kirinelf
A frightening Cactus!
- Joined
- Mar 28, 2013
Let's say I'm in chat and I used /shout and I saw that someone was close by. I'm in a house or in the wilderness. There're trees, hills, plenty of blocks for someone to hide behind. If I was aiming for somebody, I wouldn't come at them from the front; sneaking or not you're still visible. I'd come at them from the back, using the trees or the hills to stay invisible while tracking their name tag.
Now since I shouted, they know I'm there, so they'll scan around them. But because I'm hidden behind a tree, or behind a hill, and I'm sneaking, my name tag is invisible so they don't know WHERE I am. I know where they are, they don't know where I am, both of us know someone's there.
The typical player who wants to escape PvP (Me, normally, assuming I don't log out) will aim towards their closest safe waypoint or graveyard or spawn or town and sprint for it. They won't have time to continue scanning after that first scan because it'll slow them down. As a ganker, I can then use any mobility skill I want to close the gap and kill them.
Or if they were in a mine, I could hide behind the entrance and kill them on the way out (I got killed once this way by someone who was hiding next to the stairs. I KNEW he was there since /shout picked it up. I didn't know WHERE he was).
Of course, this all assumes that the person who heard someone nearby decides to run for it rather than log out/recalling/warping. If the player was hiding in a place and waiting for you to pass by before hopping out and attacking you, NOTHING can save you or enable you to escape whether or not you detected someone nearby.
Chat detection really only helps those who log out/recall at the first sign of danger (Admittedly me). If that's what you want to stop, congratulations. You succeeded.
