[Theme97]

Helping out the guys working on the Touhou Fortress 2 modification, I felt kinda bad for having our voice actors record lines that aren't ever used.

The Scout, Heavy, Sniper, and Spy have "meleedare" lines that don't actually play, so this plugin attempts to freshen your TF2 experience and maybe make you smile as your character utters a humorous saying when you pull out your melee weapon.

This is a beta; since it's difficult to determine what conditions make for a good "meleedare" line, I'll let the community give suggestions as to what works and what doesn't. Additionally, without a place to test on my own, I'll need you guys to help me find and squash those pesky bugs.

Currently (v0.1), only the Scout, Heavy, and Sniper will play their lines. The plugin monitors your current weapon and, when it detects that you've switched to your melee weapon, checks the following requirements:

(0. You have not "meleedare"d in the last 5 seconds.)
1. There is at least one enemy within 1024 units of your position.
2. Said enemy is NOT a Spy. (Later versions will check if the Spy is uncloaked and not disguised as an enemy.)
3. The enemy is in your FOV (acos(0.3) = 72.5423969 degrees)
4. You are in the enemy's FOV.

I'm unsure of what we could do to trigger the Spy's meleedare line since his melee fights aren't so much melee duels as they are "oh crap I need to get away, let me attack blindly and hope for a facestab."

But yeah, I'll leave it to you, the community, to figure out ideal or additional conditions.

[noodleboy347]

Interesting. I was thinking about making this, so this is just great.

I'll try it and report back to you.

EDIT: It doesn't work.

[Theme97]

Originally Posted by noodleboy347 EDIT: It doesn't work.

Gah. Any errors or a detailed description of what you tried to do? It seemed to work last time I had someone else try it.

[noodleboy347]

Originally Posted by Theme97 Gah. Any errors or a detailed description of what you tried to do? It seemed to work last time I had someone else try it.

I loaded it, and tried it as a Heavy. Didn't work. I killed myself, respawned, didn't work.

Tried having melee out, looking at people, having them look at me, started punching, had them use melee, etc.

[Theme97]

Hmm. Try it without the public cvar (line 26).

If not, then I'd appreciate some error logs.

[Jindo]

Fantastic, will be trying this out later!

[Mecha the Slag]

Incredibly excellent. Trying it out in a minute on my server
edit: yes it's working!

It'd be really sweet if you could get the other unused voice files into the game!

[Jindo]

Working absolutely fine for me!

[emuzombie]

Works great but so far only noticed it fire once in a real game, and no one else noticed... Oh well, give it time I guess hehe.

[Theme97]

Originally Posted by Mecha the Slag It'd be really sweet if you could get the other unused voice files into the game!

Yeah, that was sort of my next move with this idea. If you know some sound files that don't get used, I'll be happy to add them.

Originally Posted by Jindo Working absolutely fine for me!

Thanks for the confirmation.

Originally Posted by emuzombie Works great but so far only noticed it fire once in a real game, and no one else noticed... Oh well, give it time I guess hehe.

Part of it is because there are only three classes that say it, but that's also part of why I'd like some help thinking of more situations that call for a melee dare.

Perhaps it could also fire if there is an enemy (not cloaked/disguised Spy) who is
a) very close to you (say, 256 units) but out of FOV
b) a little farther (2048?) but 5-10 degrees of where you're aiming