Re: [Super-tux-devel] Re: [Super-tux-commit] supertux/src defines.h,1.32,1.33 world.cpp,1.69,1.70 world.h,1.37,1.38

[Ricardo C. <ri...@ae...>]

Em Segunda, 10 de Maio de 2004 13:58, o Ingo Ruhnke escreveu:
> Ricardo Cruz <rm...@us...> writes:
> > Instead of limitating the number of bullets, according to the ones
> > in screen, do it in a time bases. This was asked in a comment on The
> > Linux Game Tome and I already wanted to do this, since the day I
> > made that hack, so here it goes. You can tune that time on the
> > defines.h file, it is the BULLETS_TIMEOUT definition (in ms). There
> > is a fire test level.
>
> I have to say that I very much prefer the old behaviour over the new
> one, since it had numeros advantages:
>
>  * With the old behaviour it was pretty clear when one is being able
>    to shoot again, with the current system one has to wait some amount
>    of time, which leads to make the fire button feel very unresponsive
>    (press a msec to early -> no reaction). There is no visible
>    indicator when one is ready to fire again
>
 Well, that can be done.

>  * With the new behaviour one is unable to shoot multiple fireballs in
>    a row, especially when confronted with a row of enemies, this makes
>    fireballs pretty useless, since one has to wait
>
>  * Lack of punishment/bonus when killing enemies. With the old system
>    you had to be carefull with targeting the enemies, since when you
>    missed, you would have to wait until the fireball disapeared to
>    shoot again. If you on the other side hit, you would be rewarded
>    with having another fireball instantly ready. With the new system
>    you always have to just wait, no matter what you do.
>
 I don't really see those two points as bad things.

 Anyway, I've already putted the old behavior back.

Ricardo Cruz

> In general the new system basically replaces nice gameplay dynamics
> with boring waiting and even lacks a visible indicator on what is
> going on.

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