[L4D] No Mercy 3 Door Exploit Fix

Downtown1 · **Author**

This plugin is obsolete, update your server to 1.0.0.8 or later, the exploit has been fixed!

On No Mercy level 3 (Sewers) there is a known exploit in which the Survivors can bash down the door into the warehouse. The door has 200hp, the Survivors do 4 dps so it takes just a mere 12.5 seconds if all 4 are doing it (and faster with quickmelee exploit).

This plugin blocks any attempts at meleeing the door by regenerating the HP of the door every 2 seconds. This means that the tank can still knock down the door since he does it instantly, but the Survivors will never get through it.

It will also print a chat message if someone is detected trying to do the exploit, so they can know to stop since their attempts are futile.

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Authorship credits:

Most of this code is Fyren's, it was he that found the door entity in the first place and wrote the code for it's health to change. Thank you bman87 for making a stand-alone version of the initial plugin that also blocked the Tank from using the door. This current version is what I added (regenerate door instead of giving it a lot of HP) and I will be maintaining it if there's any problems.

msleeper · 01-09-2009 , 03:36 Re: [L4D] No Mercy 3 Door Exploit Fix

Awesome plugin. Would you mind if I modified this to add in the warning + ban code from my Infected Spawn plugin?

Downtown1 · 01-09-2009 , 03:45 Re: [L4D] No Mercy 3 Door Exploit Fix

Sure! Maybe someone could combine/maintain all of the exploit blockers together including the warning + ban code.

I just wanted to release this in a hurry since I noticed the other version (which only makes the door HP really high and so tank can't break it down) was posted in the high traffic Steam Powered forums.

msleeper · 01-09-2009 , 03:48 Re: [L4D] No Mercy 3 Door Exploit Fix

Ah I understand. Don't you hate when the sloppy plugins get the attention?

I'll try to whip something up real quick, what is your Steam ID so we can hop on one of my servers to test this? PM it to me if you want.

EDIT
Actually, I am just going to combine my entire plugin into this if you don't mind? I agree, I think there should be just one mega exploit blocker.

Zandon0 · 01-09-2009 , 03:59 Re: [L4D] No Mercy 3 Door Exploit Fix

How does one go about installing these plugins? a response or pm would be nice maybe chat via a messenger?

Downtown1 · 01-09-2009 , 04:06 Re: [L4D] No Mercy 3 Door Exploit Fix

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zandon0

How does one go about installing these plugins? a response or pm would be nice maybe chat via a messenger?

Drop the .smx file into the plugins folder after you install SourceMod,
http://wiki.alliedmods.net/Installing_SourceMod

Zandon0 · 01-09-2009 , 04:12 Re: [L4D] No Mercy 3 Door Exploit Fix

Much obliged

msleeper · 01-09-2009 , 04:58 Re: [L4D] No Mercy 3 Door Exploit Fix

Okay I have successfully combined my plugin into this one, but I am going to wait to get permisson from KawMAN to use his bot kill code as well.

Durzel · 01-09-2009 , 05:46 Re: [L4D] No Mercy 3 Door Exploit Fix

This is a really creative solution, I'm impressed

As you say regenerating the health means the Tank can still one-hit the door but survivors can't damage it - perfect!

Earl_CG · 01-09-2009 , 07:31 Re: [L4D] No Mercy 3 Door Exploit Fix

Cheers for your work on this - saves us having to agree not to exploit over Vent everytime, plus any problems with pubs.