[Paah]

How do you hook a backstab?
Can you modify the damage of the stab?
Can you prevent spy from losing disguise on stab, or atleast get the disguise reapplied so quickly sentries can't even make beep?
Can you prevent victim from having any visual/audio about getting stabbed, unless they die of course?
Can you fake a backstab so you get to set who dies and who stabbed them and the stabber gets points and all that?

I really don't know much about backstabs ._.
Would greatly appreciate some help.

[noodleboy347]

1) Hook player_death, look for weapon backstab.
2) Not afaik
3) You can reapply the disguise, I think instantly too
4) You could block the sound but not the damage indicator
5) I don't think so

[Paah]

So the weapon is called backstab? I did some reading and I thought weapon was knife and it was "customkill" or something.. Meh, I have to do some testing.

[Pawn 3-pg]

Originally Posted by Paah Can you modify the damage of the stab?

SDKHooks can change the damage with the OnTakeDamage hook.

[CarlZalph]

Originally Posted by Pawn 3-pg SDKHooks can change the damage with the OnTakeDamage hook.

Or, without that extension:

Hook the player_hurt event.
Check the "damageamount" from the event, and make sure it's over 100.
(Spy knife doesn't do more than 100 on normal swings, ever.)
Get the short value "weaponid" from the event, which is the entity index.
Get the weapon's name by GetEdictClassname().
Compare it with "tf_weapon_knife".
If it is that weapon, then give the client his health back.
Could save his current velocity and apply it .1 seconds later to stop any force obtained from the damage received.

That's just an alternative if you don't like extensions.

[dirtyminuth]

I thought giving health back based on the player_hurt event would not prevent death (i.e. you could not stop backstabs via the player_hurt event).

[CarlZalph]

Originally Posted by dirtyminuth I thought giving health back based on the player_hurt event would not prevent death (i.e. you could not stop backstabs via the player_hurt event).

Just add the health to the victim that the event would have done, and he won't die.

[AtomicStryker]

Cant stop death with playe_hurt as its POST. SDKHooks is the way to go.

[CarlZalph]

Originally Posted by AtomicStryker Cant stop death with playe_hurt as its POST. SDKHooks is the way to go.

I'd really beg to differ on that.

You can, and it's possible.
Not going to argue facts here.

[Dragonshadow]

Originally Posted by Paah How do you hook a backstab? Can you modify the damage of the stab? Can you prevent spy from losing disguise on stab, or atleast get the disguise reapplied so quickly sentries can't even make beep? Can you prevent victim from having any visual/audio about getting stabbed, unless they die of course? Can you fake a backstab so you get to set who dies and who stabbed them and the stabber gets points and all that? I really don't know much about backstabs ._. Would greatly appreciate some help.

SDKHooks
Probably
uhh don't think so, that's clientside
yes, block the damage with sdkhooks then reapply it with a point hurt entity.