Frota

Dead

• This addon is now dead and is no longer being maintained
• Most of the core features have been migrated over to Legends of Dota
• There is a good chance that eventually the more fun gamemodes will be taken from Frota and put into Legends of Dota

About

An addon for Dota 2, It is a framework for sub game modes. Players connect to a server, then vote on what they would like to play, the most popular choice is loaded, people play it, then voting happens again.

Picking Gamemodes

• All Pick
• You can select your hero from the picking screen
• Legends of Dota
• It has a fully working drag and drop gui
• A ready system is in place, and a time limit for picking exists (2 mins by default)
• There are GUI indicators to show what skills / hero each player has selected
• There is a fully working drag and drop, hero selector
• Random OMG
• Seems to work, you get a random hero, 3 skills and an ult
• Pure Skill
• Play as pudge with meat hook, sacred arrow, skewer and ice shards, each spell has no mana cost!
• Custom hook related stuff is slowly being added, as well as upgrades
• Invoker Wars
• You get 4 spells with no mana cost to wreck havok.
• Puck Wars
• Play as Puck, most of Puck's spells have no mana cost.
• Tiny Wars
• Players spawn as tiny, all of his spells have no mana cost.
• Earth Spirit Wars
• Dota's a balance of imbalance, right?
• Riki Wars
• Play as riki, get free dust ??? profit
• Kunkka Wars
• Kunkka is a pirate.

Gameplay Gamemodes

• PvP Arena
• A PvP arena game mode
• King of the Hill
• Fight to get more players on top of the point than the enemy team.
• Oddball
• get the gem, keep the gem
• Capture the Flag
• Steal and return the enemies' flag while protecting your own.
• Rabbits vs. Sheep
• What does the Rabbit say?
• Zombie Survival
• Survive waves of zombies attacking you!

Picking + Gameplay Gamemodes

• Warlocks
• Play as a novice warlock, haphazardly blinking around the map and play hot potato with an unstable spell.
• Sun Strike Wars
• One player spawns with Sun Strike and has to kill all the other players with it.
• Plague
• When you kill someone, they become the same hero as you, when everyone is the same hero, the game is over.
• Defense of RuneHill
• Defend 22 waves of enemies and protect your rune top

Addons

• WTF Mode
• Players have the option to turn WTF Mode on, making all spells have no cooldown.
• Free Blink Dagger
• Everyone will spawn with a free blink dagger.
• No Buying
• Items can't be bought from the shop.
• DM Mode
• Every time you die, you respawn as a new hero!
• Fat-o-Meter
• Every time a hero kills creep or another hero, he grows a little bit.
• Unlimited Mana
• Players have max mana regen.
• Spawn Protection
• Heroes will be momentarily invulnerable when they spawn.
• Lucky Items
• Get random items as the game progresses.
• Bonus Gold Per Second
• Gives players gold every second.

D2Ware Servers

• You can play this on D2Ware servers here: http://d2ware.net

How do I use this?

• Keep in mind it is still in development, and may be buggy
• IMPORTANT Dota will only load the first plugin in your addons folder, to prevent this, move all other addons out of your addons folder. (I moved mine into an addons_disabled folder) - ONLY the host has to do this. This is not required if you use d2fixups
• There is another guide here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Dota2Modding/comments/1v3ywq/custom_gamemodes_how_to_play_frota_and_set_up/
• Download the zip (or clone if you are good enough)
• Stick the files into "Steam\steamapps\common\dota 2 beta\dota\addons\Frota"
• If done correctly, the following folder should exist "Steam\steamapps\common\dota 2 beta\dota\addons\Frota\HudSRC"
• Reopen dota after each install / update (hud might not update)
• Run the following command
• dota_local_addon_enable 1;dota_local_addon_game Frota;dota_local_addon_map Frota;dota_force_gamemode 15;update_addon_paths;dota_wait_for_players_to_load 0;dota_wait_for_players_to_load_timeout 10;map riverofsouls;
• NOTE If you reach the hero selection screen, it means Frota didn't load correctly! Frota should override / skip the hero selection screen, and take you directly to a vote screen! Please ensure you removed Frostivus (and any other addons) and then restart your client.

How do I play with friend?

• You need to setup a dedicated server, and port forward (or, you can use hamachi, but port forward is easier)
• Follow the guide here: https://forums.alliedmods.net/showpost.php?p=1911667&postcount=64
• Your addons folder should look like this (note: No DLL files are pictured) http://i.imgur.com/sUtBFki.jpg
• Google how to port forward, it is different for every router!

More SRCDS Setup Help

• To debug, try adding -condebug to the SRCDS launch parameters, this will log all the server output to server/dota/console.log, you can check for errors in there
• Here's a set of working launch parameters
• srcds.exe -console -game dota +maxplayers 10 +hostport 27015 -condebug -dev +exec someconfig +map riverofsouls.bsp
• NOTE: You need to create server/dota/cfg/someconfig.cfg and add the following to it to make it work:
• dota_local_addon_enable 1;dota_local_addon_game Frota;dota_local_addon_map Frota;dota_force_gamemode 15;update_addon_paths
• NOTE: It is Frota, not frota -- It needs to be uppercase!
• If your steam.inf doesn't match up to the <active_version> of [THIS DOCUMENT] (http://api.steampowered.com/IGCVersion_570/GetServerVersion/v1?format=xml) then the server may just exit
• Verify you have installed metamod and d2fixups correctly, you can do this by adding +meta list to your launch parameters, starting the server, then checking your dota/console.log. You should see these two lines:
• Listing 1 plugin:
• [01] Dota 2 Fixups (1.9.2) by Nicholas Hastings
• If you don't see these two, then you have installed either metamod, or d2fixups incorrectly
• If you see >> Unknown command "meta" << it means metamod is installed incorrectly, verify you added it to gameinfo.txt

CreateEvent: event 'afs_timer_update' not registered.

• You get this because you set the server up wrong.
• There is now a warning inside of Frota which will tell you this
• To fix, ENSURE you have set the convars dota_local_addon_game to Frota and dota_local_addon_enable to 1

Is there a way I can spawn test heroes?

• Try the console command 'fake', it will fill the server with fake clients, and give each a hero, this command can only be run from the server console

Hooks & Mod Events

• There are many hooks and mod events to make making gamemodes easier.
• See the top of gamemodes.lua for the latest list of hooks and mod events.

Maps

• arenaotdr by DarkMio
• deadlock by Z-Machine
• evergreen_crossing by hanni7345
• keeperofthekotol by Kobb
• labyrinth0 by superfreexa
• riverofsouls by Z-Machine
• runehill by Azarak

Translations

• Please make a pull request if you want to update translations
• English by Ash47
• Brazilian by otaviomad, away000
• Finnish by SQL
• French by Canardlaquay
• German by DarkMio_mainframe
• Greek by SeCTeen
• Hungarian by Easimer
• Nyx by penguinwizzard
• Polish by Kobb
• Russian by lokkdokk, Shuker
• Chinese by cs-italy
• Spanish by JosDW
• Turkish by ozen

Issues that need help

• When a player leaves the game, their slot isn't removed, and hence, someone else can't connect and take their place, this is caused by the limit of 5 players per team, someone solve this :P
• Player slot being removed has a hacky fix via Sourcemod, I can also hackily set > 5 people on a team via SMJS / Sourcemod

Up next

• Getting inspiration to work on this again