🚀 go-pugleaf

Adam Williamson <Ad...@scss.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>For some weird reason, Vanth <va...@earthlink.net> was possessed to
>write
>>Seems I was off a bit on this.  After further experimentation in the
>>same area, I discovered that if you are practically on top of the
>>location of the pipebomb you take no damage (i.e. against the wall
>>with the holoduke access door open or right against the sit-down
>>vidgame) BUT, if you back up just a hair you WILL take damage...
>>
>This is due to a stupid set of coding on Apogee's part. The damage line
>for pipebombs is something like:

>hitradius 2048 WEAKEST WEAK MEDIUMSTRENGTH TOUGH

>The weakest-tough are definitions from defs.con, but they are
>descriptive. Anyway, the point is that the damage starts from the actual
>bomb and goes OUTWARDS. So standing on the bomb gives you WEAKEST
>damage, 512 away gives you WEAK damage, 1024 away you get MEDIUMSTRENGTH
>damage and 1536-2048 away gives you TOUGH damage! Weird. Just reverse
>the order, for how it _should_ be.

>Your local coding wizz
>--
>Adam Williamson, D1M - ad...@scss.demon.co.uk
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Yes.. but standing right in front of the holoduke alcove (against the
wall itself at the opening) nets me NO damage while standing a hair
back gets me killed.  Check it out.

Vanth
 =V=