[AtomicStryker]

A Plugin to make Survivors Lives on 'easy' Finale Maps like DA5 or BH5 considerably harder. It will spawn a second Tank whenever a Tank spawns during the finale. Both of these finale Tanks will have a lower configurable max HP.


cvars:

• l4d_finaletankstorm_tankcount "3" - How many tanks shall spawn total every tank wave
• l4d_finaletankstorm_hpsetting "0.40" - How much Health each of the X Tanks have compared to a standard one. '1.0' would be full health
• l4d_finaletankstorm_announce "1" - does the plugin announce its actions in chat

Changelog:
1.0.0 - Release
1.0.1 - reworked finale checking
1.0.2 - added announcing convar, small code fixes
1.0.3 - added left4downtown finale map check, now requires that for l4d2
1.0.4 - changed z_spawn to z_spawn_old

[Bran]

Give error with SourceMod Version: 1.2.1-dev

L 07/28/2009 - 19:59:05: [SM] Native "GetEventInt" reported: Invalid game event handle 0 (error 4)
L 07/28/2009 - 19:59:05: [SM] Displaying call stack trace for plugin "l4d_secondfinaletank.smx":
L 07/28/2009 - 19:59:05: [SM] [0] Line 43, /home/groups/alliedmodders/forums/files/5/2/2/3/3/46357.attach::ATankSpawns()

[AtomicStryker]

Were you local hosting? Thats about the only thing that could make GetClientOfUserId return 0

[Whosat]

Looks useful but it may conflict with SuperVersus' tank HP setting.

Oh and you forgot to copy out the whole line 40. And #include <sdktools> is not needed

Lines

PHP Code:

new Handle:LotteryTime = FindConVar("director_tank_lottery_selection_time")
    
 new Float:TankDelay = GetConVarFloat(LotteryTime) + 5.0 


Can be compounded to

PHP Code:

new Float:TankDelay = GetConVarFloat(FindConVar("director_tank_lottery_selection_time")) + 5.0; 


[crazydog]

Nice plugin.
If I didn't have my own servers, I'd be so worried right now about playing on random servers and having this coming up.

People who put things like this on public servers should be shot.

[fpsbrian]

Very cool idea, but I tested it and the first team had 3 tanks, and the second team had 1 tank?


Second team was very angry LOLOLOLOLOL

[Whosat]

Lol I'm not sure if this works on Versus gamemodes.

[AtomicStryker]

Yeah, while playtesting myself last evening some strange things happened too. Our first Team got 4 Tanks, the second 2. Why the Plugin glitched out ... i dont really know yet. Ill look into it


Its most probably related to shoddy L4D event catching. When i was beta-testing this plugin, i noticed the tank_death event does not even fire for every killed tank.

[Whosat]

Hmm from my testing it appears tank_death will only fire when the dead tank was a director-spawned tank.

[AtomicStryker]

Yup, it was shoddy L4D events. Tank_Spawned was firing once or twice per tank (in a randomly fashion).

I've written a workaround (using a 60 second limit) which worked great in todays playtesting. Have fun with 1.0.2