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Bug Vortigaunt Combat in Midair

MelonHeadzzz

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Bug: Vortigaunts cannot defend themselves from anything related to midair combat. Fuckin' barnacles.

Description: My crowbar is unfortunately missing, due to being killed by a barnacle prior to writing this bug report, so I cannot provide image proof of this issue. This is still a severe annoyance and something that has ended in the loss of months of work. Crowbars, to vortigaunts, were once a weapon that could be grasped and used as weapons, and now it is unusable for an unknown reason. The vortigaunt beam is also completely unusable in midair, despite being able to be used when in motion -- the animations should not be the problem preventing the beam from working, it is just impossible.

This renders fending myself from a barnacle in the easiest manner an impossibility. Not only that, but Freed vortigaunts were recently given access to claws. While I'm unsure if this was changed after the switch, I am not upset about this.

I have spoken with @SifTheAI about this issue, and humans can equip crowbars just fine, but vortigaunts apparently cannot. I do not know of the reasoning, but whatever the reason, it has resulted in an NLR and a loss of an entire inventory of items.

This is especially frustrating because I had not just one, but three means of defending myself against the barnacle that attacked me, and every single one of them was completely unusable.

Errors: N/A

Image Proof: Crowbar Proof. I got my things back.
 
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This should be mitigated, yeah. Vortigaunts are fully capable of using melee weapons. The only issue is aesthetics, but that doesn't mean shit in combat, or when you want to not die.
 
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