Merc level 10

[SorenMageofMareth]

So I'm working up a new gun merchandise and was wondering what exactly does the captor range perk do. It says get rid of physique requirements but are there any? What does it mean? Do it make mercs count as power armored and get rid of those massive accuracy penalties? What?

 

[Xeivous]

I've honestly got no clue. I wasn't aware there were physique requirements for some weapons and it not saying that it does the power armor thing makes me think it's not that.

Why it and that giant slayer perk the level before exist is a complete fucking mystery to me.

 

[Couch]

There's code to prevent the equipping of weapons flagged with the Power Armor flag unless the PC meets the requirements for the function pc.canUsePowerArmorWeapon() to return true. The same check is also performed to keep the PC from actually attacking with the weapon if they somehow equipped it anyway. Wearing armor with the Power Armor flag will presumably cause this function to return true, as will having sufficient Physique or having the Bigger Guns perk. I can't confirm this because I can't find the code for the function itself, since Github's search system is not ideal; all I could find other than the code defining its usage is that Chaurmine overrides it to true for himself.

 

[Thebiologist]

There's code to prevent the equipping of weapons flagged with the Power Armor flag unless the PC meets the requirements for the function pc.canUsePowerArmorWeapon() to return true. The same check is also performed to keep the PC from actually attacking with the weapon if they somehow equipped it anyway. Wearing armor with the Power Armor flag will presumably cause this function to return true, as will having sufficient Physique or having the Bigger Guns perk. I can't confirm this because I can't find the code for the function itself, since Github's search system is not ideal; all I could find other than the code defining its usage is that Chaurmine overrides it to true for himself.

If you try to equip an armor with the power armor flag you get the same message, you're not strong enough to equip that armor.

As far as the code goes, it only works with the big guns perk and 40+ physique:

public function canUsePowerArmorWeapon() : Boolean
{
return this.inPowerArmor() || this.physique() >= 40 || this.hasPerk("Bigger Guns");
}

Because the this.inpowerarmor is set to false by default.

public function inPowerArmor() : Boolean
{
return false;
}

 

[Klaptrap]

Soon(tm)*

*maybe

 

[TFMaster]

The only weapon that I can think of so far that can benefit from the perk is the Aegis LMG that you can get from the Juggernaut in Kara Quest 2, there might be more though IDK.

Also what do you mean @Thebiologist, is there actually wearable Power Armor in game now?

 

[Thebiologist]

Also what do you mean @Thebiologist, is there actually wearable Power Armor in game now?

No, there isn't. I made one with the power armor flag real quick just to test it. Takes less time than searching through the code, that thing is a freaking encyclopedia worth of text.