Early Shotgun Bug

[Ronin4862]

Hey Sam,

Started playing Opposing Force and will report anything I find here.

A bug in the very begining of the game.

You can get the shotgun early be picking it up from the soldier that's not supposed to die. In the vanilla Steam OF the soldier fights the Vortigaunt but does not die.

And before you ask, yes, I did a fresh install of Beta 8. Here's the proof:

https://youtu.be/BRdyqn-AShM

[Ronin4862]

I must specify that this happens only on Hard difficulty. On Easy and Medium the marine doesn't die so you can't pickup the shotgun.

[SamVanheer]

I can reproduce the issue on Hard difficulty. The simplest fix is to simply disable weapon dropping for all NPCs in this map. I'll get to that in a bit.

[SamVanheer]

I've added a keyvalue to disable item dropping for NPCs. I've added a .ent file to patch the map in halflife-op4-updated and an upgrade action to patch it in the Unified SDK. The next beta will have the fix.

[Ronin4862]

So If I just build client.dll and hl.dll from what you've just released a few hours ago and replace the ones in Beta 8 it won't work, right?
Map of0a0 must be patched first, correct?

[Ronin4862]

And when will Beta 9 be released? I have some free time on my hands now so if you release it quick I'll do a thorough bug hunt just like I did for Half-Life Updated.

[SamVanheer]

Yes, of0a0 needs to be patched first.

I'll release a new beta this weekend, possibly today if i have the time.

[SamVanheer]

The new betas are out.

[Ronin4862]

The new betas are out.

Awesome!
I'll start playing tonight! 😀