[Switch Weapon] BOOM!!!

[SpiritOfOnyx]

Has anyone else experienced this unique glitch? If I change weapons while the conditions are just right (i.e. impulsing while an enemy bot is shooting at me and attempting to kick me I think, hard to tell) you EXPLODE IN A RAGING BALL OF FIRE! (But you don't die ) And have the HUD gun anim of holding your previous weap, without the weapon



Is this just the eccentric personality of my dell manifesting, or is this something someone else has seen before?

Non-SVN version 1.1 that permanently says "Happy Birthday Hirato!" in the bottom right corner of the main menu

[TheLastProject]

Huh, the only thing I know of is if you spam R and the LMB on weapons. This wasn't a bug, but a design choice that was removed in the SVN.

[SpiritOfOnyx]

There's an excellent chance I'm spazzing out and hitting the R key as wall as the Q and possibly E keys.
My only question is, why?

[TheLastProject]

There's an excellent chance I'm spazzing out and hitting the R key as wall as the Q and possibly E keys.
My only question is, why?

They added a chance for the weapon to explode in your face if you would cancel a reload. They probably thought it was a good or cool idea. At any rate, don't worry, it'll be removed in 1.2 :P

[SpiritOfOnyx]

ROTFLOL
Hehe, my tiny little pistol exploded because I stopped reloading it, and then my charector's just standing there like he's still holding the pistol thinking "WTF just happened?"
Made me laugh the first couple of times, then got slightly irritating

[ZeroKnight]

That's Reload Jamming. It is off by default in SVN, and will remain as such in v1.2
There was a small debate a while ago, that you can find starting at the end of page 2 in the "Favorite Weapon" thread about this.

If you don't want it to happen, just use "reloadjamming 0". Not all servers have this implemented though, so you might have to deal with it. However, I believe all WazuClan servers (I know it's at least one or two) have weaponjamming off.

And that Happy Birthday message is an Easter Egg in Red Eclipse. It'll be gone tomorrow :P It's just a nice little tribute to the people who have dedicated a great deal to Red Eclipse ^_^

Many have contributed maps, and other various things to Red Eclipse. The people whose birthdays will show up are: Ahven, Quin, Geartrooper, W!CKED, c0rdawg, LedInfrared, Dazza, and Hirato.

You can find this starting at Line 766 in src/engine/main.cpp, where it also includes Halloween and Friday the 13th :P

[OFFTOPIC]
That avatar of yours looks veeeery familiar ;D

[EDIT]
It occured to me that not all people like to see 25 posts per page, so for those using the default, it would be around page 3 or 4... either way, here's a permalink: viewtopic.php?f=53&t=1472&start=25#p20948

[SpiritOfOnyx]

Next time I've got someone in my face, I'm gonna spam reload jam and explode just for the kicks.

/offtopic: It made me nostalgic for the old days when I wasn't a developer lol. I saw myself in it