Hero: Chubby Checker

Partycat · **Author**

Part of the Golden Oldies series of heros, (series assuming I can come up with more 1337 heros that have something to do with oldies), I bring you Chubby Checker.

The story goes, while listening to the song "The Twist", and remembering a comment in the SHero file about making storm spin you around, I thought, hey, why not have a twist on my custom SHero dice (to go with winning XP, or being Hulked (you can't weapon switch outta my hulks), or 'dazzed' for a long time), and then I thought better of it and just made it into a hero.

This hero has helped work where dephaser doesn't. Instead of being blindly scouted in the back of the head when you can't see what's going on, keep your wits about you and just have 'em join in and do the twist!

CVars include:

checker_cooldown -> Default is 30 seconds.
checker_level -> Default is 5.
checker_spintime -> How long you twist, it's set at 5 seconds. WAV file is 5 seconds.

I can't get the precache_sound to work through the plugin. Go figure. I had the sound precache through the seperate dice plugin I have running and I'm all good.

Running on my serv. no crashes, so far so good.

I also edited alot of the other plugins and corrected spelling errors, and changed Bishop to use the power in an array rather than a collective variable. I don't know if this has already been done (my files are old) but whatever....

Enjoy!

- Saturn SL1-WNY

imported_TicoMeElmo · 08-09-2004 , 04:56

Finally a new hero i been waiting for something new everything is all the same OMG I LOVE THIS HERO lmao its so funny they twist in a circle and its so funny there like whats happening!?! figure out how to make the .wav work!!

p4haze · 08-09-2004 , 09:05

Try to make a thetwist.wav.ztmp file

PM · 08-10-2004 , 00:36

What exactly does this do?

Partycat · 08-10-2004 , 09:23

I found one bug that isn't too important but becomes obvious when you set the spin time really high, that after you spin left, you'll only spin right.

Besides reading the first post, what this hero does is when you target a player with it, it sets them doing 'the twist'. They hear the song (if wav precache's) and they then turn left then right then left (in theory) then right again like they're doing the twist. Works really well to disorient people and throw them off your case.

People who phase through the floor in vertigo, hulk you and then g-arrow you, well, if you can hit them while phased, they turn and sometimes they'll phase into walls and die. Good stuff.