Improved Combine NPCs

This addon is not in active development anymore, and I, BlackSuited aka Ehsaan, am not able to maintain it.

All of you guys were wonderful during the hayday. I'm looking forward to surprise the community with something a little more than an addon, maybe with an entire mod :)

This simple addon will Activate Combine NPCs team-working, throwing grenades, protecting each other and other things as seen in original Half Life 2.

Features:

* Chat through radios when they're idle * Tell the other soldiers about the enemy position * Cover, following and Team-Working * Throwing grenades at enemies * Shooting Energy Balls from AR2 (Elites only) * When Soldiers & Cops walk or run, you can hear their boot sounds * Stalker have footstep sounds * Hunters protect the Striders and shoot down the Magnusson devices. * Stalkers will attack you if you kill one of them. * Shield Scanners follow the Striders * Soldiers & Cops will drop health vials on death. * Cops will deploy a Manhack when they see an enemy. * Hunter-Choppers have lights (Better try it in a night map ) * New: Combine Soldiers have Pain sounds!

What is Soldiers angry mode?

If a Soldier got 25 HP or lower, he would turn angry and shoots with his weapon straight in enemy's head. So he would take the advantage and save himself from death.

Console Variables

You can use these variables for customize your gameplay. cl_boot_sounds [0/1] - Enables/Disables Boot sounds and Stalker footsteps (Client-side) sv_soldiers_pain_sound [0/1] - Enables/Disables Pain sound for Combine Soldiers (Server-side) sv_soldiers_get_angry [0/1] - Enables/Disables angry mode for Combine Soldiers (Server-side) sv_soldiers_angry_hp [1-255] - Maximum HP required to get angry. Greater number means more challenging! (Server-side)

Where is it?

It's located under NPCs tab, Combine [Improved] part.

What's next?

Nothing. I quitted coding for Garry's Mod a long time ago.

How can I make them even better?

Here is a list of what you can get to make them better and more challenging.

* Strider & Gunship Cannon [By me] - Use this STool to trig the Striders and Gunships laser cannon * NPC Tools [By Silverlan] - Use the STools to improve Soldiers accuracy and change their health. * Hunter-Chopper Carpet Bombing [By me] - Use this STool to make the Chopper bomb the whole map. * Improved Resistance NPCs [By acj2001] - An inspiration from Improved Combine for Resistance.

But, please notice that the AI is dependent on the map nodes. Garry's Mod default maps and a few other maps in Workshop (bigcity for example) have decent nodes for guiding the NPCs around.