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[Chronotrigger]

thank u that clears up a lot i wonder why bnet has not fixed this... it wuold probly take to much erort and reprograming id think to bad i wish thy fix the str bug 2

[Jerkazoid]

[SuperDirt]

I've definitely noticed that when attacking from a straight vertical position (when on top) your chance of striking a target drops significantly. I thought most duelers already knew this since a lot try to position themselves directly below my char.

I don't use it nor do I let another use it on me. I attack mostly from the side (all this considering melee...).

[Zeiris-lld]

A bit of testing with multiclient has proven my theory to be totally out of whack

Testing with an assassin using range 2 claws and a barbarian using range 3 throwing spears I've found that ... things are weird. Attacking from above and below the range difference doesn't show. From the sides, it did... Sometimes results were different from other times. Etc, etc.

Weird stuff. Things are definitely complicated.

[Zeiris-lld]

Many, many months later, the mystery is solved.

The D2 network protocol uses an integer coordinate system of fairly low accuracy On the client, you see yourself moving around very accurately - on the server, that's simply not the case since the client takes its' accurate coordinates, and rounds them down so they can be sent to the server.

In addition to a rough coordinate system used in communication, the client and server are prone to very small desynchs. Not crazy charge-level stuff, but small unnoticeable things - corpses and players being in slightly different positions on different clients, etc.

These two things combined make that glitch unsurprising.

[Waramp]

[Elusive]