[2.1.9] you can melee attack from a flying mech suit

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Quezler
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[2.1.9] you can melee attack from a flying mech suit

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it has no animation, does not even shit a brick, how does it damage enemies under it when holding the spacebar other than the heat already coming from it?
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Re: [2.1.9] you can melee attack from a flying mech suit

Post by eugenekay »

Presumably, the Melee attack uses the character’s Pickaxe to do damage rather than bullets or thrown rocks. According to entities.lua the character’s reach_resource_distance = 2.7 property allows this pickaxe to mine resources a few tiles away from the character’s location. It seems entirely reasonable that this same Pickaxe is able to do damage to enemies directly “underneath” while flying as well.

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Re: [2.1.9] you can melee attack from a flying mech suit

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Thanks for the report however I don't believe we will be changing this.
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