The State of Hitboxes

@Tsulan said:
What you experience is called latency.
All weapons have the same range, but it might look like Freddy has a longer range than Trapper, because of the height.

Also, survivor hitboxes should be bigger.

I don't think so though. Having those bigger would lead to even more confusion about hitting both for killer and survivour. And it will also make DH absolutely useless since even now it might be useless because of the lunge. I'm not even talking about hatchets which mould hit air near you and give you a hit.
Hitboxes are fine as they are now. Increasing them won't solve any chase problems and would only add problems, so no.
Though, collision boxes might be changed.

@MisterJammy said:
Is it just me or are almost all the hitboxes in this game extremely inconsistent? With the length of lunges being so far and each killer's weapon being a different length, it feels more often that not that I shouldn't have gotten hit when I do. The thing that gets to me the most is that almost EVERY time I vault a window I get hit even AFTER I'm fully over it, when the killer's weapon trails a few feet behind me. Have they said anything about this? It's seriously awful.

From a standpoint of it not connecting sometimes or barely, it does suck cause it can happen even when latency is a thing. Most of the times I get weird hits are when my connection to the host is not 100%.

Other than that I never really run into bad hit box hits. The hit box on self care does get bigger still.

Lag and latency is probably the thing that makes most hits look quite awkward. But I also think that certain hitboxes are kinda bad/too big. What comes also into my mind is Hillbilly's chainsaw. The hitbox registration really seems to be quite forgiving, when it comes to chainsawing a survivor around corners e.g.
Very unpredictable.

@Tsulan said:
What you experience is called latency.
All weapons have the same range, but it might look like Freddy has a longer range than Trapper, because of the height.

50 ms and hatchets can still miss 1-2 feet to my side and hit me. Killers can reach all the way through windows and hit people on the other side, even if they're not close.

The way the killer's "attack box" works for recognizing when a lunge will hit is... strange. Latency is a pretty tiny factor in its function, but visually it's so different for the killers. I still believe the killers have varying lunge ranges, with Freddy (for example) having a huge attack range. Hag's lunge feels solid, but her own hit box is bloated, so she has a tendency of eating pallet stuns while being substantially farther away than other killers, on top of her being able to hit walls through survivors for some reason.

The hitbox ahs been wonky since 2.0 compared to before. I've had axes hit me around corners yet I hear it hit masonry and could even see where it hit said masonry. I've seen huntresses stand at base of mounds and throw hitting bottom but nailing a survivor hiding behind the edge where they can't even be seen.

I've been nailed and watched it happen where someone vaults a window and is 3 feet out past it and get hit by an attack. Before 2.0 hitboxes were pretty consistent. Now the Clown has a larger hitbox lunge range than anyone except the Pig ambush and the chainsaws with extended reach.

@Gillboy75 said:
The hit box's are broken i see several times the weapons several meters away and hit and i seen somewhere that all weapons have the same range well that shouldnt be, why is that? BECAUSE a KITCHEN KNIFE or RAZOR BLADE CLAWS are not he same as a CLEAVER or a SAMURAI SWORD, the hit box's should coordinate with the weapon and the devs should then proceed to nerf and buff the killers after all the thing that piss's people off is when you see a knife vs a sword youd always expect the sword to have more reach not for you to swing the knife and be able to outreach the person with a sword

p.s. There are now several games that show why the weapons reach doesnt determine a killers power and why even if you had a 1 inch knife the killer can be balanced to use a lower reach weapon and still do well example for dbd pigs knife is at their appropriate range then bam speed them up theyll need more speed since they dont have as much reach

Changing range and lunge speed between killers would be more complicated, than you think. Mostly because there is another case to consider, which are vaults and other parts, which allow the killer over them. Those shouldn't be different for each killer. Consistency is very important here.

@QuailHead said:
Yeah I often have the same problem. It’s really hard to tell when you’re going to be hit if the killers weapon never touches. There’s been a ton of times where I think I’m okay, only to get hit by nothing 5 feet away. I wish at least they could smooth the animation out a bit or something.

Yeah working on the animations might help. Just so hits don't look as weird and can be better judged by survivors. Though if you are getting hit by nothing 5 feet away, it's probably also latency.