I have not seen the mention of base unreal engine outside of Twitter, but the change for UEFN has been noted elsewhere:

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/we-re-moving-to-the-left-up-forward-luf-coordinate-system/2540901

I don’t know the “right” answer, but I set it so if you hit something, it plays out some checks similar to as you described:

• If we collide with something but its only waist high, then we will have the player stop the grapple and attempt to vault over whatever it is.

• If we collide with something and its more than waist high, then we wait for a very small delay and see if we made any progress towards our destination. If not, end the grapple because something is in the way.

• Ignore all collision damage otherwise when grappling. Either we get stopped on the way and give up, or make it and then end the grapple.

… And last but most horrible of all:

• Do a completely different set of checks if the player is underwater when the collision happens.

All my games are janky though so I don’t think this is some ideal setup.

Edit: Cleaned up the collision damage part as I thought I handled it differently.

Oof, this reminds me of a personal experience.

Me: Oh this grapple system is easy, we’ll just push the player’s vector towards the destination vector.

Game: Oh but there’s a small object in the way that cannot be moved. This will make an immense amount of collision data per tick.

Me: Can’t we just ignore-

Game:

In all honesty I just use the browser now as that’s been the best experience with Discord for me.

Its hard lol. I rarely take pride on positives and mostly dwell on the negatives. Not good or healthy but what are you going to do.

Flaws are hard. I’ve gotten some pretty brutal review smackdowns for things that were largely out of my control, or things I was aware of but couldn’t fix in a satisfying way, and that just feels awful.

But on the flip side I got reviews that pointed out issues I had never seen or even noticed, or worded it in a way that clarified the issue, and those are helpful.

All you can really do is remember the dev is human at the end of the day. Full of flaws and likely jumped on a project too ambitious for their own good.

I’ve seen similar. Whole two story office building’s wifi got knocked out by some big ol’ 1960s microwave.

No one could figure out why the wifi kept going down during lunch.

They only have 7 days to fix the licensing or their licenses are revoked? Is Unity that hard up for cash?