[L4D2] Invincible Ghosts - Stops infected ghosts dying from fall dmg or drowning
 

After realising ghosts could die from fall damage & drowning in L4D2 I decided to try and patch it, eventually I figured out a method that worked and this is the result ;D.

It seems to work (nearly) 100% of the time so far; it makes ghosts invincible to large falls and drowning and players are simply teleported back to the survivors when they do fall or drown, instead of dying and having to wait 20s+ for respawn :).

Credit to AtomicStryker for the spawn ghost checking function which I stole from Infectedghosteverywhere and also to mi123645 & Mr. Zero for their Forced Spawn begone plugin which I used the infected class detection from :>.


Cvars

l4d2_ig_version: Version cvar.


Changelog:

Version 0.4
- First releasable version.

Re: [L4D2] Invincible Ghosts
 

does it work with l4d1?

Re: [L4D2] Invincible Ghosts
 

Ghost die in L4D1? Since when? (besides NM finale where it's a ridiculously long fall where if you don't press E before you hit bottom, you deserve to die!)

Re: [L4D2] Invincible Ghosts
 

Nice this would solve a lot of problems haha! Especially in the swamp map when waiting for the ferry

Re: [L4D2] Invincible Ghosts
 

this isnt a topic for debate. its yes or no and your useless post has neither.

Re: [L4D2] Invincible Ghosts
 

I think it *should* work in L4D, although I've only tested it on L4D2 and I'm not sure that ghosts get killed in L4D in the same way as L4D2 [in L4D2 the floors below big drops and water act kinda like fire or something and apply ~5000 dmg per second while the ghost is in contact with them, it's not actually fall damage that kills, there is no real fall dmg for ghosts]; would appreciate it if anyone who does try it on L4D could let me know how it works :).

Re: [L4D2] Invincible Ghosts - Stops infected ghosts dying from fall dmg or drowning
 

ghosts die in l4d2 thanks to a trigger_hurt_ghost entity. l4d1 has none of them - at least not in stock campaigns.

the river in plankcountry does 10k damage to ghosts.

all you really have to do is remove those triggers.

Re: [L4D2] Invincible Ghosts - Stops infected ghosts dying from fall dmg or drowning
 

Thanks for the info dirka :), I hadn't actually looked into what was dealing the damage, I just tried to block it from happening xD. I guess the plugin still serves a purpose for ppl without stripper source tho :>.

Re: [L4D2] Invincible Ghosts - Stops infected ghosts dying from fall dmg or drowning
 

Buffing ghosts to 20k health isn't really the answer. Why dont you try stealing the Infected Respawn code from sm_respawn so a dead ghost immediatly returns.

Also, nobody but MI5 has ever used the shitty "+use" fakes. By all means use TeleportEntity instead :)

Re: [L4D2] Invincible Ghosts - Stops infected ghosts dying from fall dmg or drowning
 

Just tested this. This is awesome!! Thank you, thank you!!