Plasma spheres do more damage in bstone than they did in vanilla

[jwaffe75]

You can die almost instantly (in less than a second) when you make contact with a plasma ball on the max skill level in bstone.

In vanilla BS:AOG the plasma spheres do a lot less damage.

I wonder if this has something to do with the frame rate? In any case it makes it a lot more tedious to get around in the plasma sphere maze sections.

Also, hope you are doing OK over there.

[jwaffe75]

On my own machine I made a quick hack on this part of the code:

bstone/src/3d_act2.cpp

Lines 1749 to 1753 in 6699d5a

	if (dist < 1.0)
	{
	sd_play_actor_weapon_sound(ELECARCDAMAGESND, *ob);
	TakeDamage(4, ob);
	}

This makes the plasma spheres do considerably less damage than the DOS version (from the feel of it) but I never really liked how deadly they were in the original anyway.

static const int damageFrameCount = 16;
static int damageFrame = 0;

void T_OfsBounce(
	objtype* ob)
{
	// Should Electro-Sphere decrease player's health?
	//

	const auto dx = std::abs(player->x - ob->x);
	const auto dy = std::abs(player->y - ob->y);
	const auto dist = dx > dy ? dx : dy;

	if (dist < 1.0)
	{
		if(damageFrame > 0)
		{
			damageFrame--;
		}
		else
		{			
			sd_play_actor_sound(ELECARCDAMAGESND, ob, bstone::ActorChannel::weapon);

			//[75] The plasma spheres do way too much damage in the source port compared to vanilla, let's 
			// 		try and fix that by reducing the damage, I think this is a frame rate thing.
			TakeDamage(4, ob);

			damageFrame = damageFrameCount;
		}
	}