East soldiers (and maybe other AIs) see farther than players

[ondrej008]

Horizontally, it seems the East soldiers have the same view range as players, however it seems that vertically they have a lot more view range.
I assume their view range check is square whereas the players have a rectangular view range.

I don't know if everyone has the same view range but I can see 14 tiles west and east from my character, but only 8 tiles north and south.

This is quite annoying as it makes north-south fighting very enemy sided as they constantly spot & shoot you out of range, and if you shoot back they go prone so you won't hit any shots.

 

[ondrej008]

Dean said that the AI has less view range than players and that it isn't square, but as a player I almost always get spotted & engaged when the enemy is north/south of me and out of my view range, even when I am not shooting at them or doing anything that would cause me to be spotted.
But when I am west/east of them this doesn't happen.

 

[Rocket]

What you are seeing is "ineffective shots". The commander may order other units to fire "in your direction". The server would crash if the NPCs could "see' beyond their values - because a buffer is made with the maximum distance, and beyond that it would overflow memory and corrupt the game causing a hard-crash of the server.