Trouble in Terrorist Town - a GMod gamemode

[C.Mong]

I get those errors during map tests when I host a game on my computer, Firespray. Not sure why. It happened when I was doing what you did, too.

[lynx]

I'm pretty sure the command is ttt_spectator_mode [0|1]

Issue was I had a little custom code which was failing

[Bad King Urgrain]

I always thought about dying shots but im pretty sure its disabled cause ive never seen it happen. At least on Alters.

Yep, servers have to enable it. It's a bit unreliable in general, which is why I don't enable it by default.

weapons/weapon_zm_shotgun/shared.lua:130: attempt to compare nil with number

Yes, this has been fixed for next release. I had it happen to me by accident while testing something else. It only happens in kind of strange circumstances where the shotgun is reloaded/fired without the unholster code having run. You might wonder, "how can someone be holding a shotgun without unholstering?", and the answer is: welcome to Source.

Anyway the error is clientside and shouldn't affect much, so I won't push out an update

I had a thought but it sounds stupid but then again it doesnt but it would be really cool to be able to rotate props with your magneto stick leading to epic barricades and other things.

Probably not going to happen:
- control scheme awkwardness
- I can't just duplicate whatever gmod has on the physgun because that gun is not in Lua
- barricades are not that useful



In other news, I've done some work on a teleporter traitor weapon. Mark a location, walk somewhere else, teleport back to your last marked location. You're frozen for three seconds while the teleport happens (and you can get killed during that time), and some visual and sound effects happen at your current and destination locations.

Ideas about balance for this thing would be welcome. I'm considering a limit on the number of teleports, 5 or so.

[Officer_BUlbock]

That's awesome- you should be able to telefrag people with it as well.

[Bad King Urgrain]

I was actually thinking it would kill the user if anyone or anything was in the destination. For objects this will be necessary, because things will likely break if a player suddenly exists inside a closed door. For people, seeing as there's a rather obvious three second long effect, anyone standing there should be able to leave, so it should probably kill them instead. I suppose an innocent who sees the effect happen next to him could quickly put a prop there for a reverse telefrag.

[Ajunk]

5 uses sounds slightly overpowered. Maybe 3?

Anyways, I think that if you teleport, it should leave a distinct marking on the ground. That way detective innocents can figure out what happened in a crime scene.

[that guy]

That opens so many more tactics on alot of maps for the traitors shits going to be fun.

[Ajunk]

My favorite will be all the crazy things you can do with C4.

[Marauder8]

Perhaps, when a body is burned, could it leave a scorch mark of something where it was burned? I think it's a little better for telling if it was a firefight and death, followed by burning. Or if it was just some guy that shot people at the preparing stage.

[Blitzy!]

Oh wait, it's actually being implemented? I thought it was just brushed aside when I suggested it earlier in the topic. :)

[Bad King Urgrain]

Everything goes on The List.

RE: ground marks for teleporter, would be nice, though Source decals are unreliable and sometimes refuse to draw and stuff. It'll be better than nothing though.

[Darkest_97]

Could you make it so when the round ends the living players get to see whos controlling what props?

[FF|NedStar]

That would cause so many issues with hinting and only confirmed death should show up. I'm pretty sure adding that would cause a bunch of problems.

[AndyTheGeeky]

when the round ends

[FF|NedStar]

Yeah I deserve a good face slap on that one.
Excuse my idiocy on this one.

In general I can't think of any specific situation where this would be very useful. I suppose it could be somewhat useful to see who was trying to prop kill you but its hardly solid as props tend to switch occupants.

[Darkest_97]

Well i was just saying because some people tend to carry props around for entire rounds and guess at who they are, then they would actually know. Im not saying it would really do anything.

[Bad King Urgrain]

It's very easy to add, so we'll give it a shot.

[Bad King Urgrain]

I wanted to try making a video from a Source demo, so I figured I'd use that to show the teleporter effects:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTFcPcKV-qE[/youtube]

[C.Mong]

Dude, that's badass.

[Blan21]

damn king, that's friggen' sweet :D way better than what i imagined it to be.