Harvesting bodies rework

[Goose]

Currently, you can harvest the default half life two NPC’s corpses, no matter how you kill them. What I’m suggesting will give melee a reason to exist.

Instead of every fallen NPC turning into a harvestable corpse, change it so that the corpse only spawns if the NPC dies from melee. This would give melee a reason to exist, as well as encourage rebels to use them if they actually want food. You shouldn’t be able to destroy a headcrab with a firearm then expect that carcass to be edible.

 

[Matthew]

makes perfect sense i wouldnt wanna eat meat that's got a bullet inside of it

 

[Leon]

Currently, you can harvest the default half life two NPC’s corpses, no matter how you kill them. What I’m suggesting will give melee a reason to exist.

Instead of every fallen NPC turning into a harvestable corpse, change it so that the corpse only spawns if the NPC dies from melee. This would give melee a reason to exist, as well as encourage rebels to use them if they actually want food. You shouldn’t be able to destroy a headcrab with a firearm then expect that carcass to be edible.

I understand your point of view, and I suggest maybe shooting the headcrab itself won't benefit you but shooting a zombie will. Or perhaps just add that you get extra meat if you manage to kill a zombie with a melee.

 

[Aspect™]

Denied.
We'd like to keep things simple when it comes to harvesting, and the current system works fairly well, so we don't see the need to change this up.