Wall Melting and You.

FatalEYES · Post by **FatalEYES** » 16 Aug 2015, 20:03

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary): So something that really bothers me as a designated Spitter is the lack of ability to melt the thing you want. Say you're in the hydroponics dome and you want to melt a tray just south of you, however, when you select it, you actually spit on the tray just north of you. This peeves me and I'm sure I'm not alone. I can only recommend that the selection takes priority of whichever direction you are facing. Say you're the northeast corner of a room with walls, if you are facing east, you should spit on the east wall, not the north which has happened to me numerous times. This may be a bug, I have no idea. I just think the server would benefit from having this done.

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole): No more (seemingly) random chance of which object you spit your corrosive acid on.

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc): Well if this can't be done, maybe adding each respective wall to the drop-down menu like..."Wall(North), Wall(South), Wall(East)" if you were backed into a dead end tunnel in that situation. Just a few rough ideas.

Implementation (Optional, if you have an idea how to implement it): Some coding stuff that I honestly have no idea if it's even possible.

sirnat · Post by **sirnat** » 16 Aug 2015, 20:14

It urks me too, I was sentinel/spitter for the first time today (I usually play the combat class (runner)) and was gonna infiltrate sneakily past marines when it made me spit on a wall to the right of me instead of below and it revealed where we were coming from.

It'd also be nice for the acid to not be seen from the adjacent side of the wall to avoid meta, because good lord do marines set up tables in a split second after putting acid on a wall

TopHatPenguin · Post by **TopHatPenguin** » 16 Aug 2015, 20:49

Yeah there needs to be a way of actually targeting the wall you want...

I mean as an example say you are in maint and you are surrounded by normal walls and the one wall you want is in the middle of this so you go and use your acid then, BAM! you are melting the wrong wall.

FatalEYES · Post by **FatalEYES** » 16 Aug 2015, 21:32

Mr. Penguin wrote:Yeah there needs to be a way of actually targeting the wall you want...

I mean as an example say you are in maint and you are surrounded by normal walls and the one wall you want is in the middle of this so you go and use your acid then, BAM! you are melting the wrong wall.

Literally just happened. Keep in mind, I was in the corner of the inside of the building.

The_Mockingjay_ · Post by **The_Mockingjay_** » 16 Aug 2015, 21:51

Can't you right click something and have the option to melt it? I might be wrong.

TopHatPenguin · Post by **TopHatPenguin** » 16 Aug 2015, 21:55

The_Mockingjay_ wrote:Can't you right click something and have the option to melt it? I might be wrong.

Sadly not, that could be implemented to solve this if need be.

Surrealistik · Post by **Surrealistik** » 17 Aug 2015, 00:11

+1. Absolutely hate not having the ability to choose

Mitchs98 · Post by **Mitchs98** » 17 Aug 2015, 02:03

Mr. Penguin wrote: Sadly not, that could be implemented to solve this if need be.

What? Yes you can, unless it was changed recently.

The_Mockingjay_ · Post by **The_Mockingjay_** » 17 Aug 2015, 02:20

I could of sworn you can right click something to melt it, unless it got changed today or something.

Gentlefood · Post by **Gentlefood** » 17 Aug 2015, 02:40

+1 Cannot stand this, have to fandangle my position every time.

FatalEYES · Post by **FatalEYES** » 17 Aug 2015, 02:45

Mitchs98 wrote: What? Yes you can, unless it was changed recently.

I just tested it, you can right-click to spit Neuro or Heavy Acid, but not the corrosive acid.

The_Mockingjay_ · Post by **The_Mockingjay_** » 17 Aug 2015, 02:59

FatalEYES wrote: I just tested it, you can right-click to spit Neuro or Heavy Acid, but not the corrosive acid.

I guess it got changed then, not sure why it would be though.

Mitchs98 · Post by **Mitchs98** » 17 Aug 2015, 14:49

The_Mockingjay_ wrote: I guess it got changed then, not sure why it would be though.

Odd...I remember right clicking to melt guns last week.

Astralenigma · Post by **Astralenigma** » 19 Aug 2015, 07:22

I think that all acid was supposed to be targeting with a right-click so I think this might be a bug.

Derpislav · Post by **Derpislav** » 19 Aug 2015, 08:32

There was right-click melt in pre-alpha, that I know for sure. And I think it worked week or two ago on alpha, too.

Abbysynth · Post by **Abbysynth** » 19 Aug 2015, 12:18

If there is no Corrosive Acid (Variable) when you right click something it is a bug.

Gentlefood · Post by **Gentlefood** » 19 Aug 2015, 12:20

Abbysynth wrote:If there is no Corrosive Acid (Variable) when you right click something it is a bug.

Ah. Well this should be moved to the bug section then.

The_Mockingjay_ · Post by **The_Mockingjay_** » 19 Aug 2015, 16:08

http://i.imgur.com/AmP8IVY.png

FatalEYES · Post by **FatalEYES** » 19 Aug 2015, 16:33

The_Mockingjay_ wrote:http://i.imgur.com/AmP8IVY.png

I honestly didn't have the option of that the other day, but I'll be checking again today. Odd...

The_Mockingjay_ · Post by **The_Mockingjay_** » 19 Aug 2015, 16:45

FatalEYES wrote: I honestly didn't have the option of that the other day, but I'll be checking again today. Odd...

This has been possible as long as I can recall.

FatalEYES · Post by **FatalEYES** » 19 Aug 2015, 20:21

After checking again last round, it seems that you are able to actually right-click and acid a wall like that. Which is really odd because I tried yesterday on multiple rounds and aliens and it just didn't give me the option. Either way, this thread should be closed as it is currently something you can already do within the game. Whether or not it's slightly bugged will have to be left up to time to tell.

Post by **apophis775** » 24 Nov 2015, 17:18

right-click wall, click corrosive acid?

I've never done it any other way...

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