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Sensors do not detect players who are sitting in a chair, couch, or cockpit.

Philip Heinike shared this bug ago

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Sensors, when set to detect players, are unable to detect players who are sitting in any kind of chair.

This is not only annoying when building an automatic lithing system, (anytime you sit the lights go out) but also for any kind of ship boarding scenario. Enemy players can effectively shield themselves from sensors by sitting down.

That alone makes sensors useless when trying to detect players.

I therefore propose: sensors, when set to detect players, should also check for occupied seats within range.

regards

Philip

boarding example (link): Space Engineers Sensor Bug: boarding example - YouTube

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Laura K ●

Hello, Phillip!

Thank you for the report. I am just looking into this now and wondered if you're able to provide that world at all to have a look at? It looks like a great example for testing.

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Kind Regards

Laura, QA Department

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Philip Heinike ●

Hi,

thanks for the answer. the world should be attached here.

PS: I posted this on Reddit too and someone thought this could be a feature. (i do not know with what purpose) In that case, there should be an option to detect players in seats.

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Laura K ●

Hello, Phillip!

Thank you for providing the save file so quickly :) that was a huge help! I have successfully reproduced the issue and reported it internally.

Kind Regards

Laura, QA Department

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Frigidman ●

I would see a conflict when you have a sensor only set to detect ships, (aka, to turn on repair welders), and a sensor to detect players (aka, to turn them off for safety reasons) ... if you fly the ship over, what is going to trip them? The player is protected inside the cockpit, so it would seem silly to have a sensor trip for someone who is inside a cockpit ... hmm ... catch22s abound.

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Philip Heinike ●

Hey @Frigidman,

I did not think of that.

Since we now have a scenario where both options have considerable up- and downsides, there should be an option to toggle off/on the detection of players inside seats.

-Philip

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Ondrej Borz ●

Hello, Engineers!

I´m happy to announce you that this issue is already fixed and will be introduced to the game in upcoming major update.

Kind Regards

Keen Software House: QA Department

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Laura K ●

Hello, Engineer!

The fix for this is in v200

Thank you.

Kind Regards,

Keen Software House: QA Department

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Dogu O. ●

Hello! I kind of have the same problem.

I have my doors sensored and for some reason after last night`s update (TY for the WarfareII !) whenever I sit in my control seat all the doors open.

Hope you can help me out how to fix that!

Thank you in advance and have a nice weekend!

Best Regards

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Andrei ●

Issue still there. I have a sensor that depresurises a the cockpit when near the door, nowhere near my flight seat. it shouldn't even trigger when i'm not near the door. but whenever i seat in the flight seat the room depresurises ..

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Baboo85 ●

Bug still present, opened new ticket: https://support.keenswh.com/spaceengineers/pc/topic/26263-sensor-not-detecting-players-when-seated

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