Passing through another player

[Dokujisan]

I am not sure if I'm just imagining this or not, so I thought I would ask.

Sometimes when I am attacking someone in close quarters, I tend to lose where my enemy went. They seem to disappear during the commotion. I rotate left. I rotate right...then it turns out they somehow got behind me. Sometimes this results in me dying. It can be a little confusing and frustrating. I do my best to keep my distance from aggressive players who will run straight toward me during an attack (usually newer players). That way I don't lose sight of them. I've compensated, but I'd really like to understand how that happens.

Now I'm on a wireless LAN at home (don't ask...not my fault) and I don't have the best computer or the best ping time... so it could be a technical issue or a frames-per-second issue (obviously I never think to look at my FPS during that moments) but it really seems to be that a player is able to pass through another player.

Is that possible?

I would think that when a player runs toward anther player and they collide that one would bounce off the other one slightly. How is collision between players handled by the game engine?

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players cannot completely pass through each other.

in close combat situations, try switching to "chase_active 1" for a 3rd person perspective
also, keep in mind that your weapons fire from your weapons, meaning that they'll fire from your right hand, and not from your center.

[Bnonn]

Heh, were you playing me? This is a favorite tactic of mine—especially if I have a weaker weapon. Rush the enemy while firing, dodge whatever he sends my way if possible, and in the confusion do a sideways jump while rotating 360, so that I sort of leap over his shoulder and end up shooting him in the back.

This doesn't always work of course; an experienced opponent can really mess you up if you do this, and sometimes I find that I do my twisty jump only to discover that I have no idea where my man has gone (he's side-strafed and rotated 180 so that he's just out of my fov; cunning sob). But that's just part of the fun!