Survivor Bots On Their Own Feet Alternative (with Enhanced Special Infected) (Left 4 Dead 2)

This version is a request. Some people asked me to do something about the bot regen ability as that made the bots too OP so the play lost the survival horror sensation. So, in this version, I "nerfed" the bot regen & made them not that OP anymore. The nerfed features are the "Health Buffer Regen" & "Health Regen" as explained below:
- Health Buffer Regen now is activated only when bot's health & health buffer go down below 40 (I made this to make bots avoid getting limped & then slowing down the players by getting left behind farther & farther away due to slow limped walk).
- Health Regen now is activated only when the bot's health is below 10.
Other than those two, all features & abilities are still the same. I put the list of features & abilities in the changelog, to save space.
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In short, this alternative version is to differentiate from the original version, so this one is more open for suggestions about nerfing or even removing certain features without reducing the bot's improved "intelligence". So, feel free to suggest some changes in this version :D .
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Credits:
- Thanks to JeySieGee for the video
- Thanks to Rectus for CSS Weapon Unlocker & the custom weapon base template.
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Notes:
- This mod works even in custom campaigns
- (10/12/20) Changed "Active Weapon Give and Take" to "Item Give and Take".
- (10/22/20) Added a new bot ability: Bot Emergency Warp. They'll soon warp at player's location when a tank or witch is close enough to them.
- (11/06/20) Added a new ability: Bot Emergency Rescue. Bots can immediately help other survivors from special infected.
- (11/08/20) Added a new toggle ability: "Rise From Fall". Survivor hanging from the ledge will immediately climb up without help.
- (11/11/20) Enhanced the special infected ability, like for example, the "Nuclear Tank".
- (11/13/20) Modified the "Enhanced Special Infected" into toggle mode. Added "Survivor's Damage Counter" too. The list of toggle cvar commands is in the Changelog.
- (11/16/20) Fixed errors on the console.
- (11/17/20) Added "Gravity Control" on "Bot Emergency Rescue" ability.
- (12/03/20) Added "Zombie Mind Control" ability. Made the tank transform into Nuclear Tank if he's burned. "Nerfed" the nuclear explosion damage, but it's still dangerous.
- (12/06/20) Upgraded bots with "Battle State" mode, making them have enhanced aim ability on special infected. See the Changelog for details.

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Survivor Bots Stand on Their Own Feet

After looking at some vscript functions, I gave a try to make this one. Just like the title,...

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JeySieGee May 2021

I'm waiting for that Living Sentry Turret feature LMAO

kurochama May 2021

Hmmm, I think I already put another mod about sentry turret. You can check here "/details/24949". & if for the custom weapon base of that sentry turret, you can use the "custom weapon base 2.vpk" inside that zip pack, to avoid conflicts with "scriptedmode".

JeySieGee May 2021

I mean of what you said in the latest version of this mod "(actually I plan to make them living sentry turrets, but I still try to figure out how to implement that sentry's perfect aim to bots)."

kurochama May 2021

Oh, that one... I still haven't got any good results from many experiments. I have some future experiments to try to modify the turret scripts & directly implement on survivor bots, but probably that would take time & more "trials and errors" before showing any results.

taka0chan February 2021

dang u r good, can i request a mod that slowly heal player/bot whenever they use medkit or pills? like instead of insta heal you to 80 with medkit, it slowly heals you til 80. :D

kurochama February 2021

If it's just to slowly heal when carrying something (like on gnome mutation when the survivor who is carrying gnome replenishes health buffer, it's possible. Like for example, just by swapping weapon to a medkit, the survivor slowly heals. But if it's a slow heal to 80 after using a medkit, I still don't know if that's possible or not.

JeySieGee November 2020

So If my cl crosshair is 0, the "Bot Emergency Rescue" is the active one?

kurochama November 2020

Yes. The toggle works that way. So if you're caught by special infected, or just want to wipe any of them out, just change the "cl_crosshair". Once it's changed back, the ability is also removed. So if you want to play without the "Bot Emergency Rescue" just set the "cl_crosshair_dynamic" to 1. That will make them use "Bot Emergence Warp" instead.

kurochama November 2020

Btw I just updated the mod again. I did some experiments & somehow made some enhancements on special infected based on vscript, to give them some counterattack abilities against the (Saiyan) warp "Bot Emergency Rescue".. Probably you would like to face the "Nuclear Tank" for a challenge... :D

JeySieGee November 2020

I'm confused in the new feature, is the enhanced SI turned on?

JeySieGee November 2020

What features is active if I let it on default settings?

kurochama November 2020

On default, "cl_crosshair_dynamic" is set to 1, & "cl_crosshair_thickness" is 2. So, by default, the "Anti Bot Emergency Rescue" special infected is disabled. You need to change "cl_crosshair_thickness" to 1, when you want to challenge those elite special infected & Nuclear Tank :D

JeySieGee December 2020

Do the battle state mode is active in default?

JeySieGee December 2020

I hope there's no fps drop using this now....

kurochama December 2020

The "battle state" mode is active by default. I still have some plans to develop it, once I figure out how to implement sentry turret/ bandit (on certain custom campaigns) aim ability on the bots. . Btw did the fps drop on the previous version?

JeySieGee December 2020

There's fps drop when looking at the melees when start other than that, nothing else.

kurochama December 2020

Hmmm, as far as i remember, I didn't do anything about melee in this mod. Do you still remember which melee weapons that caused the lag?

JeySieGee December 2020

Nevermind that...

JeySieGee October 2020

There are broken bugs in the current version right now. The 300 life bot, where I spawned many tanks just to defeat my broken AI. The second is, I can't have the grenades I gave my bot if I don't have a grenade and the grenade disappears from their inventory. When exchanging weapons, there's a chance that your first aid will disappear too. That's the bugs I found, and hope the bugs will be gone in the future updates.

kurochama October 2020

What? 300 life bot? You meant that the health regen & health buffer regen are bugged again? I'm pretty sure that I didn't touch that one on this update. & for weapon swap, I'll try to check again. Actually I'm also pretty sure that I fixed that one on previous update though. Or maybe there are some scripts I missed.

kurochama October 2020

I updated the mod. I fixed the unnecessary swap when swapping certain weapon/ item (like you mentioned when you lost first aid when swapping weapon). The mechanism now works like pain pills swap, you bring up the item then shove it to the bot to swap it. Only item/ weapon you're holding is swapped. The exception is the first aid. Because the right click is to heal teammate & it can be bugged when the teammate's health is not 100, I changed it so that player can swap first aid/ defib when they're holding a pistol. Choose pistol & shove the bot to swap defib/ medic. I also fixed the throwable bug. Now if you don't carry any grenade, you will take bot's grenade when shoving.

kurochama October 2020

btw, I still have no idea about the 300 life bot you mentioned. I checked this mod before uploading by spawning a witch in Normal difficulty, & bot's still incapacitated in one slap by the witch when the witch had a good timing in slapping them after they teleported to the player's location. Could you explain more about that "300 life"...?

JeySieGee October 2020

Here's the link a video to the 300 life bug (youtu be/61IRqRKOIDk?t=246) put a period before be

kurochama October 2020

From the video, I think something happened to the health regen & health buffer regen. The regen looked like the original version, where the health & buffer will keep regenerating above the normal health meter. Have you tried to disable other vscript mods & add only this one & check if the problem still happens or not? Last time I checked when spawning a tank & witch to test, their regen was still normal. Or probably you had the original version & the regen effects were overwritten? . Anyway, I'll try to check by playing one full campaign with this mod tonight, while letting the bots take all the damage on purpose, to see if this bug really occurs, or probably there's something else causing the regen bugs.

JeySieGee October 2020

I've disabled every script. The old version of this don't have this health bug (because I still have the old one).

kurochama October 2020

I've updated the mod & fixed the regen bug. It should work properly now. However this still remains as a mystery to me, for now. When I checked the script, the script was the same as the health regen, but somehow only the health buffer regen was bugged. So I put some new scripts to make it work properly. . Anyway, thanks for the bug report :D . Let me know if you find more bugs.

JeySieGee October 2020

The 300 bug life is fixed now... And the give and take is much less buggy now :> thumbs up

KonoDIoDa0951 October 2020

Can you make augmented bots work on custom maps too?

kurochama October 2020

Well, unfortunately the right goes to the author (Everice, if I'm not mistaken). Probably if the author gives permission, I can take a look to see how to make it available on custom campaigns. But here's a little trick from me that might solve it. Try to extract the vpk file, then delete the "missions" folder in that vpk. After that, repack into vpk file again. Some vscript mods work when doing like that, including Everice's "Calamity Trigger" vscript mod. Try it, & probably that would work too.

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THIS IS THE MOST AWESOME BUFF IN BOTS

By JeySieGee October 2020

GREAT MOD