Make it possible to protect yourself from boomers attacks by umbrella

[KHeket]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

#71964 added to boomers ability to make your clothes dirty, and there is no way to avoid it except long range firearm

Solution you would like.

Make it possible to avoid boomer filthy attack by welding in hand umbrella. And make umbrella filthy after boomer barf attack, but still usable even when it filthy for blocking future boomers attack

1. It will make umbrella useful in late game
2. It will not make any op or exploit moments, because you need to carry umbrella and wield in hand, so you cant attack anyone with normal weapon
3. You can also make it only for standard, non-foldable umbrellas, because foldable umbrellas can be too small

Describe alternatives you have considered.

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[worm-girl]

#71964 added to boomers ability to make your clothes dirty, and there is no way to avoid it except long range firearm

That's incorrect. You can dodge it or wear protective outerwear.

I'm also not sure when this would be useful. You would have to be holding the open umbrella, which would mean you certainly wouldn't be making any attacks.

Logically it should be possible, of course. The method I'd use would be to add a LIQUID_PARRY flag to certain items and make them able to parry liquid spells in the same way that DODGEABLE spells can be dodged on line 573 of magic_spell_effect.cpp.

[PatrikLundell]

An umbrella would make sense if the game supported two hands, as it would act as a shield (and, like a shield, would provide limited coverage). Thus, I don't see this being practical in the game until it supports the usage of two hands.

[kholat]

The game kinda supports this (hackishly); you can 'w'ear the umbrella, which puts it on your wrist I think. This prevents wielding 2 handed weapons (so you cant for instance use an umbrella while shooting a bow at the same time).

[worm-girl]

I am going to add support for this if only because I think it would be cool if certain weapons could parry certain spells in Magiclysm - its utility will be very limited in the base game until we get proper shields, but the basic idea is logical enough, and once splash attacks are using acid, it may be something someone decides to do in an emergency.

And parrying a lightning bolt with a magic sword in Magiclysm sounds cool as hell.

[kevingranade]

This is very silly, no.