Ham_Killed or client_death better?
 

Hello, as the title stated. I just wondering why most of the coders use Ham_Killed rather than csx's client_death forward? I am about to use client_death forward but I am afraid it may not be the best choice to detect a client has been killed and as I said just now, most coders use Ham_Killed which makes me think. Am I going to choose a bad decision if I pick client_death rather than the Ham_Killed forward now?

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No

Re: Ham_Killed or client_death better?
 

You can use DeathMsg, Ham_Killed, client_death, all of them are fine. However, you have to know that client_death is called AFTER a player died, you can't block the event or change params.
Anyway, csx functions are not widely used, it's not a very popular module, I don't know why. On the other side, a lot of people know about hamsandwich, so I think this is why you see that one is more used than the other. Well, this, and the fact that ham hooks can be registered as pre/post and one can actually alter the forward.
Moreover, csx is only for cstrike, ham is working in other mods too.

Extra: ham is a module that hook functions from game. Ham_Killed is the function that is directly responsible for a player kill(CBasePlayer::Killed). From this function(well, not directly, but let's keep it simple) the DeathMsg message is send.
I'm telling this so you can see that all of them are reliable for detecting a kill, the only difference is the moment at which they are called.

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Ah, I see. Seems Ham do cover even wider function. Thanks for the information, very useful for beginners to understand. Thank you, sir.

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DeathMsg isn't sent when player is killed by bomb.