Player handicaps possible?

[Rosso777 22]

Small private dedi server. Three players. One player very new and becoming frustrated with the difficult AI that lend a challenge to the other two but are a bit -too- difficult for the newbie. 
 

is there a way, using Steam ID/UID/playername, to provide a handicap to the new player? Perhaps decreased damage or something like that?

[stanhope 407]

There are several things you can do to make it easier/harder for a given player yes.  Changing the incoming damage on a player and changing the damage a player does (both with the hit eventhandler) come to mind. 

[Cysiu 13]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/getPlayerUID

[Rosso777 22]

Thoughts on this? Do I even need to add the standard players to this if their damage is "normal" (set to damage * 1)?

 

nul = [] spawn {
    sleep 1;
    switch (getPlayerUID player) do {
        
        case "3168468746512": {                                        // noob player
            player addEventhandler ["HandleDamage",{
                params ["_unit","_selection","_damage"];
                _damage * 0.5;
            }];
        
        case "5413546843212": {                                        // veteran player 1
            player addEventhandler ["HandleDamage",{
                params ["_unit","_selection","_damage"];
                _damage * 1;
            }];        
        
        case "6544164161261":                                         // veteran player 2
            player addEventhandler ["HandleDamage",{
                params ["_unit","_selection","_damage"];
                _damage * 1;
            }];        
        
        default {};
            };
        };
    };
};

[beno_83au 1358]

56 minutes ago, Rosso777 said:

Do I even need to add the standard players to this if their damage is "normal" (set to damage * 1)?

 

No. In initPlayerLocal.sqf:

if (getPlayerUID player == "3168468746512") then {
	player addEventHandler ["HandleDamage",{
		params ["","","_damage"];
		_damage * 0.5;
	}];
};

If it's just for the one player then you don't really need a switch, and an if...then should run faster anyway if you're just handling one player. If you wanted to specify differences for more than one player though, then I'd suggest a switch.

 

On difficulty, there's things in https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/setUnitTrait that you could use, like the audible and camouflage coefs, and maybe load too.

Edit: setUnitTrait might need to be run in onPlayerRespawn.sqf, not 100% sure so it'd be worth testing using one of the easier traits to test (medic/uavhacker/etc).

[Rosso777 22]

17 hours ago, beno_83au said:

 

On difficulty, there's things in https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/setUnitTrait that you could use, like the audible and camouflage coefs, and maybe load too.

 

this is a great idea. I will try all this and report back. Thanks!