Felix's Heat Shield (Q) hitbox is wonky with elevation and line-of-sight

[odd verge]

This bug is a doozy so be ready for a bit of a read: Felix's Q seems to have trouble hitting people at different elevations than himself.

I did a lot of testing with Celeste R, an ability which shares a lot of similarities with Felix's Q when it comes to interactions: Both are large AoE areas around the player, and are affected by line-of-sight. In the Abyss, Celeste R will largely hit targets no matter their elevation below the ground plane, whether she's lower than the enemy or vice versa. Felix Q will not hit targets if their elevation is drastically different, and seems to completely ignore abyss balloons.

In the attached video to this message, you can see Celeste R hitting the ground-level enemy while Celeste was mantling during R. Felix's Q does not hit these same targets, even with much more generous elevation differences (I had to move slightly to the side while testing Felix because Felix L SHIFT does hit the dummy while mantling so it caused trouble in the recording.. L SHIFT hits but Q doesn't?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWfyoKPVV5w

A similar thing happens if Felix is on different levels of ground-level elevation from an enemy: Felix Q will have trouble reaching the lower/higher enemy. Celeste R will always hit these targets regardless.

In the attached video, you can see the Dummy on the same elevation as Felix gets anti-healed and Ignited from the Heat Shield, while the lower elevation Dummy does not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkFAAQ9aX18

The reason I believe this is both an elevation and line-of-sight bug is because if I'm standing in one spot, Felix Q won't hit, but if I don't move and instead just jump, Felix Q will hit where it otherwise wouldn't:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl5qiKZMJyA

[odd verge]

Also I can't get footage of the Abyss elevation issue because I need an additional player to show it and it's 8AM ET (Felix's Q largely cannot hit abyss balloons of players that are low, and if players are above him while he's low in the abyss, Felix Q will not hit the players above him. Celeste R does not have this issue) but I'll try to get that in a bit when friends are online

I tried to record it with the Challenge room spikable dummies but they keep despawning due to another bug 😔

[odd verge]

I do have a somewhat old (and crunchy, wtf is that color) clip of this happening in the meantime, note how low Kingpin is and where his abyss balloon is, but Q still doesn't hit him:

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/859865616000876564/1354132131508392188/felixknockback.mp4

[odd verge]

Bumping this bug, currently still an issue in 1.0

[zenith wedge]

Couple weeks into 1.0 and still a consistent bug. I think one of the most frustrating thing about this bug is a lot of "melee" hunter's have some type of dunk to help them over abyss but Felix doesn't. When competing against other melee hunter's, he has to worry about playing around that dunk and has to use as much of his kit to fight and the fact one of the biggest parts of it is just not usable reliably is a huge negative impact on the hunter.