[Mortiegama]

General

This plugin requires Sourcemod 1.3 or higher

Description

This is an extremely crude plugin just to address one issue I've run into on my server. With sb_all_bots_team 1 on, the bots are rushing out of the saferoom before people have a chance to load into the game. Now survivors are ahead, infected didn't have time to get to a spawn point, and you don't have time to sit in the saferoom and prepare.

All this plugin does is put a wait of 30 seconds on the start of the round. It's crude so if anyone wants to spruce it up feel free. There are more inclusive plugins like L4D Loading which have more/better features.

Cvars

• l4d_bd_botdelay (Enable 1, Disable 0), Delays the Survivor Bots from starting before the players load.
• l4d_bd_botdelaytime (Default 30), How long after a player is in the game will the Bots start.
• l4d_bd_autostart (Enable 1, Disable 0), Allows the Survivor Bots to automatically start if a player is not present.
  
• l4d_bd_autostartdelay (Default 120), How long after the game starts should the Bots start.
  

Installation

• Download and copy BotDelay.smx to Addons/Sourcemod/Plugins

Version History

Version 1.21
<*>Modified script to make sure Bots were stopped
<*>Added CVar: l4d_bd_autostart
<*>Added CVar: l4d_bd_autostartdelay
Version 1.2 - 150 Views
<*>Major renovation of scripting
<*>Added CVar: l4d_bd_botdelay
<*>Added CVar: l4d_bd_botdelaytime
<*>Put checks in to make sure Bots won't start at start of the map
Version 1.1 - 334 Views
<*>Changed initial HookEvent from "round_start" to "item_pickup"
<*>Got rid of the timer countdown to unfreeze bots
<*>Set "item_pickup" to check if client is a bot
Version 1.0
<*>Original launch of the plugin

Known Issues

None

Special Thanks

-Thraka
-mi123645

[nuwit]

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[mi123645]

The problem with this plugin is that each server has different load times depending on their hardware. 30 seconds may or may not be suitable for the delay.

I've already fixed this problem in my Infected Bots plugin. I used the event "item_pickup", which in this case, is triggered when a survivor gets an item. Since the survivor gets a pistol when they first spawn, it triggers the event.

Set sb_all_bots_team to 1 in the event and you're golden.

[Visual77]

This might work, but you will have to open the saferoom door and run out, before the bots will start moving.
Using item_pickup might be a good idea aswell though.

#include <sourcemod>

new Handle:g_hStopbots;

public Plugin:myinfo = 
{
        name = "L4D 2 Stop Bots",
        author = "Visual",
        description = "Prevents bots from opening the door before people have loaded",
        version = "1.0",
        url = "N/A"
};

public OnPluginStart()
{
        HookEvent("round_start", Event_RoundStart);
        HookEvent("player_left_start_area", Event_PlayerLeftStartArea); 

        g_hStopbots = FindConVar("sb_move");
}

StopBots()
{
        SetConVarString(g_hStopbots,"0");
}

public Action:Event_RoundStart(Handle:event, const String:name[], bool:dontBroadcast)
{    
        StopBots();
}

StartBots()
{
        SetConVarString(g_hStopbots,"1");
}

public Event_PlayerLeftStartArea(Handle:event, const String:name[], bool:dontBroadcast)
{
        StartBots();
}

[dacomb]

oh thank you!

Will test out in a little bit and let you know how it goes.

[dacomb]

plugin seemed to work perfectly. the only thing that bugged me was the chat spam about sb_bot_stop at the end and start of each round.

If you can make that go away and perhaps create a config that would allow the option to customize the delay so folks with different server setups have some flexibility this would be perfection.

otherwise... well done and thank you much! I can live with the chat spam.

[Marchello]

It'd be nice if plugin wasn't printing to chat of changing sm_cvar.
I mean if it'd be run silently.

[IronWarrior]

How does it put a wait of 30 seconds on at the start of the round, what does that mean in game?

Are all players frozen, safe room door locked etc?

If this really works, would love to add this to our 10vs10 server.

Hate rushers at the start.

[dirka_dirka]

this wont stop human rushers.. only bot rushers. you need something like loading door or a readyup plugin to stop humans..

[EHG]

Alternate version, requires human player on survivor team to enable bots.
http://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=125460