I officially love you both <3 nokk it worked. you know, i was going to write at the start "if i seem dumb...." well, i have no words for my idiocy. I should learn how to use the internet guys.....

thanks so much :)

So, today i felt like i wanted the quake 3 hitsound. I also wanted my rhapsody config to show sheens, so i decided to get a chris' config. Now, i had it all under control until when i added the new config, shit started breaking. At first it forgot everything, reset viewmodel_fov etc, and it was pretty bad, i wasn't getting any damage readings or hit sounds. Then, i changed it back to rhapsody however i wasn't getting damage readings. Oke, i thought, this is bad. So i changed hud, from my beloved omphud to rays, but that didn't fix it. After all this, i uninstalled tf2 and re-installed. That hasn't fixed it either.
To clarify, I am using omphud and chris' config, the default one with a few options changed.
What works: pretty much everything, but i will check later.
What doesn't work: damage readout is the main thing. i have no way of telling how much damage i have done, only by the quake hitsound. It's kind of a necessity, and something i would really like to work of course (lel), so any help would be grateful.
Also, i would like to always use omphud, and changing hud does not fix this. I am not very good with coding, and my memory is patchy but i seem to remember dumping the hitsound.wav into cfg/sound or something, and that broke everything i think.

please help, and tell me if you need me to post anything, thanks :)