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Special Half-Life 2 NPCs

This small, simple addon adds new NPCs to your game. They are all variants of the default Half-Life 2 NPCs with spawnflags/keyvalues that enable different abilities.

If you have mods that interfere with default NPC behavior (relationship mods, AI changes, etc.), I cannot guarantee this mod will work for you. iNPC does break this mod.

List of NPCs:

-Dog's Ball | A roller-mine that can't damage you the way normal rollers do. However, it can damage you like props do. Rebels still treat it as an enemy.
-Turret (No Ammo) | No ammo variant of floor turret. Behaves slightly different than normal turret.

-City Scanner (Scout) | Functions the same as a normal city scanner, but resistance members are more dramatically scared by it. It can act as a scout for striders, too.
-Combine Leader | A combine shotgun soldier with slightly more health and grenades, has aggressive tactics, spawns with an AR2, and drops a health vial on death.
-Combine Marksman | A combine soldier with less health that spawns with an annabelle or crossbow. He has an extreme shooting/spotting range making this a deadly foe. He also drops health vial and has no grenades. Insane accuracy with annabelle.
-Combine Sniper (Fast) | A combine sniper with spawn flags that enable faster and farther shooting. Can only be killed by explosives.
-Electrical Drone | A flying hunter-chopper mine that makes electrical noises and can damage you with electricity. It also has invisible rotors apparently. It may or may not have electricity spark effects around it. It also does stuff to nearby weapons on the ground...
-Hunter-Chopper (Aggressive) | Same as the hunter-chopper but with red flashing lights and a spawn flag that enables more aggressive attacks.
-Metro Police Leader | A metro cop with more health and spawns with a manhack. He also has a boosted attack range. He can spawn with smg, 357, ar2, or shotgun (requires additional animations mod to work properly).
-Strider (Stomp) | A variant of the strider that stomps on the player or NPCs when he is approached.
-Ceiling Turret (No Ammo) | No ammo variant of ceiling turret, as seen in Half-Life 2 Episode 1.
-Metro Police Recruit | A metro cop relatively new to the force. He keeps his mouth shut unless in danger and is not as strong as other cops. Not experienced with the smg, so he stitches if a player is below him (stitching is shooting a closing path of bullets rather than shooting straight on)

-Ammo Re-suppliers (SG-SMG-RPG-9MM) | One is a rebel that gives shotgun ammo, one smg ammo, one gives RPG ammo, one pistol ammo. They can be annoying, so use an ammo limit mod.
-Friendly Turret | A friendly combine turret that is friendly to resistance (except dog's ball) and attacks enemies.
-Marksman | Same abilities as a combine marksman but it's a rebel. No difference in health.
-Matt | Matt can spawn with a pistol, smg, or a pipe (like he does in HL2). He has 70 health and drops a health vial upon death. (For those wondering, the pipe is not a custom weapon. It is a crowbar re-skin the game uses if the citizen's name is set to matt.)
-Vortigaunt (Recharge) | A vortigaunt variant that regenerates his health and can give you armor (up to 15, then he will not recharge any more).

-Barnacle (Ambush) | Exactly the same as a barnacle but only puts out its tongue if damaged.
-Ceiling Headcrabs (Normal-Fast-Poison) | Headcrabs that spawn on the ceiling (they don't have an animation). They're like the poison headcrabs that ambush you in Ravenholm. If you spawn them outside they fall from the sky.
-Antlion Guard (Bark) | An antlion guard that barks frequently when in combat. Antlion summon only works on specific maps, including a few default coast maps and EP2 outlands map, and some community antlion maps.

Metro cop with the "arrest" behavior:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1429923187

My Additional Combine Sound mod:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1542343983

My save collection:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1521362024