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KF Project Santa
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Hahah 
The weapon is already ingame and we are now doing fine tuning and testing.
I'll try to get some new media today.
The weapon is already ingame and we are now doing fine tuning and testing.
I'll try to get some new media today.
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impressive the sights seem to be fitting
now please to not fine-tune it into another seeker6!
the sights seem to be fitting now please to not fine-tune it into another seeker6!
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Maybe they're now making it so that KF2 EA and Project Santa will release at the same time.
Maybe they will make freeze rifle for KF2 altogether
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During the testing devs accidentally froze themselves. Now waiting for springtime to unfreeze...
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Now this music is the official thread theme. I had to be "that guy" again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6120QOlsfU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6120QOlsfU
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Allow me to breake the ice
We are working hard on the gun and we want it to look good. The reload animation has been redone and some other small things have been changed too.
When it gets released we want it to be finished and good looking.
Just have a little more patience
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Hello Community,
This is the first BETA of Project Santa. We are looking forward to your feedback so we can release the whitelisted version as soon as possible.
Known Bugs:
Download BETA
Please post your feedback into our forums!
This is the first BETA of Project Santa. We are looking forward to your feedback so we can release the whitelisted version as soon as possible.
Known Bugs:
- We still need to do the ice texture on the zeds correctly
- Breaking Emitter when ZEDs die during freez
Download BETA
Please post your feedback into our forums!
This version is not intended for public (server) use!
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Freezing Mechanics
This article describes how zeds are freezing and special features of frozen zeds.
Under the hood
Freezing is completely controlled on server side by FreezeRules object. To make zed freeze, it must received damage, which type is a subclass of DamTypeFreezerBase. DamTypeFreezerBase has 3 variables to control freezing process:
- FreezeRatio.
- FoT_Duration
- FoT_Ratio
FoT = Freeze over Time. It acts similar to burn DoT (Damage over Time), but, as you can guess, it adds Freeze Damage instead of burn damage. FoT is used for primary fire only and its values are: FoT_Duration=2; FoT_Ratio=0.2. It means means that 2 seconds (FoT_Duration) after receiving damage from ice dart zed will be getting additional 20% Freeze Damage per second. (FoT_Ratio).
Sounds complicated? Let me explain. If you'll check out DamTypeFreezerDart.uc, then you'll see:
Code:
FreezeRatio=0.6
FoT_Duration=2
FoT_Ratio=0.2How do they freeze?
Zed becomes frozen when it receives Freeze Damage 33.3333% (1/3) of its max health.This value is called FreezeTreshold and it takes into account both difficulty multiplier and player count. For example, it is much easier to freeze Gorefast in solo mode than in 6-player game.
How do they unfreeze / warming?
Zed start warming (loosing Freeze Damage) 1 second after last Freeze Damage has been received or 2 seconds after zed became frozen.
Zed isn't warming while receiving FoT.
Zed loses 20% of total Freeze Damage per second during warming process. For example, if player did 200 Freeze Damage to the zed, then it will loose 200*0.2=40 Freeze Damage during 1st warming second, 160*0.2=32 during 2nd etc. This makes it hard to keep zed frozen, especially if it is a big zed with a huge Freeze Threshold (e.g. Scrake).
Freeze and fire don't mix
Setting frozen zeds on fire immediately unfreezes them and removes all Freeze Damage dealt.
It is impossible to freeze burning zeds.
Special feature of frozen zeds
- When zed is frozen, its ice skin acts like a shield, giving 50% damage protection.
- But ice skin gets damage itself and gets a lot. Explosives do double damage to ice structure. All other weapons: triple damage. Players can break ice structure, which in turn instantly kills the zed.
- Ice skin has the same amount of health as zed.
- It should be a matter of good teamwork: kill zed while teammate is keeping it frozen or loose half damage if it unfreezes.
- Headshots are disabled while zed is frozen.
For example, let's imagine that Gorefast has 500 health at the moment when he became frozen. Level 6 Commando shoots him with SCAR, which normally deals 97 damage. Ice skin protects Gorefast, letting though only 50% of damage, i.e. 97*0.5=48. But ice skin, which has the same 500 "health" points, gets triple damage: 97*3=291. Two SCAR bullets will break ice and instantly kill Gorefast. But if Gorefast unfreezes before second shot has been made, he will still have 500-48=452 health points.
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At face value, this gun is awesome. The IJC team and PooSH did a great job, but there are some issues that will really harm this gun when it comes to mainstream usage.
The issues I found while testing on a server with others:
The issues I found while testing on a server with others:
- Zeds that are frozen (sometimes?) rotate to keep facing the player they're agro'd to (a lot of crawlers exhibit this behavior).
- Zeds that are frozen and then thaw out will rarely not restart some of their blended anims (2 bloats did this over 5 waves of play so it's not common).
- The freeze spray sets off explosives which doesn't really make sense.
- The freeze spray will sometimes just not freeze zeds (I was shooting through other players at the time so it might be an issue there)
- The ammo is quite expensive for a full load
- On HoE, this gun will probably never see the light of day unless it's to screw around. All of its short comings when it comes to usage (damage-wise and mechanic-wise) of this weapon make it not really useful.
- The spray effect isn't very appealing. Although the effect that's created when it hits a surface is neat.
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