Weirdness and oddity in DM

[|iR|Focalor]

I was playing on DM a little bit ago and noticed some really weird shit going on. Every time Elysium would frag me, it would play the same sound that it normally does if you happen to spawn camp with a railgun on the vanilla server. When anyone else would frag me, that sound wouldn't play. There was even another guy on the map after this one using a cyborg model and it wouldn't do it. Only Elysiums frags on me would cause that. I didn't hear it when he'd frag anyone else either, only on me. I also noticed that there's "50" on his player picture on the scoreboard. I went back and looked through all my file folders and there was no picture file that looked like that. I use the brightskin pak that he made, and I was thinking maybe it was something he put in that pak, some extra skin or sound or something, but there is nothing but the stock model skins there, no player pictures.

Any ideas what the hell is going on here?

(click the picture for a full-size screenshot)

[[BTF]Dizzy]

The 50 means that he had handicap set to 50 - his weapons were only doing half damage. I believe the sound is related to that as well.

[Mask]

Note: Since the handicap feature doesn't affect gameplay for anyone who chooses not to use it, I figured it was safe to enable on vanilla, mutant, and dm.  (The noobquad feature is not enabled, just handicap.)

I've made a few tweaks this evening:

 - Audio & text feedback when noobquad drops and/or can't be picked up. (bleep! bleep!)
 - Typing "handicap" without a number, lists all players who are handicapped.
 - Handicap value shows on deathmatch scoreboard.
 - Bonus audio effect when a player with a handicap difficulty of 50-or-more frags someone. (unnnf!)

[|iR|Focalor]

DOH!

[console]

heehee

[[BTF]Defiant!]

I'm a big fan of this mod.  When I'm on at an odd hour without strong competition, I can set handicap and have a challenging game without overwhelming other players.

 

[[BTF] Reflex]

handicap 100 would make you powerless?

[[BTF]Defiant!]

handicap 100 would make you powerless?

handicap 25 is as low as you can go.  It then takes 4 rail shots to frag a 100h/0a un-handicapped player.