[BUG/EXPLOIT] Cameras Do Too Much Damage (experimental 55608)

Kurasu

So, the first iteration of my accidental discovery was here:

https://forums.unknownworlds.com/discussion/153152/bug-unrepairable-damage-to-scanner-rooms-experimental-55530#latest

Realizing that this meant those cameras are doing a fair amount of damage, and that you could stay somewhere safe and sound while the cameras were doing that, I decided to experiment with just how much damage the cameras actually do to things. I mean, I can't see a creature's HP, but I can at least see what it does to them.

In the case of a bone shark who happened to be in the mushroom forest beneath my base, the answer is "three hits in order to kill it without taking more than about 12% damage".

In the case of a Reaper Leviathan who happened to be close to my base, the answer is "enough damage to chase it toward my base to try and escape the camera, into the ground, where it suddenly launched miles into the air and flew right the hell away." I suspect if I use relay cameras, I could ram a reaper leviathan to death (and in fact will be testing this theory, because this is me).

...... somehow I don't think this was intended behaviour on the part of cameras.

Kurasu

Still haven't managed to actually *kill* him, but I *did* manage to get him to display what happens if you chase him around enough. In screenshot format. Seen here:

Hulkie2345

Cameras are the ultimate non weapon.

0x6A7232

@Belgarel Seems to be a bug.. of sorts, and probably fixed easily enough?

Also, for teh lulz:

Trolling a Reaper

And, for teh m04r lulz:

Trolling a Sea Dragon

Kurasu

@0x6A7232: Yep. That's exactly how I sent him flying; he kept going through his swimming around in the shallows, would intersect the ground as I knocked him around, and then "MY PLANET NEEDS ME!"

Unintentional part of the bug. It's part of the issue with things being programmed to not react at all to the camera (other than, of course, the stalkers).