2) Is it possible for an attachment to display what weapons can accept it?

Anyway I'm going to keep quiet now because I just noticed Headrock's admonishment about not posting questions.

Well now that you're working on interactive stuff, would it be possible to open doors while standing one tile to the left or right from the tile where you normally stand when opening a door?

2)3.6 right and 17.4 up (why the total Y deviation jumped from 1.1 in the previous case 17.4, while the Y deviation of an M4 is only 4)

4)7,1 right and 29 up (OK, seems that counterforce was used)
5)8,4 right and 13.7 up (was it a counterforce again that moved the barrel down)

2,44 of unexplained difference

By the way is it possible to externalize the gun range multiplier the way damage multipliers are done? If am not making a mistake this is the factor an AI considers while deciding whether to attack or not?

For example I have seen a couple of times that every next shot before counter force was applied the gun moved downwards instead of moving upwards (Y deviation was 5, range about 20 tiles). Will hunt for the screenshots.

As for the first balance impression scopes seem to be overpowered.

The un-scoped weapons seem to be under-powered

The worst thing is that as since AI is mostly unequipped with scopes the player receives a considerable advantage.

Will try to play with normal distance and scope magnification settings.

By the way is it possible to externalize the gun range multiplier the way damage multipliers are done?

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If am not making a mistake this is the factor an AI considers while deciding whether to attack or not?

Actually in the past the AI checked for a minimum CTH of >=30. Below that it wouldn't shoot. I don't know what Headrock did to these formulas.

Currently, a 9 mm bullet seems to hit the ground at ~16 tiles (160 m). That seems a bit too soon, and the trajectory does look a bit strange - with a very sudden drop at the end.

Does damage calculation currently account for a bullet hitting well beyond its effective range?

So far I have only accounted the bug Ormus mentioned about damage not being dealt. Situation is I'm on a roof shooting down at a red shirt 12 tiles away with my Ruger mini-14, I hit the red shirt in the head with a 5.56mm round for 0 damage and he was not wearing any armour. I was not able to reproduce that situation again.

Also have had the same situation as Alex with early red shirts not firing back due the low chance to hit and no cover closer to my position allowing me to just turkey shoot them. Changing the coolness values like you mentioned is a good idea.

some SMG's like the Owen .45 and Thompson that have 3x 8y 3/5bap recoil seem too powerful for mercs

also it is possible to shoot over buildings and hit redshirts!

Another point: I have tried to use decimal numbers for auto and burst penalties instead of integers.

I currently have no idea why damage is working strangely. Please note however, that the JA2 Beta has lots of new features regarding damage resistance which I am not 100% familiar with. Still, I'm unable to reliably reproduce damage inconsistencies...

If one of you manages to get a savegame where the next shot reliably produces less damage than it should, please upload it together with your JA2_Options.INI file.

Also have had the same situation as Alex with early red shirts not firing back due the low chance to hit and no cover closer to my position allowing me to just turkey shoot them. Changing the coolness values like you mentioned is a good idea.

Hehehehe that's a caveat I'm not sure how to solve. On the one hand everyone was asking for the ability to shoot enemies without a direct LOS (for instance, shooting through walls). On the other hand, when that is allowed, you can hit enemies behind obstacles if they are also outside range, by firing upwards. If someone can come up with a good solution to this, I'll try to implement it.

They should be, compared to non-scopes weapons, at a range. In other words, there are two places where scopes can be outdone by non-scoped weapons: at close range, and foregripped/bipoded automatics. At close range the scopes are rubbish, and properly-stabilized automatic can hit a target at high range even without a scope (but with lots of bullets spent). So yes, the role of scopes is now much more important, as well as using the correct scope for the given range.

Hehehehe that's a caveat I'm not sure how to solve. On the one hand everyone was asking for the ability to shoot enemies without a direct LOS (for instance, shooting through walls). On the other hand, when that is allowed, you can hit enemies behind obstacles if they are also outside range, by firing upwards. If someone can come up with a good solution to this, I'll try to implement it.

It's not just UDB that converts them to integers - the system READS them as integers. Decimal values are pointless here. I may implement them in the future, but there simply isn't room enough in UDB to show decimal point numbers like that (the bonus column would need to show things like "+1.2" when there's only room for 3 characters at most).

Increaseng the "normal shooting distance" from 70 to 160 does not give any changes to CTH cursor (using iron sights).

At the same time bullets seem to fly a lot more accurate (or it is a pure luck).

Changes while using the sniper scope seem to be displayed properly (CTH decreases for a 10-x scope at 25 tiles)

Those beasts were armed with AR. All my team died.

If we dramatically decrease the successful hit statistics (as it is now while playing without the scopes comparing to the vanilla CTH system) we make the enemy extremely dangerous.

As a fact 2 cores of our tactics does not work now:

1) We are not sure we will take out this particular red shirt guy within a turn
2) It is very likely that he will hit someone (on his own turn)

The fight against an enemy armed with M16 like guns would be a nightmare.

I am afraid that massive usage of scopes would kill part of the fun. But we have to check it

The idea, however, was to do the same thing for the use of scopes, so that you don't suddenly go back to being uber-accurate once they appear.

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Subject: Re: HAM 4.0 Alpha Testing Thread

I have to find some time to play Ham4. thanks Rocky.

All the deciding factors reside in the attachments.

What I see coming with NCTH is the increased importance of grenades and bombs (aiming at the ground is not affected by enemy movement).

My impression is that enemies and militia can throw their grenades very far and that could cause a problem.

Grappling for the gun is a very good idea, making the HtH trait valuable. Would that option depend on available action points ?

My favorite thing about all of these changes is that now there will be more of a reason to have second and even third weapons.

I'm curious how the role of shotguns will change as well, hopefully for the better.