A silly but enjoyable rolling keybind (for Staff Fighting)

[Shenanigunner]

So as I said elsewhere, I find the animation for Staff Fighting | Innocuous Strikes absolutely absurd. It's a great power, cone, does a fair amount of damage... but poking your foes in the feet is as ridiculous as grabbing the gate policeman's junk to pass through.

 

So I went a little loopy and wrote an extended rolling bind to make it more fun. Here's the code:

[staff_01.txt] 4 "bind_load_file_silent ./staff_02.txt$$powexec_slot 4$$g Eek! Eek! A mouse!"
[staff_02.txt] 4 "bind_load_file_silent ./staff_03.txt$$powexec_slot 4"
[staff_03.txt] 4 "bind_load_file_silent ./staff_04.txt$$powexec_slot 4"
[staff_04.txt] 4 "bind_load_file_silent ./staff_05.txt$$powexec_slot 4$$g I really HATE your shoes!"
[staff_05.txt] 4 "bind_load_file_silent ./staff_06.txt$$powexec_slot 4"
[staff_06.txt] 4 "bind_load_file_silent ./staff_07.txt$$powexec_slot 4"
[staff_07.txt] 4 "bind_load_file_silent ./staff_08.txt$$powexec_slot 4$$g Dance, you ugly mofo. Dance!"
[staff_08.txt] 4 "bind_load_file_silent ./staff_09.txt$$powexec_slot 4"
[staff_09.txt] 4 "bind_load_file_silent ./staff_01.txt$$powexec_slot 4"

Each of those lines needs to be pasted into a file with the name at the beginning (just from the "4" onward, not including the file name). So you end up with nine files in your bindfile folder.

 

Next, paste any ONE line (the first is good) into your regular bindfile in place of the definition for "4" (by default, 4 powexec_slot 4. If you don't use a bindfile, enter the following bind update:

/bind 4 "bind_load_file_silent ./staff_02.txt$$powexec_slot 4$$g Eek! Eek! A mouse!"

And put [Innocuous Strikes] in tray slot 4. (You can, of course edit all of this to use another tray slot.)

 

Now... when you use this silly-looking power, two times out of three nothing will happen (the six short files), but every third time you'll call out a goofy phrase to go with the action. It rolls every time you tap 4.

 

Just gave this a run on several missions, and it really made things more amusing.

 

Here's a small ZIP file with the files in it, ready for use or editing. Dump them in your bindfiles folder, edit the path in each('./') if you use something other than the default. And get a giggle every time you poke a foe to death defeat.

 

Staff-fun-bindfiles.zip

Edited February 5, 2021 by Shenanigunner