Pain chance factor on weapons

[Rowsol]

I could really use a way to adjust pain chance on weapons, without the need to edit monsters. A setting like PainChanceFactor would work wonders. Currently, if I want a powerful weapon to have a higher chance of stunning, my only recourse is adding a bunch of mini a_explodes to the impact.

[Zhs2]

This is a "just" tier solution but here's how you can legally hack it:

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// Do this on a puff or projectile.
override void BeginPlay()
{
	Super.BeginPlay();
	if(random(1, 100) <= 40) // 40% chance to commit pain, which of course stacks on top of any current painchances. Edit to fit your needs.
	{
		bFORCEPAIN = true;
	}
}

[Rowsol]

Appreciate the help.

[De-M-oN]

Is it also possible the opposite way?
So that I can have a faster chaingun, but the painchance stays same/similar?

[Zhs2]

The PAINLESS flag on your puffs or projectiles can be used to achieve the opposite effect.

[De-M-oN]

But that would disable pain entirely.

[Rachael]

The flag can be applied randomly based on chance. In the case of puffs you can use inheritance and swap a painless puff out for another when you need a lower pain chance for the puff.

I know this is far from ideal, it's a bit hacky, but a proper implementation ("fix" if you prefer) for this will require a full flag anyway because it would require overriding behavior that would likely break old mods without it.

[Professor Hastig]

Aren't there enough questionable pain flags already? The code looks horrendously convoluted to handle all the special exceptions that were added to it.

[Rachael]

Aren't there enough questionable pain flags already? The code looks horrendously convoluted to handle all the special exceptions that were added to it.

Actually I agree. There's absolutely *WAY* too much override-of-override-of-override-of-override-of-override cruft in the Actor class as it is and this post reminded me of that.

[Zhs2]

But that would disable pain entirely.

Yes. You do not want to place it in a puff or projectile's default field, but rather randomize whether it is true at the puff or projectile's creation, as per the above post. Just replace bFORCEPAIN with bPAINLESS.

[De-M-oN]

ahh yes that might work. thank you