MetaLife Feature List, version 1.17

Tala · Tala on Thu Mar 12, 2009 5:41 pm

This is an overview over the most prominent features of MetaLife, version 1.17:

Realistic damages, depending on weapon handling:
- the closer the impact to the body, the higher the damage
- certain body parts are more or less sensitive
- frontal hits cause more damage
- you must aim more accurately if further away, also for melee weapons
no overpowered weapons (all weapons legal)
- weapon speeds are normalized in a way that makes the use of all weapons legal and fair (i.e. you won't win only because your weapon uses high damage attacks)
- this does not mean that all weapons are equal! Actually MetaLife allows even very strong and very weak weapons!
- various legality checks are performed, too fast attacks (also of multiple weapons) discarded. Multiple wielding is without effect
new sims can create own roles with custom floating tokens and soundsets
new sims can adjust toughness, health and stamina regeneration speed for each role
new CHASING mode for capture roleplay
shielding supported
armor and helmets supported
blocking with weapons or other tools supported
weapon protocol allows mixed cut/thrust attacks, also dynamical
poison
safezone based weapons and protocol extensions supported by many other meters are supported
traditional and dynamic channel supported (and NO this does NOT cause lag!)
different physical constitutions (gender, race) supported
defense experience can be built up
very low lag
physics-lag optimized, especially suitable for openspace sims (void sims)
low impact floating text and health/stamina indicator
innovative downing and aiding procedure
health and stamina, affected by gender/race, armory, movements
stamina loss may force interruption of fighting
illness RP
coma and death, active killing (no forced death possible)
binding and leashing
'look-at' feature
various soundsets with preview feature and volume control
arena mode, afk/ooc mode and ooc chatter
auto-updates
checkpoint in order to enforce wearing the meter
low impact floating titles - for those who don't want to wear a book floating over their heads
optional arrow range restrictions (via region server)
optional over/under-weighting of melee/ranged damages
optional gender (in)equality settings (via region server)
optional arrow splash restrictions (via region server)
landicaps: terrain that inhibits movement, slows you down (for swamps, deserts etc; availabe as add-on)
contains free high-quality weapons
German localization (partially implemented)
free and non-commercial

Some major technicalities that have been introduced newly by MetaLife and are not implemented in other meters:

custom roles
very effective legality checks
arrow range limitations
free damage and range variables
core regions for melee attacks
combat fairness by correlating damage/delay, range/angle etc, similar for armor/stamina, helmet/screen size
support for cross-development: other protocols implemented as subsets, meaning even your old freebie bows will work and will be legal
Landicaps
active aiding, no artificial timeouts
stamina transfers
dynamic damages
health/stamina damages for more weapon variety, bringing tactics into SL fighting
optimizations against physics lag, especially on openspace sims
... much more ...