Standing on head and climbing other player.... when they are floating in water?

Conan Exiles PC Discussion
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Game mode: Online official
Type of issue: Bug | Misc
Server type: PvP
Region: Official Server 1814

I’m not 100% sure if this is a bug, an oversight, or how it in intended to be, but the physics in the game dont see super horrible and unrealistic for the most part.
So if a player is floating in the water, another player can climb them, stand on their head without physics pushing the person below you under water and then jump off of them. Obviously in real life that would make no sense as buoyancy of the person below wouldn’t be able to hold another person on their head whilst still floating. (on a side note, being overencumbered while normally would kill someone on land if u stand on them, in water that doesnt happen, making it more strange) I know if you are climbing and someone drops on your head, it pushes you down aka drops you, but in water it seems to make no difference. Is that the intent? an oversight? Anyways seemed like a very ridiculous situation, following the laws of physics.

Please provide a step-by-step process of how the bug can be reproduced. The more details you provide us with the easier it will be for us to find and fix the bug:

  1. Person A floats at the top of the water.
  2. Person B climbs them and stands on their head (over-encumbered doesn’t kill them as it would on land.)
  3. Person B jumps off the head of Person A
  4. Person A remains floating as if they had their feet on firm ground.
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Mhhh :thinking:
My wife often sits on my back (okay, okay not my head) when i am doing the :dolphin:, so the law of physics works perfectly fine for us. I guess, even if she still had her female typical 50kg :handbag: with her, I’d be able to swim with her in the water because of the displacement, atmospheric pressure and buoyancy. But even if not, I don’t want to be so picky with a game and call it artistic freedom. :joy:

Greetings
SirBowen

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Yes, when you do the dolphin because like you said buoyancy and displacement of being horizontal vs. vertical. But I assure you, if you tread water vertically (meaning not standing in the shallows), and she jumped in your shoulders, and further more tried to jump off your shoulders (which would apply more downward pressure on you) you would not be the same sturdy setting as jumping off of firm ground, You would be pushed under water even if partially.

I mean someone who has very high body fat can float better, and if you floated horizontally and she stood on top of you, she would have to be of a supreme lower weight in order not to sink you. Its just science. These circumstances you present are somewhat irrelevant. But I do appreciate your response. And I do hope this doesn’t “tick off” any artists, as I’m not telling them they are bad or anything, I’m just asking if they meant it to be more in line with physics in reality as a lot of other mechanics in the game are, or if this was an intended interaction.

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I see the same/similar issue as Bunnii. People stacking on top of each other to get past defenses seems more like a glitch than an intended aspect of the game (Especially in water). The fact that you can endlessly stack clan members on top of eachother to get over a wall makes walls kinda pointless, think it should be patched/changed.

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Hey there @Bunnii

Although while not particularly realistic, this feature is somewhat intended (i.e. we won’t treat it as a bug).
Thanks for your feedback.