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Sicko Mode

Originally posted by Skipper:

I apologize sincerely Ms. Obama, but recent events have forced me to go Sicko Mode.

Sicko Mode is an intense, free-for-all PvP gamemode. What makes it different? Only one random player gets a weapon after a certain amount of time, and every 10 seconds, the weapon changes and is passed between other players! Hiding is pointless - your name is visible through walls at all times. Hiding with your friends is even more pointless - one of you might suddenly, without a warning, be the next one to receive a gun.

The person who gets the gun is called the killer, or sicko. The rest of the players are called the runners. There is by default 1 killer for each 6 players active (the minimum amount of players is 2, however). The winner is the last player standing. There are no respawns, either.

Best played with Doom soundtrack, or similar.

"After a dose of outdated, unfunny memes, you wake up in an unknown location. You look at the date, and it's 2018 all over again. Surrounded by unknown people, you know only one thing - you must protect Ms. Obama. And in order to do that, you must go Sicko Mode. Fueled only by desire to kill people for absolutely no reason, you must leave no one else standing, even though that has nothing to do with your goal. But seriously, who cares?"

This addon was initially made in April 2020 for me and my friends, mostly as an inside meme. The idea was actually pretty random: we used to play Murder quite a lot, and I decided to experiment and create a more intense version of it, where the murderer changes every 10 seconds. Eventually, it grew out of that. I didn't even think the idea was too good, but for some reason, it turned out to be quite addictive. Much later, I decided to rewrite the gamemode and release it. And now, here it is.

• Core mechanic: Every 10 seconds (can be changed), a random player gets a gun. This is called rotation.
  
• Spawns: If the map has a NavMesh, all players spawn scattered around the map. Otherwise, regular map spawns are used.
  
• Abilities: All players have abilities that can be selected the same way you'd select a weapon, using either number keys or mouse wheel. You can use these abilities by pressing your menu key, Q by default. Abilities require charge which accumulates with each rotation, but you could also charge by killing players or dealing damage.
  
• Menu: You can open the admin menu by typing /sickomenu in the chat or using a sickomode_menu command. In there, you can define what weapons should appear in the game, after how many rotations, and change some gameplay settings.

Bots?
Yes! Since v1.1, you can now play with bots. Open a multiplayer server and type /sickobots (to fill all the slots) or /sickobot (to add one). If you're using /sickobot, you can even give them custom names by writing it after the command.

Addon is under 1 MB?
Yes, it's all script. There's no custom content here, aside from the menu logo itself that also appears in the scoreboard. Custom sounds are played from URL. Interface is pure lua, too. Anyone who joins the server should be able to play with no problems at all.

Can you translate it into X?
No. There's not much text in the gamemode anyway.

Can I use custom weapons?
Yes! The admin menu has the list of all currently loaded weapons where you can add or remove any weapons you want. Make sure you don't include _base or buggy weapons since they could break the game, but no one is stopping you...

Abilities are garbo. Can I turn them off?
Yep, sickomode_abilities 0, or the admin menu.

I don't like the sassy text in notifications.
You can turn it off with sickomode_taunts 0.

I keep spawning inside other players/walls indefinitely and dying, what causes it?
The map is probably too small, doesn't have a navmesh, and has only 1 spawn location. Try to look for a different map, or generate a navmesh yourself.

The weapon models bug sometimes, why?
I know and I have no idea how to fix it. It probably happens because you use weapons from packs that are made on different bases, such as TFA.

How different is the rewritten version?
There were no abilities in the original version. The visuals were worse, too.[cdn.discordapp.com] Players who died would spawn as ghosts and harass the remaining players. 10 times more bugs.

Maps from the screenshots?
gm_aquablocks!, gm_devtown_day

MerekiDor - Lua, design
toobeduge - Design, testing & assistance

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