Throwing objects at players for damage

[pogoman979 4]

rocket's recent thread about removing the starting weapon got me thinking. It would only be a good idea if players would still be able to defend themselves in other ways, such as with melee like their fists (difficult to implement), or by throwing objects.

Objects that can be thrown already are tin cans and empty whiskey bottles, you could also have rocks/stones as an item as well. Now whilst tin cans won't hurt anybody, and rocks and whiskey bottles probably wouldn't affect the infected too much, throwing a rock/bottle at another player would be both hilarious and quite disorienting/painful irl, so why not have take something like 500-1000 blood off on impact, or if it is a headshot substantially more.

Of course it would still be quite difficult to kill anyone by throwing things unless you got lucky and hit the head, and imo melee attacks will eventually be needed, but this would be extremely easy to implement and is a start down the road of uncoventional weaponry for the mod.

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if you could hit a player! Arma throwing is horrific.

[Ejaculacid 19]

Personally i think empty cans/bottles are a waste of rendering power. Ive tried using them but it's failed soooo much

[Blaise 1]

You can already hurt someone when throwing. It's just not very substantial.