (model-blocked)
- Most times it happened to caster minions. IDK if other minions are prone to this glitch.
- They attacked the same target.
- Every time it happened on plain terrain and their position/pathfinding wasn't anyhow influenced, meaning no walls nearby, no custom terrain, no slow, no displace.
- Minions were able to continue moving after this happening; they didn't get stuck in each other.
- Other minions were still able to target both of them.
RECREATION I genuinely don't know, all times it happened in different circumstances. I tried to recreate it in custom, but it did not work out. So basically what you need to do is just... play, and wait for it to happen. No other ideas.
MATERIALS THAT MIGHT HELP TO CLARIFY I do not have any, I don't record or replay my games, but please - anyone who experienced the same please share snippets. I just don't like that sometimes I lose my tempo when farming because of such thing happening.
MY IDEA OF WHAT MIGHT BE HAPPENING If minions are not programmed to collide with each other in code, it might be a pathfinding glitch - when minions fail to detect another minion on the path/position it has chosen to take to attack its target. I am basing on the fact that minions did not get stuck in each other, which leads me to a conclusion that they did not collide in the first place... question mark?.. Since I don't know how league works in exact details, it's just an idea. But I'll be happy if it helps anyhow :) ... P.S. - Sorry if I have some bad grammar here and there - I am not a native English speaker. I hope this was descriptive enough for Riot to take a look at it. FORWARD TO THE BUGLESS LEAGUE!! [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]