Feature Suggestion

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Suggestions

Many things are suggested on our discord server. Every so often people ask if they ever get implemented or noticed by the development team and yes, they do but many times its counterpoints outweigh the benefits of said suggestion so they don't end up getting implemented and thrown into oblivion.

I'm opening this thread to house future suggestions and to clean up the issues tab.

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Gas Mask Toggle

With Combat Extended smoke mechanics, fighting--or even trying to escape from--even moderate sized fires in enclosed spaces can be quite dangerous in short order, as pawns are quickly overcome by smoke inhalation. As a result, it would be practical in many cases for a pawn to have a gas mask handy for emergencies--especially since pawns will currently wander into smoke filled areas. However, due to the stat impacts of wearing a gas mask, they're impractical to wear around.

The solution, then, would be a UI gizmo only visible for pawns who have a gas mask. It would have three options:

• Disabled: Pawns will not wear a gas mask. If they're wearing one, they will store it in their inventory.
• Enabled: Pawns will don the gas mask in their inventory.
• Automatic: Pawns will automatically put on the gas mask in their inventory if they enter an area with hazardous levels of smoke. Once they're no longer in a hazardous area, they will remove the mask and put it back in their inventory (this should be a fairly low priority job, so we don't see colonists stopping in the middle of firefighting to take off their mask because the smoke on the tile they're standing on disappeared).

My thought would be that this could be controlled by an apparelTag, or something like that. It would also probably be worthwhile to have some functionality to ensure that pawns will choose the best gas mask in their inventory (e.g putting on a true Gas Mask rather than a Primitive Gas Mask), and to make sure they're not removing a piece of headgear that already completely protects them from smoke (like a power armor helmet) when in Automatic mode.

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Non-Colonist Loadout Framework

With the surge in player-controlled, non-colonists weapon users that can be equipped with ranged weapons, a common problem has arisen, these non-colonists usually don't have an inventory and currently there's no way to keep these pawns supplied with ammo for their weapons.

Most prominent mods in this area:

• Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoid
• RimSec - Security
• What The Hack

Currently the most straightforward solution to this issue is to directly plug these pawns into the loadout system, allowing the player to manually control the ammo supply. At present, these pawns are generally not plugged into that system or to the related inventory jobs. Ideally, a new framework for this type of pawns could be developed with a simplified interface that can be applied to these pawns to quickly make them compatible, rather than creating individual solutions for them.

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Improved Ammo System

• Simplified Ammo: Condense all pistol, rifle, and other calibers into simple generic ammo
  • Pistol, Shotgun, Rifle ammo
  • Light, Medium, Heavy ammo
  • Light Charge, Medium Charge, Heavy Charge ammo
• No Ammo: Allow players to swap between different ammo types FMJ / HP / AP / AP-I / AP-HE.

To be expanded (Feel free to edit).

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The best approach I figured is to set a 'SimplerAmmo' tag that is checked instead of the ammo itself in AmmoSetDef. Projectiles are unchanged, so the same ammo object can be used for multiple ammo types. Originally I made the SimplerAmmo refer to other existing ammo instead of a generic ammo object, making the ammo system simpler rather than completely without character.

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Weapon parts

MOVED TO #948

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Codebase clashes

• [2:19 PM] NumberOfImposterAttempts: Karim suggested CompAmmoUser might not be necessary anymore with the system, but lots of the codebase refers to that comp

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Smoke/Soot (#75)

Soot

• Start to dissipate into filth once the source of the flames has been removed.
• Make all smoke dissipate into filth, rather than only very low densities.
• Smoke particles tend to be sticky due to the tannins and tar in them. Once the colloid has settled, it generally becoems a hard-to-remove sticky mess.
• There's also the ashy stuff that's super flimsy and jumps up.

A/C

• Separate air cleaner with a filter for dealing with heavy smoke
• Don't know if it's worth making the AC break down. Bit of a hard sell that cleaning smoke should consume components.
• Filter insert
• Could add a filter option to ACs that would either:
  1.- Increase their breakdown chance as it clears smoke
  2.- A "filter" that needs to be cleared