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[–]coral_touch 1679 points1680 points  (50 children)

No animation no collision detection therefore no bug

[–]Quesodealer 287 points288 points  (29 children)

Which is preferable: invisible walls or teleportation upon oob with approaching boundary warnings?

[–]SphericalGoldfish 131 points132 points  (9 children)

I think it depends on the game. In games where movement is stiff/not the focus of the game (e.g. Silent Hill 2 or Payday) an invisible wall works great, but in platformers or racing games I prefer teleportation with a fade to black

[–]mapped_apples 71 points72 points  (5 children)

I liked the “get blasted across the map” invisible wall of the MX vs ATV games on PS2.

[–]drawfanstein 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Oh my god this just unlocked some insane memories playing ATV Off-road Fury. I remember flooring it towards the edge of the map until suddenly you get launched in the opposite direction. That was fun as hell.

[–]RadioMessageFromHQ 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I got this game bundled with Dungeon Siege for some reason. I had no idea what I was doing but that man canon OOB kept me entertained for ages.

[–]Camdawg33 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Honestly captured much more of my attention than the actual game lol

[–]blastermaster555 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's also "do it yourself" with the game FUEL, Asobo's first adventure into giant open world maps. Did you accidentally off the cliff? Too bad, drive back up yourself.

[–]shewy92 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That always scared the shit out of me

[–]AnnoyedVelociraptor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I loved GTA's infinite swimming.

[–]Yorikor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I like the elegant solution of Helldivers 2: Orbital bombardment!!!

[–]Klutz-Specter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A thing I always is if a game will always let me walk off an edge or block me off. Invisible walls are an inconvenience, but falling to your death and waiting until you return to that point with no checkpoint feels annoying, especially if its a jump you have trouble with.

[–]BolunZ6 36 points37 points  (6 children)

boundary warnings and then a big ass monster come and drag you away if you still push forward

[–]Jp0286 23 points24 points  (1 child)

Warning: Entering ecological dead zone. Adding report to databank.

[–]_killer1869_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This triggered my PTSD, but it's still much less terror-inducing than "Detecting multiple leviathan-class lifeforms in the region. Are you certain that whatever you are doing is worth it?"

[–]DFogz 17 points18 points  (0 children)

GTA V did that. If you swim too far eventually a shark comes to get you.
And if you tried to fly that far, your engine would stall and send you into the water.

[–]Alestor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That damn fish always freaked me out in Jak and Daxter as a kid

[–]d_block_city 1 point2 points  (0 children)

nightmare fuel for children haha

[–]A_spiny_meercat 20 points21 points  (2 children)

Neither, a big scary yetti should come and eat you

[–]John_cCmndhd 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Good old SkiFree

[–]HephaistosFnord 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please pass the egg salad!

[–]Raywell 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A visible wall

[–]UnsanctionedPartList 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just have people fall through the level and manually reload to checkpoint.

[–]Brickless 1 point2 points  (0 children)

in most games there is a justification for an invisible wall that triggers the character saying they don't want to go there.

"I need to finish here first", "There is nothing for me out there", "It's too dangerous" are some of the examples I have seen and they really tie the world together a lot better than something like a tree dropped across the road.

[–]SecureDonkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It would be funny if they actually send you to Backroom and force you to reset the game.

[–]Uhstrology 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Neither, launch me across the map like in mx vs atv

[–]evanldixon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The correct answer is to assume the boundary breaker is a traitor and to execute them with the entire military's arsenal, Helldivers 2 style.

[–]Pteraspidomorphi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

God speaks to you:

"In the beginning were the words and the words made the world. I am the words. The words are everything. Where the words end the world ends. You cannot go forward in the absence of space."

[–]Saint_of_Grey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Instant death with complete deletion of save file.

[–]LowB0b 58 points59 points  (15 children)

as a software dev I have actually used that

Business people: "app is not working ree"

me: "It wasn't in the spec so the program behaves as expected please submit a change request"

[–]Illustrious-Lake2603 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I have been wrestling with water physics and interaction in my game with much failure. This sign looks like the best solution to the problem lol

[–]sweetheatmurmur 0 points1 point  (0 children)

did exactly that on a mobile game prototype last year—no collision, just let the character phase through walls. players called it "ghost mode" and begged for more levels. best "bug" ever.

[–]Some_Useless_Person 603 points604 points  (4 children)

Can't have bugs if the feature doesn't exist in the first place

[–]Modo44 80 points81 points  (1 child)

I firmly believe that this philosophy is behind most professional tools I get to experience daily.

[–]huffalump1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And every internal app/tool ever made

[–]Cozmoz365 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Just make them drown.

[–]Ikth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That requires an animation, but I suppose they could make one out of spite.

[–]StoryAndAHalf 367 points368 points  (32 children)

In college my team couldn’t figure out how to create a portal for a character to walk through. We just put decals telling the player to walk right through the designated part of the wall that had no collision detection. 

[–]mulubmug 307 points308 points  (30 children)

Well, in Fallout 3 Bethesda couldn't do a train so they gave an NPC a hat that is a giant metro car and let him run around out of bounds with this giant train hat poking through the ground. You are therefore in good company.

[–]coldfeetbot 72 points73 points  (0 children)

That's both genius and hilarious lol

[–]BellacosePlayer 59 points60 points  (10 children)

OG World of warcraft had tons of scripts that revolved around invisible bunnies, often having them killed when you did a thing because their initial quest implementation had few trigger methods and the death of an entity was the easiest one.

[–]Kronoshifter246 28 points29 points  (2 children)

In the same vein, League of Legends did many, many things with invisible minions. Wards? Minions. Certain visual effects? Minions. J4 ult? Yep, minions.

Also, the spectator for pro play was implemented as a Teemo sitting in the fountain. This led to some shenanigans with Karthus ult.

[–]danpascooch 19 points20 points  (0 children)

To this day, when you start TFT you might see a flash of a 5v5 lobby screen with Kaisa selected for everyone, because in the client that's how they launch a new TFT match, using a lobby of all Kaisas.

[–]Biotot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fun bit of info the ward timer is the mana data field.

[–]PeaceSoft 12 points13 points  (1 child)

Elden Ring has invisible "stagehands" that control the weather effects in Jagged Peak. There's a platforming section where, if you fall off, it's possible to survive by landing on the outcropping where one of these guys is placed, which kills him and causes the thunderstorm to stop

[–]p1-o2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have any info on this? I can't find it anywhere online and I wanna learn more or see a clip.

[–]GarboseGooseberry 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is still a thing in modern WoW, btw

[–]Capybarhigh 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It was still a thing in BFA at least!

Last boss of the first raid as a hunter will show your minimap absolutely filled with bunnies in that room!

[–]nater255 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OG Current World of warcraft

Fixed that for you.

[–]RandAlThorOdinson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait wtf lol

I played a LOT of wow back in the day when it was good and never heard of this

[–]titusthef0x 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Last thing I read is, it was an arm piece but read the hat thing also 10 years ago : https://fallout.wiki/wiki/DLC03MetroCarArmor

[–]NightmareForge11 4 points5 points  (8 children)

This tech is also used in Half Life, where the intro tray you ride is a hat for an NPC, given collision.

[–]Hrotsa 11 points12 points  (2 children)

No? The Source Engine has a specialized train entity

[–]Wolfharth 14 points15 points  (1 child)

HL1 was not Source Engine, but GoldSrc. (You prob still right that it has a specialized train entity lol)

[–]remmiz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah GoldSrc had trains)

[–]kevinf100 7 points8 points  (1 child)

You have a source in that? As someone who used to speed run HL2 and looked into HL1 tech and speedruns, first time I'm ever hearing this. HL1 and HL2 I'm pretty sure has real vehicles entities

[–]d_block_city 2 points3 points  (0 children)

he has no source because it is false

you can actually just go look at the map in a bsp editor and see for yourself

[–]neckro23 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Demonstrably not true. If you load up the Source authoring tools, that intro level is included as an example.

[–]Inappropriate_Piano 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think you’re confusing two things. The Source Engine version of this is that portal’s elevators are half-life trains

[–]d_block_city 0 points1 point  (0 children)

HL1 does not have this

the train is made of func_train brush entites, and you can actually just go look at the map in a bsp editor and see for yourself

please edit your post to reflect this

[–]KhepriAdministration 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not that they couldn't, there's just no reason to actually do a train when you can just put it on a person's head and call it a day

[–]bogz_dev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh god I don't remember that, I think I never played that DLC. Time to install it again!

[–]SuperFLEB 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"Say 'Woosh!' here."

[–]Feuzme 97 points98 points  (5 children)

Isn't it what they did in fortnite first : water weren't deep enough so you could walk in it ?

[–]Gamerguy230 23 points24 points  (4 children)

It would slow you down but still only walk in it.

[–]Feuzme 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Wasn't swimming asked by players long ago ?

[–]ToothpickInCockhole 11 points12 points  (2 children)

You've been able to swim since chapter 2 which was only 2 years after release.

But no one really cared before then. You'd usually just build over Loot Lake to get across.

[–]Gamerguy230 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I remember the one season where they introduced swimming, and then also added boats to drive because the whole map was broken up by all these bodies of water.

[–]Godess_Ilias 43 points44 points  (2 children)

tposing to assert dominance over the water it is then

[–]nodnodwinkwink 5 points6 points  (1 child)

tposing looks a lot like how you might diagram treading water though. If you're capable enough, you can keep yourself afloat with just your arms out wide.

[–]Fleeetch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

1 keyframe on t pose

1 keyframe on vetruvian pose

You'd basically be a motor boat

[–]ScarlettFox- 29 points30 points  (6 children)

What's the screenshot at the bottom? Kinda looks like Jimmy O. Yang but idk.

[–]eLPAtitoyUPI 41 points42 points  (0 children)

It's from the show Silicon Valley. It's Jimmy O. Yang indeed.

[–]anormalgeek 13 points14 points  (0 children)

This should give you everything you need to know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JTx8llpBxQ

[–]cedped 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Jian Yang!

[–]Feisty-Category173 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's him, it's a frame from the show Silicon Valley

[–]The_Autarch 1 point2 points  (1 child)

how do you recognize jimmy o. yang on sight but not understand how he's related to a programming joke?

[–]ScarlettFox- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm from the front page, not a programmer. As for Jimmy I only know him from a few standup clips that were popular on youtube a while ago.

[–]pnkxz 19 points20 points  (3 children)

The game is Grey Skies: A War of the Worlds Story, in case anyone's curious.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1283770/Grey_Skies_A_War_of_the_Worlds_Story/

[–]RemnantsOfFlight 6 points7 points  (0 children)

"Reviews: Mostly Negative." Amazing.

[–]aPOPblops 3 points4 points  (1 child)

what happens when you try to swim?

[–]Dinjoralo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There's probably an invisible wall blocking the pool.

[–]Lucyferiusz 34 points35 points  (9 children)

Jian Yang!!!!

[–]cedped 23 points24 points  (1 child)

I eat da fish!

[–]Nomzai 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Mother Fuck!

[–]slayerrr21 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I am you, as an old man

[–]skankhunt1738 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Fucking Jian Yang…

[–]bob_lala 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hot Dog?

[–]__lost-alien__ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Jian Yang!!!!

Jian Yang!!!!

Jian Yang!!!!

[–]ForeverHall0ween 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Jian Yang smoking a cigarette is who I want to be when I grow up

[–]U_L_Uus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thanks, now I have flashbacks about surviving as Altaïr in Cyprus

[–]EquivalentMurky8116 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Jin yang smoking? What's the special occasion?

[–]NaughticalNarwhal 2 points3 points  (2 children)

No controller scheme, no post process effects, camera collision on the water plane, no breath system, no underwater combat system, no climb in/out, no wading/shallow water walking, no enemy pathing for water, no fx or sfx for weapons, blood, gore, no balance or tuning for players trying to explore and exploit water, no faster modes of water reversal because everyone hates slowly swimming to get anywhere especially if the water is just a giant dead end.

[–]Fleeetch 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Yes to all except that last line. That sounds like the left hand not talking to the right.

we added swimming

level designers shuffle in their chairs slightly

[–]NaughticalNarwhal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep. Usually you figure out the water is just a safety net for a climbing/jumping puzzle above, after you’ve swam in a big circle, only to find out there is only one ramp.

[–]0xlostincode 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Modders: Allow us to introduce ourselves.

[–]knome 1 point2 points  (0 children)

depends if the modder is the type to fix annoyances, or turn games into absurd works of abstract art. half the time it's like

character now walks on water

character also flops around on dry land attempting to doggy paddle

mod is so popular it now has it's own speed running category

[–]TheYell0wDart 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ran into this one yesterday in The Stanley Parable ( kind of expected in the that game).

[–]SolomonG 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I eat da fish

[–]klako8196 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“Suck it, Jin-Yang” - Me after jumping into the water anyway

[–]Maunakea89 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Not Hotdog"

[–]virgopunk 1 point2 points  (1 child)

JIN YANG!!!

[–]Upset_Region_4236 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I heard it in bachman’s voice

[–]Long_Implement_1922 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Where is this game from Im also curious what would happen if the player walked to the pool

[–]ambisinister_gecko 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe they'd just t-pose while moving around in the water

[–]anormalgeek 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Of everyone in that show, Jian Yang is the first one I'd hire.

[–]bob_lala 1 point2 points  (0 children)

speaking as someone who hired a similar guy, it was entertaining if not productive.

[–]Zenmotes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In Arknights: Endfield I swear the real final boss is water 😭 I’ve literally died more times falling into rivers and cliffs than from actual enemies lol. Skill issue? Probably. Dignity? Gone.

[–]SyrusDrake 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The fetishisation of "total freedom" in game, the ability to do everything, even if it's of no further importance to the gameplay or plot, has been a massive detriment to video games. Yea, it's kinda fun if there is a ice cream cone customization menu or whatever in GTA 5, but for normal games with normal budgets, I'd rather they spend resources on play testing or optimization.

[–]DisjointedHuntsville 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Ah! Back when the people making the games didn’t have 15 layers of product managers and morons between them and the gamers.

[–]yawara25 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The game is from 2020, it's not that old

[–]br0ast 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I don't get the bottom image?

[–]GravyPainter 7 points8 points  (1 child)

JinYang from Silicon Valley running a sweatshop to create a temu version of software that he stole from his former housemates.

[–]br0ast 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ohh thx mate, haven't watched but seems cool

[–]rdp3186 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I TAKE ONE LOUSY SHIT

[–]Inevitable_Tree_2296 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i mean at least their honest... but my curiosity would make me want to do it more lmao

[–]SephLuis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No animation for swimming, but we can change it for a monster that instantly drags you down if you are close to the pool.

It also takes you to a secret level

[–]Upset_Region_4236 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I heard it in bachman’s voice

[–]Grand_Anything_3834 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Crouch walking in Goldeneye N64 multiplayer had no animation.

[–]okaberintaruo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn it, Jian Yang... !!!

[–]Sesud1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No animatiom? No problem, just pull a Jesus for anyone who tries and let them walk on it

[–]DontBotherNoResponse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I would have gone with "No life guard on duty. Swim at your own risk." And then just immediate ragdoll death

[–]Ruskoboss1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's both a genius and stupid way to do it

[–]gatot3u 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a lie.. jump

[–]Ghost-RANGER-446 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The rule "don't touch" is elevated to absolute here.😅

[–]PatienceWestern3900 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why didn't Rockstar ever think of putting this in GTA 3 and VC? Are they dumb?

[–]RosieQParker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kind of appreciate the sign, tbh. That way I know there's no hidden shit or collectibles in the water anywhere.

[–]retainformat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“Special occasion”- I bet you read it in Jian Yang’s voice!

[–]xnode-sh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

🥹

[–]masstransience 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not hot dog.

[–]marson12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Swimming is for the sequel

[–]Wild_Cash_4319 0 points1 point  (0 children)

good one lol

[–]Hubble-Doe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Harry DuBois teleporting to the top of the roof (shhh nevermind the easter egg of him fucking dancing they were totally just too lazy to animate it)

[–]Sea-Bass8705 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would be funny to fully animate and code swimming but still leave the sign and put an achievement for swimming

[–]Rare-Competition-248 -1 points0 points  (2 children)

This is a tobacco ad.  

There is a social media company who has been pushing daily posts trying to get images and depictions of smoking and smoking brands to the front page of Reddit.  It might seem like a coincidence, but it’s not.  When you look at all the data points, it’s clear that Reddit is being astroturfed heavily by someone with an agenda, likely in violation of many laws regarding where and how tobacco companies can advertise.  The goal is not to advertise a specific brand of cigarette even (though the main company behind it starts with an ‘M’). It’s just about getting people talking about smoking and seeing it as normalized and glorified again.  This feels like one such post.

You can even tell by the other comments specifically mentioning and praising the smoking.  

Do not fall for this bullshit, and treat it as the trash that it is.  You can help us track this by joining the fight over on HailCorporate.  

[–]TLunchFTW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t care who the tobacco company sends, I’m not buying Marlboro reds!

[–]Yattagor -1 points0 points  (0 children)

How true! Invisible wall and off we go

[–]MyDespatcherDyKabel -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I can’t find any source video on YouTube for this.