Trouble in Terrorist Town - a GMod gamemode

[Bad King Urgrain]

Radio messages having normal chat colours is kind of a holdover from when they were essentially chat binds. Colour makes sense.

Not for the keybind reason though. People can just as easily aim at a player and use the "is a traitor" radiomessage the proper way. If people believe them without thinking, that has nothing to do with chat colours and everything with dumbness.

[Raneman]

Could we decrease the amount of luck in using the shotgun? It either decides to do almost no damage, an average amount of damage, or an instant kill, completely at random. Even at point blank it can do almost no damage, and vice versa for long range.

[JoTheShmo]

It's a problem with Gmod, not this gamemode.
He can't just set SWEP.Luck to a lower value or something...

[Bad King Urgrain]

Could we decrease the amount of luck in using the shotgun? It either decides to do almost no damage, an average amount of damage, or an instant kill, completely at random. Even at point blank it can do almost no damage, and vice versa for long range.

Agreed, we should go ahead with this. I suggest our first step is that I delegate this task to you. We'll get this done, I have complete faith in your ability. Keep me informed of our progress.

[Raneman]

How about a clientside option for how long you stay in first-person death view as a camera? It's so fun being magneto sticked in first person.

[Darkest_97]

Better yet how about the option to go into a body in first person? Maybe with ctrl+use, the combination for searching covertly while alive.

[Bad King Urgrain]

Seems neat, on my list now.

I'm not pushing anything into SVN for a few days because garry is pushing out patches at random to fix his previous patches.

edit: Done, but as said not in SVN yet.

[Liru]

Two things I'm not quite sure have been mentioned yet:

1. Any chance that "ghost" corpses from the previous round showing up in the next round can be fixed?

2. How about the remote crowbarring glitch, where someone whacks a corpse (or something else, mostly noticed with corpses) with a crowbar, and it pushes you in a direction?

[Bad King Urgrain]

1. Any chance that "ghost" corpses from the previous round showing up in the next round can be fixed?

This is an old issue. The "ghosts" exist only clientside, not on the server. Seems to be a gmod networking problem, and it's too random and difficult to reproduce that it's no use bugging garry about it (because he will never bother).

2. How about the remote crowbarring glitch, where someone whacks a corpse (or something else, mostly noticed with corpses) with a crowbar, and it pushes you in a direction?

Never heard about this. Does the pushed player have to be nearby? What crowbar button is used, attack or push?

[Liru]

Does the pushed player have to be nearby? What crowbar button is used, attack or push?

I'm not sure about the distance; it seems to be completely random. Sometimes I'm pretty close to the body being hit; other times I'm pretty far away from the nearest person and still get pushed occasionally.

From what I can tell, the attack button is used. The effect is that you get pushed just as if you were hit by the crowbar, but without the damage effect.

I'm trying to replicate it and record it, but it's fairly random and hard to reproduce accurately. Will post something in this thread if  I get some sort of decent footage.

[JoTheShmo]

Maybe you could disable spectators being able to ghost objects that explode or cause damage or something?
I've had a few times where a spectator rolled over to some player while in a barrel making it easier for traitors to win.

Oh also the damagelog will end up putting the damage in the wrong order due to lag sometimes.
You could label the exact times to help this?

[Marphy Black]

I've had a few times where a spectator rolled over to some player while in a barrel making it easier for traitors to win.

Why is that a bad thing? Harassing the living as much as you possibly can is the entire point of prop possession.

[JoTheShmo]

No, it's a way to give spectators something to do without really affecting gameplay very much.

[CrazyChicken]

Maybe you could disable spectators being able to ghost objects that explode or cause damage or something?
I've had a few times where a spectator rolled over to some player while in a barrel making it easier for traitors to win.

That's why you shoot explosive barrels getting possessed.

[Marphy Black]

No, it's a way to give spectators something to do without really affecting gameplay very much.

And who declared this to be the case? Are you the master of TTT rules and etiquette?

[Bad King Urgrain]

Barrel possession = part of the game. When you rage about getting killed by a barrel, you are taking the game too seriously and deserve to get killed by a barrel.

Oh also the damagelog will end up putting the damage in the wrong order due to lag sometimes.
You could label the exact times to help this?

edit: see below

[Bad King Urgrain]

SVN r903:
Spectators can spec through any corpse's eyes with alt+e.
Milliseconds in damagelog.
Fixed corpse hint showing e+alt instead of alt+e for covert searching.

[JoTheShmo]

Well is there any way to at least show that X was spectating the barrel when it exploded in the logs?

[Bad King Urgrain]

no

edit:
To be frank, every time someone suggests more of this obsessive controlling bullshit I am more inclined to strip all logging features out just to fuck with all these admins who want to play justice and all these players who can't deal with getting shot if the bullet does not have a fucking signed release form A12.b clause C.III (also known as the "I do declare I doth spot thee pulling out yonder knife"-form) attached to it.

No, I'm not going to log who looked at your head. I'm not going to log who shot a bullet while at one point having looked at a barrel within 25 units of your person. I'm not going to log who bought a knife and then selected it in his weapon menu without pulling it out but certainly considering it anyway. I'm not going to log any more shit.

Short answer: no.

[JoTheShmo]

Alright, jeez, just asking.. I was against all that logging of every time someone bought a weapon or pulled their weapon out or something too.