Self-explanatory. We're whispy little things, we need every bit of health we can get. Besides, we're light and supposed to be mobile. Jumping around/off of things should be encouraged. I can't see it messing with balancing, and it would only improve users' experience.


Of course, I'd be in favor of toning down the fall damage on all classes, but scouts feel it the most.

However, because there's very little impact, the vehicle will take next to no damage and the result is this LAV roadkill epidemic we're having where running over people seems to be a very popular offensive tactic. Running over people is just fine, but we may want to adjust the risk/reward for doing so.

It's a good point. Currently, fall damage is taken the same way as any other kind of collision damage. One item that I have been waiting for is to set it up in such a way that fall damage is tuned separately from regular collision damage. This would also allow us to re-adjust the height at which the inertia canceller can be activated.

Another thing on the to-do list is to be able to tune how collision damage is handled when hitting infantry with a vehicle. Currently, collision damage is based on scaling physics impulses to hp damage values (while using a minimum threshold). When a vehicle runs into a wall or another vehicle, this works well enough, but hitting a infantry in terms of physics really isn't a big impact. However, because there's very little impact, the vehicle will take next to no damage and the result is this LAV roadkill epidemic we're having where running over people seems to be a very popular offensive tactic. Running over people is just fine, but we may want to adjust the risk/reward for doing so.

Another thing on the to-do list is to be able to tune how collision damage is handled when hitting infantry with a vehicle. Currently, collision damage is based on scaling physics impulses to hp damage values (while using a minimum threshold). When a vehicle runs into a wall or another vehicle, this works well enough, but hitting a infantry in terms of physics really isn't a big impact. However, because there's very little impact, the vehicle will take next to no damage and the result is this LAV roadkill epidemic we're having where running over people seems to be a very popular offensive tactic. Running over people is just fine, but we may want to adjust the risk/reward for doing so.

Shayz - Thanks for the feedback. To respond to your concern: This is in-game physics, not perceived physics. A mesh that looks like it is armor, and has a lot of hitpoints on it has no bearing on how the physics system of a game works. The values that matter in this sort of a case is the volume of both meshes colliding, the density values of the physics materials on each mesh, the stiffness and material damage multipliers of each object colliding, and the damage threshold of the object whose HP you are looking at.

Self-explanatory. We're whispy little things, we need every bit of health we can get. Besides, we're light and supposed to be mobile. Jumping around/off of things should be encouraged. I can't see it messing with balancing, and it would only improve users' experience.


Of course, I'd be in favor of toning down the fall damage on all classes, but scouts feel it the most.