Executions

[Veritius]

About the PR

Adds an Execute verb that lets you murder cuffed people (or yourself!) with melee weapons or guns.
This is mostly for dramatic/roleplay purposes, such as a televised execution of heads by the revolutionaries.

Clumsy people can also botch executions and hurt themselves instead.

I've tested it, you can indeed play Russian Roulette. Or Buckshot Roulette.

Why / Balance

All executions do 9x more damage than the weapon would do usually, and ignore resistances.
Executions have a doafter and cannot miss as long as the doafter completes.

Melee executions are balanced by their attack speed. Faster attack speed means a faster execution.
Gun executions always take six seconds. Might change this idk.

Technical details

Any entity with the Sharp and MeleeWeapon components or the Gun component can execute, as long as the total damage isn't 0. This makes it possible to execute with all knives, spears, and axes, since they can butcher. You can't execute with plushies, sadly.

The gun execution part of the code is pretty shit, I'm not gonna lie. To achieve some special behaviors for executions, some code had to be repeated. Also, I committed a great sin by getting a component from an entity prototype. I'm sorry Sloth (no I'm not).

Changelog
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• add: You can now dramatically execute cuffed people.
• add: You can now kill yourself with guns.

[UbaserB]

based

[CrigCrag]

would it be possible to allow self-execution while not cuffed

[Veritius]

would it be possible to allow self-execution while not cuffed

definitely but why would you do that

[CrigCrag]

would it be possible to allow self-execution while not cuffed

definitely but why would you do that

you currently cant shoot yourself which comes up occasionally in rp

[Emisse]

definitely but why would you do that

i want to kill myself

[Veritius]

definitely but why would you do that

i want to kill myself

understandable i'll add that

[mirrorcult]

also definitely allow self execution yes

[Emisse]

needs to work with revolvers for russian roullete as well

[Hmeister-real]

Finally, an alternative to gibbing people

[Errant-4]

(About self-execution)Isnt there already a contextual text output for ghost or suicide while holding a weapon?

[deltanedas]

i think thats just a half implemented ss13 thing ive never seen it ingame

[Kadeo64]

i think thats just a half implemented ss13 thing ive never seen it ingame

well there's custom ghost/suicides for standing next to toilets and microwaves but no custom weapon ones iirc

[Kadeo64]

Wait, can you execute someone while they're stamcrit? omega soap/clown PDA + crusher glaive = instant kill?

[LordCarve]

Should the verb show if combat mode is not enabled? IMO it should only show when combat mode is enabled. Reduces clutter and lowers the incidence of... accidental executions *shudder*.

It does create the edge case of someone toggling combat mode after context menu is up, but we can probably ignore that (for now at least). Requiring a player to reopen the context menu isn't a huge deal in an execution scenario (plus, fast-hands executions is probably not something that we want to encourage in the first place).

I feel like execution of all things absolutely requires a decisive and deliberate harm intent.

[CRISOOOOO]

I don't know if this fits in this pr, but if we are talking about execution, what about adding a eletric chair for sec make executions of criminals?

[Hmeister-fake]

Out of curiosity... will you be able to commit seppuku

Yesh, you can.

[Veritius]

if you shoot someone with a bang ded it gibs them btw

[Veritius]

Should the verb show if combat mode is not enabled? IMO it should only show when combat mode is enabled. Reduces clutter and lowers the incidence of... accidental executions shudder.

It does create the edge case of someone toggling combat mode after context menu is up, but we can probably ignore that (for now at least). Requiring a player to reopen the context menu isn't a huge deal in an execution scenario (plus, fast-hands executions is probably not something that we want to encourage in the first place).

I feel like execution of all things absolutely requires a decisive and deliberate harm intent.

I don't want to add anything to do with harm intent. Harm intent sucks. I don't like harm intent.

[Veritius]

I think it should always kill instead of critting. Maybe buff the damage multiplier or just make it deal a set amount of damage (pierce or slash depending on if it is a gun or a knife) to instantly kill. "Executing" someone twice because you didn't kill them the first time is unprofessional.

I am interested in potentially making it always kill, but I don't want stun+cuff+execute to be too insanely broken. I'd want some feedback by others first.

[Emisse]

the way it currently is is fine

[LordEclipse]

Should the verb show if combat mode is not enabled? IMO it should only show when combat mode is enabled. Reduces clutter and lowers the incidence of... accidental executions shudder.
It does create the edge case of someone toggling combat mode after context menu is up, but we can probably ignore that (for now at least). Requiring a player to reopen the context menu isn't a huge deal in an execution scenario (plus, fast-hands executions is probably not something that we want to encourage in the first place).
I feel like execution of all things absolutely requires a decisive and deliberate harm intent.

I don't want to add anything to do with harm intent. Harm intent sucks. I don't like harm intent.

Would you be able to make it cause the person performing it to emote something like "(name) raises their (weapon) to (name)'s head"

[Veritius]

Should the verb show if combat mode is not enabled? IMO it should only show when combat mode is enabled. Reduces clutter and lowers the incidence of... accidental executions shudder.
It does create the edge case of someone toggling combat mode after context menu is up, but we can probably ignore that (for now at least). Requiring a player to reopen the context menu isn't a huge deal in an execution scenario (plus, fast-hands executions is probably not something that we want to encourage in the first place).
I feel like execution of all things absolutely requires a decisive and deliberate harm intent.

I don't want to add anything to do with harm intent. Harm intent sucks. I don't like harm intent.

Would you be able to make it cause the person performing it to emote something like "(name) raises their (weapon) to (name)'s head"

It already sends a popup.

[metalgearsloth]

I don't want to add anything to do with harm intent. Harm intent sucks. I don't like harm intent.

At some point you need to check CanAttack or combatmode toggling or else this would bypass pacifism.

[VasilisThePikachu]

Out of curiosity... will you be able to commit seppuku

Yesh, you can.

You lied. There's nothing about meleeing yourself on the abdomen like seppuku.

Maybe make it a component so you can for example put "ExecutionComponent" or something and give it some ftl files. So you can put it for example into the captains sabree and you can change the self melee harm one to,,, uh seppuku

Can you tell I'm a weeb?

Thats just a suggestion btw

[Veritius]

I don't want to add anything to do with harm intent. Harm intent sucks. I don't like harm intent.

At some point you need to check CanAttack or combatmode toggling or else this would bypass pacifism.

oh yeah let me do that quickly

[Veritius]

Out of curiosity... will you be able to commit seppuku

Yesh, you can.

You lied. There's nothing about meleeing yourself on the abdomen like seppuku.

Maybe make it a component so you can for example put "ExecutionComponent" or something and give it some ftl files. So you can put it for example into the captains sabree and you can change the self melee harm one to,,, uh seppuku

Can you tell I'm a weeb?

I was considering making a component that lets you give unique messages when executing, but eh, that's a lot of work for a pretty minor thing.

[LordEclipse]

Should the verb show if combat mode is not enabled? IMO it should only show when combat mode is enabled. Reduces clutter and lowers the incidence of... accidental executions shudder.
It does create the edge case of someone toggling combat mode after context menu is up, but we can probably ignore that (for now at least). Requiring a player to reopen the context menu isn't a huge deal in an execution scenario (plus, fast-hands executions is probably not something that we want to encourage in the first place).
I feel like execution of all things absolutely requires a decisive and deliberate harm intent.

I don't want to add anything to do with harm intent. Harm intent sucks. I don't like harm intent.

Would you be able to make it cause the person performing it to emote something like "(name) raises their (weapon) to (name)'s head"

It already sends a popup.

I meant as an EMOTE, so that people can actually see it in chat, the pop up is nice but those last only a few seconds

[Veritius]

Should the verb show if combat mode is not enabled? IMO it should only show when combat mode is enabled. Reduces clutter and lowers the incidence of... accidental executions shudder.
It does create the edge case of someone toggling combat mode after context menu is up, but we can probably ignore that (for now at least). Requiring a player to reopen the context menu isn't a huge deal in an execution scenario (plus, fast-hands executions is probably not something that we want to encourage in the first place).
I feel like execution of all things absolutely requires a decisive and deliberate harm intent.

I don't want to add anything to do with harm intent. Harm intent sucks. I don't like harm intent.

Would you be able to make it cause the person performing it to emote something like "(name) raises their (weapon) to (name)'s head"

It already sends a popup.

I meant as an EMOTE, so that people can actually see it in chat, the pop up is nice but those last only a few seconds

i could if someone tells me how to do it