Surgery Head Reattachment

[MrJJJ]

Bug Description:
If you try to use say, someones corpse, remove its head, and then re-attach another head, then the head you re-attach will suddenly become the head you removed, and even when you remove it, its not the head you attached, so you have 2 heads of a same person

Steps to reproduce:
1. Grab a corpse in morgue
2. Grab someone's head
3. Remove corpse's head
4. Attach the other head
5. Watch in Amazement how the body still remains the same, and when you try to remove the head, it transformed into the corpse's head that you removed before, leaving you with 2 of them and one angry player

[Surrealistik]

Confirmed. Hella annoying.

[Snypehunter007]

Don't really need to do head reattachment anymore due to lack of cloning.

Asking this to be locked.

[Surrealistik]

Don't really need to do head reattachment anymore due to lack of cloning.

Asking this to be locked.

Might be lower priority but this is sloppy coding that should be fixed.

[phil235]

Codewise, that's more a suggestion than a bug report.

[Surrealistik]

Removing literally transforming heads is a suggestion?

[phil235]

Maybe I misunderstood the bug, is the corpse looking headless after you attach a new head?

[NGGJamie]

Maybe I misunderstood the bug, is the corpse looking headless after you attach a new head?

From what it sounds like, it's a result of the game not considering that the head you're reattaching is someone else's head. So if I have a blue haired snowflake marine who's lost his head, and put a brown-haired marine's decapitated head on them, the brown-haired marines head will now have the blue snowflake hair, and if removed again will show as the snowflake's head.

Most likely because the code doesn't consider WHAT head is put on, just that there's a head there?

[Surrealistik]

From what it sounds like, it's a result of the game not considering that the head you're reattaching is someone else's head. So if I have a blue haired snowflake marine who's lost his head, and put a brown-haired marine's decapitated head on them, the brown-haired marines head will now have the blue snowflake hair, and if removed again will show as the snowflake's head.

Most likely because the code doesn't consider WHAT head is put on, just that there's a head there?

This is exactly what's happening.

The head you attach to a body permanently morphs to match the body it's attached to which is disturbing to say the least.

For example, if I attached Carson's head to Sur's body, Carson's head would become Sur's head.

[phil235]

Yeah, that's asking for code functionality that isn't there, so technically not a bug.

[Surrealistik]

How is that not a bug? That makes no sense whatsoever; I assume that the point of these surgeries is allow you to do things that at least pass the common sense/verisimilitude test

[NGGJamie]

How is that not a bug? That makes no sense whatsoever; I assume that the point of these surgeries is allow you to do things that at least pass the common sense/verisimilitude test

Effectively it's such a rare and niche thing that nobody felt the need to store additional data in the head and just store it as that. Making on the fly changes to a Sprite likely wasn't worth the effort to implement for such an uncommon situation.

[Snypehunter007]

How is that not a bug? That makes no sense whatsoever; I assume that the point of these surgeries is allow you to do things that at least pass the common sense/verisimilitude test

Reattaching heads isn't exactly common sense, you can do it in real life for a close casket funeral but it looks unnatural as fuck because all you've done is stitch the base of the head to the neck. No other connections or shit are made.

On a note, we removed head reattachment surgery due to the uselessness of it. Now I don't know why its causing a duplicate head to spawn but I remember we also had that problem before we removed the surgery as well.

[Surrealistik]

Reattaching heads isn't exactly common sense, you can do it in real life for a close casket funeral but it looks unnatural as fuck because all you've done is stitch the base of the head to the neck. No other connections or shit are made.

On a note, we removed head reattachment surgery due to the uselessness of it. Now I don't know why its causing a duplicate head to spawn but I remember we also had that problem before we removed the surgery as well.

It definitely served a purpose when cloning was a thing (or would have if not busted) as per its utility on other servers when you only have the head/brain.

That said, the difference between the rarity of head reattachment and the sheer impossibility of heads literally morphing into other people's heads is pretty conspicuous I feel.

Anyways, if head reattachment is no longer a thing, then there's no need for this bug fix.

[Snypehunter007]

It definitely served a purpose when cloning was a thing (or would have if not busted) as per its utility on other servers when you only have the head/brain.

That said, the difference between the rarity of head reattachment and the sheer impossibility of heads literally morphing into other people's heads is pretty conspicuous I feel.

Anyways, if head reattachment is no longer a thing, then there's no need for this bug fix.

I meant to say "the uselessness of it, post-cloning". We are currently discussing head reattachment because you can still reattach synth heads.