[MasterOfTheXP]

It's finally here. Although, despite it taking forever, it still has a few bugs here and there--you may need admins present in case people start spawning as spectators, a common glitch. I'll try to fix it for good next time.

Despite the few bugs, it's far better than 1.1.2, both in terms of working-ness and good-looking-ness. So...

BOSS BATTLES 1.2

Spoiler

• Major changes
  • New DEFAULT gamemode: ARENA (sm_boss_gamemode 1) - No respawning! The boss wins by eliminating all of RED team.
  • New gamemode: STOCK (sm_boss_gamemode 1; sm_boss_stock_lives <number>) - Same as Arena, except you can respawn a certain amount of times.
  • Setup time: Before the battle starts, players have a chance to hear what class the boss is playing and change their class accordingly (it feels, and pretty much is, the same as VS Saxton Hale Mode setup time)
  • Main menu (/boss) for players to get access to commands easier
  • Damage tracker (/bossdmg <number>) tracks your damage and the top <number> damagers that round, live! Specify any number you want from 1 to 8, if your monitor is big enough you'll love having 8 slots!
  • Spies are now allowed to use their knives, backstab removes 10% of the boss's max HP (20% for double bosses, changeable or disable-able via cvars)
  • Medics now allowed in double bosses, their mediguns heal the other boss for 20 HP per second
  • Boss health is now tracked by the plugin (overheal decay is completely gone)
  • Boss health is now accurately represented by the TF2 health meter (e.g. 2000 out of 5000 HP will have the + meter be filled by 40%)
  • Almost all weapon balancing moved to TF2Items, much more added
• Not-so-major changes
  • Admin menu support, since apparently some of you still manually start battles (SO BRAVE)
  • Queue points are saved on disconnect
  • Much better boss HUD, no longer a CSAY, and is always shown to the boss
  • A random unusual effect is applied to most boss weapons
  • Top 4 damagers is displayed on round end
  • INFINITE infinite ammo (not just 99303 ammo)
  • Added 24 new random showdown strings
• More-like-minor changes
  • AUTOMATIC BATTLE CRIIIIES!
  • New Administrator responses for double boss battles
  • "IT'S OVER 9000" from VS Saxton Hale Mode plays if the client has it. (It is up to you if you want your server to have clients download it)
  • Doors are now forced open, not removed
  • Cart triggers are now disabled, not removed
  • Normal function of doors and cart triggers is restored on battle end, the map no longer has to be restarted
  • Medic bot-bosses are now forced to change class since they don't work (VAAAAALVE!)
• Changes that wouldn't even have been changes if I had made them changes, or something
  • sm_boss_timebomb now defaults to 0 (Off)
  • sm_boss_taunt_dmg now defaults to 9001
  • sm_boss_advertisements now defaults to 180 seconds (three minutes)
  • sm_boss_auto_wait must now be at least 10
• Bugfixes
  • Fixed a case where battles would not start automatically
  • Fixed the plugin starting battles when the server has just one or two players
  • Fixed taunt kill-kills and telefrag kills in a double boss instantly ending the battle
  • Fixed feign deaths counting as kills for bosses
  • Fixed players being able to activate resupply lockers
  • Fixed the plugin trying to PrintToChat to the server console
  • Fixed beacon/timebomb not being disabled when the boss destroys a building
  • Fixed Pyro's taunt kill damage not being increased
  • Fixed bosses getting a queue point as soon as their battle ended for damaging themselves
  • Fixed !bossdmg glitching if the former boss used it outside of a battle
  • Fixed !bosshp not showing how much time until you can use it again in double boss battles
  • Fixed incorrect colour application on showdown winner lines
  • Fixed "PROPERTY DAMAGE" sometimes displaying when the boss kills a sapper
  • Fixed several instances where the plugin would attempt to CPrintToChat to the server console
  • Fixed Engineer bosses using the Widowmaker getting infinite metal (ammo)
• Code changes
  • Code cleanup (barely)
  • Switched admin checks to CheckCommandAccess()
  • Removed unnessescary checks for IsClientConnected

Now requires SDKHooks and TF2Items, get them first if you haven't already.

[Helvetica]

Great to see 1.2 finally released! I see you added some support for those custom config files I mentioned, I'm gonna start playing around with that some more, now that there's some dedicated cvars for it.

The addition of arena type battles is awesome too, I'm eager to try that out.

Nice work XP.

[MasterOfTheXP]

Originally Posted by Helvetica Great to see 1.2 finally released! I see you added some support for those custom config files I mentioned, I'm gonna start playing around with that some more, now that there's some dedicated cvars for it. The addition of arena type battles is awesome too, I'm eager to try that out. Nice work XP.

Thanks! I actually made those custom cvars before you messaged me, but now that you did I see how having more of them for custom weapons and such could really work.

[Helvetica]

Originally Posted by MasterOfTheXP Thanks! I actually made those custom cvars before you messaged me, but now that you did I see how having more of them for custom weapons and such could really work.

Great to hear it. I'm a bit confused on when to execute the alias for the cvars though, is it supposed to be done during the round before the one you want to change, or during pregame after a boss has been selected? I've been having a little bit of trouble figuring that out.

On another note, I've encountered a couple major bugs while running 1.2. I'll detail them just in case you may not be aware of them.

1. Sometimes after a Boss round starts, nobody will be able to damage anyone. My players refer to it as the Godmode Glitch. This has happened several times now, all at completely random times, with the mode running automatically via queue points. I have witnessed it happen once, and it did not appear to have occurred because of something I did, but I could be wrong.

2. Defaulting the mode to classic Boss Battles with infinite player respawning is not working correctly for me. Regardless of what I set the sm_boss_gamemode cvar to, it always starts in arena mode, giving players the amount of lives I set in the sm_boss_stock_lives cvar. I have to manually change the cvar via rcon after the mode has been activated, and on one occasion, I couldn't change it at all, and the server had to be restarted. I checked the config file for mistakes, but there weren't any. When the mode started, I had the server report what the gamemode cvar was set to, and it was indeed set to 0, yet people were still being given lives.

3. Turning Boss Battles on and off on the fly no longer works if you intend to use the queue system.
Previously, you could simply turn the game mode on by setting sm_boss_auto to 1 or 2, and then using an alias to set it back to 0 and restack the teams. Turning off the game mode still works, as does setting the auto cvar to 2 to start, but trying to start the mode with queue points (1) does not work. The plugin gives the notice that a boss battle will start shortly, but nothing happens. Before 1.2, if you tried to start with queue points, it would initiate a showdown to start the mode, but after that it would use queue points like it's supposed to. Either the showdowns do not occur anymore for some reason or that feature has been removed. It's also worth noting that if one tries to start the battles with sm_boss_auto 1, it will bork the whole plugin and battles cannot be started at all unless the plugin is reloaded.

I have done some pretty extensive troubleshooting to try to resolve all of these problems, but I'm pretty sure they are all plugin issues.

[MasterOfTheXP]

Originally Posted by Helvetica Great to hear it. I'm a bit confused on when to execute the alias for the cvars though, is it supposed to be done during the round before the one you want to change, or during pregame after a boss has been selected? I've been having a little bit of trouble figuring that out.

They won't work properly unless they're done right after a battle ends, probably should have made that more clear. In the future they'll be easier to use.

Originally Posted by Helvetica On another note, I've encountered a couple major bugs while running 1.2.

Crap. I've only seen the god glitch on the first client connected, was hoping it wasn't more complicated than that or was another plugin's fault...but I'll look into fixing these.

[FudgePoly]

Boss plugin completely fails to load using the auto cvar, I did not unload and reload it since you said that would be wrong. Map was arena.

L 04/27/2012 - 15:08:09: [SM] Displaying call stack trace for plugin "boss.smx":
L 04/27/2012 - 15:08:09: [SM]   [0]  Line 296, D:\srcds\orangebox\tf\addons\sourcemod\scripting\include\tf2_stocks.inc::TF2_GetPlayerClass()
L 04/27/2012 - 15:08:09: [SM]   [1]  Line 3734, boss.sp::TF2Items_OnGiveNamedItem()
L 04/27/2012 - 15:30:36: [SM] Native "GetEntProp" reported: Entity -1 (-1) is invalid
L 04/27/2012 - 15:30:36: [SM] Displaying call stack trace for plugin "boss.smx":
L 04/27/2012 - 15:30:36: [SM]   [0]  Line 296, D:\srcds\orangebox\tf\addons\sourcemod\scripting\include\tf2_stocks.inc::TF2_GetPlayerClass()
L 04/27/2012 - 15:30:36: [SM]   [1]  Line 3724, boss.sp::TF2Items_OnGiveNamedItem()

[MasterOfTheXP]

Originally Posted by FudgePoly Boss plugin completely fails to load using the auto cvar, I did not unload and reload it since you said that would be wrong. Map was arena.

I think it's trying to check the player class of -1, the non-existent double boss in single boss rounds. It's supposed to check if it's in a double boss first, but I guess you just can't do that on the same line. Weird how I've never gotten that myself though. Will be fixed.

Also, update on the godmode glitch (this one guy cannot be injured at all) I completely disabled Boss Battles and restarted the server, still got the glitch, so it's possible that it's another plugin doing it.

I'll be able to work on this more as soon as I can get my test server working again.

[FudgePoly]

More buggy bugs:

L 05/02/2012 - 15:43:27: [SM] Plugin encountered error 15: Array index is out of bounds
L 05/02/2012 - 15:43:27: [SM] Displaying call stack trace for plugin "boss.smx":
L 05/02/2012 - 15:43:27: [SM]   [0]  Line 1736, boss.sp::Timer_Millisecond()
L 05/02/2012 - 15:43:28: [SM] Plugin encountered error 15: Array index is out of bounds
L 05/02/2012 - 15:43:28: [SM] Displaying call stack trace for plugin "boss.smx":
L 05/02/2012 - 15:43:28: [SM]   [0]  Line 1736, boss.sp::Timer_Millisecond()
L 05/02/2012 - 15:43:28: [SM] Plugin encountered error 15: Array index is out of bounds
L 05/02/2012 - 15:43:28: [SM] Displaying call stack trace for plugin "boss.smx":
L 05/02/2012 - 15:43:28: [SM]   [0]  Line 1736, boss.sp::Timer_Millisecond()
L 05/02/2012 - 15:43:28: [SM] Plugin encountered error 15: Array index is out of bounds
L 05/02/2012 - 15:43:28: [SM] Displaying call stack trace for plugin "boss.smx":
L 05/02/2012 - 15:43:28: [SM]   [0]  Line 1736, boss.sp::Timer_Millisecond()

L 05/03/2012 - 14:56:51: [SM] Plugin encountered error 4: Invalid parameter or parameter type
L 05/03/2012 - 14:56:51: [SM] Native "VFormat" reported: String formatted incorrectly - parameter 4 (total 3)
L 05/03/2012 - 14:56:51: [SM] Displaying call stack trace for plugin "boss.smx":
L 05/03/2012 - 14:56:51: [SM]   [0]  Line 67, D:\srcds\orangebox\tf\addons\sourcemod\scripting\include\colors.inc::CPrintToChat()
L 05/03/2012 - 14:56:51: [SM]   [1]  Line 2950, boss.sp::OnClientPostAdminCheck()

[Helvetica]

XP, I noticed the god mode glitch happen independent of Boss Battles, still don't know what is causing it though. Just letting you know that you are probably right that another plugin is the culprit.

[Roundcat]

Our members like this plugin but once we have finished using it for a spell we are stuck with all players on the same team and spawn doors removed. To reset I have to restart the server and only a handful of players tend to come back.

When it is working properly it will be interesting though!