You just need to identify the threshold distance and compare it to locations. In practice you're working with vertical variance so they're going to generally be straightforward.

You can probably simplify your calculus to express it in terms of the relative distance and traversal of a throw versus a walk, and the relative distance gain of the transporter throw.

There was an update that changed positions for some items so that they would not blend in on black surfaces like shelves, iirc. I don't know that the details were ever documented.

This thread is about Buluc's "special" bodyguards, who are part of a heist task in the Buluc Mansion heist.

There are four bodyguards. Bodyguard names and appearances are randomized, and the bodyguards are randomly assigned across four patrol patterns.For the purposes of this thread each bodyguard will be defined by patrol.

Each of Buluc's special bodyguards has a default position at a "party location" surrounded by civilians. From this location, they randomly choose one of two stops in semi-isolated "kill spots" in the map to make removing them easier. The bodyguard continues to alternate between the party and one of the two kill spots. Some kill spots are safe; many are not. Normal guard patrols overlap heavily with bodyguard patrols.

Piano area bodyguard
Party location: Side sitting area with side staircase.
Kill spot A: cafeteria room (the room where you get the wire in loud.) The bodyguard stares out the window and can ambush players who think it's a saferoom. Mostly safe kill spot, renders cafeteria almost entirely safe.
Kill spot B: Just outside the doors leading outside from the piano room. Extremely unsafe on higher difficulties.

Front door bodyguard
Party location: In central patio, on top of shark tank in conversation with civilians.
Kill spot A: just outside a door in a portico next to the main entrance door. This spot is visible to the exterior patrolling guard, and an interior guard will also stand in the portico. The space may also be visible to civilians standing in the piano room. If killing the guard in this location, knock their body into a corner of the portico.
Kill spot B: Hallway next to the garage, looking out the window- point that overlaps with several other patrols. Note the bodyguard can spot players pathing to the garage outside from this position.

Back hall bodyguard
Party location: Rear patio, in food area.
Kill spot A: Bathroom next to the lower floor bedroom, standing before toilet. This is a safe ambush spot. Note that the bedroom itself is a safe area, and the bathroom becomes safe when this bodyguard is dead.
Kill spot B: Immediately in front of the inner sanctum entrance on this side of the map. Beware: the bodyguard can see into the inner sanctum from this position and can trap a player between themselves and the inner sanctum guard, if the inner sanctum guard climbs the library staircase. The inner sanctum guard's behavior on the library upper floor is very erratic.

Garage bodyguard
Party location: Dining room with four civilians.
Kill spot A: Kitchen. This room is visible to multiple guard patrols, and is accessible by one guard patrol.
Kill spot B: Garage. This position overlaps with one other guard, and may be indirectly visible to the the front door bodyguard at one point on their patrol.
Beware: this bodyguard bugs out and becomes stationary in the garage, staring directly at the bag of weapons. The cause is unclear, but may be tied to opening the inner sanctum or the inner sanctum meeting room. More information is necessary.

All bodyguard behaviors are the same on all difficulties.

I counted the number of ingredients available, but unfortunately I've lost my notes. It was about 48 bags worth.

Way to go, thanks for mapping all of this out!

PEOC guard spawns are zoned- I don't know which are which or how difficulty selects for zone spawns, but of the three initial spawns, one patrols the conference/balcony area, one controls the front/vault area, and one patrols the back/computers/desks area.

That's very close to my current approach (though I can change some mine positions to match yours, thanks!). Any one of the near misses you have there would be a fail for me because I get less time to react to the detection.

I'm having problems with every area, tbh. Even the PEOC, which is supposedly well-optimized, is giving me less time to react to a guard "ping" than I'm used to.

It's most noticeable in the oval office area because (as per Unknown Knight's post) the area is hell to stealth without at least bumping into a guard. entry in particular is like throwing yourself into a pit- no cover, three rooms with multiple blind corner entry points, one guard picking from, iirc, four patrol positions.

Each area of the map has its own stealth design issues.

Yeah, we've filed a bug report. I think everyone's praying that ovk will at least do an optimization pass on the map, even if they don't relocate the abhorrent guard patrol points. I've gotten surprised out of a blind corner way too many times, and the low fps drastically harms my ability to respond to detection.