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Quite simply, clicking on another player with a fish should heal them, like it would yourself. Currently clicking anywhere, including on other players, heals yourself. The only way to heal another player, albeit indirectly, is by ctrl clicking on them to give them the fish, which they can then use, however this may be less convenient in the middle of a fight.

Idea for mod: healing gun?
It's possible to implement this, just negative damage, then select another player and press "c".

Yeah, that's basically how fish work - negative damage, and it could easily be implemented through a mod (though I'm not seeing anything right off hand). The thing is, we already have fish, why not make them work for this as well?

Try to imagine the difference between you eating a fish and someone else stuffing a fish into your mouth without asking first though. *You eat fish now, it very healthy yes*.

Some shooters have healing grenades i think. Problem with "negative damage" is that you'd need to make everything immune to it, or people start repairing their walls with fish, or accidentially heal a biter.

I guess health and damage differ somehow : one can't use a repair kit to mend another player. Or can one ?

Koub wrote:I guess health and damage differ somehow : one can't use a repair kit to mend another player. Or can one ?

The player has flag "not-repairable", just delete it and you will be repairable too It's much easy than negative damage shotgun or grenade.

darkfrei wrote:

Koub wrote:I guess health and damage differ somehow : one can't use a repair kit to mend another player. Or can one ?

The player has flag "not-repairable", just delete it and you will be repairable too :) It's much easy than negative damage shotgun or grenade.

Player == Android comfirmed :p.

eradicator wrote:Try to imagine the difference between you eating a fish and someone else stuffing a fish into your mouth without asking first though. *You eat fish now, it very healthy yes*.

Well yeah. Just open your mouth, let someone put a fish in it, and chew. There's no reason you can't do that while shooting a flamethrower.

eradicator wrote:Problem with "negative damage" is that you'd need to make everything immune to it, or people start repairing their walls with fish, or accidentially heal a biter.

Just stuff fish in the cracks. And who says biters don't like fish too?