[L4D2] Simple Supply - Fix those missing medkits and weapons

seattle_ice · **Author**

This is a very straightforward, simple yet useful plugin. All it does it check the number of medkits at the start area or saferoom, and add additional medkits and weapons where needed. I add enough to make sure everyone gets one.

Assumptions:
1. If no medkits are found, I assume no weapons exist either, so I add both
2. I add tier one weapons for the first two maps, and tier 2 after

I am sure there are 50 different ways to make this more sophisticated, but it has done the job well for us in our 8 on 8 versus games.

Thanks to N3wton for the spawn melee weapons function, with the semi-random locations.

VERSION History:

1.0.2

Added ConVar "l4d2_SimpleSupply_SupplyWeapons" to control if weapons are spawned as well as medkits. Default is 1 (ON), 0 is off.

1.0.1

Fixed distance error on No Mercy finale

seattle_ice · *Last edited by seattle_ice; 02-12-2011 at 14:50.*

I have found that it works very well for us, except for the finales. If anyone has an idea about why the game acts differently on the finales, I would like to hear it.

Edit: I have found the problem was simply that some finales had other medkits very close by, so my search was incorrect.

Jay Dogg

sounds great but where do I download? No link on this thread? Please fix so I can test out

seattle_ice

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Originally Posted by Jay Dogg

sounds great but where do I download? No link on this thread? Please fix so I can test out

Sorry, must have bungled the last upload.

I don't know that it has been tested for the very beginning of a campaign. We usually experienced missing medkits for the second half of a VS round, and anytime we had more than 4 players. Let me know how it goes.

Jay Dogg

Seems to work so far on my normal 8 players vs server at very beginning of a campaign, so if I use this on my 6 player coop server will it add extra health kits for players if they are on?

Thanks so much have been looking for a fix for that bug for a while.

seattle_ice

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Originally Posted by Jay Dogg

Seems to work so far on my normal 8 players vs server at very beginning of a campaign, so if I use this on my 6 player coop server will it add extra health kits for players if they are on?

Thanks so much have been looking for a fix for that bug for a while.

The default behavior for co-op is that any extra bots over 4 are spawned with health packs, IIRC.

If it is was requested by enough people, I might get into the more complicated task of calculating the health pack count at the end of the previous round and matching them up.

ArthurCid

We play this and other plugins from you on our clan servers every night and it has added new life to a game that had gotten somewhat tired. Awesome work Iceman.

seattle_ice

New convar added to allow turning the weapons spawning on/off. This was added by request.

Check first post for description and details.

RavenDan29

Doesnt seem to work on windows based servers

seattle_ice

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Originally Posted by RavenDan29

Doesnt seem to work on windows based servers

It is currently running quite well on a number of them. Can you give me a better description of the server and what is not working about it?