Friendly fire in group attacks

I am unsure if this has been suggested, a cursory search didn't find anything but I did not deep dive.

So the idea is a small chance of friendly fire in group attacks. With the chance being weighted on the number of people attacking.
So attacks with 2-5 people would have an incredibly rare (maybe 0.001%) chance of hitting other participants, and an attack with 100 would have maybe a 0.1% chance of hitting other participants.

I think this would create an extra level of fun/risk to NPC and other group attacks. You could even chuck merits on it if you were so inclined.

note: My percentages are just for illustration.

I think this would be a cool idea but with higher percentages, maybe 1% base and up to 5% or something like that. R+ anyways

I love this idea. 250R+ I'm calling it.

I would go 1-5-10% depending on the weapon used with 100 players.

I mean, yeah, sure, assuming it's a pretty rare occurrence, I don't see why not. It would add a little something to NPC looting fights too, as there's almost always very large groups taking them on. I imagine the first person to be friendly fired would be pretty salty lol, but it also opens up the potential for a friendly fire merit!

Absolutely. R++

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But... it's already a merit

I think this complicates things unnecessarily, and a recent collateral damage suggestion either went nowhere or was shot down by ched. I see this going the same direction.

This would be pretty cool, it'd make things way more realistic.

Right, not quite what I meant, but yes, I recognise that there is a merit with this name. I think it's pretty clear that what I meant was a merit that you earn from being friendly fired upon in the context of this thread.

Interesting idea. I'm fairly sure random attacks on random group participants would be quite difficult to code with how distraction levels work.

It seems like HEGs and other grenades/explosives should do friendly splash damage to all melee attckers doesn't it? Load image: laughing

This too, tbh

That would be cool, though then I would assume non damaging temps like smokes would reduce other attackers stats as well

Ideally smoke and tear, yeah. We'd need a smoke-counter-helmet first though.