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Prop Legality
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In my time of staffing, before prop rotation, we've only ever asked ourselves two questions when checking if a spot is legal: can you be seen, and can you be shot? If any of those were not the case, it was illegal, and only very seldomly do we look at a prop/spot combination and say "okay yeah that fucking sucks don't hide there."

Now that we have prop rotation though, you can take just about any prop and any place on the map with non-square geometry (or just any geometry if the prop is fucked up enough), and just rotate to a position where literally less than a percentage of the original prop is visible. With this being the growing meta on Dinklebergs, staff have to expand the official list of questions to ask "Can they be seen, can they be shot, and does this spot suck so much to play against that it shouldn't be allowed?"

The only problem is that last question is inherently subjective to the staff member answering it. A staff member that is an expert at prophunt and knows to look for things like this would most definitely answer the question differently than someone who doesn't play prophunt very competitively, and that's a big hurdle for doing this fairly. The "pixelhunt" meta is too versatile to go through and document every single prop and prop combo in every single map reasonably, and realistically MUST be enforced using human subjectivity. Discrepancies are definitely going to happen, just like with the way different staff members take care of different types of players.


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Prop Legality - by OverwatchJunky - 05-03-2020, 03:51 AM
RE: Prop Legality - by Happy Mirror - 05-03-2020, 04:05 AM
RE: Prop Legality - by Sharky - 05-03-2020, 04:28 AM
RE: Prop Legality - by The Triangle - 05-03-2020, 07:22 AM
RE: Prop Legality - by Steven [Prodigy] - 05-03-2020, 08:30 AM
RE: Prop Legality - by OverwatchJunky - 05-03-2020, 11:23 AM
RE: Prop Legality - by [pink] Pixie Soldier - 05-03-2020, 10:36 AM
RE: Prop Legality - by RussEfarmer - 05-03-2020, 12:20 PM
RE: Prop Legality - by TheUltraFish - 05-03-2020, 12:39 PM
RE: Prop Legality - by Abdel - 05-03-2020, 01:11 PM
RE: Prop Legality - by OverwatchJunky - 05-03-2020, 02:29 PM
RE: Prop Legality - by RussEfarmer - 05-03-2020, 02:38 PM
RE: Prop Legality - by UnfortunatePossum - 05-03-2020, 03:32 PM
RE: Prop Legality - by OverwatchJunky - 05-03-2020, 04:03 PM
RE: Prop Legality - by Abdel - 05-03-2020, 02:36 PM
RE: Prop Legality - by [test] Hollow Moon - 05-03-2020, 02:51 PM
RE: Prop Legality - by The Triangle - 05-03-2020, 04:12 PM

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