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Originally Posted by LordHotPocketHomicide For a long time now, I've had an idea for a Hale that would progressively get stronger at certain points in his BGM (background music). For example, at, say, 1:47, he would get a new ability, and each time stamp and its new abilities could be specified within the plugin's args. And whenever the Hale gains a new ability, it would be announced via a custom message that would appear at the top of the screen (like sm_csay), which would also be specified in the args. Would such a thing be possible? If so, how could I make it, if it doesn't already exist?

It's possible. For a basic plugin, you can use simple timers, which is specified in seconds by the arg

something like

#define NEWABILITY "special_newability"
float abilitytime[3];

public void ArenaRoundStart(Event event, const char[] name, bool dontBroadcast)
{
    for(int client=MaxClients; client; client--)
    {
        if(!IsValidClient(client))
        {
            continue;
        }
        int boss=FF2_GetBossIndex(client);
        if(boss>=0 && FF2_HasAbility(boss, THIS_PLUGIN_NAME, NEWABILITY))
        {
            abilitytime[0]=FF2_GetAbilityArgumentFloat(boss, THIS_PLUGIN_NAME, NEWABILITY, 1);
            CreateTimer(abilitytime[0], Timer_NewAbility, boss, TIMER_FLAG_NO_MAPCHANGE);
        }
    }
}


public Action Timer_NewAbility(Handle timer, any boss)
{
    static int newabilities=0;

    switch(newabilities)
    {
        case 0: // new ability 1
        {
            PrintCenterTextAll("%t", "newability1");
        }
        case 1: // new ability 2
        {
           PrintCenterTextAll("%t", "newability2");
        }
        case 2: // new ability 3
        {
            PrintCenterTextAll("%t", "newability3");
        }
    }

    if(newabilities>=2)
    {
        newabilities=0;
        return Plugin_Stop;
    }
    
    abilitytime[1]=FF2_GetAbilityArgumentFloat(boss,THIS_PLUGIN_NAME, NEWABILITY, 2);
    abilitytime[2]=FF2_GetAbilityArgumentFloat(boss,THIS_PLUGIN_NAME, NEWABILITY, 3);
    CreateTimer(abilitytime[newabilities==0 ? 1:2], Timer_NewAbility, boss, TIMER_FLAG_NO_MAPCHANGE); 
    newabilities+=1;

    return Plugin_Continue;
}

stock bool IsValidClient(int clientIdx, bool aliveOnly=false)
{
	if (clientIdx<=0 || clientIdx>=MAX_PLAYERS || clientIdx>MaxClients) return false;
	if(aliveOnly) return IsClientInGame(clientIdx) && IsPlayerAlive(clientIdx);
	return IsClientInGame(clientIdx);
}