[Bainshie]

Hi.

I am a old L4D2 player (Back when tanksmiths were no 1 in the EU, painful painful memories of playing against them and forgetting to bring lube) who like many others quit when high level L4D2 was just.... well LOL. And although a while back I considered joining in again (Some of you might remember the L4S community cup I ran) the meta game just seemed to stagnate into the same boring bait, wait for infected to attack, rush, repeat over 9000 times, slit wrists.

Now around this time I started a private project with another well known competitive player who's distaste with confogl is well known (I think we all know who I'm talking about) and started programming getting it to about 90% completion. However second year of uni started and I had issues finding someone to help test it with me. However now the new year is out....

The release for this is going to be simple. I'll be aiming to release a new module as soon as I get them finished to the standard I like.

Use this thread for ideas regarding the currently completed modules, balance issues with the plugin (This is a huge part that I need your help with) and bugs (Hopefully there isn't any )

Currently the config supports the 5 original maps. (Slight support for passing included, but meh). This is designed to be run on top of confogl currently, with the cfg I provided ran either after the confogl one, or added to it. In no cases should this plugin be active while doing a competitive match for an offical event, this is for scrims and such only.

Update 11/01/2011

Ok, right this is the first version of the plugin that's actually testable, due to my lack of experience with actually making scripts (Used to c++ coding from scratch.) Thanks to Confogl creators it now actually works with confogl, and has been packaged as such. I've been testing this with the 2.2 version of Confogl, but I don't see why this wont work on the latest offical release.

To run the plugin, just type !forcematch camfogl (With admin ofc)

Also I now have a server with this running on for those who don't own one but want to try (EU, UK)

85.234.148.158:27015

Searchkey is Camfogl (Imaginative I know!)

Changes with this patch

(v0.004)
0.04 changes.

Removed most of the UI. Not only was it buggy, but it also meant that I had to recompile a new plugin every time I wanted to add a new map. This one will work 100% with any map that has a proper navigation flow.

Tried a different tank spawning thing. Before I was doing a lot of fancy stuff with making sure that when I called z_spawn tank auto it gave control to the right guy etc etc. Now I just call the command and hope that L4D2 knows what it's doing

Added new command cam_l4d2_ci_boomernum (default 4) this is how many extra common infected are called with each boomed suvivor.

Boomer horde now actually work with the correct Cvars (I stupidly fixed it manually at 25 )

Tank spawning can now be limited on a per server basis. Tank blocking is dealt with by the tankspawns.dat file (Which can be opened in any text editor) meaning servers can add and edit tank restrictions without me having to compile a new version. By default currently the first 10% of all maps are off limits

FOR MORE ADVANCED USERS.

Each line in the tankspawns.dat file is a tank restriction in the current format

mapidentifier:minflowrange:maxflowrange.

The map identifier is a string that is unique to the map. For instance C1M1
Minflowrange and maxflowrange is a number that defines the starting and ending values of the current restriction. Every map has a flow distance, with 0 being the start, and increasing towards the end (Each map has a different ending number) If you want to find out the flow distance of a point in the map, go into versus mode, type !tankpick to go into tank picking mode, go to the specified position, and type !tankhere. It should generate the following message.

Successfully picked tank at XXX

XXX is the current flow distance.

(v0.003)
Now actually works!
Is now a proper confogl addon rather then the rubbish I was doing before.
Tankpicking mode has been given a few extra messages to make syncromizing who's the tankpicker easier.
Updated L4Dready to the latest version, meaning all the saferoom door stuff and survivor waiting is gone.

(0.02)
Camreadyup.smx + camtank.smx
Completely changed the way that the tank is chosen due to feedback.
While in ready mode, you use the !tankpick command to be placed into tankpick mode (Basically spectator mode that keeps track of what team you're supposed to be on.)
There can only be one person on tankpick mode per team.
You fly around the map to the point that you want the tank, and then use the !tankhere command to set the tank

New plugin module: camci.smx
Added the ability to remove uncommon infected, more incase Valve decides to throw another fallen survivor at us again . (Done via cvar, defaulted to 1)
Boomer hordes are now variable. The numebr of commons spawned is 25 + (Number of players boomed *5) So you'll get around 30-45 zombies in a horde.

New CFG changes:
Adds support for cam's config (v 002)
Disables confogl's ready up system.
Increases max common limit to 60, to make up for the bigger boomer horde sizes.
Adds Realism cvars (See below). Although I know that confogl already kinda does this, they also only allow you to turn them all on and off, and not mix them.

sm_cvar sv_disable_glow_survivors //Disables the survivor glow, enabled in the cfg by default
sm_cvar sv_disable_glow_faritems //Disables item glow, never really got this, so defaulted off.
sm_cvar z_non_head_damage_factor_multiplier 0.5 //realism CI setting
sm_cvar z_head_damage_causes_wounds 1 //realism CI setting
sm_cvar z_use_next_difficulty_damage_factor 1 //realism CI setting
sm_cvar z_witch_always_kills 0 //Witch kills with one hit. Defaulted off.

Changelog (0.01):
Camreadyup.smx
Old ready up functionality. (Props to downdown and the rest)
Survivors can't move for 15 seconds after the first round ready up, to give infected time to spawn. Removes the need for a second ready
Survivors can't move for 30 seconds after the second round, to give people time to load the map again, get through intros, then find a place to spawn. removes the need for a second ready.
The door auto opens after the survivors can move.
Door no longer auto opens before readys have been cast.
Added UI and functionality for baintank plugin. Each side choses when they want their tank s by typing !tank XX (So !tank 55) Currently limited to 10-90.

Camtank.smx
NEEDS COMPETITVE BALANCE (Tank percentages that are so powerful it's the only ones used removing)
This addon is mostly from scratch, with little bits from the all4dead, confogl and SRSmod plugins.
Tanks are chosen by the players by the camreadyup plugin.
Tanks spawn when the survivors reach this percent
Tanks frustration will only be reduced by 1 per second (Instead of the normal 5 per second) If the following happens:
{
The survivors move more then -0.2% of the map backwards during that second.
The tank is more then 5% away from the survivors.
}
Tank frustration will lower by 2 per second if the tank is more then 10% of the map away (Assuming the tank has line of sight)
Damage no longer slows down the tank.
Confogl spec Tank UI added (Props to Confogl creators!)
Ghost tank (Props to Ghost tank creators)