Split: Bandit and Kodachi

This looks to me like a classic case of "I didn't enter the picket's range why did it shoot at me?"

Kodachi is predicting the movement of bandit. When the predicted bandit location is inside of kodachi's range, it aims and shoots at where bandit will be. Which is why in your video bandit can fire at kodachi from range, but also kodachi can fire at an out of range moving bandit(only when bandit is moving closer to kodachi). I had thought this might have something to do with the new fire in the direction of units gadget, but looking closer that didn't seem to have a large effect.

Also note that kodachi has some inacureacy, as well as the aimpoint being a predicted position means that by firing at a invisible floating target at the edge of range, it's possible for a projectile to fly overhead and past the max range, impacting many elmos outside of kodachi's range.

Finally, by watching the replay I do believe that 2 bandits well microed can either dissuade or kill any kodachi that wants to go through any chokepoint in redcomet. One bandit alone will half kill the kodachi when it charges head on, 2 with some spacing definately can kill a kodachi that charges headlong into them both. Just be careful that koda's riot like properties don't burn too strongly against both bandits at once.

The part i dislike about this behavior especially on stardust is that, because of overshoot and assorted other reasons, Stardust seems to be hitting the unit outside its nominal range when "predicting" this way.

Eg. a Scalpel moving towards Stardust and stopping right before its range will be hit on approach, and then be ignored. This seems inconsistent.

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On Bandit vs Koda:

- Kodachi design intentionally leaning into retreat advantage as a unique mechanic as opposed to being superfluid like everyone else feelsbadman to me.

- Bandit Glaive Flea Dart etc could maybe have edge targeting like Scythe Dirtbag.

quote: Take the "blunt" AoE off the weapon. Remove overshoot. Add an invisible chain-lightning style projectile with a tiny range that replaces AoE, who's damage falls off with the range it has travelled.

I don't see what the invisible chain lightning projectile achieves here at all. If the goal is to clip the damage volume of the aoe to its intersection with the targetting volume of the stardust, we can do that directly while creating significantly fewer entities.

I have no problem with aim lookahead, but i think combined with Stardust weapon physics, it causes this: