Nightshade

[HellDragon-HK]

Issues and notes on the Nightshade from in-game testing

UT2004 Draw - NA UT3 Draw - 1.0? UT3Port Draw - 1.0 / 1.0 looks correct

Replaces Axon Goliath (On WAR-Downtown_Necris at least) Has no headlights but neither does the one in UT3 from what I can tell Other than some minor issues this one feels more complete & ready for prime time

• ANIMATION RELATED

  • [ ] Pressing jump button enters deploy mode which does work but doesn't seem you can aim like it is in UT3 (side to side)
  • [ ] Nightshade in UT2004 when on the ground empty is clipping into the ground and needs to be raised up a little, the bottom spikes should be visible as well as that cylinder section should be fully visible

• GAME PLAY RELATED

  • [ ] Bluestreak reward from using Nightshade turret shouldn't occur right?

• VISUAL EFFECTS RELATED

  • [ ] While not invisible on UT3 it has Manta like dust blow under it, not in UT2004 though

UT3 Nightshade Movement Video https://drive.google.com/open?id=1BkvsG993td9ZjKUC0PbZAzlKwdmmiRxZ

[Unre-Alex]

Nightshade doesn't have functioning stasis field.

[HellDragon-HK]

Ah yeah forgot I meant to list those, if I remember right the deployables had a Coming Soon in Next Release message so wasn't sure it was needed to be listed

[GreatEmerald]

Hah, that message is by @100GPing100, but it kind of depends on someone coding the thing. The deployables should probably be their own issue though.

[HellDragon-HK]

I was going to test and add each one to the Nightshade or Stealthbender list when I got to those vehicles (except I can't use the Stealthbender at this time) but if you want it separate I'll do that unless someone beats me to it

[zeluisping]

@GreatEmerald @HellDragon-HK You guys talking about deployables as in weapon like? If so, the actual deploy is already done, would be a matter of adding a new "weapon" that would pawn them on fire. Thing is the deployables in UT3 do not let you change to other weapons, I don't know how trivial this would be to implement in UT2004.

In regards to the stasis field as mentioned by @Unre-Alex I did not find a way for this to be implemented at the time. The way it works in UT3 is that basically everything has a property that is their game speed modifier and the engine uses this to calculate their delta time, in UT2004 we do not have anything like this (at least I did not find anything at the time) and I could not think of a way to implement it.

[HellDragon-HK]

Not being able to switch from a deployable I accidentally picked up is something I don't like about UT3 but I guess if it has to be in UT2004 for consistency it's a moot point.

Freon game type has some slow down when partly frozen still doesn't it, would anything like that be useful to check into?

[GreatEmerald]

Hm, yes, also the placement is a bit awkward in that case, should it be in UT3Weapons, UT3Vehicles, or perhaps UT3Common... I guess the latter if there is anything that can be shared with the other weapons. But anyway, the Nightshade puts already deployed things, so that's not actually what this issue is about.

I can imagine a slow field affecting nothing but movement speed would be a close enough analogue. Still needs to be coded, though.

[zeluisping]

Another bug for the record (already fixed on my local branch) you're able to "switch mine" while the arm is deploying, this results in weird undefined behaviour because the mine that is actually deployed is already on the arm, and it does not change. Either way, fix coming.

[HellDragon-HK]

I'm not sure which side this falls under, Weapons or Vehicles but I'm getting the Bluestreak reward from using the Nightshade's turret and I'm almost positive that shouldn't happen.