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ATP's NPC Cover System

thank you

@DOOM

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2456510510

What is the name of the map in the video?

day 100304543 of asking ATP to include <Insert shitty joke suggestion here> into the mod

@Goonqil Muntkus, before the latest major vj base update, npcs used to not do this, i might remove their support until i find a workaround or until vrej fixes the ai

This mod conflicts with VJ NPCs. Every time the NPCs get into a fight, if one loses sight of another, they won't search for them to engage in combat as they usually would. They just walk away unless the enemy is in their view again.

@Gake you can configure the mod to make em throw grenades more often

also, influencing ai in order to act in these stages accordingly while not messing stuff up can be difficult, i looked into custom schedules, but they only seem to be for custom npcs

I have a couple of AI mods that are probably conflicting, but even with that grenade mod (I got it about a week ago) they still don't throw grenades all that often. Maybe they need stages where something like:

1) Suppressing fire stage where they shoot as often as they can and unload a full clip onto the enemy before considering a new stage.
2) Grenade stage that happens with enemies behind cover or grouped up enemies.
3) Cover stage where they run and gun to cover with allies giving suppressing fire.

Something else to consider would be flash bangs, smoke grenades, and flares, but that would be a lot of work. Idk, I was considering the idea of making a flash bang, smoke grenade, and flare mod personally where both the NPCs and players get the ability to use them... Though I'd need to ask the people behind Arc Stim for Vmanip very nicely to use their code on the player side of things and I'd want to include other things, but I don't really have the time to make it.

@Gake add me on steam, i could make some changes and have you test them

about the grenade thing, you should get https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3258385599
allows more npcs to throw grenades, and i suggest fighting enemy rebels, not combine, because the game intentionally nerfs the combine

thanks tho, i worked a lot on the cover selection, i needed a balance between performance and good spots, i think what i made is good enough

you can look at the code in gmpublisher to see how it works exactly

for future updates (which will probably be in a year, ETA july 2026) i was planning on making the npcs cover their teammates if they decide to go somewhere farther than the closest most optimal cover spot

right now their get cover quality is weird aswell, i don't understand how a point near a prop gets automatically invalidated even if they're not stuck anywhere, weird ahh gmod

It occurred to me that the way this reads makes it seem like I don't think what you made isn't amazing. The amount of correct cover identifications is actually pretty good, I'm just burned by the fact for as good of code as this is it makes the NPCs less difficult to deal with which should counter intuitive since getting an angle on the enemy is better than duking it out until death and it did actually inspire the feeling that I needed to do the same which legit made shootouts way more fun... It's just that disconnect when I finally looked down at my health and realized I'm basically topped off.

So, yeah, this mod massively improves the "feel" of the gunfight, but... They REALLY need to learn how to spray and pray as well as toss grenades in between cover seeking with this mod.