Backblast WIP

[honest dawn]

I have been working on a backblast mod for the last couple of months and after many failed implementations I can finally show some footage of it as a proof of concept.

It destroys windows and deals some damage to vehicles from up close.
And as you can see in the video, hiding behind another will somewhat protect you.

[fiery sinew]

https://tenor.com/view/stafford-chris-evans-evan-stafford-generation-kill-durag-gif-27131386

[honest dawn]

Now I am looking into optimizing it and making sure it works in multiplayer. It is a bit of a hack solution at the moment so reliability isn't the best.

@quick oyster I improved it so that the backblast cone should be pretty close to the real life counterpart https://www.inetres.com/gp/military/infantry/antiarmor/M72/M72_blast.gif

It doesn't automatically kill you, just the closer you are to the danger zone the more likely it is that you receive fatal wounds.

[north elk]

Wicked!

[echo pilot]

amazing make sure it doesnt kill trough walls 🥲

[quick oyster]

Awesome

[raven galleon]

Baer did some work on creating debug shapes for potential backblast: #976224800391438357 message
Maybe it could be of help to you.

[honest dawn]

Thanks, I did check Baers implementation while ago but mine is a lot less sophisticated 😅
Maybe that would be next step after this version is released for testing

[honest dawn]

Will try but its hard to balance the performance

[raven galleon]

Is this based on a guts feeling or actual experience? When I was experimenting with avalanches, I was actually surprised with how much I could get away with without affecting performance too much.

[honest dawn]

A gut feeling with and experience with my bad code 😅
But yeah with Reforger you can do surprising things and everything is worth testing

I have an idea on how to approximate the cone and massively improve performance

[honest dawn]

Probably not realistic that a old wooden shed is strong enough to stop it but this is the best I can do at the moment

[echo pilot]

its good as long as we dont kill people in next room 😂

I like that you died from it, thats so good and realistic, feels like ACE back in old Arma 3 days

[hardy fog]

I love it, looks amazing

Finally get to see friendlies decintegrate from idiocy

[raven galleon]

I love how they are all huddling back there

[echo pilot]

when can we expect this to hit workshop?

[honest dawn]

Not before 1.1 hits stable at least

[echo pilot]

thanks for answer