- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
You guys ought to be more observant.
A couple weeks back, Frankie talked about how they were experimenting with different ingame messages to better inform players of what is going on.
Excerpt from June 11th, 2004 update.
The damage handling code now pushes around the cause of the damage (i.e. what weapon it came from, what vehicle you were hit by, which sniping weapon you were just headshot with). This is something we've been meaning to do for a while, now enough people at the end of the damage code pipeline (multiplayer messages, stats) want to know said info that we've taken care of feeding them.
I can't believe no one caught this, "Which sniping weapon you were headshot with". Ok....Halo 1 had a sniper rifle...you can headshot people with it...and it's the ONLY sniper rifle, yes? This quote confirms there is a possibility you can be headshot with more than one sniper rifle....and it wouldn't make a whole lot of sense to have 2 human sniper rifles and no covie snipes, now would it?
Edited to say that this doesn't necessarily refer to ingame messages and Frankie didn't say it, just posted it. Adrian Perez said it, whoever he is. As we can all see he talks about the inner workings of the damage handling code....what I said about ingame messages is just an assumption on my part as to the possible uses of having the damage handling code function in this way.
[Edited on 6/20/2004 11:45:13 PM]