More effective Almayer AA guns

PhantomEpicness · March 28, 2024, 11:20pm

Immersive AA Sequence (3)

cmss13-devs:master ← PhantomEpicness:MRhell2PRhell

opened 01:01AM - 15 Apr 22 UTC

## About The Pull Request https://gitlab.com/cmdevs/colonial-warfare/-/merg…e_requests/2334#199ac99bb022d31cfd33a4cc3572ef30e96db9b9 This now 6 months on gitlab old PR is meant to make hijacks more immersive, as you can now hear the IX-50 MGAD firing upon its target and xenos/dchat can actually feel the ship getting rocked as they evade the AA fdire. Added a variety of sounds for, well variety and incase devs don't like a few so I won't have to redo. Has an immersive sequence inside the dropship. Complete with sparks, explosions and the whole 9 yards! (tested to be non lethal to larva) Not really intended to rework the entire sound backend but ended up reworking a bit of it at the cost of some of my sanity Also slightly reworked and fixed the soundbackend to support this, thanks @mekkiti for the massive help you lent me over hours of pain. Reworking the entire sound system is not really the intention of this MR but it turned out that we needed to make a few tweaks here and there to support cool sounds. I do not want to remake the entire sound system because that's out of the scope of this MR and tweaking it to work was already painful enough. I also filtered and improved the code a bit while porting. ## Why It's Good For The Game - Cool and immersive sequence! Now you can experience being shredded by AA as a xenomorph or watch as dchat with a mouth full of popcorn! - Unfortunately for the marines, it does next to no damage for balance purposes. The explosion effects, even if stacked on a single poor larva, couldn't even kill it. - Immersion and RP fluff announcements. The announcements actually tell whats going on instead of "threat deflected lol". It actually tells players that the threat is still coming which is something that is missing from the current. - AA is actually fleshed out. ### The sounds Haven't been changed since gitlab, listen to it there because github doesnt support sound embedding https://gitlab.com/cmdevs/colonial-warfare/-/merge_requests/2046 ### Demo https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/42422230/163623971-43b2faf8-ffbf-4b2d-af97-3572298b69e9.mp4 This old video demonstrates that it is non lethal to even larva. It is outdated however, the fire effects were toned down due to further testing showing it to be more deadlier than the explosions and a bit more explosion and shrapnel effects were added. Sounds were fixed too. Still shouldn't be able to kill larva, the explosions are so weak, you need 7-8 explosions on a larva to kill it and thats not counting the crit hp. ## Changelog :cl: TotalEpicness add: Hijack now has an immersive AA deterrence sequence if hijacked dropship is crashing into protected area. sound: Added sounds for the IX-50 MGAD system when it activates. BRRRRT!!!! grammar: MGAD cannon description changed to something more appropriate and realistic. /:cl:

this was a thing but it died because of my focus on charger crusher at the time

anyone is free to revive it.

Felix_I_Cash_Taylor · March 29, 2024, 9:17pm

Make it so it increases the time before the crash. Like 2mins. The dropship avoided it and had to fly an alternate route

Gives marines more time to prep and move around. Which is a buff but not a game changer.