Im not sure if this has been discussed, but heres an idea for how vehicles get damaged.

Make vehicle damage similar to how players get killed. Make it probability based with hits to specific parts have different affects.

What I mean is, close ranged LAW rocket to the back of an APC has a high chance of destruction to the entire APC. A far ranged shot to the front of an APC might just glance off and not destroy the apc. A law rocket to the apc wheel or tank track might render that track broken and disable steering in that direction, or a rocket shot may cause the turret to lose function.. That type of thing.

But until the engineer class happens that isnt even an option really.

Im on heavy pain medication so I hope this makes sense.

Hmm, I like your ideas. It would be cool to have weakness spots on the APC's. I like it

For now vehicles just act as a single collision box (+turret+cannon for APC) and of course the tyres. Having weak spots would require more collision boxes bounded to a vehicle. Of course this would be cool but it might not be the easiest task to achieve. About the damage model, there is only a healthy state and a broken state of the model but nothing inbetween. At some point we may add particles emissions with different densities to better visualize how bad a vehicle is damaged.

Thats what I figured. Well thanks for the reply!

Matt

Any update Jack if there is going to be different collision boxes yet or not?

Probably not. IF we are taking a look at this, then not in the near future anyway.

Why not make it so that a vehicle has a percentage chance to be destroyed by an explosive device. The base value starts off at, say, 20%, but as the vehicle takes damage so does the chance of destruction. It would be more fitting to how a lot of RwR gameplay revolves around pure luck and coincidence.

Woah woah woah, RWR does NOT revolve around pure luck and chance.. Unless you lose the fight. Then it's pure luck. If you win, then it's pure skill

In any case, I don't really like the idea of a 20% -> 40% progression death chance. Vehicles are one of the few things that you can rely on to work. I would enjoy having a company of heroes style damage system as described above where you can destroy the main gun/tracks/crap like that.

ComJak

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