Physicians:
I already suggested vaguely in my post:
"You manage to run away from the goblin far enough for him to lose you before you collapse in exhaustion"
Time is a factor in wounding, so it''s a factor in healing as well. A physician can "stitch you up" ( possibly translating into a reduced susceptibility to disease, and an enabling factor for NATURAL healing ). It stops the bleeding, and starts the healing process. If you keep walking around, you''ll heal at your natural, terribly slow rate. You might have magic or somesuch to speed it up, or stay in hospital or something.

Hit by location in text-based:
More or less random, unless you do a targeted attack.
Normal attacks will hit torso, targeted attacks are more difficult but increase the chance to hit a particular body part.

> attack goblin''s nose
vs
> attack goblin

it might even just be an embellishment issue. Perhaps a torso hit doesn''t do anything different to a leg hit, it''s just related with different words.

I am not going real-time for a while yet, I have never really liked real time roleplaying games. I need time to formulate my answers, and think through the proper responses for my character...




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For a graphical real-time hit-by-location game, I was thinking about making it so that there would be a few buttons where you could select the body part you want to hit, and that body part would continue to be selected until you select another one. Assuming all body parts are equally selected, the head would be the hardest to hit because it''s a small target and so on...

Another approach could be to make it so it''s random like Keith said unless you specify otherwise or make it so it picks the torso area unless you specify otherwise because that would be the easiest target I would think.



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If you just want a new way of presenting it rather than a whole new damage system, one technique I used was to have a red displacement map fade in gradually from the sides of the screen and the more damage the less transparent it became. At almost full damage you were left with a kind of tunnel vision just being able to peer through the red merk in the middle. (well that was the idea anyway

Another thing to think about, remember the little head in Doom, take away the actual damage value and you could still judge fairly reasonably your health level. The facial expressions were done quite well, I think that is the key to that type of representation.

I thought I would use location based damages, each part of the body has its own health meter plus some hits may be critical and could severe an arm or pierce the heart.

Different kinds of armor would protect against different kinds of weapon. For example, leather is good against blunt weapons but does little against piercing ones.

The characters would protect critical locations ( head, groin ... ) by instinct ( if i may say ) or if they choose to.
A character constantly attacking would loose the chance to protect himself. A buckler would help to protect without putting the character in too bad a position.

The player would choose the location more or less with the daggerfall system, in combat the sword would follow the mouse. Of course, if someone else puts himself in the trajectory of the blade ...


Edited by - DungeonMaster on July 28, 2000 1:20:42 PM

Edited by - DungeonMaster on July 28, 2000 1:25:14 PM

In Resident Evil 2, the main screen not have health-metter. Even there no have nothing more that game (and occasionally a timer-metter or some caption). Of course, you can access to menu and see the stats. But is not need, because if you has hurts, then the players will not run and walk very slowly. Even more, when you has close to dead, the players will walk even more slow and more inaccurace (like a zombie).



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