Claymore style explosives

[kevingranade]

Expected behavior

Claymore style explosives would project fragments in a designated area and cause minimal damage elsewhere.

Actual behavior

These explosives dont exist.

Details

These kinds of explosives are particularly useful tactically as they can cause a huge number of casualties in a designated area with minimal risk to the user.
This will require minimal code changes as long as the arc of projectiles fall on 45deg increments.

[Shodan14]

Could this code be later turned around for shaped charges for blowing holes into walls etc.?

[Zombiemanpig]

Could this be added to ammo too? I want to mod in claymore arrows.

[kevingranade]

If you want a different feature, open an issue about it.

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[Cenness]

I stumbled upon this issue recently - #50504 - couldn't it be used to implement directed explosions?

[kevingranade]

No, explosions use raytracing code to decide what tiles are potentially hit by fragments, the spell system uses a cheaper and easier to work with line drawing or flood fill thing that's a lot more approximate. I'd actually turn it around and say that the directional area spells should switch to using the raytracing system.