Special item: Turret

The turret is a special item that players can deploy on the ground (Deployable).

Usage/Erection: The special item appears at the position the crosshairs are pointing. The turret object is placed and it plays a build-up animation before it becomes active.
On spawn the turret is oriented away from the player character - looking into the same direction as he does. The orientation is relevant as it restricts its field of view.
Picking-up: The player can pick-up the turret by getting close to it and using the interact button (Usable Trigger). On pick-up the turret plays a disassembly-animation before it is removed from the map. While this animation plays the player character can not move or initiate any other action.
Build-up and disassembly animations should be scalable so the delay for construction/picking-up can be balanced.

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An active turret cannot move. It shoots all enemy units in its detection range and in an 180 degree angle in front of it.
Turrets avoid shooting friendly and neutral units.

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Attributes

  • Hitpoints – is destroyed if hitpoints are depleted.
  • Build-up time
  • Disassembly time
  • Weapon - uses a data-driven primary weapon.
  • Ammo - can shoot this many times
    • is displayed on the HUD.
    • A turret with depleted ammo can no longer shoot.
  • Detection range

(1) After picking-up a turret it can be placed again in a new location. The turret saves how much ammo is depleted so it cannot be recharged by picking-up.