[L4D2] Jockey Incap Ride (1.5) [2013-October-4]

dcx2 · **Author**

BACKGROUND

I always felt the Jockey was a little lame; he's riding along and once the Survivor is incapacitated, he is forced to let go, and usually gets killed before he can safely escape. If he attacks a weak Survivor, he gets maybe a few seconds of riding in before he has to wait 30 seconds for his ability to reset. It's also possible for the Jockey's victim to free another pinned Survivor once the victim is released because of the incap.

This plugin tries to make the Jockey more like a real pinner. It's one of a couple SI Super Powers that I've been meaning to release, but it has taken a while to iron out all the bugs in this. Not only do invincibility frames make OnTakeDamage lie, because even player_hurt lies about how much damage you take from some commons. However, I think this is now reliable enough for others to use.

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DESCRIPTION

When a Survivor is about to get incapacitated, the Jockey can keep riding him. Damage continues to accumulate in the background, which is displayed to the Jockey as a hint.

If the Jockey is shoved or killed, the Survivor is incapped and the accumulated damage is subtracted from their incap health. A shoved Jockey will have a full 30-second cool down, as if he had incapped the Survivor.

If the Jockey manages to accumulate enough damage to overwhelm the Survivor's incap health, the Survivor will be instantly killed - ridden to death. The Jockey will have an accelerated 6-second cool down, as if he had just killed a black-and-white Survivor.

Like a Smoker and Hunter, the Jockey will do increased damage to an incapacitated Survivor he is pinning (12 instead of 4, by default). All other attacks do normal damage. The Jockey will only get credit for the damage he does, but he'll get credit for all 12 points of damage.

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CVARS

l4d2_incap_ride_enable (21):
--Enable bit flag (add together, must use at least [1 or 2] and [4 or 8])
--1=humans can ride, 2=AI can ride
--4=Enabled in competitive modes, 8=Enabled in cooperative modes
--16=Announce when an incap ride begins
--31=all, 0=off, 21=default (only humans in competitive modes and announce)
l4d2_incap_ride_debug (0): Prints debug output (0=off, 31=all)
l4d2_incap_ride_multiplier (3.0): Damage done by the jockey during an incap ride will be multiplied by this

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UPDATES

v1.5
- Fixed random crashes due to SDKHooks_TakeDamage by switching to point_hurt instead

v1.4
- Fixed bug in code that displays Incap Ride hint to other survivors

v1.3
- Delay ForcePlayerSuicide on a short timer so that the survivor does not die in the middle of an SDKHook. This is out of an abundance of caution
- Incap ride damage is now tracked with the Jockey instead of the Survivor, so that Survivors can switch teams and go spectator without causing an issue
- Hold IN_SCORE button (default is tab I think) as a Survivor to see how much incap ride damage has accumulated for a fellow Survivor
- Enable cvar can be used to disable Incap Ride announcement
- Check Jockey for validity in jockey_ride_end

v1.2
- Fixed bug where incapped survivors with melee weapons wouldn't get pistols

v1.1
- All values (e.g. survivor incap health) are retrieved from their cvars instead of being hard-coded
- New cvar, Incap Ride Multiplier, now allows customization of incap ride damage from the jockey
- The AI is now allowed to incap ride; set enable flag 2
- Competitive (versus/scavenge) and Cooperative (coop/survival) modes can be selectively enabled with enable flags 4 and 8. You must use at least one of these flags or the plugin will not be enabled. So for example, 5 is humans in competitive modes only, 10 is bots in cooperative modes only, 14 is bots in cooperative or competitive modes, 15 is anyone in any mode.

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INSTALLATION

This plugin requires SDKHooks, so please DO NOT CLICK "Get Plugin", you must download the smx.

This plugin also requires l4d2_infected_release.txt in your gamedata folder so that it can appropriately set the Jockey's ability recharge.

As of v1.2, this plugin also requires l4d2_direct.txt in your gamedata folder. If you want to compile, you will need to download L4D2 Direct. https://github.com/ConfoglTeam/l4d2_direct/

Note that the attached gamedata is not directly from L4D2 Direct's site, I modified the CDirector Windows offset to match Left4Downtown2. I assume it will eventually be fixed in L4D2 Direct's gamedata, but you should make sure your gamedata has the CDirector Windows read offset as 12, not 8.