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Lynch’s NPCs Essentials

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Lynch’s NPCs Essentials is an AI overhaul and quality-of-life addon that enhances the behavior of most default Half-Life 2 NPCs. Its main objective is to address the unintelligent and rigid nature of the original AI by making NPC-vs-Player and NPC-vs-NPC battles more dynamic, reactive, and meaningful.

The addon leverages the map’s NavMesh system to provide advanced logic for cover-seeking, flanking, fallback positions, repositioning, and more. Despite its extensive feature set, Lynch’s NPCs Essentials is designed with performance in mind and includes a wide range of configurable options for fine-tuning behavior to your liking.

• Partial compatibility with other NPC-related addons.
  
• Optimized.
  
• Fully customizable.
  
• NPCs can hear enemy gunfire and react accordingly.
  
• Customizable vision range for each NPC type.
  
• Adjustable maximum health and weapon damage output.
  
• Fine-tuned aiming accuracy with user-set difficulty.
  
• Built-in armor system with damage reduction and durability.
  
• Optional health regeneration, inside or outside of combat.
  
• Numerous AI bug fixes and improvements.
  
• Better tactical movement and reaction logic during combat.
  
• Dynamic switching between walking and running animations.
  
• Faster weapon reload animations.
  
• Option to disable flinching when taking damage.
  
• Movement-based reactions to nearby enemies.
  
• Support for cover-seeking, node-jumping, and damage avoidance.
  
• Enhanced grenade awareness and evasive reactions.
  
• ...and much more.

• Tactical weapon switching during combat. - Moved to other addon
  
• Use of hand signals for squad coordination.
  
• Improved flanking behavior.
  
• Smart regrouping orders issued by squad leaders when a nearby unit is killed.
  
  • The regroup point is dynamically selected via NavMesh.
• Actively attempt to avoid player aim.
  
• Shotgunner-specific enhancements:
  
  • More aggressive behavior.
    
  • Fix for the infinite reload bug.

• Support for the ARREST spawnflag, unlocking scripted behavior:
  
  • Detects enemy > signals nearby units > takes firing position > reports to Overwatch > receives kill order > engages target.
• Option to disable stunstick spawning.

• Persistent regrouping behavior with nearby players. (FREEMAN LEADS THE WAY!)
  
• More frequent attempts to move out of the player’s way.
  
• Non-medic rebels have a chance to spawn as medics.
  
• Experimental faction alliance system:
  
  • Option to ally Combine and Rebel factions.
    
  • Only affects default HL2 combat NPCs.

• Zombies:
  
  • More aggressive and reactive behavior.
    
  • Increased movement speed.
    
  • Zombines can now pull grenades when near enemy NPCs.
    
  • Unlocks an unused secondary attack for Fast Zombies.
• Striders:
  
  • Can toggle between normal and aggressive behavior modes.
    
  • Aggressive mode allows faster and more accurate shooting.
    
  • Striders can now use their cannon weapon during combat.
• Hunters:
  
  • Enhanced group attack coordination.
    
  • Faster, more frequent attacks.
• Helicopters:
  
  • Option to enable deadly shooting mode against players.
• Vortigaunts:
  
  • Can recharge player armor from 0 to 15.
    
  • Gain access to a secondary area-of-effect (AOE) Dispel attack, launching nearby enemies into the air, similar to Vortigaunts from Black Mesa.

• Translate the addon into multiple languages
  
• Sleep

Enjoy.

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TAGS AI, NPC, Combat, Combine, Rebels, Metropolice, Zombies, Behavior, Enhancements, Realism, Friendly NPCs, Smart NPCs, HL2, Half-Life 2, Sandbox, Tactical, Performance, Immersion, Scripted NPCs, Advanced AI, Roleplay, Optimization, Trepang2, Trepang 2, COD, Modern Warfare, Battlefield, Shadow Company, Map Sweepers, NPC Types, SNPCs, SWEPS, Strider, Hunter, Shield Scanner, Antlions, Holster, Visuals, Armor, Alyx, HL:A, Turret, Nodes, Navmesh, Engineer, Wallhammer, Sniper, Cloaker, Suppressor, Elite

Additional credits:

• MerekiDor (Map Sweepers Developer) - For the code used in the NPC SWEPS