New Role: Arsonist

[ttt-2]

New Role: Arsonist

[saibotk]

Thank you, for your in depth description, this role seems to be very interesting!
Either one of the community members (or you) has interest in implementing this (beside this being a good amount of work as i would assume) or we will, when we got the time and interest in it, which for now does not seem to apply as we are pretty busy with TTT2's core functionality :)
Again huge thank you for your suggestion!

[Alf21]

Shall there be an animation for dousing his enemy into gasoline? How long shall the process need? Would be a way too op to stay next to a victim, pressing E and instantly lighter his enemy...

[Skatcat]

Hard to say. My thought processes always have my own player group in the back of my head and simply moving close to someone is very suspicious for us already, so I feel you'd need ConVars to balance it yourself, dependent on your playerbase.

Animation: Could either be the Holstered or the Knife wield animation. No new animation work and the latter is universally recognized as being something evil. The former is more neutral and might be better for more alert / small groups of players. If you want, you should also be able to make it work without an animation.
I'd say: ConVar to choose between no animation, holstered and knife animation.

Dousing time: 2-3 seconds default sounds alright but it depends on the amount of players a lot. 5 seconds might sound fair at first but on a server with 20+ people it becomes tedious very quickly. And on the flip side, hugging every player in a 6 man game for 5 seconds with good communication is super suspicious aswell.
ConVar should just be any number in seconds with 0 being instant dousing.

Dousing range: Might also be helpful for more individual balancing. Just have it decide the range where 'E' douses people in units. Default should be about knife range imo (I think it was around 70 units?).

Other ConVars would be lighter ammo (Does the Arso has multiple shots at burning people? Or does he have to douse all of them in one go?) and maybe one that decides whether the Arso deals any regular damage at all.

The main post has the idea that he gets 'buffed' by incinerating people until he can kill normally but I'm not sure if that makes the role too complicated.

[Alf21]

Moved to TTT-2/TTT2#750.