Pyrodes Posted December 20, 2021 Posted December 20, 2021 dunno how hard this is to code but would be cool if we had a feature where if you neckgrabbed someone they would get hit by any projectiles fired in the direction they're facing as long as they're upright just came up with this idea on the discord and thought it was cool enough to put it on the forums 2 1 Link to comment https://www.paradisestation.org/forum/topic/22027-make-upright-neckgrabbed-people-act-as-a-meatshield-against-projectiles/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonador Posted December 25, 2021 Posted December 25, 2021 Does this not already happen? I seem to recall that neckgrabbed people, although visually just about sharing a tile with their captor, reside on the tile adjacent to their captor in which they're facing, just with their sprite translated. Link to comment https://www.paradisestation.org/forum/topic/22027-make-upright-neckgrabbed-people-act-as-a-meatshield-against-projectiles/#findComment-163240 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charliminator Posted December 25, 2021 Posted December 25, 2021 42 minutes ago, Sonador said: Does this not already happen? I seem to recall that neckgrabbed people, although visually just about sharing a tile with their captor, reside on the tile adjacent to their captor in which they're facing, just with their sprite translated. This is not the case, they are located on the tile of the grabber Link to comment https://www.paradisestation.org/forum/topic/22027-make-upright-neckgrabbed-people-act-as-a-meatshield-against-projectiles/#findComment-163241 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonador Posted December 25, 2021 Posted December 25, 2021 Ah! good to know! Link to comment https://www.paradisestation.org/forum/topic/22027-make-upright-neckgrabbed-people-act-as-a-meatshield-against-projectiles/#findComment-163242 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pckables Posted December 26, 2021 Posted December 26, 2021 (edited) Some potential issues: If they're required to be upright, that means they can simply *rest to stop being a shield. On the other hand, if they're not required to be upright, corpses become the best shields in the game, along with being a projectile with knockdown. There might need to be specific code to force conscious victims upright, and prevent the manual sleep verb. Seems like it might be messy to implement, but it could lead to some cool scenarios. Edited December 26, 2021 by Pckables Link to comment https://www.paradisestation.org/forum/topic/22027-make-upright-neckgrabbed-people-act-as-a-meatshield-against-projectiles/#findComment-163244 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charliminator Posted December 29, 2021 Posted December 29, 2021 To be quite honest, resting shouldn't work if you are restrained/stunned. I'm sick of people holding hostages and then they just rest and security unga grungas them 2 Link to comment https://www.paradisestation.org/forum/topic/22027-make-upright-neckgrabbed-people-act-as-a-meatshield-against-projectiles/#findComment-163276 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiberatedWaveMan Posted December 29, 2021 Posted December 29, 2021 5 hours ago, Charliminator said: To be quite honest, resting shouldn't work if you are restrained/stunned. I'm sick of people holding hostages and then they just rest and security unga grungas them Agreed, I've tried to use someone to bodyblock disablers before and they just spam *rest Link to comment https://www.paradisestation.org/forum/topic/22027-make-upright-neckgrabbed-people-act-as-a-meatshield-against-projectiles/#findComment-163278 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komihe Posted December 29, 2021 Posted December 29, 2021 6 hours ago, Charliminator said: To be quite honest, resting shouldn't work if you are restrained/stunned. I'm sick of people holding hostages and then they just rest and security unga grungas them I agree, and I personally would like to see some sort of mechanical penalty to disincentivize people from doing this. Maybe you take small amounts of brute damage because your arms are being dragged over your head whilst you're restrained, or it applies a timer of 30-ish seconds on resting again because of the effort it takes. Link to comment https://www.paradisestation.org/forum/topic/22027-make-upright-neckgrabbed-people-act-as-a-meatshield-against-projectiles/#findComment-163279 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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