Increasing all damage in the game

[Kzer-Za]

I want to increase damage for everything temporarily for testing purposes, so instead of editing the damage of actors, I think I should go with event handlers, right? I want everything to either deal max damage (better) or just double damage (worse, only if the first objective is too difficult to achieve). Is there a way to do it? I found on the forum that WorldThingDamaged is read-only.

I suppose for "double damage" I could just go with WorldThingSpawned and halve the health of everything spawned. But I still would like to try going for maxing the random damage. And besides, in case of the player halving the health does not take care of the health items, which in this case would give him "double" health.

[Apeirogon]

WorldThingDamaged "readonlynes" mean that you cant cancel damage, because its called after actor was damaged. In fact it returns amount of damage after taking into account all damage factors, armor, and etc. You still can damage actor from it.

[Kzer-Za]

Hm, I tried:

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Class PlugDamageHandler : EventHandler
{
	override void WorldThingDamaged(Worldevent event)
	{
		if (event.thing);
		{
			event.damage *= 2;
			Console.Printf("damage is %d",event.damage);
		}
	}
}

but I get the error

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Expression must be a modifiable value

And I tried changing the scope to "play", like you advised in the other topic, but then I get

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zscript.zsc, line 3: Can't change class scope in class PlugDamageHandler

[Kzer-Za]

Okay, I got around it by

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Class PlugDamageHandler : EventHandler
{
	override void WorldThingDamaged(Worldevent event)
	{
		if (event.thing);
		{
//			event.damage *= 2;
			event.thing.Health -= event.damage;
			Console.Printf("damage is %d",event.damage);
		}
	}
}

But that still only deals double damage. In the absence of anything better that will do, but I still would like to have max damage out of any random damage. For that, I suppose I still would need to somehow change every "Thing" in WorldThingSpawned, but for now I don't have any idea how.

[Enjay]

Another way that the damage doubling could have been done would have been to define a custom skill level in MAPINFO ( https://zdoom.org/wiki/MAPINFO/Skill_definition ).

For the de-randomisation you would need something more cunning though.

[Kzer-Za]

It seems this way would be better for double damage at least, because I noticed that with the code above monsters become undying if their health is decreased below 0 as the result of setting Health directly.

But for some reason I don't see the new skill in the skill selection menu:

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skill test
{
	MonsterHealth = 0.5
	DamageFactor = 2.0
	FastMonsters
	EasyKey
	SpawnFilter = Nightmare
	DefaultSkill
	Name = "Test"
}

[/s]

Scratch that, I don't know what was the matter, but now I see it.

[Rachael]

If you're only doing it temporarily, CVars might be perfect for your use case.

sv_damagefactorplayer is multiplied on all players
sv_damagefactorfriendly is multiplied on all other +FRIENDLY actors
sv_damagefactormobj is multiplied on all remaining actors, including monsters and barrels

The CVars in question describe the victims of the damage, not the inflictors, so sv_damagefactorplayer 0 is equivalent to god mode.

Or if you want to see what it would be like if the monsters activated god mode for a change instead of you, you can do sv_damagefactormobj 0

[Kzer-Za]

sv_damagefactorplayer is multiplied on all players
sv_damagefactorfriendly is multiplied on all other +FRIENDLY actors
sv_damagefactormobj is multiplied on all remaining actors, including monsters and barrels

Oh, I think I'm gonna go with that No idea on getting max random damage seems to be implementable. But in the meantime I have also tried doubling the speed of everything, and the condition does not seem to work:

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Class PlugDamageHandler : EventHandler
{
	override void WorldThingSpawned(Worldevent event)
	{
		if (event.thing && event.thing.Speed > 0 && !event.thing.player);
		{
			event.thing.Speed *= 2;
			event.thing.vel *= 2;
			Console.Printf("Speed is %F",event.thing.Speed);
		}
	}
}

Despite the condition, the player's speed is also increased, and I get a lot of "Speed is 0.000000" in the console, which, I thought, I shouldn't.

[Jarewill]

You just want to increase speed of monsters and projectiles, right?
Then how about trying something like this:

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		If(e.Thing.bIsMonster == true || e.Thing.bMissile == true)
		{
			e.Thing.Speed *= 2;
			e.Thing.vel *= 2;
			Console.Printf("Speed is %F",e.thing.Speed);
		}

[Kzer-Za]

Oh, I haven't thought about that Thanks!

[Blue Shadow]

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if (event.thing && event.thing.Speed > 0 && !event.thing.player);

Remove that semicolon at the end of the line.

[Kzer-Za]

(Facepalm) Right! Thanks!