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Survivor Abilities Pack

A small collection of Survivor Abilities for the Left 4 Fun addon.

This is not a standalone addon, this addon requires Left 4 Fun and Left 4 Lib addons to work.

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• Subscribe to the required addons (if you havent already)
  
• Open the folder "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Left 4 Dead 2\left4dead2\ems\left4fun" in explorer and create a new subfolder named "survivorabilities"
  
• Inside the newly created folder, create 2 text files named "types.txt" and "char_defaults.txt" respectively.
  
• Open the 2 new text files with a text editor and add the following content to them, then save them.

This represents the list of Survivor Ability classes that will be loaded by the Left 4 Fun addon.
You can remove any ability you do not want to be loaded or add new abilities simply by editing this file.
With this file you can also change the default parameters of the abilities, see HERE.

This file represent the default ability (ability name not the ability class) for each one of the 8 survivor characters.
Survivors will start with these default abilities but they can always change it with the 'ability_set' command (unless you disabled it via 'l4f_survivor_abilities_allow_set' fake cvar).

The Survivor Ability feature must be enabled on Left 4 Fun in order for this to work.
You can do this by settings the fake cvar 'l4f_survivor_abilities' to 'true' via 'cvar' command (!l4f cvar l4f_survivor_abilities true), however the value will revert to 'false' after a map transition.
You can make it permanent by using the 'pcvar' command instead (!l4f pcvar l4f_survivor_abilities true).
You can set the other 'l4f_survivor_abilities_*' cvars in the same way.
The list of the fake cvars can be found HERE.

An alternative to the permanent cvar is to make a L4F mod and switch to it via '!l4f settings mod modname' command.
For example you can create a text file named 'survivor_abilities_all.txt' in the 'ems\left4fun\mods\' folder and add these lines to it:
Then, create a local game and, after the map finished loading, type '!l4f settings mod survivor_abilities', then '!l4f restart'.

Survivor Abilities are now loaded, you can set your preferred ability via '!l4f ability_set abilityname' command.
You start / stop the ability via '!l4f ability_start' / '!l4f ability_stop' commands and fire it via '!l4f ability_use' command.

More details on the commands can be found HERE.

A demonstration can be seen in the linked videos.

Another alternative is to make your own mutation, like THIS ONE.

Open the console and type:
bind "KEY" "scripted_user_func l4f,ability_use"
Change KEY with the key you want to use.

'ability_start' and 'ability_stop' commands can be bound the same way.


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