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Fair points but imo the visual representation of damage in this game is much worse than the audio.

Blood spatter much at higher interp?? If you raise interp from 0.015 to 0.033 there is a massive difference in the amount of blood spatter you get per shot with scatter gun, similarly if you raise from 0.033 to higher interp.

Most would argue that you choose an interp setting and stick to it anyway but there are occasions where its worth raising, i.e. playing on servers where you ping higher or vs higher pinging team.

Since the blood spatter is also client side and not server side it can often give a totally false representation of registered damage on the player, making you think he’s low since he’s literally covered in blood and it turns out he’s not even in red hp.

Also this new feature so you can see when players are overhealed is buggy as shit. I still get the visual que that he’s overhealed for several seconds after registered damage, so often recently I find myself playing unnecessarily defensive against a scout/sol/demo who LOOKS overhealed after I’ve shot him a couple of times (thinking he’s still overhealed or high health) then I fire off a couple of mid range pistol bullets and to my own surprise he drops dead.

It’s not even remotely intuitive.

Also hate the inability to turn off ambient sound which dominates over other game sounds on certain settings (i.e. its louder on headphones setting than on 2 speakers).

Would be awesome.

Not sure though if *hit*-sounds are the way to go (as in, you get a noise when u hit someone with splash/projectile/hitscan), just the painsounds depending how much health they lost/are at now and the blood being appropriate to damage received should be enough imo.

Doubt anything like this is ever gonna happen unless someone makes a mod, but would be nice anyway. Valve are busy making hats now.

Or a linear model that modifies the hitsound pitch in relation to the damage. You’d hear exactly how much damage the enemy has taken.

Hit sounds thats a interesting one, coming from a cod 2 background originally I am used to the ‘hit blip’ which is very useful but there is a reason in which you only get it in q3 based games.

There is no lag compensation in these games so they must supply the player with feedback otherwise there is actually no other way to know if your hitting your target. The hit blip is there so you can learn how much you have to lead your target to get a hit.

Since there is lag compensation in source you don’t get it since in theory you don’t need it.

the words ‘mod’ and ‘quake live’ these are newer improvements. They not gonna take the hit blip out now are they :P

MikeJS already have hitsounds in Duel Arena…

It’s great.

Played some dm with hit blips at PingTimeout (194.187.214.64:27016)

100% Pure WIN!