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Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead. A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
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Turrets need to be IR based. #52535

Closed Chroniclerope closed 1 year ago

Chroniclerope commented 3 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Current turret detection systems are too weak and perpetuate the problem of players being able to easily kill them for ammo.

Describe the solution you'd like

Turrets in game should be based off turrets in real life, using FLIR and infared torches to identify targets during any time or weather conditions, rather than the visual based systems it seems to have currently. This will solve the issue of a player being able to wait until nightfall and get within range to kill the turret with lower caliber fire arms, or even rush it down and melee it.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Turrets could also use LiDAR to have an assured aquisition range in the game, but should also be feasible to jam or blind with the correct tools and player knowledge.

Additional context

http://www.army-guide.com/eng/product4914.html For the real life example, here is the Super Aegis II, which mounts a selection of weapons but uses 12.7mm machine gun as a standard. I am aware that it is not the CROWS, but it serves as a better example of what an AI guided turret is capable of.

LeahLuong commented 3 years ago

Yes, let's fix the problem of turrets giving too juicy rewards by making them deadlier.

jim-huynh commented 3 years ago

What would the proposed detection range be? I think turrets have gone through multiple passes to balance out their deadliness with the ability for players to not 'randomly' die at 36 or 40 tiles. This range is especially important for the 50 caliber turret where it's likely a 1-hit kill.

l29ah commented 3 years ago

No IR detection would save a turret from being smashed with a survivor crouched behind the wheel of a random car.

estebandellasilva commented 3 years ago

Also would raise the question of you could use fire to trick the turrent?

DavidAGi commented 3 years ago

Yeah, i like the idear of IR. If you use it tho, hiding behind things shoud be a Realistic. Also, you coud add Plastic shelds, not for Combat but to cover Form the IR detection.

But i think laider woud be more likely, in this case the turrets have to also shoot at, every large moving (humanoid) Objekt, without an ID badge. Or the turret shoots at everything, destroying granades (without detonation) within flight.

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