Bomb Defusal

[lean star]

Beep... beep beep..

Me & Zhrom tag teamed a bomb defusal script for a client.

[viral magnet]

This is pretty neat!

Are those wires pre-made meshes, or something you're creating at runtime?

[scenic bluff]

probably bodygroups

[lean star]

🤫 nooo... never!

[scenic bluff]

😭

[lean star]

yeah, it's 36 wires premade to save fps.
the numbers are also bodygroup - but due to engine limits its actually a second model

with all the fuse states and the indicator states, i ran out of bits for bodygroups lol

[scenic bluff]

its still really awesome!

[lean star]

thanks 😛 i think its nice, it gets a little hectic when you get low on time

[scenic bluff]

now introduce some which you dont need to cut

Troll

[lean star]

or shake the model around lmao

[carmine jetty]

You could use Cra0kalo's StudioMDL to bypass the limit

[granite belfry]

That's not.. how it works.
However, you could certainly avoid using bodygroups and use submaterials/rendertargets instead for the indicators. And if you were especially apt, generate the wire meshes dynamically

[viral magnet]

I think you might want to find a way to better explain/imply this process to the player because I’m not sure I understand it from this demonstration

If the wires need to be cut in a specific order, you might want to add a more obvious indicator for that. Numbering the wires, for example

[granite belfry]

Tbf it's a bomb, I don't imagine it's supposed to be easy on purpose

[lean star]

Well, bombs aren't naturally easy to take apart

[granite belfry]

Otherwise there's little consequence to not knowing what you're doing

[lean star]

the first step will be amazing

numbers will sequence through, the first being the set to look for so 0003 you will need to remember the 4 digits flashed the third time

then enter it to start the snip sequence

[viral magnet]

Right but this is a video game and the goal is not to replicate bombs realistically, it’s to give players a fun puzzle to complete with time pressure

[granite belfry]

Actually does give me an idea

Try flashing the first indicator to give a hint

Then flash the 2nd indicator once the 1st is snipped...

[viral magnet]

Unless there’s a tutorial separate from the bomb itself, you’re forcing the player to try and fail to defuse a bomb several times until they figure out what they need to do. That’s going to frustrate a lot of players and many of them may simply decide to leave rather than trying again

If this is part of a game mode like TTT where the punishment for failure is potentially killing yourself and many other people, that large negative outcome is likely to make people just not engage with it at all and leave it to someone else

[granite belfry]

(and that's a good thing imo)

Though I figure what you mean to say is that because the skill floor is raised to "word of mouth" people won't be on your server for very long.

[viral magnet]

In what way is it good for players to be discouraged from engaging with the game’s mechanics?

Making an unintuitive interface is not a “skill floor” it’s bad game design

[granite belfry]

I'd compare it to amogus tasks but I've never personally played that game, so.

[viral magnet]

Absolutely not. Among Us takes great care to make their tasks understandable and completable by a first-time player

And, coincidentally, it’s a hugely popular game

If the game is easy to learn, more people will learn it. It’s not more complicated than that.

[granite belfry]

Actually, no. Scratch that.

GTA Online Doomsday Act 3 hacking minigame.

Literally everyone says they can't do it

[viral magnet]

Which means developers spent a lot of time making something that no one does

[granite belfry]

Also the noose server farm on the same heist

[granite belfry]

Spent a lot of time making something that no one does [spend time on]?
Ah, you meant "people don't do."