New content
I added two new items for players this weekend:
Pills
The player who picks these up, gets faster speed for a brief period of time. I’ve actually noticed a bug in it, while playing last…it is supposed to give them full health for a brief period of time and so that needs to be fixed! You try to think of everything…lol
Zombie Blood
VALVe could use this one in L4D/2 …A player picks up Zombie Blood and it makes him invisible to the Zombies – they don’t target him.
In Left4DoD, players have found this incredibly useful for capping those difficult last flags like in Avalanche or Anzio.
The items are Zombie drops.
The Pills drop 1 in every 10 while the Zombie Blood drops with a 1 in 50 chance. You pick them up, you use them.
Now I hear some of you saying, why can’t I keep them, to use whenever I want?
Well there’s a reason for that.
In DoD:S, I am unable to add extra weapons/items, draw a hand holding it, give it a slot, add it to the next item on the mousewheel. It’s just not do-able with SourceMod. I would need to completely re-write the game and add my own stuff in C++.
Ah, you say, why not create a command like use_blood or something?
I learned from my experience with DoDS:RPG, 3 years ago, that multiple binds for players drive them crazy. Servers can’t create the binds since the server has no access to the client’s config. So players have to create the binds themselves. Binding a key to use_blood or use_pills would be simply off-putting and not user-friendly. The whole point of the game is to keep it as simple as possible – so that anyone can walk in, shoot Zombies with no binding.
So the current method is far simpler and a more rewarding experience.
Besides, the added randomness makes it so much more fun!
Still to do this week:
Achievements: heading for the bath to have a good think about that one
Voices specifically for helping players identify the Emo coming
By [KitNo]Koolbold, Monday February 1, 2010 @ 2:03 am
Hi,
is it possible to get this Mod we would like to set up a European Server for this mod.
greetz Koolbold