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Combine Squad Survival

Please, read this description before asking already-answered questions.

SERVER: 162.248.90.12:27015 - CSS maps mostly.

In Combine Control you take the role of a Combine Squad commander. You select wich soldiers you want, and then you form squads and issue the orders. When you are prepared, you can start some minimodes to put your squad-managing abilities to test.

You can form up to two squads, plus selected Soldiers.
This is the menu you will use to handle your troops.


The top buttons are used to spawn your units and request help. Below them are three columns.

The first column is dedicated to the Alpha Squad, the second to any selected soldier, and the third one is for the Bravo Squad. As you see you can move them, make them hold position, regroup, disband the squad, and form the squad from the selected soldiers.
Because you can now select soldiers with E (USE), you know.


Detailed description of the orders:

- Hold Position: The squad/selected soldier(s) go to the area you are looking at and try to stay here no matter what happens.
- Follow Me: The squad/selected soldier(s) go to your back every 2 seconds, if they are far from you. They don't stop to fight enemies, their priority is to stay with you.
- Go Here: The squad/selected soldier(s) go to that position, but they may leave it if they find enemies.
- Regroup: The squad/selected soldier(s) go to you. Simple.
- Disband Alpha/Bravo: disband the squad, so the soldiers are now "loners".
- Unselect All: deselects any combine that was selected.
- Form Alpha/Bravo: Any soldiers you have selected are introduced into that squad.
- Select Loners: Selects any soldier that's not part of a squad.

Keys:
Q - Opens the squad command menu.
E - Selects the soldier you're looking at.
X - Highlights your soldiers, no matter where they are.

Commands:
!hordes - start the horde minimode. It will spawn a wave of monsters. When you have finished killing them all, it will launch another, with more monsters than before. For now the monsters can be zombies or antlions, chosen randomly each time.
!stop - stop the horde minimode.
!zombies - start a zombie wave.
!antlions - start an antlion wave. After the fifth wave, Antlion Guards start spawning too.
!document - start the document minimode.

About the Minimodes:

Horde: When you start this minimode, you will have thirty seconds to prepare. Then, a lot of monsters will spawn and try to reach you and your units.
If you kill them all, you will have another thirty seconds to prepare again, only to be attacked again by monsters. Every wave has more monsters, and certain thresholds will enable harder enemies (Like Antlion Guards after the fifth wave).

Find The Document: This gamemode premise is simple. You have to find a paperclip. The gamemode looks for tables and logical places in the map to put the paperclip. When he finds enough, it will place it there.

Your mision is to find the paperclip while the zombies try to kill you all.

You cannot spawn units while inside the minimodes, with the exception of the Horde's "preparation time".

About the Combine:
- Every combine regenerates 1 health every 2 seconds when they are not in combat.
- Both Squads share information about their respective enemies, lone soldiers do not.

Score:
- I'm using the "frags" (default scoreboard) as the score for now.
- You gain frags for every thing your soldiers kill.
- Every time a combine from your squad is killed, you lose 50 points.

The HUD:
- You can now know more details about a soldier by aiming at him.
- You can know about the state of the Squads (following you/holding position) at the bottom of your screen.
- Q opens the squad menu.
- You can know how many units you have at your orders.

Options:
You can configure some things.

The Keys aren't configurable for now, the option is a placeholder.

Maps supported:
Every map that has a nodegraph works, and this addon comes with a lot of nodegraphs i've created for The Hunt, my other gamemode. However, the maps from this collection have a custom config, made by me, wich sets custom spawns for the enemies, so they don't pop out of the middle of the street, but appear from the corners of the map and other suitable places.

Addons:
If you have Half Life Renaissance installed and enabled, you can use !hlrenaissance1, !hlrenaissance2, !hlrenaissance3 and !hlrenaissanceboss to spawn enemies from that addon.

If you have Combine Beta SNPCs, you can spawn them by saying !assassin and !cremator.
Spawn them first, before any other combine. Otherwise they will be enemies.


Short-term plans:
- Add the Combine Sniper and Hunter to the list of spawnable combine. Done.
- Add some weapon packs for the combine and rebels. Done.
- Add some NPC pack for the enemy waves. Done.
- Add some Combine NPCs from the workshop. Done.
- Add an option for the player loadout . Done.
- Fix the kill notice things. You know, NPCs involved, weapons used. Done.
- Add more minimodes/missions.

Long-term/maybe plans:
- Add a Rebel squad controlled by another player on the rebel faction.
- Add a Versus mode where one player spawns monsters and the other player has to survive and kill them.
- Add the Helicopter and Gunship, controllable by orders too. Done.
- Add a way for players to change the models of the Combine and use models from the workshop, so they can play as other factions. Done.

Little details you might like to know:
- The combine boots make a sound when the soldiers run. Your boots do it too.
- The combine have some voicelines implemented to make the game less... silent. They will report that everything is clear when you select them, respond to your orders and warn you when they are badly hurt.
- You emit some voicelines too. All of them from HL2's files.
- Every time a wave is spawned, it has more enemies in it.
- Antlions kill Combine in one hit, it's hardcoded into the game. So beware.
- You can play this with your friends. I've coded it in a way that your squads won't interfiere with other player's squads. I think.

Bugs
- Rebels crash the game for now, so I've removed them from the Addon until I fix them.

FAQ
- The NPCs aren't moving!
That map has no nodegraph. Tell me which map it is and i'll try to make one for it.

- Where are the rebels?
I removed them for now, they crashed the game. I'll try to bring them back.

- The combine shoot at me!
You have an addon which changes the NPC relationships, or you're playing this on Sandbox.
This doesn't work on Sandbox, it's a gamemode. You need to select it on the main menu (bottom-right).


Links
- Facepunch Thread[facepunch.com]
- GitHub Link[github.com]

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I hope you people enjoy this gamemode. For now it's pretty basic, but like what happened to The Hunt, it will grow with time.
Any opinions or suggestions are appreciated!