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In multiplayer all gun turrets have the colour of the hosting player (and change colour if you change the colour of the player).

Same goes for flame turrets

So it is a feature?

ejg wrote: Tue Mar 17, 2020 5:25 pm So it is a feature?

Yea

I set my character to bright purple (easy to spot), but all Turrets in bright purple are not necessarily pleasant to look at...

I don't know if I like that, but I suppose that should be discussed in another part of the forum.

I don't like this either. I'd rather they stay orange. I thought this was a bug as well.

gibbsman wrote: Wed Mar 18, 2020 10:24 pm I don't like this either. I'd rather they stay orange. I thought this was a bug as well.

It's been this way for literally years. You're only noticing it now because we just got some knobs to twiddle instead of having to use a console command.

Deadlock989 wrote: Wed Mar 18, 2020 10:29 pm It's been this way for literally years. You're only noticing it now because we just got some knobs to twiddle instead of having to use a console command.

I understand that it has been around since 15.33. Doesn't change the fact I'd prefer it stay orange though.

gibbsman wrote: Wed Mar 18, 2020 11:09 pm I understand that it has been around since 15.33. Doesn't change the fact I'd prefer it stay orange though.

Then leave it orange.

The /color command was added in 0.13.0, mid 2016. Nearly four years ago. But force colour masks for the player, vehicles and various other entities existed since at least 0.11 in 2014. Over five years ago. Back then you could only change them with Lua commands. Maybe force colours were a thing before then, I don't know, but that's when multiplayer started.

I suppose we could just ignore what everyone else wants and screw over every single PVP server and every other kind of competitive team server on the planet because a couple of people pitched up in 2020 and they don't like their turrets going pink when they put on a pink leotard.