Is there a way to have an event only respond to the initial touch?

[Jennavieve]

I've been having this problem with a certain type of NPC event in my game (set to event touch). It's a monster that's meant to drain your HP a little if it touches you. It also drains your health if the player touches it, which is fine except that it's overresponsive when the player touches it. The problem is that it seems to process the player touching it every frame (because the player is holding down the directional keys for movement) so it drains the player's HP waaaaay faster than if the event touches the player. It ends up being an instant kill because by the time the player has a chance to respond and try to move away, they're already dead.

Is there a way I can set it up so that the event only processes the initial contact from the player instead of processing and responding to a touch every frame?

 

[Zerothedarklord]

by changing a self switch after it deals damage, triggering a second event page that is NOT "event touch"

However, that'd disable it from being able to damage again (which you DID ask for), but you could also add a wait time, although that might feel awkward.

My recommendation: Self Switch A turns on after dealing damage.
Event page 2 triggered by self switch A, set to run parallel. Wait time of 30, 60, 90 or 120 frames (however long a delay you want, really), and then after the wait, turn self switch A back off.

 

[BK-tdm]

Either go with the above response or make the event itself do a "1 step back" move route after dealing the damage, set that the move route doesnt have a "wait for completion" so the player can also move away,

If the player follows the event and re-triggers it they get double damage for being bad

 

[Jennavieve]

Thank you both for your responses! I ended up adding a player movement route with a 5 frame rate to the event page and that did the trick. Works perfectly now. The answer was right in front of my face the whole time, guess I just need a post to actually think of it lol.

 

[mlogan]

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