Ensure a bot having a specific role uses a weapon until a given trigger

[Mateos]

Good morning,

I use roles to split bots between an east front and a west one

On the west one, I'd like the Engineers to use a Thompson instead of a Garand, so that the charge isn't consumed by firing grenades instead of planting dynamite or building neutral CP for new spawn... oh, and also avoid blowing itself and sometimes teammates up that way due to narrow corridors, which neutralises the offensive heh

Once a specific trigger occurs, that enforcement turns useless, because new spawn and no more roles needed

I thought first of OnBotJoin, but bots don't have a role yet (I guess that's to allow the waypointer to have full control on role management before the role manager goes through to take care of it, which sounds perfect to me)

So I've made a region trigger on the spawn, setting the TriggerOnClass on Engi to save a condition inside the OnEnter table; the name of the trigger is later used to delete it upon the 'specific trigger'

It works well until OB sometimes wants to switch the weapon of the Engi mid-game: it makes the Engi get stuck in a spawn/selfkill loop for weapon switching, if I understand what I witnessed correctly

Am I making a correct assertion here, or is it something different? How can I work around that issue?

I'm kind-of going for temporary weapon prioritisation depending on team/role/class, to sum the thingy

Thank you

[palota]

Engineers don't fire garand grenades when they are going to PLANT goals. Do you need to disable it for BUILD goals too ? Maybe I could add a new optional property to the BUILD goal which would be used for objectives that need a lot of charge.

If you want to disable grenades in some narrow corridors, you can create a region trigger and use function ETUtil.DisableRifleNade.

Function WeaponTable.SetWeaponAvailability can be used to set weapons for team/class, but it's not possible to set a weapon for a role.

If you want to change weapons manually in triggers, you should set Map.DontSelectWeapons=true. That will solve the problem of spawn self killing, but it completely disables weapon selection globally for all bots.

[Mateos]

If there's already something to save charge for PLANT, it's perfect!

My main concern was the selfkill/teamkill, but that probably happened while going for building CP then; but the spot where that issue happens and the CP location are far enough to replenish the charge

Thank you for the 3 possibilities ^^