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1  Exterminatus - Rival Species 2 / Open Testing / health bars or damage tracking? on: July 05, 2010, 06:00:54 PM
I play CounterStrike: Source a lot, and one of the major pluses of that game is when you get killed by the enemy, you can bring up your console, and you get a list of all the other players you damaged, how much you did to each of them, and how much each enemy player damaged you.

I just got done playing some Exterminatus, and as a vet, I shot the tar out of a fex with my plasma pistol, and still got slaughtered (by its scream effect, which is pretty cool).  But I had no way of knowing whether I had done any damage to it, or how much.  It's not a huge, high priority thing, but it's something that would really give me a warm fuzzy, knowing that I did, oh, 200% damage to the fex before it killed me.

If you were to implement a health bar, I know that would possibly cause some issues with the Lictor and the Thrope, since they can invis, but could the health bar be invis, when they're invis?  That would be fine, since if it killed you while invis, you'd know you hadn't done any damage to it anyway!

Thanks for taking the time to listen.  I enjoy the game and appreciate all your work!
2  Exterminatus - Rival Species 2 / Player Discussion / Re: THE "hi i'm new" thread on: July 05, 2010, 05:56:09 PM
Hi, I'm new.  Played RS1 a bit back in 2006, before I went to Afghanistan.  It was pretty much defunct when I got back. 

RS2: Exterminatus is pretty cool, although I'm looking forward to seeing more maps with other races (I particularly enjoyed the RS1 map with eldar v. IG).
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