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Throwable Melee Weapons (Prototype) (Vscript)

Actually this mod was made just to satisfy my curiosity & originally I never expected this to work (but it worked in the end lol). This mod was inspired by some requests on L4D2 discussion forum, as there's someone who kept requesting the port of "Throwable Melee" from alliedmods to a vpk mod. I didn't read the scripts on the alliedmods at all as I thought that it would take time to make me understand the mechanisms there. So, instead of reading there, I just tried to build the simple mechanisms I had in mind via "Think" function. & here's it is, a "Throwable Melee Weapon" with simple scripts that even the author (me) was so shocked that this worked by miracle :D .

So, I named the title with "Prototype", as there's still no cfg file here. I have a plan to make some features like "Damage Multiplier", "Throw Hit Cooldown", & "Throw Miss Cooldown", but maybe later if there are further requests.

• Hold RELOAD button & then press ATTACK to throw the melee you're holding. Alternatively, you can simply press SCOPE/ ZOOM button to throw.
  
  
• You'll temporarily get a pistol after throwing your melee. If you have a primary gun, you'll switch to primary gun instead of secondary.
  
  
• The thrown melee will have a special dynamic light following it, so it works like flare.
  
  
• When it successfully hits zombies (CI, SI, tank, & witch), there will be a small shockwave special effect.
  
  
• The damage is equal to normal melee attack. Here's the table of damage:
  
  Zombie Type

  Damage

  Common infected

  - Instant kill
  - Common infected near the target will stumble

  Witch

  - Damage is equal to 50% of current health
  (at 1000 health, 4 throws will kill witch, like the default)
  - Common infected near the target will stumble

  Tank

  - Damage is equal to 10% of current health
  - 20% chance to stumble
  - Common infected near the target will stumble

  Charger

  - Damage is equal to 80% of health when health is above 500
  (2 hits to kill)
  - Instant kill when health is below 500
  - 100% chance to stumble
  - Common infected near the target will stumble

  Other Special Infected

  - Instant kill, like the default melee damage
  - 100% chance to stumble
  - Common infected near the target will stumble
  
  
• The thrown melee can destroy breakable objects. Custom bosses/ enemies in custom campaigns may be included as long as they can take damage.
  
  
• When the thrown melee hits zombies, there's 1 second of cooldown until the melee automatically returns to the owner.
  
  
• When the thrown melee hits objects or misses, there are 5 seconds of cooldown penalty until the melee automatically returns to the owner.
  
  
• You can throw the melee at other survivor, but it will deal no damage. Instead, the survivor thrown with melee will stumble & use some voicelines to complain, or scream (don't try to throw it at Zoey or Louis, ok :D ).
  
  
• The throwing damage can bypass riot zombie's armor.

So, with this mod, you can have a semi-boomerang melee to support you as a melee wielder, so you can also deal long range even without pistols.

• A video preview will be added later.
  
• A known bug: If you use SCOPE/ ZOOM to throw the melee, the melee will be thrown farther than when using RELOAD + FIRE, as if it's thrown with lower gravity (no idea how this could happen, as the throw mechanisms are actually the same, with only different keys to press).
  
• This can't be used together with "Melee Sharpshooting" mod, as this also uses SCOPE/ ZOOM button to throw melee.