Lay Down via Keybind

[Mnemotechnician]

Description

Adds a way to lay down/crawl using a keybind (R by default) similarly to ss13. It has the same effects as falling down after slipping or buckling to a bed, except you don't drop items while doing so and can (very slowly) move around. This opens new gameplay and roleplay possibilities.

You can only toggle standing/laying once in 2.5 seconds (this cooldown is to prevent pro gamers from spamming it). It shows a small popup to everyone. If the attempt fails for whatever reason - being buckled, sleeping, stunned, or anything else - another popup is shown that's only visible to you.

It's been tested and made sure that the system works correctly with buckling, sleeping, being stunned, and shocked.

Media

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Changelog

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• add: You can now lie down and stand up at will! The default keybind for it is "R", but it can be changed in settings.

[DEATHB4DEFEAT]

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[DEATHB4DEFEAT]

Is any of this from CD?

[Mnemotechnician]

Is any of this from CD?

No

[Mnemotechnician]

I do have a minor remark to add:

This can seriously affect combat gameplay. By default, bullets fly over downed bodies unless the shooter targets the downed with their cursor. This opens up new combat possibilities, such as dropping on the ground to avoid enemy fire, or building a line of people lying on the ground to defend against an attacker (such as nukies). It should seriously benefit defensive tactics while not giving much advantage to offensive because of how slow crawling is.

[WarMechanic]

laying down will be a big W for disposable turrets in nukies

[Mnemotechnician]

Most issues were addressed now.

[WarMechanic]

bug found:
laying down makes you immune to turrets

[Mnemotechnician]

bug found: laying down makes you immune to turrets

Like what, do they not target you or do their bullets shoot over you?

[WarMechanic]

Like what, do they not target you or do their bullets shoot over you?

their bullets shoot over because they cant target hit your corpse body

[Mnemotechnician]

Should be an easy enough fix, I'll look into it later

[Mnemotechnician]

That used to happen because NPCCombatSystem never updated GunComponent.Target before shooting, so theoretically you could make a turret waste all its ammo by placing a bed in front of it and laying down on it. I fixed it now. Same happened with syndicate guards and other hostile ranged NPCs.

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[Adrian16199]

I do have a minor remark to add:

This can seriously affect combat gameplay. By default, bullets fly over downed bodies unless the shooter targets the downed with their cursor. This opens up new combat possibilities, such as dropping on the ground to avoid enemy fire, or building a line of people lying on the ground to defend against an attacker (such as nukies). It should seriously benefit defensive tactics while not giving much advantage to offensive because of how slow crawling is.

just how ss13 gods intended, adding more to the combat, loving it.

However a question
Will this PR allow the keybind to be changed if needed?

[Mnemotechnician]

However a question Will this PR allow the keybind to be changed if needed?

Yes. Wouldn't be much of a keybind if it didn't.

[VMSolidus]

Same happened with syndicate guards and other hostile ranged NPCs.
Wizmoment. Hostile ranged NPCs are unused in Wizcode, it's something I implemented(and also present on frontier tbh, they'd probably want this fix as well).

I'll be honest, in my sleep deprived state when this appeared on my phone(Still horrendously sleep deprived, I'm hoping I can get more than 4 hours of sleep tonight), I actually had a small panic attack when I saw the phrase, "Fixed shooting over bodies", and was like, "OH GOD NO, I NEEEDED THAT FOR LAMIA".

I'm relieved you aren't removing it and are legitimately fixing an actual issue where NPCs can't target people on the ground.

[DangerRevolution]

Going to test this tonight but the sauce looks good; very interesting to see this.

[Aviu00]

This has some problems.

1. When someone moves to the right while lying down, their character faces up, which looks ugly.
2. If you are lying down, you are still moving at full speed while using a jetpack. This would make any space battle with jetpacks an absolute hell because you have to aim at the person you want to hit.
3. If you have a shake intensity above 0 (it is 100 by default), your camera will recoil every time you shoot, making it hard to aim at lying people with high fire rate weapons. This issue is not really related to the lying system, but it would still be a huge problem if someone lies down during combat.
4. You can lie down and hide under corpses and stuff, making it almost impossible to aim at you unless the attacker rotates their camera.

[Mnemotechnician]

This has some problems.

1. When someone moves to the right while lying down, their character faces up, which looks ugly.

2. If you are lying down, you are still moving at full speed while using a jetpack. This would make any space battle with jetpacks an absolute hell because you have to aim at the person you want to hit.

3. If you have a shake intensity above 0 (it is 100 by default), your camera will recoil every time you shoot, making it hard to aim at lying people with high fire rate weapons. This issue is not really related to the lying system, but it would still be a huge problem if someone lies down during combat.

4. You can lie down and hide under corpses and stuff, making it almost impossible to aim at you unless the attacker rotates their camera.

Right, I agree with the first point, but there's only so much I can do without introducing fundamental changes to standing system. I can fix the second issue by disallowing jetpacking.
I have no idea what to do with 3 and 4.

[DEATHB4DEFEAT]

3. If you have a shake intensity above 0 (it is 100 by default), your camera will recoil every time you shoot, making it hard to aim at lying people with high fire rate weapons. This issue is not really related to the lying system, but it would still be a huge problem if someone lies down during combat.

4. You can lie down and hide under corpses and stuff, making it almost impossible to aim at you unless the attacker rotates their camera.

These are pretty funny and fine imo.

[VMSolidus]

This has some problems.

1. When someone moves to the right while lying down, their character faces up, which looks ugly.

2. If you are lying down, you are still moving at full speed while using a jetpack. This would make any space battle with jetpacks an absolute hell because you have to aim at the person you want to hit.

3. If you have a shake intensity above 0 (it is 100 by default), your camera will recoil every time you shoot, making it hard to aim at lying people with high fire rate weapons. This issue is not really related to the lying system, but it would still be a huge problem if someone lies down during combat.

4. You can lie down and hide under corpses and stuff, making it almost impossible to aim at you unless the attacker rotates their camera.

1. is hilariously enough how it works in SS13, so this is fine.
2. You can subscribe to OnParentChanged to check if someone enters space, and forcibly stand them back up if that is the case. You can also check the entity's TransformComponent via Transform(EntityUid), and from there is a couple ways of determining whether or not the entity is in space, and simply prevent them from laying down if that is the case. Maybe give people a funny popup saying, "There is no Down to lay against in space". I'm sure someone would laugh at that.
3. This is fine. I'm pretty sure it's mostly counteracted by the limited mobility you have when laying down, which in turn makes you an easy target anyway(even if they have to click on you directly). I like this because it essentially enables people to have an ability to take cover against shooters from outside of their vision range.
4. I actually kind of expected hiding under corpses from gunfire to be a thing? I think this is pretty cool.

[Mnemotechnician]

You can subscribe to OnParentChanged to check if someone enters space, and forcibly stand them back up if that is the case.

Did exactly that, seems to work.