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NoMovingFire

Stops a vehicle firing while it has somewhere to go, resets its firing delay when it halts, and gates its self-reload.

Specification
Applies to
UnitType
File
rules.ini
Section
[<ObjectType ID>]
Value
boolean
When omitted
no

A vehicle with NoMovingFire=yes cannot fire while it has a destination. A vehicle held up mid-route by a blockage still has a destination, so it cannot fire either. It can fire again once it arrives or its move order is cleared.

When the vehicle halts, its firing delay is replaced by a quarter of its secondary weapon’s firing delay, rounded down. It halts in this sense when a move step leaves it with no destination and no path. The replacement discards whatever firing delay was still running. A vehicle that fires, moves a cell or two and halts can therefore usually fire again before that shot’s ROF delay has run out.

The secondary weapon’s delay, before it is quartered, is:

  • 1 frame with no secondary weapon, so the vehicle can fire at once.
  • The weapon’s full ROF for a sonic secondary weapon, or a spark, fire or railgun secondary whose particle system is already attached to the vehicle. The vehicle then waits a quarter of that ROF.
  • The weapon’s full ROF, adjusted as the ROF page describes for an ordinary reload, when the vehicle’s place in a burst is at or past the secondary weapon’s Burst count. Shots from either weapon advance that place. For example, a vehicle whose primary has Burst=2 and whose secondary has Burst=1 reaches this case when it halts after the first shot of a primary burst. The vehicle then waits a quarter of that adjusted ROF.
  • Otherwise, the weapon’s BurstDelay0 to BurstDelay3 value partway through a burst, or a random 3 to 5 frames. The random figure leaves a wait of 0 or 1 frames.

The flag also lets the vehicle reload by itself, which no other vehicle does; the Ammo page lists the structures that refill the rest. A NoMovingFire=yes vehicle with an Ammo limit that is short of full regains one round each time its reload delay runs out:

  1. A shot starts the 450-frame reload delay if it is not already running.
  2. The delay does not count down while the vehicle is moving.
  3. When the delay runs out and the vehicle is stopped, it regains one round. If it is still short of full, the delay restarts at 450 frames.

ManualReload=yes stops shots from starting the delay; its page covers how the two flags combine.

rules.ini
[MYARTILLERY] ; a UnitType registered in [VehicleTypes]
NoMovingFire=yes
Ammo=2 ; without an ammunition limit there is nothing to reload
See also — DeployToFire, Ammo, Turret