Shots discrepancy, multiple player_hurt events?

chrishx3000 · **Author**

Hi, I'm about to write (yet another) stats-plugin. I see Mani and Roger Devil have added some nice stats to their plugins but it does suit my specific needs

My problem is with the shot discrepancy. For each player_hurt event I add a shot to the player's stats. At the end of round, the stats for amount of shots (hits) may be a bit more than what the client console reports. However the damage is always the same. I haven't been able to find a solution to this problem..

So I'm pretty much asking Mani and Roger Devil here, how did you guys solve the shots discrepancy?

Regards,
Chris

Mani · 03-21-2005 , 04:30

I didn't solve it at all and I get lots of posts entitled 'Damage stats bug'

I did post in Valves mailing list but got nothing back from them about it. I'm not sure if it's something to do with armor/health damage, multiple shots hitting different parts of the body or simply what the servers sees versus the client. The strange thing is that the total damage inflicted to a player tallies up with what the built in stats in the client say.

Mani

chrishx3000 · 03-21-2005 , 05:32

Cheers for the quick response

I add a shot to the stats every time a "player_hurt" event is triggered. But what happends if I hit a player in the leg, the bullets exits the leg and hits his other leg. Is two "player_hurt" events triggered from the same bullet?

I'll do some investigation later today, maybe I'll change "shots" to "hits", a bullet that hits you twice should be counted as one shot and two hits.

JFK deja vu

Chris

Mani · 03-21-2005 , 10:10

This was partially discussed in a thread started by XAD. I don't know whether he found out a solution or even if it applies to his stats module as I believe he uses hooks to get the information he needs.

Mani

chrishx3000 · 03-22-2005 , 07:47

There are quite a few threads with XAD in

I'll have a look later...

For those who are in the same situation as me might be interested in this:

You can hit a player twice with the same shot.

Yes, its true. Start up a server, add a bot, run "bot_stop 1" and grab a rifle. Next, go stand next to the bot, aim at the bot's leg and make sure his other leg is straight behind the leg you're aiming at. Shoot him in the leg and the bullet will travel through both his legs. This will produce two hits (two "player_hurt" events are fired) with one bullet.

Mani · 03-22-2005 , 08:20

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Originally Posted by chrishx3000

There are quite a few threads with XAD in

I'll have a look later...

For those who are in the same situation as me might be interested in this:

You can hit a player twice with the same shot.

Yes, its true. Start up a server, add a bot, run "bot_stop 1" and grab a rifle. Next, go stand next to the bot, aim at the bot's leg and make sure his other leg is straight behind the leg you're aiming at. Shoot him in the leg and the bullet will travel through both his legs. This will produce two hits (two "player_hurt" events are fired) with one bullet.

If this is the case you could track the timings of the player hurt events as they should be very close together for a multiple hit. This would have to be per player as HE's inflict damage to multiple players at the same time. Out of interest are you looking at the 'time' part of the event to see if multiple hits have the same time index ?

Mani

XAD · 03-22-2005 , 08:52

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Originally Posted by chrishx3000

Yes, its true. Start up a server, add a bot, run "bot_stop 1" and grab a rifle. Next, go stand next to the bot, aim at the bot's leg and make sure his other leg is straight behind the leg you're aiming at. Shoot him in the leg and the bullet will travel through both his legs. This will produce two hits (two "player_hurt" events are fired) with one bullet.

Well not really true, I think (but I also thought that first)....
Take a AK47 and shoot an unarmed guy in the arm... bam... 3 hits... the first should make about 32 in damage, second 16, third 8... get the picture ;-)

Shooting someone in the chest... baaaam... one hit 32 in damage... dhuuu

So, if you attack an unarmed player, 2 AK47 shots in the arm and his dead, 3 AK47 shots in the chest and his dead??

Well that's life...

/X

PS! I have compensated it in StatsXS (XADmin 0.4.1c)... or at least my intention has been

...

Mani · 03-22-2005 , 10:45

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Originally Posted by XAD

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrishx3000

Yes, its true. Start up a server, add a bot, run "bot_stop 1" and grab a rifle. Next, go stand next to the bot, aim at the bot's leg and make sure his other leg is straight behind the leg you're aiming at. Shoot him in the leg and the bullet will travel through both his legs. This will produce two hits (two "player_hurt" events are fired) with one bullet.

Well not really true, I think (but I also thought that first)....
Take a AK47 and shoot an unarmed guy in the arm... bam... 3 hits... the first should make about 32 in damage, second 16, third 8... get the picture ;-)

Shooting someone in the chest... baaaam... one hit 32 in damage... dhuuu

So, if you attack an unarmed player, 2 AK47 shots in the arm and his dead, 3 AK47 shots in the chest and his dead??

Well that's life...

/X

PS! I have compensated it in StatsXS (XADmin 0.4.1c)... or at least my intention has been

...

When you say compensation you are doing some timing tests to see how close the shots were fired ?

I've added some timing compensation to mine of about 0.001 seconds assuming the events are fired all at the same time though I need to test this.

Mani

Mani · 03-23-2005 , 04:31

It turns out that when shots are split for a supposedly single hit, they all share the same time index for that person.

Mani

chrishx3000 · 03-23-2005 , 15:38

That's good news! I don't suppose there is an official time index is there? How do you go about calculating the time index?

I was about to release the first version of my plugin but I think I'll hold back until this issue is settled