Weapon Hangs On One Monster

SPZ1 · Post by **SPZ1** » Tue Mar 30, 2021 8:06 am

This weapon hangs on the last monster it kills. This means that you cannot kill more than one monster!!

Blue Shadow · Post by **Blue Shadow** » Tue Mar 30, 2021 12:22 pm

You're not supposed to use [wiki]A_CustomMeleeAttack[/wiki] as a melee weapon attack. You want to use [wiki]A_CustomPunch[/wiki] instead.

SPZ1 · Post by **SPZ1** » Tue Mar 30, 2021 2:06 pm

Sorry about that....

It does exhibit some strange behavior though.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Tue Mar 30, 2021 2:50 pm

A_CustomMeleeAttack is a monster function, it does not work for players.

InsanityBringer · Post by **InsanityBringer** » Tue Mar 30, 2021 4:13 pm

The strange behavior is because when a monster shoots you, that monster becomes your target, but it'll never change again, because your threshold gets set and that never decreases on players (it only decreases normally when A_Chase is called), so every time you would do a A_CustomMeleeAttack, you try to attack that single target like you're a monster.

Kinda reminds me of a fun and common dehacked thing where you gave the pistol the archvile attack function and it'd blow up the first thing that shot you. Not practical, but amusing for a few seconds

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