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FPSC Classic Product Chat / LIVES and HEALTH?

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Cloud of Crows Studios
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I noticed that in many screen shots the text in the upper left reads LIVES xx HEALTH xx

I'm sure this is completely customizable, but I was curious why the default values weren't health & armor? What function does the "lives" value represent? (surely not lives like in an arcade game?)

Which brings me to another question - is there an armor value within the game and mathmatically how does it function? (example each point of armor reduces 1 point of damage 1:1 or maybe armor deflects 50% of the damage and the rest is deducted from the armor value, etc. etc.)

Thx for your answers!
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Ali M Oldboy
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I asked something simalar to this before

and the answer...is yes

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Cloud of Crows Studios
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Posted: 23rd Jan 2005 09:20
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Quote: "and the answer...is yes"


The answer is yes???
It might as well have been "potatoes"!?!

Yes what?
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David T
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Posted: 23rd Jan 2005 18:52
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Quote: "Which brings me to another question - is there an armor value within the game and mathmatically how does it function? (example each point of armor reduces 1 point of damage 1:1 or maybe armor deflects 50% of the damage and the rest is deducted from the armor value, etc. etc.)"


Not sure about that.

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Posted: 23rd Jan 2005 19:09
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Lives means lives in the arcade-game sense. There is no armour value.


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Noah
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Can you turn off lives and give more health which would be renewed by healthpacks?

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Coldnews
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I think you'll be able to set the lives to one and then turn off the lives display. And you can have healthpacks on it, even health "zones", which is cool (very halflife!).

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Cloud of Crows Studios
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Quote: "even health "zones", which is cool (very halflife!)."

Yet no armor (very unhalflife!)

In fact I can't think of an FPS that doesn't have armor in it of some kind or another (even doom, hexen, quake, etc. all)... maybe this is another feature that is coming.

I think the inclusion of lives instead is... strange.

Another wait and see I guess. sigh.
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PogoPogo I agree with you, lives is someting for platform games... An FPS just doesn't have it

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In fact, most games now don't even have lives.

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Coldnews
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well its editable so dont worry about it

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If you find FPSC limiting, I suggest you start learning to code It won't be able to create everybody's dream game (that's simply impossible just with drag n drop making). To do that you'll have to code it yourself

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Knights have armour. So I wont need it. Cats have nine lives so I wont need those.

Sure could use some health though.

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