/vr/ - Retro Games

VIOLENT RUMBLE UPDATE: Shield Overhaul Edition
Shields are now a valuable piece of equipment rather than lame timed powerups.

both shields:
>block 75% of damage from the front
>have 350 health
>have pain skins/frames for health getting low
>lose health equal to blocked damage
>lose 1 health per shield bash
>healed by armor shards for 2 health each
>have a shield bash when ramming enemies with the effectiveness/damage scaling with player velocity (and thus the haste buff)
Empathy Shield:
>enemies can be impaled on the spike if they're small enough or the player is moving fast enough
>otherwise a large amount of damage is dealt
>impaled enemies will take most of the damage that would otherwise go to the shield
>can be rammed into other enemies to hurt them both
>the axe or gauntlet can be used to remove them if there isn't another enemy in range
Power Shield:
>rammed enemies are likely to be stunned briefly, and may be knocked backwards
>knocked back enemies will damage any other enemies they hit along with themselves
>blocking generates cells equal to a tenth of the blocked damage
>if cells are full, the shield will shoot lightning at attackers with damage equaling what was blocked
misc:
>laser rifle charging re-animated to not be tied to framerate (idk wtf I was thinking before)
>new system for in-map func_breakable debris models (check the new pottest map for examples)
>laser.mdl frame for the fan-shot made larger so it's actually visible in movement
>Empathy Shield can be given with impulse 253
>Power Shield can be given with impulse 254

The shield models are a bit jittery with no real way around it. Disabling head bob (cl_bob 0) helps a lot, and Ironwail is way smoother than vkQuake.
That's about it. Remember to get the new/updated models in progs, and the pbump.wav sound effect in sound/shield.
Also check out anon's map, Close-Quarters Runage (cqr.bsp), now in the maps folder.

VR megafolder: https://mega.nz/folder/LVlWVK5D#H5iqeD61bSItMIVeGqymTQ