Way to *force* tank to always turn when holding the turn keys, no matter what

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Way to *force* tank to always turn when holding the turn keys, no matter what

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Edit: It seems like the main culprit is that the tank won't turn if you're holding forward and turn at the same time, if the tank can't go forward. So being blocked forwards means the tank will actively refuse to turn unless you let go of forward.

Edit 2: Though the tank will *also* sometimes not turn even without holding forward or backwards as well. Probably terrain/collision dependent.

I'm not sure where's the best place to put this, but with the ability to remotely drive vehicles, there *needs* to be a way to force the vehicle to *at least* always turn when holding the turn keys, instead of them refusing to turn because they don't like some weird part of the terrain or collision.

When driving in person, you can see what the tank is stuck on, but when driving by the map, I very often find the tank won't even turn, and no matter how many times I let go of the move keys and then hold them again, it simply refuses to move or turn *at all* so I can get it un-stuck. Often the tank needs to be manually reversed before it will, which makes no sense at all since I'm trying to rotate in-place, and means the player now *also* has to fight the "the tank won't move because the game thinks you want to brake" jank, in addition to having to fight *whatever* is making the tank refuse to turn.


I love the ability to remotely drive tanks, but the pre-existing jank and wierdness with driving gets *vastly* worse when driving via map, since you can't actually see things. And this area really needs some smoothing out.
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Re: Way to *force* tank to always turn when holding the turn keys, no matter what

Post by Epb7304 »

are you suggesting that if you run into an obstacle (say a cliff) the game should ignore the forward/reverse input and just turn? I'm not entirely sure what your are suggesting

it may be good to use the template for clarity
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