laser guns are horrendously bad

[6SpadesLuke]

Description

Using any laser weapon just feels bad. It's not a matter of skill or lag, multiple people have had instances of this "hitscan" weapon being delayed and just acting like regular guns with big trails.

Reproduction

1. Open game
2. Game doesn't open

Expected behavior

1. Grab laser gun
2. Load laser gun (Ignore if already loaded)
3. Locate enemy and fire at enemy

Additional context

Multiple people have had complaints about this, laser weapons genuinely feel useless sometimes.

[6SpadesLuke]

bigger hit boxes would probably be the fix, in turn, lower laser damage

[6SpadesLuke]

and some entity hitboxes are just off, I see bullets phase through molerats and deathclaws a lot

[justzick]

Was this bug observed in the vanilla build of the game?

Simply increasing the hitbox won't help here, it will make it much easier for projectiles to hit. Need to rewrite collision for hitscan.

[6SpadesLuke]

I was playing on the vanilla ss14 launcher and playing in nuclear 14

[justzick]

Every time you enter a server with a different build, the launcher loads new mechanics. By vanilla build, I mean the Space Wizards build. If this problem is observed among them, it should be changed upstream, but not in this fork.

About monster hitboxes. They are not disabled, they are just quite crooked. This is already planned to be changed by #471, I think.

[6SpadesLuke]

I was playing on the n14 build then, and alright