[Mutator] Specimen kill messages

[Marco]

This mutator shows small statistic messages on your screen as you kill specimen. The messages will remain on top-left corner of the screen for ~4 seconds for each specimen type you kill and count up as you kill multiple of same ones in short amount of time.
You get no sort of reward for maximizing the kill stats, it's merely there to show you exactly how much damage your grenade/pipebomb spam did do to that group of zombies or to show you if you killed off that fleshpound.

To add this mutator to game, simply add mutator "Kill/damage Messages" (or "?Mutator=MutKillMessage.MutKillMessage" to URL line), or you can add it to ServerActors list, in KillingFloor.ini:

[Engine.GameEngine]
...
ServerActors=IpDrv.MasterServerUplink
ServerActors=UWeb.WebServer
ServerActors=MutKillMessage.MutKillMessage

Download the mutator from here.

Version history:
3.0:

- Made it disable built-in kill messages to prevent double messages on client.
- Added support for damage messages (bMessageDamage=true in MutKillMessage.ini).

2.0:

- Added support to message all players about specific large zombie kills (you can specify 'large' zeds on MutKillMessageV2.ini in form as mass/health they have).

1.0:

- Initial release.

 

[halbridious]

Nice idea, if it works then i vote for immediate whitelisting. I love having that kinda HUD info available. Thanks, marco.

 

[braindead]

Awesome Marco!

This should at least keep the levellers happy to keep an eye on their progress, once it's whitelisted of course

 

[steff]

great mutator! thanks!

 

[matttthias]

great job!

but i have a problem. I wanted to raise the time from ~4 seconds to 10 or something like that but when i tried to compile the original source code i get an error.

KillMessage.uc(39): Error, Context expression: Variable is too large (576 bytes, 255 max)

Any idea why i get this error?

 

[RoBoT]

when I kill 1 clot or gorefast.. etc it says +2 Clot Kills +2 Gorefast Kills instead of +1

 

[timur]

I wonder what would happen if you had this active along with custom zeds?

 

[Yin]

I wonder what would happen if you had this active along with custom zeds?

It works fine.

 

[_Duke_]

I wonder what would happen if you had this active along with custom zeds?

That's a good question...

Marco, could you make it compatible with The Brute?
(If you haven't already)

 

[scary ghost]

That's a good question...

Marco, could you make it compatible with The Brute?
(If you haven't already)

Maybe you should read what Yin posted...which is, you know, right before your post.

 

[mooarchanox]

i noticed a thing about the mutator. the number showing seems to be ... multiply. 1 clot = +2 clot kills ...

i test this on HoE with serverperk enabled, with super zombie mut. no custom zed.

is this just me or something's wrong ?

 

[RoBoT]

i noticed a thing about the mutator. the number showing seems to be ... multiply. 1 clot = +2 clot kills ...

i test this on HoE with serverperk enabled, with super zombie mut. no custom zed.

is this just me or something's wrong ?

yes it happened to me too
I removed it from active mutators list and its still active but working fine (+1 instead of +2) its kinda weird but try it

 

[Phada]

Fresh idea, doesn't change gameplay, can be instantly put on whitelist.

Just one thing, my screen is 1600x900 and the messages seems a bit too close from trader's distance:

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[Marco]

i noticed a thing about the mutator. the number showing seems to be ... multiply. 1 clot = +2 clot kills ...

i test this on HoE with serverperk enabled, with super zombie mut. no custom zed.

is this just me or something's wrong ?

That is intended.

Just one thing, my screen is 1600x900 and the messages seems a bit too close from trader's distance:

I can make that Y offset positioned localized too so users can adjust it themselves.

 

[mooarchanox]

hmm.. okay ... thanks for the mutator, marco

by the way, i think this will go well with some score board alteration to show each zed kills. i used to see it on some servers. does that open for public or just private use ?

 

[BartBear]

YouTube - KillingFloor - MutKillMessage with other muts

 

[steff]

nice!

 

[Phada]

I've a suggestion: add a option to broadcast in chatbox a message when someone killed a "big zed" (scrake/fp/patriarch). Maybe check default.Mass >= 500 for brute support if IsA() requires the package.

edit:

function ScoreKill(Controller Killer, Controller Killed)
{
    if( PlayerController(Killer)!=None && Monster(Killed.Pawn)!=None )
    {
        PlayerController(Killer).ReceiveLocalizedMessage(Class'KillsMessage',,,,Killed.Pawn.Class);
        if ( bOptionBool && Killed.Pawn.default.Mass>499 && KFGameType(level.Game)!=None ) // bloat/husk mass=400, scrake=500, fp/brute=600, patriarch=1000
            level.Game.Broadcast(Self, class'GameInfo'.static.ParseKillMessage(Killer.PlayerReplicationInfo.PlayerName, KFGameType(level.Game).GetNameOf(Killed.Pawn), class'DamageType'.default.DeathString), 'DeathMessage');
    }
    Super.ScoreKill(Killer,Killed);
}

Which results by "a Scrake was killed by PlayerName." in chatbox.

 

[alvin122006]

thank you and nice ! but I got a problem...
it display "+2 CLOT KILL" when I kill 1 clot

 

[timur]

thank you and nice ! but I got a problem...
it display "+2 CLOT KILL" when I kill 1 clot

that happens when you kill a clot while a +1 Clot message is still there (they take a little to completely fade away). Unless of course you hadn't killed a clot before that one, which would indeed make it a tech issue.