robertmo wrote on 2023-07-03, 21:35:
I definitely see shadow here and it tells the location of the sun 😀
The image doesn't support the "Shooting north deals full damage, cause you're in the targets shadow" part of the theory though - unless for very slim soldiers standing within 1 meter of the target. 😜
The issue was also (probably first) discussed here. Dune2-guru MrFibble himself suggests it may be a "side effect of projectile interaction with moving targets" - leaning towards the bug theory.
I guess we won't be able to determine 100%, if it was actually intentional or not.
I will definitely implement gerwin's patch and make it optional. The only open question is it's default value.
I'm leaning a bit towards leaving it off by default for now, since being true to the original is imho a very important goal of Dune Dynasty, and veterans might have incorporated the behaviour into their tactics and expecting it. (Maybe that's the reasons the OpenDune team has not yet implemented it too.)
It gets rather problematic with multiplayer though - giving "insiders" and players starting north an unfair advantage. 🤔 So i might enforce the fix in multiplayer.