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I was considering something involving harm-intent clicking a tile would be taken as an intent to attack something on that tile, which would at least reduce the stupid shit with people shaving their heads to make their hitbox smaller.Moving Away from Stun and Done combat
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The only thing that worries me is that this would increase lethality in lavaland a lot. You practically need to run to deal with the monsters there
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My concern with walking will be how sluggish it feels, with the current move speed it feels slightly fluid, whereas when you walk you notice how you keep stopping and starting with each tile you move.
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Re: Moving Away from Stun and Done combat
Hey ho steelio, didnt you do that rubber bullet thing once? I liked it in theory.
Lifeweb does walking neat, you got walks, jogs, and sprints. Walks are slow as shit but you arent gonna slip or anything, jogs are ok but you dont want to get jumped while tired, and sprinting is hella fast but you usually run into a wall. In general people moved slower when not sprintin, though, would work like ass with the current ranged stuns.
Lifeweb does walking neat, you got walks, jogs, and sprints. Walks are slow as shit but you arent gonna slip or anything, jogs are ok but you dont want to get jumped while tired, and sprinting is hella fast but you usually run into a wall. In general people moved slower when not sprintin, though, would work like ass with the current ranged stuns.
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The only rubber bullet thing I recall was my proposal to replace Security Officers Tasers with a handgun that comes pre-loaded with rubber bullets.
Here's the link to my old PR with the change: https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/11672
The major critical difference is that it takes two hits to stun a unarmoured opponent, and the fact they are projectile guns, not tasers.
Lets not reopen old wounds.
E: That's a good point on having a walk, jog and sprint speeds. Might be worth investigating.
Here's the link to my old PR with the change: https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/11672
The major critical difference is that it takes two hits to stun a unarmoured opponent, and the fact they are projectile guns, not tasers.
Lets not reopen old wounds.
E: That's a good point on having a walk, jog and sprint speeds. Might be worth investigating.
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I think all weps should have some chance of bein lethal, sure sec can baton you but if its petty dont resist cuz the shock from the baton MIIIIIGHT fuck you up like 2% the time, but do not force them to use anything ranged thats worse for ya dont go around slapping lizards with extinguishers unless you dont mind risking them getting severe brain damsge and trying to kill you
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Reminder this is going to be agonizing and destabilize our entire combat system over an ideal we'll never get to without months and months of testing during which the game will be trash.
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Re: Moving Away from Stun and Done combat
can just lower all mobs on lavaland down by 1 speed, until people have settled into new movespeed, and then up those ones that feel like they need it.D&B wrote:The only thing that worries me is that this would increase lethality in lavaland a lot. You practically need to run to deal with the monsters there
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Would also need to increase the time to dodge fauna attacks, slower projectiles/longer time before grab on goliath.Remie Richards wrote:can just lower all mobs on lavaland down by 1 speed, until people have settled into new movespeed, and then up those ones that feel like they need it.D&B wrote:The only thing that worries me is that this would increase lethality in lavaland a lot. You practically need to run to deal with the monsters there
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Re: Moving Away from Stun and Done combat
Do itRemie Richards wrote:Well If I'm doing it (hopefully this weekend), it'll be:
Definitely:Maybe:
- Walking Only
- Sprint bar
- Stuns replaced entirely with Stamina
I'll try not to dripfeed it, and if I have to dripfeed it, then we can just hold off on merger until all parts are done (so dripfed PRs vs. dripfed in-game changes)
- Armour buffed (potentially to pre-kor levels?)
- Damage buffs
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Re: Moving Away from Stun and Done combat
nobody cares though so i guess we'll just slow everyone down so they're easier to stun with the disablers!Luke Cox wrote:Pax stop making so much sense you're scaring me manIcePacks wrote:make it so that damage causes you to get up (and heals stamina damage if you're going to do nothing about the bullshit of disablers)
remove (or nerf) disablers (into line with tasers) because stamina damage is stuns on crack(we don't need ranged slowdowns nor do we need ranged variable/potentially endless length stuns)
make cablecuffs (not handcuffs) break when the mob is attacked too much
i won't deny stun and done is bullshit but actually fixing it will be tricky
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In the past changes of this magnitude did not come in as a complete overhaul but a partial one.ShadowDimentio wrote:Reminder this is going to be agonizing and destabilize our entire combat system over an ideal we'll never get to without months and months of testing during which the game will be trash.
I seem to recall that Paprikas changes had the intention of effecting multiple changes over several PRs, but this did not come to pass.
So long as any proposals are in a complete format I don't see a reason to investigate a proposed change.
We can do what we did in the pass and have the system run for several days and garner feedback.
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I've always been in support of an overhaul of combat and stuns. I feel like the way to get there is long, grueling, and paved with salt and tears, but I'm glad that people are actually seeing eye to eye on the issue for once, even if opinions are still divided. I'm excited that Rem and others are finally making it happen, though, and that it's worth the inevitable fallout. We're all sick of a single stun baton hit meaning that you're dead immediately.
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Re: Moving Away from Stun and Done combat
Don't.Remie Richards wrote:Well If I'm doing it (hopefully this weekend), it'll be:
Definitely:Maybe:
- Walking Only
- Sprint bar
- Stuns replaced entirely with Stamina
I'll try not to dripfeed it, and if I have to dripfeed it, then we can just hold off on merger until all parts are done (so dripfed PRs vs. dripfed in-game changes)
- Armour buffed (potentially to pre-kor levels?)
- Damage buffs
I believe this kind of thing has been done in the past. If it hasn't, that's just as well. These ideas seem to be geared more towards making the game more "realistic," not more fun. I'll explain why in a few points:
Slow is not fun. We already have people popping full-body hardsuits on and off just to move faster through our large station designs. Why would you make everyone slower as a result? The speed of the game is what makes combat with other players thrilling; two (or more) people running around trying to get an attack in on each other, with successive blows slowing each other down. The part that seems to bother people the most is when this comes to an abrupt end when one player just stuns the other and beats them to death. What would slowing everyone down do to change that, besides making the encounters less intense?
Armor is fine There was a round where I was a nuke op. I purchased the spesnatz pyro kit, and then proceeded to try and attack the crew exclusively from space. I spent forever in a pissing match with the AI while my team was slaughtered, losing literally all of my weapons in the process. As the crew was escaping, I ran to escape in combat mode and saxxed around trying to disarm people. I managed to kill one guy with his shotgun and willingly stood in place to trade shotgun shots with crewmen because I knew I had better armor. I lasted for an extremely long time, finally succumbing to a taser shot, although I was unable to really kill anybody since most of the shotguns I acquired from disarming were empty. I was a nuke operative surrounded by about twenty crewmen with extremely powerful armor. It still took them awhile to kill me.
There's already a solid divide between armor classes; regular armor protects you in an okay-ish manner and buys you some time in trouble and allows you to maintain speed. Riot armor makes you extremely resistant to brute damage but slows you down significantly. Bulletproof and reflective vests give you protection against two different types of projectiles. These are already well-defined classes of armor, you should leave them as they are and focus on the actual problem here: stuns.
Most importantly, stamina sucks. Stamina is an addition to the stun system. Just about everything about stamina is annoying -- it's indistinguishable from health damage, it slows you to the point where you're a sitting duck, and it adds a stunning component to attacks that include damage, making stun done even worse. When you finally get up from a reasonably lengthy stun, you're still painfully slow, making most efforts to resist whatever your attacker has in mind futile.
Disablers make this even worse. Hybrid tasers can fire a whopping 20 disabler shots; at two shots the target is slowed down to the point where there's very little that they can do, both in terms of escape and fighting back. A third shot stuns them, and you can continually shoot them with whatever remains in your unnecessarily large ammo capacity to keep them stunned with very little fear of running out, unlike tasers. Since damage stacks with stamina damage, you will remain stunned up until your demise if your attacker decides to just beat you to death. Finally, couple this with a long range and the ability to shoot through glass (which there is an abundance of) and you have an utterly broken stunning tool. Disablers pretty clearly demonstrate everything that's wrong with stamina, why would you want to outright replace regular stuns with stamina stuns, which make getting attacked even more deadly and more stun-y?
I strongly urge we go with my idea, for the following reasons:
There should be a second chance if you're being killed. When you're stunned, that's usually it if someone wants to kill you, doubly so if you're restrained since you can't move. If a target begins taking damage when stunned, the damage should reduce the time that they're stunned. This would creative a divide between stuns and lethality, since simply stunning and handcuffing them would cause you to wait for the whole stun. A divide between stuns and lethality should be our ultimate goal, here.
Make non-security methods of restraint even less powerful. If someone decides to try and murder you, a really easy way to do this is to just knock you over, ziptie you, drag you off, and kill you. What I propose is that we give zipties a durability limit. When you take enough damage, your binds break, again creating a divide from stuns and lethality and preventing you from being helpless when restrained. For now I think we should keep the limit on zipties and cable restraints and keep it off of (or increase the limit on) handcuffs, which are harder to obtain and break out of.
Damage should heal stamina damage. Damage stun chains with stamina are the most obnoxious shit ever. They make an already annoying mechanic that much more deadly. What I propose is that we remove the stacking and reverse it so that just unloading a few disablers and switching to lasers doesn't kill a guy instantly. Preserving the divide, et cetera.
Also, space can stunlock you to your death if you take stamina damage. True facts!
Nerf those fucking disablers. I'll let you figure this one out. I honestly think we should just remove them, but that's just me.
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>Danno says it's too fast
>Icepacks says it's too slow
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Re: Moving Away from Stun and Done combat
Remove disablers and rework tasers to be less of a one hit wonder. Disablers are, as pointed out by Icepacks, simply a weapon that exacerbates the worse qualities of Tasers but cloaks itself under the idea it's not a one shot stun.
I can't offer any good alternatives but I actually am coming around to Icepacks suggestion of making damage cancel stuns. This forces stun weapons into a more non-lethal role and less relied on as the main method of combat.
Also perhaps look at making cable cuffs be able to be resisted out of even if you are being moved around and pushed, as well as being removed if you take damage. This would make cable cuffs good for short term abduction but you need to act fast before the person breaks free, or steal some proper cuffs from security, you could then buff it so the cable cuffs take longer to break out off.
I can't offer any good alternatives but I actually am coming around to Icepacks suggestion of making damage cancel stuns. This forces stun weapons into a more non-lethal role and less relied on as the main method of combat.
Also perhaps look at making cable cuffs be able to be resisted out of even if you are being moved around and pushed, as well as being removed if you take damage. This would make cable cuffs good for short term abduction but you need to act fast before the person breaks free, or steal some proper cuffs from security, you could then buff it so the cable cuffs take longer to break out off.
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I'm reluctantly okay with damage reducing stuns, it'd just mean when it's time to kill someone as HoS I cuff them between the taser hitting and me lasering them to death.
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Damage reducing stun time is solid. I'd also support a removal of chain stuns, I.e. once you hit someone with a baton, they'll get up after six ticks regardless of how many times you whack them.
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Hooowsabout tracking stamina damage separately from normal damage and only the greater of the two counts, at the very least?IcePacks wrote: Damage should heal stamina damage. Damage stun chains with stamina are the most obnoxious shit ever. They make an already annoying mechanic that much more deadly. What I propose is that we remove the stacking and reverse it so that just unloading a few disablers and switching to lasers doesn't kill a guy instantly. Preserving the divide, et cetera.
If you're slow as fuck from staminaloss then at least you'll tank a few brute hits before they get "worse", rather than being disabled down to 10 health and then stunlocked by a single hit from a fire extinguisher.
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Stamina damage was a mistake, born out of a heated conflict during a unchanged feature proposal that was never finished properly. I'm half certain stamina damage is still bugged with projectile weapons.
The common theme I'm getting here is this.
The common theme I'm getting here is this.
- Remove Disablers and Disable settings from all weapons.
- Any stun weapon, Taser or Baton, do not stack or reset stun time when applied after someone is already stunned.
- Taking damage will cancel the effect of stuns. Likely it'll be a damage threshold so being accidently hit by a pen won't get you up.
- Nerf non-security related method of restraing. Such as making cable cuffs break when damage is taken to the victim.
- MAYBE buff some lethal ranged weapons to deal more damage???
- Movement speeds remain the same
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While I do believe diminishing returns for stuns would be a healthy idea, you have to consider the time it takes to handcuff. If you make it so that a stun isn't stacking and you, say, stun a criminal in a busy hallway where people keep running into you, you're gonna have a bad time if it's just a 6s stun every time.
You'd still be pretty slow when you get back up, but as far as stamina ideas go, it'd be okay, I guess? I really just don't like stamina.Screemonster wrote:Hooowsabout tracking stamina damage separately from normal damage and only the greater of the two counts, at the very least?IcePacks wrote: Damage should heal stamina damage. Damage stun chains with stamina are the most obnoxious shit ever. They make an already annoying mechanic that much more deadly. What I propose is that we remove the stacking and reverse it so that just unloading a few disablers and switching to lasers doesn't kill a guy instantly. Preserving the divide, et cetera.
If you're slow as fuck from staminaloss then at least you'll tank a few brute hits before they get "worse", rather than being disabled down to 10 health and then stunlocked by a single hit from a fire extinguisher.
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Re: Moving Away from Stun and Done combat
Perhaps make it that a ranged stun only lasts for a few seconds, say three seconds, or scale it based on the range the taser hit, but a point blank stun from a Taser or Stun Baton will stun for a very long duration, say eight or so seconds.
Just remove disablers while we are at it.
E: On that note, if you made the stun duration scale based on the range the tase projectile has traveld, this can do two things. Firstly you can remove the hard cap range on Tasers so they get back their unlimited range, but secondly it would mean getting shot off screen or at seven tiles won't stun you for ten seconds, but perhaps one or two seconds at the most.
Just remove disablers while we are at it.
E: On that note, if you made the stun duration scale based on the range the tase projectile has traveld, this can do two things. Firstly you can remove the hard cap range on Tasers so they get back their unlimited range, but secondly it would mean getting shot off screen or at seven tiles won't stun you for ten seconds, but perhaps one or two seconds at the most.
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Oh so you now all don't want what I said.
Ok sure I guess I'm not doing it then.
Ok sure I guess I'm not doing it then.
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Re: Moving Away from Stun and Done combat
He might have better judgement than me, I dunno. Maybe what I want for the game is simply not the right way to go about it.Remie Richards wrote:>Danno says it's too fast
>Icepacks says it's too slow
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Remie Richards wrote:Oh so you now all don't want what I said.
Ok sure I guess I'm not doing it then.
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Moving any slower would make normal civilian life on the station a godamn nightmare for our giant maps
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Re: Moving Away from Stun and Done combat
This is a good ideaSteelpoint wrote:Perhaps make it that a ranged stun only lasts for a few seconds, say three seconds, or scale it based on the range the taser hit, but a point blank stun from a Taser or Stun Baton will stun for a very long duration, say eight or so seconds.
Just remove disablers while we are at it.
E: On that note, if you made the stun duration scale based on the range the tase projectile has traveld, this can do two things. Firstly you can remove the hard cap range on Tasers so they get back their unlimited range, but secondly it would mean getting shot off screen or at seven tiles won't stun you for ten seconds, but perhaps one or two seconds at the most.
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Re: Moving Away from Stun and Done combat
Remie Richards wrote:Well If I'm doing it (hopefully this weekend), it'll be:
Definitely:Maybe:
- Walking Only
- Sprint bar
- Stuns replaced entirely with Stamina
I'll try not to dripfeed it, and if I have to dripfeed it, then we can just hold off on merger until all parts are done (so dripfed PRs vs. dripfed in-game changes)
- Armour buffed (potentially to pre-kor levels?)
- Damage buffs
I honestly think combat is fine the way it is, and that it's mostly player choices driving the high use of stuns. Merging so drastic a change without more than a day or two of discussion is not going to be popular with the playerbase, especially since you're planning on severely nerfing movement speed.
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"player choices driving the high use of stuns"
what you're describing is meta
our meta.
that's what happens when people figure out the best way to play and do nothing but that
what you're describing is meta
our meta.
that's what happens when people figure out the best way to play and do nothing but that
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Re: Moving Away from Stun and Done combat
reminds me of an article I read earlier.danno wrote:"player choices driving the high use of stuns"
what you're describing is meta
our meta.
that's what happens when people figure out the best way to play and do nothing but that
tl;dr: AI is put in a simple game with the objective to grab as many "apples" as it can, but it also has the option to spend its turn to fire a stun beam at the other AI that is also trying to gather apples, which knocks them out for a time. Researchers were like "whoa, AI is ruthless and immediately takes the option to fuck over the other player so it can get the most apples"
Comments summed it up as "You make a game where the optimal strategy is to hit the other player, drop an AI in it, the AI finds the optimal strategy. This says more about the game than the AI."
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Re: Moving Away from Stun and Done combat
you should balance the game around the way players play it
i'm at work and can't argue with you right now can you read me and Steelpoint's posts
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Re: Moving Away from Stun and Done combat
This. There's zero chance that the servers will get a good feel for the preference of one over the others in just a few days in a way that isn't just "I liked/hated the old system so I want it back/gone"Fiz Bump wrote:Remie Richards wrote:Well If I'm doing it (hopefully this weekend), it'll be:
Definitely:Maybe:
- Walking Only
- Sprint bar
- Stuns replaced entirely with Stamina
I'll try not to dripfeed it, and if I have to dripfeed it, then we can just hold off on merger until all parts are done (so dripfed PRs vs. dripfed in-game changes)
- Armour buffed (potentially to pre-kor levels?)
- Damage buffs
I honestly think combat is fine the way it is, and that it's mostly player choices driving the high use of stuns. Merging so drastic a change without more than a day or two of discussion is not going to be popular with the playerbase, especially since you're planning on severely nerfing movement speed.
Also why the fuck do you want to molest movespeed? That sounds god awful.
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because it worked in a better game so it's not unreasonable for people to think "Could it work for us?"
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Re: Moving Away from Stun and Done combat
it hasn't worked before and it won't work now, there's plenty of viable options in the thread that aren't contradictory to the game
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Re: Moving Away from Stun and Done combat
that's fair I'm just explaining why the question was brought up
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Re: Moving Away from Stun and Done combat
Bad interactions with multiple mobs on a tile.Screemonster wrote:I was considering something involving harm-intent clicking a tile would be taken as an intent to attack something on that tile, which would at least reduce the stupid shit with people shaving their heads to make their hitbox smaller.
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Re: Moving Away from Stun and Done combat
>Stupid shit like shaving their head to make their hitbox smaller
Reduces air resistance, makes you move faster. REALISM.
Reduces air resistance, makes you move faster. REALISM.
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Re: Moving Away from Stun and Done combat
what i was trying to say was that if you are removing normal stuns then you need to heavily buff damage.
we aren't making it harder to die, we are just making it require more than one well placed click.
we aren't making it harder to die, we are just making it require more than one well placed click.
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Re: Moving Away from Stun and Done combat
why would a damage buff be necessary if you're dividing stuns and lethals
there's tools made for killing, while i do think the "anything is a weapon" idea is part of ss13's appeal i don't think "everything is a LETHAL weapon" would be an improvement
there's tools made for killing, while i do think the "anything is a weapon" idea is part of ss13's appeal i don't think "everything is a LETHAL weapon" would be an improvement
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Re: Moving Away from Stun and Done combat
ShadowDimentio wrote:It's a "lets move away from stun combat but lmao I don't have any ideas how to do it" thread episode again
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Re: Moving Away from Stun and Done combat
he said in the thread full of people posting their ideas on how to do it
are you people braindead irl?
are you people braindead irl?
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Re: Moving Away from Stun and Done combat
Timberpoes wrote: ↑Tue Feb 14, 2023 3:21 pm The rules exist to create the biggest possible chance of a cool shift of SS13. They don't exist to allow admins to create the most boring interpretation of SS13.
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Re: Moving Away from Stun and Done combat
riot armor slowdown was removed ages ago.
Timberpoes wrote: ↑Tue Feb 14, 2023 3:21 pm The rules exist to create the biggest possible chance of a cool shift of SS13. They don't exist to allow admins to create the most boring interpretation of SS13.
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Re: Moving Away from Stun and Done combat
Did it ever move past that thread?
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Re: Moving Away from Stun and Done combat
I tried to warn youRemie Richards wrote:Oh so you now all don't want what I said.
Ok sure I guess I'm not doing it then.
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Re: Moving Away from Stun and Done combat
I'm pretty sure it was tested on servers for at least a day.Nabski wrote:Did it ever move past that thread?
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Re: Moving Away from Stun and Done combat
Add combat intent.
Combat intent puts you in lifeweb's fixed eye mode.
You can change the way you face by pressing LMB/MMB around the screen. Pressing MMB on mobs will lock your view on them.
Then depending on where you click on your screen your attacks will follow a certain path, refer to graph: Having the sections rotate with your mob would be swell, probably.
Attacks sweeping multiple tiles will of course run through tiles individually and last X ticks on each.
Different weapons could have bonuses on their attack pattern, spears being good for poking and blunt objects good for swinging. Shields could bash. Swinging something long excessively could have it catch onto something and disarm you.
Ideally you can lock on multiple, and rotate towards the closest. Sec officers could lock automatically on wanted people if they are wearing HUDglasses. If they leave your FoV, you stop rotating, but they stay locked in for X seconds. Changing appearance significantly outside FoV could drop lock in.
Sidestepping could be slower, as would be retreating, maybe holding down shift while moving could have you make small quick hops.
Combat intent puts you in lifeweb's fixed eye mode.
You can change the way you face by pressing LMB/MMB around the screen. Pressing MMB on mobs will lock your view on them.
Then depending on where you click on your screen your attacks will follow a certain path, refer to graph: Having the sections rotate with your mob would be swell, probably.
Attacks sweeping multiple tiles will of course run through tiles individually and last X ticks on each.
Different weapons could have bonuses on their attack pattern, spears being good for poking and blunt objects good for swinging. Shields could bash. Swinging something long excessively could have it catch onto something and disarm you.
Ideally you can lock on multiple, and rotate towards the closest. Sec officers could lock automatically on wanted people if they are wearing HUDglasses. If they leave your FoV, you stop rotating, but they stay locked in for X seconds. Changing appearance significantly outside FoV could drop lock in.
Sidestepping could be slower, as would be retreating, maybe holding down shift while moving could have you make small quick hops.
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Re: Moving Away from Stun and Done combat
>lock on targetingIatots wrote:Add combat intent.
Combat intent puts you in lifeweb's fixed eye mode.
You can change the way you face by pressing LMB/MMB around the screen. Pressing MMB on mobs will lock your view on them.
Then depending on where you click on your screen your attacks will follow a certain path, refer to graph: Having the sections rotate with your mob would be swell, probably.
Attacks sweeping multiple tiles will of course run through tiles individually and last X ticks on each.
Different weapons could have bonuses on their attack pattern, spears being good for poking and blunt objects good for swinging. Shields could bash. Swinging something long excessively could have it catch onto something and disarm you.
Ideally you can lock on multiple, and rotate towards the closest. Sec officers could lock automatically on wanted people if they are wearing HUDglasses. If they leave your FoV, you stop rotating, but they stay locked in for X seconds. Changing appearance significantly outside FoV could drop lock in.
Sidestepping could be slower, as would be retreating, maybe holding down shift while moving could have you make small quick hops.
No
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Re: Moving Away from Stun and Done combat
Hey! Listen!
Remember to use Z-targeting!
Remember to use Z-targeting!
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Re: Moving Away from Stun and Done combat
You like the rest?
I'm for lock on mainly to speed up the fight, as opposed to having click MMB to rotate yourself and then re-position your cursor for the attack you actually want, which could create clunky fights like we currently have.
I'm for lock on mainly to speed up the fight, as opposed to having click MMB to rotate yourself and then re-position your cursor for the attack you actually want, which could create clunky fights like we currently have.
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Re: Moving Away from Stun and Done combat
another "viable solution and related discussion goes ignored on page 2" thread
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