Denied PAC3 Custom Event: is_disguised

[Zen]

What does this suggestion change/add/remove:
Simply, a new event that can be used in PAC3, called is_disguised, which would be active whenever you have a 914, disguise card, or any other disguise.

Has something similar been suggested before? If so, why is your suggestion different?:
Not as far as I'm aware.

Possible Positives of the suggestion (At least 2):

• Allows ISD, DEA, etc. to have PACs that automatically disable when they take a disguise
  • You can currently do this by checking the current model, but this is very jank and prone to breaking for all sorts of reasons (and sometimes just at random)
• Allows people to have PAC elements get disabled or enabled based on more conditions
  • E.g. maybe somebody wants their PAC to disable entirely when disguised, or maybe they want e.g. to have something entirely different happen (e.g. event characters might use disguises, but have something identifiable appear when disguised)

Possible Negatives of the suggestion:

• Dev work
• If this also applies when a body swap "disguise" applies, somebody could abuse this to make themselves identifiable regardless of it
  • This is a really specific thing, and could probably be easily noticed and dealt with

Based on the Positives & Negatives, why should this suggestion be accepted:
Just generally useful, mostly for those with disguise cards to have a PAC that disables when they use it.

 

[Niox]

+Support

 

[Shrunkinmole]

+Support
I like having a nice pac and disguising so this would be nice

 

[ionboy64]

There's an event called "find model" which uses the model of your entity to affect the group it's attached to

 

[Zack Baker]

+Support
Seems like a QoL change for PAC3. I don't use it but it seems like a good change.

 

[Zen]

There's an event called "find model" which uses the model of your entity to affect the group it's attached to

As mentioned in the OP, that doesn't work a lot of the time. Sometimes it will just not work the entire time you're on the server because it somehow thinks you're a random civilian model, sometimes your own PAC model changes will mess with things, and sometimes your specific model check may not work (e.g. you join the job on the wrong model, or you disguise as someone that has a model that also matches your base model).

 

[Timmy Bill Purge]

+ Support

 

[Jordie]

+Support

 

[Bill Nye The Guy]

+support but couldn't you use a pac command to manually and quickly toggle your pac on and off just before disguising? as far as i know this will work 100% of the time unless you're changing your playermodel (which is against the rules)

 

[Zen]

+support but couldn't you use a pac command to manually and quickly toggle your pac on and off just before disguising? as far as i know this will work 100% of the time unless you're changing your playermodel (which is against the rules)

You can, but it's easy to forget, and it just makes disguising slower.

 

[Snake]

Suggestion Denied

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Hi @Zen ,

Thanks for taking the time to make a server suggestion.
The Content Team has chosen to deny your suggestion due to the following reasons.

We do not believe this is an easily done change at this time, the what would be needed to implement this doesn't really make sense when its much easier to create a manual toggle on and off.

Your suggestion will now be locked and marked as denied.​