Robot Config Reader Update and Iron Bomber Rework

Heavy Is GPS
PROJECT LEAD
October 27, 2023

Humans

  • Demoman

    • Iron Bomber:
      • Changed:
        • Increased projectile deviance from -3* to -*4
      • Added:
        • -150% Slower deploy speed
  • Medic

    • Syringe Gun
      • Changed:
        • Further lowered the rate of uber build vs robots to a rate of 7

Robots

  • Bosses

    • Added:
      • Health bonus per player: 50
        • This is a new attribute that was added with the config update, which can be applied to any robot, we're testing it on bosses, so they scale better in larger player counts
  • Artillery

    • Changed:
      • Increased the clip bonus to 18
  • PanCop

    • Removed:
      • Heal on hit
    • Changed:
      • Increased sandwich heal from from 1500 to 3000
  • Sensor Armstrong

    • Changed:
      • Reduced moves peed bonus from +30% to +20% faster
  • Pyros

    • Changed:
      • Custom pitched footsteps back to regular common ones
        • The audio often glitched with this, so it was reverted to something that works
  • Backend

  • Config Reader

    • Created a config reader that reads .cfg files to import robots
    • Converted all but 4 robots to config files
      • Robots not a config: Samwiz, Dewill, SentryBuster and Saxtron Hale have very specific code that is difficult to make universal
    • Converted all robot abilities to separate plugins
    • This reduced memory used by robot plugins by a lot
      • Since this is a new system and tested, it has not been tested on a full server and may have bugs in it somehow
  • Custom Demoknight Attribute

    • Created a custom attribute to easily alter a demoknight's charge speed

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