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If hook damage is allowed, I think there should be something to prevent it's abuse. Attacking recently spawned players is one thing since they have an opportunity to escape, but hooking them is pretty cheap. Hooking players to capture opponents with the luxury of shield or pent is somewhat unsporting as well.


Here are three ideas:

1. Hook damage only affects an opponent's shield.

2. Hook is automatically disengaged after 2 or 3 seconds if hooked onto another player.

3. When hook is engaged, hooker is left vulnerable and receives more damage. This will discourage excessive "Spiderman" hook use.

toyo

This is a great idea!

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PK

I think we found your achilles heel!



I will correct this.



Unsporting... perhaps. But it sure does make one hell of a ride!!!

Thanks,

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Slot Zero

Back when Vamp was first introduced you could get health off of a Pent holder by grappling them and shooting at them to get health till the pent wore off and you killed them. That was a wild ride.

OK Toyo, I've made it so that hook will bounce off of spawn shields.

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Slot Zero

Chuck!!! omg dude that was my ride too!! I used to do that all the time!! hahahah

What ever happened to that ability of grappling and damaging players with the hook? What version of Rune/Artifact Quake do I need to get it back?

I've added a new vote command that allows you toggle hook damage. I've named it vote-hook-damage.

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Slot Zero

I once had similar feeling about this when in CTF so i added something like this to deter latching on for dear life!
this code could be added to
float ()
MaybeDropHook =
{
//...

if (vlen (self.enemy.velocity-self.owner.velocity) > 300)
{
sound (self, CHAN_WEAPON, "shambler/smack.wav", 1, ATTN_NORM);
T_Damage (self.enemy, self, self.owner, 10);
dropit = TRUE;
}
this would basically break the chain attached to you if u yourself simply grappled a wall or ceiling with your own hook.
The quick pull would snap the chain attached to you, causing only minor pain

Interesting idea. Might make for an option.

Thanks,

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Slot Zero

I am neutral on hook damage vs. no hook damage, but there's certainly one place it should always be off... before the match begins in RA. Hydro and I tried RA with hook enabled, and I thought it was really fun. But I could just see some lameoid hooking onto an opponent before the match even begins and just shafting them.

It will start happen as soon as IHH finds out that it's possible.