Research: trigger player death

[zpl-zak]

Description

We have identified an issue where it is impossible to programmatically trigger a player's death by directly setting the health value to 0. This requires investigation to understand the underlying cause and to identify if there is an existing function within the game's SDK that would allow us to achieve this functionality appropriately.

Tasks

• Investigate the current implementation to understand why setting the health value to 0 does not trigger the player's death.
• Research the game's SDK to find an existing function that can be used to programmatically induce a player's death.
• Determine if there are any alternative methods or workarounds to simulate the player's death without directly manipulating the health value.

Scope

This issue is restricted to the client side.

See #47 (comment) for details.

[Segfaultd]

There is a I_Human2::Kill method. Parameters to research

[Deewarz]

Interesting because C_HumanScript::SetHealth should call I_Human2::Kill if health is <= 0.0

void __fastcall C_HumanScript::SetHealth(__int64 *a1, float a2)
{
  __int64 v2; // rcx
  __int64 Game; // rax
  __int64 v4; // rax
  __int64 HealthSystem; // rax
  __int64 HealthBar; // rax

  v2 = *a1;
  if ( *(_BYTE *)(v2 + 24) == 9 )
  {
    Game = GetGame();
    v4 = (*(__int64 (__fastcall **)(__int64))(*(_QWORD *)Game + 144i64))(Game);
    HealthSystem = C_Player2::GetHealthSystem(v4);
    HealthBar = mafia::health_system::C_HealthSystem::GetHealthBar(HealthSystem);
    sub_142BF4650(HealthBar);
  }
  else if ( (*(_BYTE *)(v2 + 28) & 1) != 0 )
  {
    if ( a2 <= 0.0 )
      I_Human2::Kill(v2, 9, 0, (__int64)ue::sys::math::ZeroVector);
    else
      I_Human2::SetHealth(v2, a2);
  }
}

Do we have an idea of what is v2 + 24 in if ( *(_BYTE *)(v2 + 24) == 9 )?