Artifact Kills not shown on stats

I noticed when looking at one of Ratar_killer's high score posts that the total number of kills was significantly higher than the sum of his weapon kills.

It occurred to me that kills for rod, beam etc are not being logged on the stats page. So, I am proposing to change it to log them.

When a player is killed via TakeDamage, it calls the Invasion.Killed function. This calls TeamPlayerReplicationInfo.AddWeaponKill.

Unfortunately, AddWeaponKill checks that the damagetype is from a weapon, so does not add it.

So, we create a new function AddArtifactKill that we call after we kill something using TakeDamage from an artifact.

Unfortunately, the stats page only stores kills under class<weapon> or class<Vehicle>. Since I do not want to try to modify the TeamPlayerReplicationInfo class to add an array supporting class<Artifact> kills, I think we will need to create a number of dummy weapon classes for beam,bolt,rod,ultima etc to add them to the weapon stats. These will only be as follows:
Code:

class WeaponRod extends Weapon;
 defaultproperties
 {
     ItemName="Lightning Rod"
 }

Really just a placeholder for the text.

I should have it done in the next day or so, unless someone shouts nay.

Ok, fix in cvs.

If you get this working, I think both Moof and I will be impressed to an extreme.

Moof couldn't wrap his brain around it and I figured it was not possible to do without some major code rewrites.

try it
(Its not an elegant solution that I can be proud of, but it should work)

The most difficult to test was ultima, because I could never really see how many I had killed in the blast. But it seems about right.

BotFodder wrote:

If you get this working, I think both Moof and I will be impressed to an extreme.

Moof couldn't wrap his brain around it and I figured it was not possible to do without some major code rewrites.

Heck, I don't even remember attempting it. I think I blocked the memory of attempting to analyze that code out