These two Team Fortress 2 mods can be used independently or together. Carnage Compensation is a roll-the-dice mod based around a desire to create carnage; Bot Control allows human players to give instructions to bots on the same team.
This repository also has a CS:GO mod. See DrZed.md for details.
The CCC's primary statistic is "carnage points", which are earned by all game participants. Once you have enough, you can spend all your carnage points on either a random effect for yourself, or a gift for another player.
Carnage points are earned by killing your opponents, destroying buildings, and dying. You may also be able to earn carnage points by deploying Ubercharge or upgrading a building (as Medic and Engineer, respectively), if the server has enabled it.
To spend your carnage points, chat either "!roulette" or "!gift". The former will grant a random effect to you; there is roughly two thirds chance of some beneficial effect, and one third chance of something detrimental. The latter grants a guaranteed beneficial effect to someone on the server. You will never receive your own gift (if there is nobody to receive it, the gift is wasted). Human players have far greater chance to receive gifts than bots do, and those on your own team have twice the chance that opponents have.
Server admins, check out the sm_ccc_* cvars to tweak a variety of knobs. Note that your carnage points are always reset when you leave the game or change team, but are otherwise carried over; this means you can accrue points during Humiliation after one stage of a multistage map, and then use them in the next stage. And if the server starts up "waiting for players", use that time to get in a few early kills...
No carnage points are granted for achieving map goals (capturing the flag, taking a control point, moving the payload, etc). Such actions may help you win, but they don't create death and destruction. Get out there killing stuff! Though... the CCC might sometimes take it upon itself to "reward" these actions with a bit of a fireball, so take care... Taunt kills and other special kills might get you a more points-y reward, though; have at them.
See knobs for a full list of tweakable knobs and some advice on how they affect gameplay.
Known bugs: Some effects don't reset on death, some do reset when you touch a resupply locker, and there's not a lot of consistency.
You can turn your character into a stationary turret (no, not a stationery turret, that would be QUITE different) with the command "!turret". Turrets are ineligible to participate in the regular roulette system (including gifting - a turret will not receive a gift), and have serious restrictions, but in return are turned into indestructible killing machines.
Once you turn into a turret, the same command will cause you to pack up and prepare to move. Movement is in ghosted form. When you find the right spot, hit the command again to plonk down as a turret again. You can't ghost instantly after deploying, nor vice versa, but other than that, you have full control.
PLEASE NOTE: It is possible to use this feature to spawn-camp. Don't do that, it's neither fun nor fair. Ladies'/gentlemen's agreement? Thanks. Of course, you're welcome (and encouraged) to use this to control a choke point or control point.
Strategy:
- Since you can't move, you can't pick up ammo boxes unless you're right on top of an ammo respawn or your enemies die right at your feet. Consider having a dispenser beside you, so you don't have to ghost yourself away to collect ammunition.
- The name of the command is "turret", but there's nothing stopping a Medic from turning into an indestructible source of healing.
- A long-range class like Heavy can command a large area, but a Pyro in a narrow choke will be more likely to score those crucial ammo drops.
- Your invulnerability can suddenly vanish at a crucial moment, leaving you as a glass cannon. Place yourself where you can get all those kills, or be ready to quickly ghost and redeploy if you need to.
- If you turret during setup time, you'll waste some of that vital invuln time. Stay as a ghost until the last second to make the most of it.
- Harassed by an enemy turret? Just wait it out. Invuln will expire after, at most, one minute, and then either the turret can be destroyed, or it will ghost. Getting kills after losing invuln won't reinvuln it.
Designed for Mann vs Machine, co-op mode removes the "might be good, might be bad" risk, instead increasing the carnage point requirements. This is normally autodetected (based on MvM mode), but can be forcibly enabled or disabled with the sm_ccc_coop_mode cvar (0=disable, 1=enable, 2=autodetect). In co-op mode, carnage points are gained by the entire team, and spent individually. Explore the source code for more details.
Set sm_ccc_market_gardening to 1 and everyone is restricted to market garden techniques. All damage is negated unless it is self-damage or environmental, or it is melee damage from someone who is blast jumping.
Have you ever had that really annoying situation where a "friendly" bot is just sitting there being dead weight, and you wish you could grab him by the ear and say "Oi! Do something!"? This is the mod for you. Address a bot using either:
!oi BotName command
!oi command BotName
The commands available are as follows.
- speak - make a bot say "Woof", like the servant it is. Good for testing.
- drop - if the bot's carrying the flag or a Mannpower powerup, it will drop it
- medic/soldier - immediately change class to Medic or Soldier. (TODO: Allow any class to be selected, and possibly "when you next die, go medic".)
- ready - Nonworking attempt to make a bot "ready up" in Mann vs Machine
- telehere - Nonworking attempt to have a bot engie build his tele exit here
- heel - the piece de ten-ohm wire, if only I could make it work. Tell a bot to follow you for the next few seconds. :( I wish.
Tip: It doesn't matter where you are when you give this instruction. So if one human player is tailing a bot and wants to take over the flag, a completely different human (on the same team) can say "!oi Zawmbeez drop".
As a silent bonus feature, having this plugin active will attempt to prevent the issue with bots getting stuck in a class selection loop while spawning. Not yet perfect, but can be helpful. Will encourage bots to select a damage class (soldier/demo/pyro/heavy) rather than debating with themselves about a support class.
All code in this project, including the metaprogramming script, is made available under the terms of the MIT license. In short: do what you like, including commercial use, but don't sue me if something doesn't work.
If you use and like this, I'd love to hear from you, particularly if you have ideas about how to improve on this code. It's my first forays into SourcePawn and TF2 modding, so the code is pretty messy; pull requests are very much welcome, as long as you're willing for your code to also be released under the same terms.