Zeds should not be immune to Husk bombs

[SpurryMoses]

I just noticed, that zeds dont catch fire from Husk bombs - what's the deal with that? Genetic immunity?
My suggestion is that they should suffer just as players do. The Husk should be expected to aim properly and if he corners his own zeds, that's our gain!

 

[Gasoline]

i seen it damage a stalker, thats it. ive seen it hit scrakes and they dont care? but if a fp nudges em in the slightest they go for the fp? surely if a husk hit the scrake then the scrake should go for it awell?

damaging all other zeds tho..thated make it to easy?

 

[9_6]

I see them catching on fire and burning to death from those explosions on a regular basis...?
(and no, that's not because I or anyone else was a firebug. Noone plays firebug after all)

 

[Yu_Fucndie]

I just noticed, that zeds dont catch fire from Husk bombs - what's the deal with that? Genetic immunity?
My suggestion is that they should suffer just as players do. The Husk should be expected to aim properly and if he corners his own zeds, that's our gain!

The game would be a lot more interesting if everything hurt everything. People would be killing teammates left and right though, and that might not be much fun.

 

[9_6]

The game would be a lot more interesting if everything hurt everything. People would be killing teammates left and right though, and that might not be much fun.

Try playing the game?
Zeds DO hurt zeds. They even start fighting each other if they get damaged by their 'comrades'. Well, except for sirens.
Fleshpounds kill anything in their path except scrakes who just get damaged and then start fighting the pound, bloats damage their allies which sometimes turn on them, husks toast their allies (even though the radius for that seems to be pretty small) and if you enable friendly fire, players hurt players.

 

[Nanostrike]

I just noticed, that zeds dont catch fire from Husk bombs - what's the deal with that? Genetic immunity?
My suggestion is that they should suffer just as players do. The Husk should be expected to aim properly and if he corners his own zeds, that's our gain!

Specimens ARE hurt by Husk fireballs. They just don't seem to get pissed about it very often. Clots are usually fatally burned by being anywhere NEAR a shot exploding...

 

[Yu_Fucndie]

Try playing the game?
Zeds DO hurt zeds. They even start fighting each other if they get damaged by their 'comrades'. Well, except for sirens.
Fleshpounds kill anything in their path except scrakes who just get damaged and then start fighting the pound, bloats damage their allies which sometimes turn on them, husks toast their allies (even though the radius for that seems to be pretty small) and if you enable friendly fire, players hurt players.

I did not say they didn't hurt each other. I said it would be interesting if everything hurt everything. I did not say anything about zeds not hurting each other. One of the achievements is to kill so many zeds by luring them into bloat vomit. And I have played on friendly fire servers as well. So to answer your question is yes, I have played this game. Quite a bit actually. Although I can see the confusion with my comment.

 

[Makrontt]

The thing is, fireballs only deal damage when they explode, and they don't explode when touching a spec. If it explode by touching a wall it will damage all specs around and they will attack the husk back. It happen a lot when specs are bashing a door and a husk start shooting at the same door.

 

[omarfw]

anytime a group of clots are near a wall and a husk shoots that wall, those specimens are toast.

 

[Colt .45 killer]

perhaps he is reffering to how all the zeds are pushed out of the way of the fireball...

 

[Azukki]

That would make more sense, but removing that would lessen the husk's usefulness by a LOT. His damage would mostly go to TKing.

The fireball passing through or avoiding zeds instead of pushing them as it flies would look much better, but pushing them opens an opportunity to shoot through the parted red sea of zeds and kill the husk, and I like that game play aspect, even if the appearance of it is awful.

 

[JohnMajor]

I wonder if it would be possible to have the Zeds step or jump aside manually rather than being knocked aside by the fireball...

 

[9_6]

Well that'd look cool if that huge group of clots and gorefasts that are about to nibble on your brains suddenly crouch down, jump to the side and the next thing you see is a giant fireball darting towards your face.

 

[SpurryMoses]

Yeah, I could just be wrong and maybe the firebombs werent actually hitting the zeds, but just very 'close', and I interpreted from my angle, that they should have caught fire.

Also, maybe I'm expecting zeds will die at the same rate as when hit by my lv4 Firebug flamer. Maybe the Husk flame is weaker.

 

[HaTeMe]

lol

I would surely want to see a horde of zeds diving away from the danger yelling "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" in slowmotion every time a husk readies his weapon. Or when someone throws a grenade at them O_O

 

[ANTHEM]

I see them catching on fire and burning to death from those explosions on a regular basis...?
(and no, that's not because I or anyone else was a firebug. Noone plays firebug after all)

I do.