Boomer Cvars

[Mukla67]

i've been looking in the CVAR list and i cant find the CVAR to increase the distance of boomer bile when hes exploded after being shot can anyone please help me :)

and am i right in believing that this controls the distance for his vomit z_vomit_maxdamagedist
and if i have these two set when he jumps off a building he will explode over the survivors sm_cvar z_exploding_splat
sm_cvar z_exploding_splat_radius

[imbullgod]

I'm not really sure about the boomer cvars, I havent messed with them on my server.

The person I direct any of my questions about cvars to is Apex, he's the man when it comes to cvars. You can find him on my friends thing if you click on my name.

Also you can find him in my steam group if you click on "imbullgod" in my sig, he's one of my admins..

[Apex_]

If I recall, the z_exploding_splat cvar only affects AI boomers, but it's been awhile since I tested it. The z_exploding_splat_radius may be what you're looking for, but I'm not 100% sure if it works when the splat cvar is set to 0. Either way it may not affect human-controlled boomers, so it's worth a try.

Damage distance does indeed control how far the boomer bile goes, but I STRONGLY suggest you don't use it because the visual puke effect DOESN'T scale. Basically the puke stream always looks a certain length, but the puke can "hit" people from longer if you play with the cvar.

[ex2cib]

the exploding splat cvar is extremely weird for me. I finally got around to looking at the boomer settings, and noticed when i jumped off buildings, i instantly blew up. I set the number to a really high value, and no problems after that.

I guess AI and VS values can get swapped at some point? just weird. I left it in mine to be safe, i hated diving off a building and blowing up on impact.

i also noticed, when i did this, that i never tagged any survivors that i blew up beside.

[Deadly]

You used to be able to jump off a high building and die, covering the survivors. In fact, it was mentioned by valve that they enjoyed doing that as a tactic, however; it was exploited in some way I assume and was taken out. So now, whenever you kill yourself, you don't cover the other survivors, and falling off of a high building constitutes as killing yourself.

[Mukla67]

You used to be able to jump off a high building and die, covering the survivors. In fact, it was mentioned by valve that they enjoyed doing that as a tactic, however; it was exploited in some way I assume and was taken out. So now, whenever you kill yourself, you don't cover the other survivors, and falling off of a high building constitutes as killing yourself.

hence t i wanted to alter the cvars so its back like it was they actually used to call it boomer bombing :P

thanks for your replies guys i've changed a few bits n pieces now n think i got it all sorted bar the boomer bombng :)