Modding:AI Task meleeattacktargetingentity

This does the same thing as meleeattack with one exception. Only entities that are targeting the guarded entity (owner of the entity) are attacked, still maintaining all of the range restrictions from "meleeattack".

The potential attack target is considered as targeting the guarded entity if the potential target has an AI task active that inherits from AiTaskBaseTargetable, its TargetEntity is set to the guarded entity, and the task has AggressiveTargeting=true (true for everything that inherits from AiTaskBaseTargetable except fleeentity). For example, let's say there is a wolf near the player. The wolf is approaching the player due to an active seekentity task. A hacked locust is guarding the player. The hacked locust sees that the "seekentity" task on the wolf is targeting the player, so it attacks the wolf as it passes by.

After the guard starts attacking a target, it continues attacking the target until it dies, or 30 seconds elapsed and the target is no longer targeting the guarded entity. Returning to the previous example, let's say that after receiving damage the wolf starts fleeing (but somehow it's stuck so that it remains within melee attack range of the locust). The hacked locust will continue trying to attack it for 30 seconds. At that it realizes that the wolf is no longer targeting the player, so the "meleeattacktargetingentity" task stops running.

Properties

All properties are inherited from meleeattack. So see the list of properties there.

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