Body Stay

[Cory the Otter]

I was wondering why all the corpses fade away after about 10 seconds, instead of stay. There's a mod (i forget which one) that had bodies stay on the map forever and there hasn't been any lag or complications or nothing for me.

[Yustax]

Extra server information would cause the server to lag. Such as if vehicles stay rather than explode after 30 seconds.

[bosco]

The impact on performance isn't that bad.

From both corpses and wrecks.

[phillip]

Climb the mound of corpses to get to the top of Point du Hoc...

[THeTA0123]

indeed. I mean, all those dead germans, camping at the lafette, who get pounded by my Sweet 81MM mortar

[Flippy Warbear]

To be honest I dont really care for bodies laying around but wrecks dont seem like a bad idea. While it would be cool to create roadblocks by destroying a tank in the middle of a road or bridge, it would most likely in many maps ruin the gameplay totally since the vehicles cant get anywhere.

[Cory the Otter]

well, the wreck would still be destroyable. just shoot the damn thing. If you lob grenades at a wreck now, it explodes sooner.  at least, so it seems....

[Flippy Warbear]

Yes it is a common trick when you just shoot an AP to the wreck or ram it, enough damage and it breaks down.

[Cory the Otter]

so then i really don't see a problem...though i do get a bit of lag when i see a bunch of dead ragdolls, but the ragdolling stops when the body stops moving, right?

[DLFReporter]

so then i really don't see a problem...though i do get a bit of lag when i see a bunch of dead ragdolls, but the ragdolling stops when the body stops moving, right?

It's not the movement of the objects its the amount of objects itself that cause lag.
That is the main reason why most maps don't have all the available types of tanks. In FH2.0 there were tons of server crashes just from this fact alone. The Devs managed to overwork the servers.

[Natty]

I dont want spam of dead bodies on the maps, it would look silly. I also agree with Flippy, it would break the map designs if wrecks stayed too long. this is a game, it is about moving around and kill. the dead stuff should vanish like it does now. Just imagine dead bodies in a stair or doorway, you'd have bouncy, laggy, buggy collision problems and roads would be totally littered with wrecks. I think mapper-placed wrecks are better, as they are put there with intention, as cover.

It would take 10 sec in every assault map until the bottlenecks would be spammed with wrecks, just think Falaise Pocket bridge and what it would look like if wrecks stayed long.

[SiCaRiO]

It would take 10 sec in every assault map until the bottlenecks would be spammed with wrecks, just think Falaise Pocket bridge and what it would look like if wrecks stayed long.

was is hell , you have 2 other ways to cross the river.

[Steiner8834]

The impact on performance isn't that bad.
From both corpses and wrecks.

Thats right. I tried that with the alliedxtended mod. I tweaked the con files so that the bodies were staying around 10 minutes. I took a 32 player map with 110 bots and played it. At around 1000 bodies it became laggy.

My System:

Windows Vista x64
4GB Ram
Nvidia Geforce 9800 GT 512mb

It would be a really nice feature if the bodies would stay around maybe 5-6 minutes.

[DLFReporter]

It sounds like you tried this localy on your machine. Think about servers and people with older machines.
I wouldn't want to cause more grief on players with older PCs than that which they have to go through at the moment.

Plus dead bodies add nothing to the gameplay. (me is still disgusted by the way how blood seems to prevail in modern FPS. Take a look at COD MW2 videos they have limbs flying all over the place...)

[sn00x]

maybe add 5-8 seconds more to the stay. as i often use bodies as a warning that there might be a brit around this corner etc etc