Wraith blocking
Question,
Why is the Wraith able to block you on an open gen? I was working on a 4 person gen in the corn and the Wraith came up behind me, I tried to run away but I couldn't move at all when he was cloaked behind me. I can understand it happening in corners and such but there was a space either side of me about 1.5-2 times bigger than the character model and I've also never experienced this with other killers. Is this something that happens with all killers? Just the Wraith? I have over 1k hours in DbD and have never had it work that way before so I'm kinda confused at consistency with this
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Yeah, I figured as much but just wanted to make sure it wasn't an actual mechanic that I just haven't run into. Thanks though
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Thats a wraith tactic, simply bodyblock survivors on generators or other locations to prevent movement to necessities is a wraith specialty, force sprint burst to go off is his other specialty, but sometimes it works and other times it does, the box you saw was him jamming you into the generator, did you run towards the generator when he began uncloaking?
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Whats to stop a Wraith blocking you in a corner indefinitely?
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A spicy ban.
To get back to the original topic, it has to do with the way the hitboxes work. Your hitbox pretty much always remains the same size, the exception being crouching (it get shorter, but it's just as wide as before). There's a couple reasons why it's like this, but generally speaking it's averaged between the different animations and states and doesn't change width because that would cause issues. For example, if it was more narrow while you were healthy and got wider when you're crawling along the ground, you would be able to stand in a narrow gap, go down, and then get stuck.
As far as the blocking someone in a corner goes, it's fair game so long as you're doing it to get a hit. If you're doing it to hold the game hostage, then that's an issue.
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