Enemy attacks/projectiles heal players?

[lizardcommando]

I remember that in older versions of ZDoom and GZdoom, in order to make enemy attacks and projectiles heal the player, all you had to do was change the "Damage" flag to a negative number. Now it seems like that no longer works.

What's the new way to make enemy attacks and projectiles heal the player?

[Blox]

A likewise ancient hack was giving the healing projectile a DamageType that the to-be-healed actor has a DamageFactor set to a negative number for.


good old times

[Blue Shadow]

If it no longer works, then it's most likely a bug. Report it.

[Ichor]

I suppose you could try giving the projectile a unique DamageType, let's say MonsterHeal. Then add a corresponding Pain.MonsterHeal to the player, which gives the player some health. The attack wouldn't do any damage of course, but it would use FORCEPAIN to force the player to use the pain state and give him the health.

[lizardcommando]

If it no longer works, then it's most likely a bug. Report it.

Thanks for the suggestion. I just posted in the bugs forum.