Can you block a player's fire command?

[gopostal]

I've made a 'Kill Cam' for the final frag in my gametype. Time slows down and the camera goes to the person getting killed. It works like I want even online.

My only issue is that I need to prevent the winner from firing during the stretched time of the killl shot. I set bMovable to stop rotation and movement but the player can still fire the weapon.

Ferali mentioned a dummy weapon given to the player that assumes the held weapon's mesh, tex, etc. but with no ability to fire. That's a neat answer but it seems more complex an answer than this needs. I also thought of destroying all the other inventory the winner has then setting the held weapon to no ammo but is there something simpler I'm just missing?

[Masterkent]

What game? Solutions for U1 and UT may differ. Anyway, I doubt that there is an easy and reliable way to disable weapon switching and firing without dirty hacks.

You could try to execute

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if (Player.Weapon != none)
{
      Player.Weapon.GotoState('Idle2');
      Player.Weapon.PlayIdleAnim();
}
else
      Player.Weapon = SomeDummyWeapon; // invisible weapon that cannot be changed

when freezing the player.

[gopostal]

This is for UT but I have my own gametype so I can hack it up as I need to. I was going to create a dummy weapon but honestly I think that's overkill for a minor thing like this. I tried removing the ammo from all the weapons but it has enough time to switchweapon. That leaves the final winner holding a translocator or impact hammer.

I'll try the forcing of the animation, maybe loop the check for a bit until the proper endgame is called. Thanks for the advice.