The Surge: The Living Circuit

Overview

The Surge replaces the standard Smoker with a 50% chance, introducing a relentless custom infected built around electrical manipulation, persistent aura damage, and an aggressive two-phase combat mechanic.

Key Features

• Smoker Replacement: He has a 50% chance to spawn in place of a standard Smoker, bringing a shocking new threat directly to the infected team.
• Phase 2 Enrage & Static Surge: Drop him to 40% health or lower to trigger an enraged state accompanied by eerie television static audio. This phase boosts his movement speed by 20%, drastically widens his aura damage range, reduces his ability cooldowns, and cloaks him in active electrical particle effects.
• Continuous Aura Zap: He pulses a lethal electric aura around himself, dealing continuous passive damage to nearby targets at regular intervals that scale dynamically with your server's difficulty.
• Electric Shock Attack & Windup: Armed with a precise shock attack, he locks onto targets, executes a targeted charge-up animation with warning audio, and unleashes a direct electrical arc to deal heavy burst damage.
• Difficulty & Speed Scaling: His maximum health scales automatically based on the game's difficulty setting (ranging from easy up to impossible), and his base movement speed and spawn chance are fully customizable.

Configuration Path

You can find and adjust the settings for this mod at:

the_surge_cfg/surge_settings.cfg[/code]