Searchlights do not attract aliens unlike gun lights

FakeFishGames / Barotrauma

A 2D online multiplayer game taking place in a submarine travelling through the icy depths of Jupiter's moon Europa.

http://www.barotraumagame.com/

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Searchlights do not attract aliens unlike gun lights #12265

Closed mygamingaccount closed 2 months ago

mygamingaccount commented 1 year ago

Disclaimers

[X] I have searched the issue tracker to check if the issue has already been reported.
[ ] My issue happened while using mods.

What happened?

Gun turrets attract aliens with vision from a great distance.

The same is not true for searchlights, aliens ignore those.

Reproduction steps

Spawn crawlers near a sub that has the gun lights off, searchlights on. Use freecam and aitargets to inspect the AI.

Toggle the gun lights

Expected: crawlers attack the source of bright light regardless of what it's attached to

Instead they ignore the searchlight.

Bug prevalence

Happens every time I play

Version

v1.0.21.0

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Which operating system did you encounter this bug on?

Linux

Relevant error messages and crash reports

No response

mygamingaccount commented 1 year ago

Searchlights lack the <aitarget> tag

itchyOwl commented 1 year ago

Seems to be unimplemented. Thanks for reporting it!

itchyOwl commented 1 year ago

Implemented in Regalis11/Barotrauma-development@0dbe382.

Jasontti commented 1 year ago

Tested. Removed turrets, crawlers are attracted to searchlight same as turrets. Closing ticket.

Regalis11 commented 11 months ago

This seems to have caused a new issue https://github.com/Regalis11/Barotrauma/issues/12818, so I decided to revert the fix for now. Tagging the searchlight as a turret could cause other side-effects as well, we should at least check it doesn't affect upgrades or swapping.

itchyOwl commented 2 months ago

Simple steps to repro:

Open Humpback in the sub editor.
Delete the front turrets, so that they don't attract the monsters.
Start the game in the test mode.
Enter power, debugai and freecam commands in the console.
Spawn a crawler in front of the sub. Teleport it closer to the sub until it spots the searchlight. The monster should target the searchlight until it sees the walls (or some other target). If the sub doesn't move, the monster might not immediately see the walls either, in which case it may fall in the idle mode for a short period, because it fails to attack the searchlight and hence ignores it.

itchyOwl commented 2 months ago

Addressed in FakeFishGames/Barotrauma-development#5557.

Rokvach commented 2 months ago

Tested, working correctly. Can be merged and closed.