/tg/Station 13

Any of you familiar with Baystation probably know this one already: an aim mode.

A button on the HUD toggles firing a ranged weapon between "aim" and "fire". "Fire" mode is just as it is now - point and click to shoot. Aim mode, however, is a little different: when targeting a person, clicking them displays a large, red message to the victim - "You are being targeted by {X}", along with an icon on the HUD (which, when scrolled over, tells you a little about your condition - like nograv, blind, deaf and so on). Those nearby can see that the person is being aimed at, and to the aggressor, a target icon appears over the victim (indicating that you're targeting them).

Whilst aiming at someone, your aiming hand is occupied - so if you do anything else with it, your aim cancels. Switching from "aim" to "fire" doesn't drop your aim, but actually firing with that hand does.

When targeting someone with a weapon, you can choose to enable movement, actions (including talking over comms) or both. If movement is enabled, the target can move freely. If actions are enabled, they can take actions freely - not including movement. If the target tries to do an action that isn't allowed by the targeter, the weapon automatically fires at the target, and the aim cancels.

TL;DR:

* Aim mode, used with any ranged weapon.
* Click someone to aim at them. If they do anything, they get shot and the aim drops.
* Targeter can choose to let the target move and/or take actions.
* The target has a big message shown to them; everyone nearby sees a small message.
* You can target two people at once (with a gun in each hand), but this leaves you vulnerable.
* You can target someone with one hand, and shoot them normally with the other.
* When targeting someone, doing something with that hand drops the aim.
* Now you too can take hostages! Don't move, or the bunny gets it.

It's still more effective just to shoot them without aim mode, if you want to kill them - because either way you have to click them. If they already have a weapon out, you can still be shot, but they'll shoot you too.

This won't work here with anything but tasers. Our guns are too low damage, and due to our medical system, won't pulp peoples heads like they do on Bay. Useless.

It wouldn't be a good combat strategy for non-stun weapons - but aiming a revolver at someone, which autofires if they move (and then you can just fire again to put them into crit)? That'd work. Perhaps if the aim continued after the target takes an action (and gets shot)? So a Security Officer being targeted could draw their taser and fire, but they'd be hit with two .357 rounds.

(Also, we can port Baymed as well, but that's probably too much for one PR)

Sounds neat, could be used for actual roleplay.

Perhaps people with bionic arms can circumvent the reflex shot when you try to shoot someone while being targeted.

IE: Quick draw like a motherfucker with your bionic arm to avoid being shot.

[slippery slope fallacy argument drawing on fear of degenerate behaviour from servers using such game mechanics]

I don't see it working here, since the only reason it's effective on bay is RP. It's very easy to just run to the side and return fire without getting hit. It would actually be even less useful with tasers because as soon as they sidestep you've wasted 1/5th of your ammo on an impossible shot, and with any weapon, exposed yourself to return fire while you switch back to normal firing mods.

TL;DR it only works because highRP and would be pretty useless here

sounds pretty cool
i can see myself using this as sec when asking people to come quietly instead of just running up and firing

Would need to autohit them to be useful here.

lumipharon wrote:Sounds neat, could be used for actual roleplay.

roleplay on tg WILL NEVER HAPPEN. this meme is so forced smh

PKPenguin321 wrote:sounds pretty cool
i can see myself using this as sec when asking people to come quietly instead of just running up and firing

Laff, I used this on a baycode server once. Cap trusted me and had given me an SMG because suspected mutiny. We're gathering near escape, radio call comes out yelling to stop someone they come into my field of view so I click the aiming reticle on 'em.

Dumbass didn't stop running and bay doesn't cancel after the shot so they got four rounds in the face, then were maximum salt to the admins because whaa whaa whaa they didn't rp their fighting why does a cargotech know how to use an smg etc

I said "my character is inexperienced with firearms and panicfired because no trigger discpline" and they were like "lol k valid"