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A-Delusion, others, and I are currently tinkering with his new server. The question I bring up is, is there a way lower the countdown on the self-destruct? I think making that instant or near instant would be a good check and balance against Geno.

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That isn't what I was talking about. I wanted to make it so you can instantly respawn after you get killed. Like at kapsi's river map.
I found the correct command for this is set _explodeTime 0
default is 5 seconds
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The Holey Tank wrote:A-Delusion, others, and I are currently tinkering with his new server. The question I bring up is, is there a way lower the countdown on the self-destruct? I think making that instant or near instant would be a good check and balance against Geno.
I looked at the self destruct code once, and it's in the client, and it looks like it's a constant 5 seconds. That would be cool if you could change it, though.
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what if you could selfdestruct next to an enemy tank, and the explosion would kill the other tank?is that possible?
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Phalanx wrote:what if you could selfdestruct next to an enemy tank, and the explosion would kill the other tank?is that possible?
Anything is possible. It's just not a feature in the game right now.
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Post by Lan »

Lowering the self destruct time would be a nuissance because anybody could just self destruct when they are about to get killed. I would lose a point whether they killed me or I self destructed, but self destructing means they don't get a point, so the choice to self destruct is a much smarter one in that case. Gameplay would be bad because it would be tougher to gain points as everyone just blows themselves up before you can kill them.
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