Feature request: Prevent Lara from automatically throwing away a flare while in the air

[rondeeno]

FLEP has a "safe flare throw" patch for custom TRNG levels that prevents Lara from automatically throwing away a used flare while jumping or falling, which would be a nice feature to have in TR2 since it helps prevent deaths where Lara prioritizes throwing away a flare over grabbing a ledge/ladder.

[Richard-L]

Had a look at Flep but there's virtually nil info about the patches or who's making them?

Fwiw the infamous issue that Lara doesn't grab because she's distracted disposing a flare also happens in TR3. There are also a few variants of it with climbable walls, etc.

Perhaps a grab could just always cancel the "dispose flare" animation?

And what if a user wants to throw a still burning flare? Would that count as their mistake to have mistimed the throw in a moment they needed to grab?

[rondeeno]

Had a look at Flep but there's virtually nil info about the patches or who's making them?

The repository I linked seems to just be for releases. Here's the forum thread with more information and the commit that added the safe flare throw patch: asasas9500/flep@9a70d7e

Perhaps a grab could just always cancel the "dispose flare" animation?

That would actually probably be ideal. The only thing is I don't know how that would look since there aren't any transition animations made for it.

And what if a user wants to throw a still burning flare? Would that count as their mistake to have mistimed the throw in a moment they needed to grab?

Players should still be able to manually throw flares while jumping/falling imo, since Lara's guns can be drawn in the same circumstances (which also leads to her failing to grab a ledge/ladder).