The Many's corrosive influence has spread beyond just degrading the guns. Now it's degrading the grenades as well! Grenade ammo has become dangerously unstable, and will explode if damaged or dropped too far. Use this to your advantage to set explosive traps for your enemies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAlrtwdy7_E

This is a first draft of a mod that makes all grenade ammo explode if shot, struck, or dropped further than at your feet. If you set off a stack of grenade ammo, they'll ALL explode. Seems to work okay, but I figured I'd post it here first in case anyone finds any problems or has any suggested enhancements.

The type of explosion spawned by each ammo type hasn't been hard-coded. Instead it actually follows the links back from the ammo object and grabs the corpse links from its projectile (for firing mode 1), so it should be compatible with all weapon mods, no matter how extreme.

I figure this change will give players who don't put points into Heavy Weapons something more fun to do with all that grenade ammo than recycling it. And being able to blow up grenade rounds just feels more immersive-simmy.

Also I really hope nobody's already done this.

EDIT: Thread closed. Mod released here: https://www.systemshock.org/index.php?topic=12217.0

would probably change the world object from a grenade pile to a single grenade. would be less weird, I think.

very sure Olfred could carve one out.

very sure Olfred could carve one out.

Also, including alternate grenade ammo models could produce visual weirdness when used with any mods that alter the vanilla models. Though I don't know of any that actually do that.

I'll look into it then. Deleting bits from the vanilla models is something that probably even I could do.

it's still weird even if it's a box, because it still can be dozens of grenades.

Voodoo, you didn't link to an unfinished mod on the Night Dive discord, did you?

I like to think of Engineering as a place where people who are slightly more technical can look at something before it's released to the masses. The sort of people who generally understand not to grab everything posted here and throw it in their mod pack.

It may not be true, but I like to think of it that way.

Posted as v1.0. Seems stable enough.

Nope, nope, and nope.

If the model was rotated on its side, it would be floating above the ground. To make it not float above the ground, its physics model would have to be made tiny, which would make it very difficult to shoot

Hybrids don't throw grenade launcher ammo. They throw grenades. No, I don't know where they get them.

Nothing in SS2 rotates when dropped by the player.

Nothing in SS2 rotates when dropped by the player.

The gamepig rotates as it hits the ground