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hydremajor

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Manual Control Only Weapons
« on: December 20, 2022, 08:30:03 AM »

Title says it all

adding code to the game so that certain weapons with a specific tag can only be fired when directly controlled

This means no auto-fire for them in the case of the Player

It also means the AI is unable to fire both of theses weapons at the same time

Such weapons CANNOT be linked to the same firing group but CAN be linked to other weapons as long as they are either:

A: CODED to work together (AKA multiple copies of the same weapon)
B: linked with weapons that do not have the "manual only" tag

and to thoses of you who ask "why would you want that ?":

I see this as a good way to bring some added flavor to certain ships and weapon systems, for example make the "go to" weapon choices manual only and thus introduce a drawback to equipping such weapons while other less popular weapon choices may not have the restriction in place
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Alex

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Re: Manual Control Only Weapons
« Reply #1 on: December 20, 2022, 12:58:25 PM »

(Just FYI - this could be modded in pretty easily, by providing a do-nothing AI plugin for the weapon when it's set to autofire.)
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