How Smoke Bombs Should Work! Code Included!

[Jarold]

We all know about the horrific FPS bombs.. I mean smoke bombs. Lets face it they stink, the only viable tactic it has is making someone's FPS drop in a fight. They should be reworked to look more like this...

If they were made like this they should be much more expensive, and probably two slots.

Also if possible make the smoke not a particle effect so that people can't see through it by turning it off in options. ( That might be either really hard, impossible, or dumb. )

http://www.nordinvasion.com/  is where you can get the code or scroll down.


Very big thanks to the NI Dev Huscarlton_Banks!

Jarold smells.

The bombs are actually scripted for teleporting if there's an agent near the landing spot or dealing nonlethal flinching area damage, but that's probably not a good idea for cRPG so I left that part out.

Code: (module_particle_systems.py, think I took this from a magic OSP pack) [Select]

("dummy_smoke_big", psf_billboard_3d|psf_randomize_size, "prt_mesh_dust_1",

500, 9, 15, -0.05, 10.0, 0.2, #num_particles, life, damping, gravity_strength, turbulance_size, turbulance_strength

(0.1, 0.9), (1, 0), #alpha keys

(0.1, 0.8), (1, 0.8), #red keys

(0.1, 0.7),(1, 0.7), #green keys

(0.1, 0.6), (1, 0.7), #blue keys

(0.0, 5), (1, 15.0), #scale keys

(3, 3, 5), #emit box size

(0, 0, 0.05), #emit velocity

2, #emit dir randomness

),

Code: (module_items.py) [Select]

[(ti_on_missile_hit, [
(store_trigger_param_1, ":agent_no"),
(position_set_z_to_ground_level, pos1),
(particle_system_burst, "psys_dummy_smoke_big", pos1, 35),

[Dalfador]

Yes, this will allow people to emerge from smoke as a badass.

ALSO, add a poll perhaps...?

[Jarold]

Added poll.

[WITCHCRAFT]

I agree that they are currently useless. Your solution is kinda overdoing it though.

Occasionally, I do see someone throw them in a doorway or an alley to some use. But the fact that turning off particle effects "removes" them means that you can use them with no loss of vision yourself, and that your enemy can turn them off too.

[Joseph Porta]

i heard system limitation somewhere

[no_rules_just_play]

will this give lags like the current smokebombs?

[Ubereem]

dude your arm is greeater than john elway!

[Jarold]

The smoke didn't lag me and I have a shit laptop.

[CrazyCracka420]

Would be nice, but I play with particle effects off (nice riding a +3 courser and not having to deal with all the rain particles), so smoke bombs don't even register on my end.

[Korgoth]

Smoke bombs should just be deleted. No idea why they are still in... I remember firebombs where put in to stop the XP BARN madness when the xp system only gave you xp for being near a kill so people camped barns and houses for max grind. Now I dont understand why they were kept in but changed to smoke bombs..

[Kafein]

Honestly,  think smoke bombs should become actual deadly grenades (like before ?). Of course that should make them godlike tier when it comes to upkeep.

[Jarold]

So are you suggesting the grenades like in With Fire and Sword? Only really kills on a direct hit and hurts others in a small radius. It should take up 2 slots for one grenade if this does happen. I'm not asking for grenades to be put in, i'm just saying what I would like to see if they were added.

[no_rules_just_play]

grenades? fuck no. its already so easy to push through a 3 layered shieldwall and now you want to add grenades so people can just throw them into the shieldwall? grenades are killing wfas, people just equip them to troll around and throw these things around

[Lizard_man]

Just a simple video I made demonstrating how it should look.

What it actually looks like...

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[Phew]

Ability to control "fog of war" would be really cool, and would open up all kinds of cool tactics. But right now most people just turn off particle effects.