[L4D] Give Tank control to other player - Page 2

olj · 09-02-2009 , 18:29 Re: [L4D] Give Tank control to other player

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Originally Posted by AtomicStryker

Ive written the basic code layout. But i havent checked yet if tank tickets even have any value in versus matches, because i havent played any. Thank mi123645 for that, he insists i spend all my L4D time with him, testing his Infected Bots.

Nice, if you make admins able to choose who will control tank that would be one of greatest plugins for l4d.

mi123645 · 09-03-2009 , 18:42 Re: [L4D] Give Tank control to other player

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Originally Posted by AtomicStryker

Ive written the basic code layout. But i havent checked yet if tank tickets even have any value in versus matches, because i havent played any. Thank mi123645 for that, he insists i spend all my L4D time with him, testing his Infected Bots.

Hey you know you like it

And we did find a way to make a better priority system for the tank, we could incorporate this in versus somehow.

olj · 09-04-2009 , 04:12 Re: [L4D] Give Tank control to other player

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Originally Posted by mi123645

Hey you know you like it

And we did find a way to make a better priority system for the tank, we could incorporate this in versus somehow.

Can you release a code or a separate plugin? I mean, besides Infected Bots (btw good luck with this

), i want something to give admins possibility to take control of tanks, and change tank giving system to something more suitable (instead of retarded random, giving tanks to afk players or mega-noob tanks).

Dragonshadow · 09-05-2009 , 16:45 Re: [L4D] Give Tank control to other player

The only problem I can see is that once the second player loses control it goes to AI.

LTR.2 · 09-05-2009 , 18:20 Re: [L4D] Give Tank control to other player

what's the problem with that? AI does great sometimes.

Dragonshadow · 09-05-2009 , 21:01 Re: [L4D] Give Tank control to other player

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Originally Posted by LTR.2

what's the problem with that? AI does great sometimes.

LOL

olj · 09-05-2009 , 21:05 Re: [L4D] Give Tank control to other player

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Originally Posted by LTR.2

what's the problem with that? AI does great sometimes.

/slap

AtomicStryker · 09-06-2009 , 14:03 Re: [L4D] Give Tank control to other player

Little Update ... with my first attempt i had Tanktickets always return -1.

This can mean 2 things:
a) the entity property isnt used, and this approach pointless
b) i hadn't specified the bits to read, now i did, i will try that again

c) if its by default always -1 i wonder if setting it to a value has effects

Red Alex · 09-07-2009 , 07:02 Re: [L4D] Give Tank control to other player

I try to read m_tankTickets. Its not always -1. Seems that higher the value the higher the chance of get tank control. But when i set it to -1 for all players except one it doesn't work. Another player get control...

AtomicStryker · *Last edited by AtomicStryker; 09-07-2009 at 12:56.*

TankTickets are a Dead end. I've now tried m_pendingTankPlayerIndex which sounded so promising ... but it appears to be not set as long as theres no tank lottery, and during lottery it always returned 1 for me.

Playing around with the bit values ... but i've almost given up hope on this one.

I think Valve scrapped whatever they used to have and now use a very plugin-like random instant decision. Which, unfortunately, would prove resistant to modding.