[07151129]

Looking at each of the infected in campaign i have to say that smokers are really useless in campaign. They have a massive cooldown on their drag attack, they are really easy to kill and it is very rare that they can do any damage at all to the survivors unless things are really bad.

So my request is a plugin to improve smokers, because they really are a dead weight in campaign. A couple of ideas i can think of is to allow the smoker to do damage whilst dragging like in versus, or give the smoker a better chance to survive and do damage rather than simply getting headshotted and killed so easily.

Basically anything that can give the poor smoker a chance, if there are any existing plugins i might not know about, i'll look at them too, thanks.

[Elektramode]

why dont you change smoker cvars then? Such as its health/speed/drag speed/tongue length etc.

[seffard]

Smoker already does damage while dragging, but as elektra wrote, try to change cvars and balance his skills. I think the problem is AI when it comes to bots, but its easier to sort this out changing cvars as bots dont likely set up survivors sucessfully.

[asto]

Use these cvars:

sm_cvar tongue_break_from_damage_amount 300
sm_cvar tongue_miss_delay 3
sm_cvar tongue_hit_delay 15
sm_cvar tongue_dropping_to_ground_time 0.5
sm_cvar tongue_los_forgiveness_time 1.5
sm_cvar tongue_no_progress_choke_early_delay 1.0

[Zbeer]

Beyond cvars you can use:

http://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?p=866613

http://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=119891
(you can enable only the smoker part)

Have fun!