Imposters can sometimes kill players with shield

[gratisCobalt]

I don't know if this is really a bug but I didn't found it as a feature so....

If you are Joker you can be killed by an Imposter even if you got a shield.

[gratisCobalt]

maybe this is just because of NA servers?

[nikander100]

This just happened in our game (will try to get a clip of it happening)

[rdroog]

It also happened in our game.

[nikander100]

Here is the clip: https://clips.twitch.tv/AlluringFairFlyM4xHeh-7Qy823vOpMbZ-ZUw

[pobby1092]

In our round it happened even with a shielded crewmate. My gues is, when 2 imposters are in the area around the shielded person, you kill kill him.

[benniii1337]

Yup, same happened in our game today. Shielded as a crewmate, experienced a kill nearby. Was happy to report, but got killed by the 2nd imposter. Nice double for them, but kinda bad for me 😢

We guessed some kind of desync behind that.

[nikander100]

In our round it happened even with a shielded crewmate. My gues is, when 2 imposters are in the area around the shielded person, you kill kill him.

Only one impostor pressed kill, i was the other and didnt press kill yet

[psibean]

Edit: Ignore this comment, I shouldn't have been looking through here while half asleep.

If this really is an issue, the problem is here:

var isPlayerJokerAndCanDieToOfficer =
                        Main.Config.jokerCanDieToOfficer && target.isPlayerRole("Joker");
                    
                    writer = AmongUsClient.Instance.StartRpcImmediately(PlayerControl.LocalPlayer.NetId,
                        (byte) CustomRPC.OfficerKill, Hazel.SendOption.None, -1);
                    writer.Write(PlayerControl.LocalPlayer.PlayerId);
                    writer.Write(!target.isPlayerImmortal() &&
                        (isPlayerJokerAndCanDieToOfficer || target.Data.IsImpostor) ?
                        target.PlayerId : PlayerControl.LocalPlayer.PlayerId); // kill target or suicide
                    AmongUsClient.Instance.FinishRpcImmediately(writer);
                    PlayerControl.LocalPlayer.MurderPlayer(target);
                    PlayerControl.LocalPlayer.getModdedControl().LastAbilityTime = DateTime.UtcNow;

                    // attempted to kill shielded player
                    if (target.isPlayerImmortal())
                    {
                        writer = AmongUsClient.Instance.StartRpcImmediately(PlayerControl.LocalPlayer.NetId,
                            (byte) CustomRPC.AttemptSound, Hazel.SendOption.None, -1);
                        AmongUsClient.Instance.FinishRpcImmediately(writer);
                        BreakShield(false);
                    }

There's no target.isPlayerImmortal check prior to sending the OfficerKill, and the OfficerKill being sent acts out the kill, if this is a bug, then the breakShield(false) call in the OfficerKill case should also be removed.

If it is intended that the officer can kill a shielded joker, this should be made clearer in the readme.

Could blanket cover this by adding a target.isPlayerImmortal() return false in the MurderPlayerPatch#Prefix ?

[rdroog]

This is not related to the officer killing - please read the above comments: an imposter killed a crewmate and joker when that shouldn't be possible. No officer killing other people.

I assume that the target is wrong and that the original target is the closest player around, but that person is another imposter, and then the actual target to be killed isn't checked properly.

[NotHunter101]

This is a known bug, and it is not strictly exclusive to the Joker. Refer to pobby1092's or rdroog's comment above for an accurate reason on why it happens. This will be fixed in a future update.