The gametype's time limit ends a game, and its time left is drawn on the
scoreboard, but a game without one shows no time at all, and the
scoreboard is a button hold away. The clock players time the weapons by
was a stopwatch beside the television.
It counts up from the game's first tick, which is the tick the items'
respawn periods count from as well (game_engine_update_item_spawn's
game_time_get() % respawn_period), so an item is back on the map at every
multiple of its period on the clock: on Chill Out the overshield is up at a
minute, the rocket, camo and overshield at two. Elapsed rather than
remaining for the same reason: a game with a time limit is the one a
player most wants to time the rockets in, and its time left is on the
scoreboard already.
It is drawn at the bottom right, where the versions players know it from
put it, clear of the first person's weapon. The HUD's own text colour is
lost against a map as bright as it, so the clock is lifted toward white and
drawn whole. ticks_to_unicode_time_string leaves the minutes out below a
minute, which a countdown reaches only at its end but a clock counting up
starts at, so the digit is put back at the call.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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