Outpost War

Outpost War v1.25.0

Place outposts for different teams and watch NPC squads fight for them. Outposts spawn NPCs in waves: a garrison guards the point, the rest form squads that follow real routes to capture enemy or neutral outposts. Captured outposts switch sides and spawn the captor's NPCs. Build walls, towers, bunkers and turrets, join the war yourself and lead a squad.

Features

• Any NPC from the spawn menu (HL2 and addons), chosen or default weapon
• NPC mix per outpost: an ordered list of NPC types and weapons with counts. Search by NPC and weapon name
• Presets (outpost recipes): save, load and share tool settings, reset to defaults
• Waves, garrison and squads. Icons above heads: shield = garrison, circle with number = squad member, star = squad leader, big star = player in the war
• Teams 1-10 + neutral outposts, capture zone with progress bar
• Destructible outposts (checkbox, adjustable health): a wooden crate that can't be captured, only destroyed. Enemy NPCs shoot it and melee NPCs hit it
• No enemies left? Squads patrol the map until a new target appears
• Navmesh routes: stairs, floors, around walls, fences and ledges. No navmesh? Place your own waypoints with Outpost Waypoints (saved per map); part of each garrison patrols them
• Squads march in a column along the leader's trail and queue on narrow stairs
• NPCs fight on their own AI (within their own weapon range). Compatible with combat AI mods: the addon only leads NPCs to points
• NPCs open doors and break glass in their way
• Battle map: hold C and click Outpost War Map. Optional minimap (Settings → Player)
• Outpost Links: link outposts into a frontline. Squads attack linked enemy outposts first. Optional capture lock
• Outpost Fortifications, like in classic RTS:
• [list]
• Sandbags, watchtowers (adjustable height, real ladder), guard posts (one guard stands still)
• Turrets alone, behind sandbags, on a tower, in a bunker (open at the back - flank it!) or in a tower nest with a narrow embrasure. Any weapon, including modded: same damage, fire rate, sound, tracer (lasers too) and projectile (rockets, bolts), unlimited ammo. Adjustable turn limits. Manned by an NPC gunner
• Man a turret yourself: E next to it, aim and hold LMB - the turret fires, not you
• Captured like outposts; garrison NPCs hold their positions and fight from them. Melee NPCs take ground posts and charge when enemies come close or attack them
• Optional health: destroyed fortifications become ruins, repaired by capturing them again
• Checkbox "destroyed when captured": the enemy can't take it over, only wreck it
• Optional bonus: each fortification position raises the outpost garrison limit

[*]Outpost Walls, click points to build a chain of walls that follow the terrain and join seamlessly. Adjustable height, thickness, color and health, parapet on top, ladder at the back. Put guard posts and turrets on top - they belong to whoever holds the wall and fall with it. Any team that reaches the ladder can climb up and storm it [*]Fortification Builder: build your own fortification from any props, mark NPC positions, entries and a turret, save it - it becomes a new fortification type (shareable files) [*]Outpost Team: add NPCs from the spawn menu or other mods to a team. Hold C and drag a box to select many [*]Players join teams, capture points, respawn at their outposts and lead a squad of NPCs [*]Wave timer and unit count above each outpost, Outpost Refill tool for depleted outposts [*]Corpse and weapon cleanup, per-outpost NPC limit, HUD, English and Russian [/list]

How to use

[olist] [*]Q → Outpost War → Outpost Creator. LMB - place, RMB - remove, R - apply current settings [*]Place outposts of 2+ teams (or a neutral one) [*]Join the war: Outpost War → Settings → Player → choose team → Join team [/olist]

Console commands

• outpost_war_join <1-10> - join a team, 0 = leave
• outpost_war_squad_dismiss - dismiss your squad
• outpost_war_clear_npcs - (admin) remove all outpost NPCs
• outpost_war_path_reset - (admin) clear route cache (after nav_generate)
• outpost_war_wp_clear - (admin) remove all waypoints on this map
• outpost_war_links_clear - (admin) remove all outpost links
• outpost_war_fort_delete <name> - (admin) delete a saved custom fortification
• outpost_war_log_clear - (admin) clear debug log