[Powerlord]

If you look in the experimental FF2 code I'd written, you'll see some stuff for blocking bosses from picking up health kits and ammo kits unless the boss has a specific flag.

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@Wliu

Can you please answer my post (two pages back)?

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[Wliu]

I can't if you don't have an error log.

[sarysa]

Is this thread a good place to make suggestions?

One I'd like to make is to add a setting (for boss .cfg files) that completely disables FF2's management of movement speed for a boss. It'd be very simple since it's just a boolean (+ support for multi-bosses) for this one line in the middle of the BossTimer() call:

        SetEntPropFloat(Boss[client], Prop_Data, "m_flMaxspeed", BossSpeed[Special[client]]+0.7*(100-BossHealth[client]*100/BossLivesMax[client]/BossHealthMax[client]));

A lot of servers already do this for some of their bosses. I've seen DISC-FF with a Sonic the Hedgehog boss that gains speed, I think TFF (which I think is half Rainbolt's server?) needed to modify it for their M.Bison boss, and the server I'll be submitting to has bosses with no escape plan effect. But there needs to be some sort of canon solution, so the serverless like myself can make bosses with non-standard speed management and others can just plug it in easily.

In my case, I'm working a boss that goes between a manic mode (+ move speed, other effects, rage depletion over time) and I use the boss' weapon (which changes between manic and normal mode) to manage speed. When I implemented something like this, my plan worked perfectly. Sad I can't share it with others.

[Wliu]

I'll probably do it in 2.0.0 or something.

[WildCard65]

Can you explain to me Wliu the OnTakeDamage workarounds mentioned in https://github.com/50DKP/FF2-Official/issues/25
Edit: I also noticed that for the demoshield code, you apply the bonk atomic punch effect to the demoman, couldn't you just set damage to 0.0?

[Wliu]

DmgCustomInOTD. From what I can figure out, that's only present in recent SDKHooks builds (so 1.5 would have it). If FF2 can find that, then it uses a very simple method of determining if the damage was from a backstab/tele, but otherwise, there's a workaround by seeing if you have a knife, if the damage was a crit, and if the damage was a big number.

About the demoshield code: Pretty sure it's so the "MISS" text shows up. That way the Hales don't go "HAX!".

[WildCard65]

Why can't you just a message saying, "You tore apart a demoman's shield which caused you to miss damaging him so he's still alive!" instead of the miss thing.

[Powerlord]

Originally Posted by Wliu DmgCustomInOTD. From what I can figure out, that's only present in recent SDKHooks builds (so 1.5 would have it). If FF2 can find that, then it uses a very simple method of determining if the damage was from a backstab/tele, but otherwise, there's a workaround by seeing if you have a knife, if the damage was a crit, and if the damage was a big number. About the demoshield code: Pretty sure it's so the "MISS" text shows up. That way the Hales don't go "HAX!".

It exists in SDKHooks 2.1 and newer, so it's actually quite old by now and all TF2 servers should be running a version that supports it.

[hamza47sohail]

Ok so Wliu.
I want to stop ff2 from modifying any weapons, so it doesnt change any attributes or any weapon of any kind.
Is there an easy way to do this or do I have to take out the bits of code manually.