Healspray - constant stream instead of bursts?

Align

<div class="IPBDescription">Kind of like a flamethrower, but bacteriological</div>I suppose there must've been a gameplay reason this wasn't in NS1 since there's definitely been flamethrowers in other HL1 mods, so perhaps someone could enlighten me?

spellman23

Even streams like flamethrowers I believe are coded as individual shots. They just happen very rapidly. So I would assume the Heal Spray was discretized as well. Why it was a very discrete weapon probably has to do with how most of the NS1 weaponry is easier to handle and calculate due to the very clean discrete damage values.

Align

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Inevitably, but at any rate the NS1 healspray wasn't anything like one.

rofldinho

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It's just aesthetics though?

IMO it's a bit more natural to have a creature squeeze spray out of it's body in regular bursts, rather than be running around spraying a constant stream of gas everywhere.

SN.Wolf

Make healing a blob of infestation that you can spit onto the one being healed that would emit steam as it evaporates therefore could be seen as healing aliens or damaging marines. I see a plugin in the future.