Leech
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Overview
The Leech is a Xenian species, introduced to Earth during the Resonance Cascade at the Black Mesa Research Facility. It is yellowish-gray in color, and has minuscule, razor-like teeth. It is very similar to the terrestrial species of leeches found on Earth.
Behaviour
Leeches live in aquatic environments. Being carnivorous, they mount weak attacks on organisms that happen to come into the water. Individually, they pose little threat, but can be damaging when they attack in numbers. They are very frail, and will die with a single attack, whether melee, explosives and/or firearms are used.
Mechanics
- Leeches are spawned randomly around the player in water when an env_leech_controller is activated in the map.
- After extensive testing it was found necessary to tweak the behavior of the Leeches. Leeches only hurt players that are not swimming to invoke a sense of tension while not overwhelming a player with low health. Also, they will only lower the players health to 10%. Both of these options can be tweaked by console variables; 'sk_leech_dc_player_static' and 'sk_leech_dc_player_max_health' respectfully.
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