A "suicide" button in FPS multiplayers
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As long as it gave a 5 second long animation of you placing the pistol in your mouth that could be interupted by the other team killing you then i would be fine with it
There are lots of games with suicide buttons. I, in fact, bound it to "k" in CS:S and ended up accidentally killing myself. I think that button should only be used in situations where you're stuck in the level geometry or something... not to keep someone else from killing you.
Oh yeah, and Metal Gear Solid 3 had one.
Oh yeah, and Metal Gear Solid 3 had one.
In that sort of situation, twould be better to pull the pin on a grenade and scream, "LUB LUB LUB LUB LUB LUB LUB!!!" while charging in a kamikaze style attack.
In Counter-Strike, you run at them while having prepared a grenade. When you die, you drop the grenade at your feet!
that would suck, imagine yourself on the enemy team and your enclosing on an enemy, would you want them to take the cowards way out or would you want your kill?
I wouldn't want it to be mapped onto the in-game controls... 'cause I use those for more useful things.TimeLord said:
Actually come to think of it, I can see it having a practical use. Say you have a really big map, and there was only one person on the team left in a wipe out style death match. Rather than waste time having the other players slog across the whole map, other guy kindly suicides himself to get on with the next round.
Kind of assumes your map design sucks though, if people can't find each other easily... I doubt many devs would admit to having a suicide mechanic for that reason.
Kind of assumes your map design sucks though, if people can't find each other easily... I doubt many devs would admit to having a suicide mechanic for that reason.
Source engine games like Team Fortress 2 and HL2 Deathmatch always have this option;
bind k "kill"
It's useful in badly made mods too, for committing suicide in glitched areas or zero death condition scenarios.
bind k "kill"
It's useful in badly made mods too, for committing suicide in glitched areas or zero death condition scenarios.
I only know a suicide button existed in Battlefield 1942 and BF: Vietnam. It wasn't for killing yourself before the opposing team could, but for killing yourself if your plane got shot down in the middle of the desert or jungle and thus walking to the next base would've taken hours. Made sense to me.
A suicide option in CoD for example would be cheap I think, pro teams would just fire a shot from the sniper rifle and then, if not killing the enemy, commit suicide. Pointless
A suicide option in CoD for example would be cheap I think, pro teams would just fire a shot from the sniper rifle and then, if not killing the enemy, commit suicide. Pointless
There's the /kill command in the Quake and Doom games. For the most part, using /kill in competition is against the rules unless it's properly warranted. For example, if you fall off the map, and don't want to wait 10 seconds for the fall to finish, then you /kill.
I see two outcomes:
A. If there is no penalty for suicides then you'd have griefers allowing the other team to get two shots in and then killing themselves.
B. If there is a penalty (e.g. -1 points) for suicides then you'd have greifers killing themselves repeatedly to screw up their team.
Either way I think it's a bad idea.
A. If there is no penalty for suicides then you'd have griefers allowing the other team to get two shots in and then killing themselves.
B. If there is a penalty (e.g. -1 points) for suicides then you'd have greifers killing themselves repeatedly to screw up their team.
Either way I think it's a bad idea.