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[VScript] Awards & Demerits

Did you know that every time you play L4D2 or even L4D1, you are secretly earning many different milestones that are never shown to you on screen? This is part of a system buried under the game's code, one that was meant to have a larger appearance in the game during L4D1's development. This system, is called the Awards & Demerits System. It is still used in the game for the grey text you see on the top left of your screen when you protect a teammate or heal them, etc. since those are tied to the old awards system.

What this mod does is restore the original award system into the game, allowing you to view each of the hidden milestones when you earn them. They will show up in chat, or via icons. That's not all, though! I coded in some extra custom awards for many L4D2-Specific deeds, and created an entire scoring system which I'll cover later down the description. Have you ever wanted to re-earn some achievements? Want the game to give you more direct feedback on how well your team is doing, or just want to compete for high scores? Then this mod is for you!

Singleplayer/local servers only.

• 165 awards, and unique icon art for a majority of them
  
• Scoring & Ranking system that makes use of the awards given
  
• Customizable options
  
• Support for all gamemodes (+ unique awards for versus and scavenge!)
  
• Restored menu_horror07 sound effect, which is used for when you earn a demerit

The script comes with a score and ranking system. You earn score by earning awards, and lose it by earning demerits. At the end of a campaign or versus round, the final ranks of both teams will be shown in chat. Lastly, all score earned goes to the team, there is no individual score for each player.

These are the ranks you can be given based on your score:

GARBAGE (less than 1500 score, 200 in versus)
BRONZE (1500+, 200 in versus)
SILVER (3500+, 500 in versus)
GOLD (6000+, 1000 in versus)
DIAMOND (10,000+, 2000 in versus)

There are also score modifiers for finale maps based on campaign length, and if you're playing survival or versus. What this means is that the survivor team may earn and lose more score per award in those modes or in the finale of a shorter campaign.

Located in Steam\steamapps\common\Left 4 Dead 2\left4dead2\ems\awards_and_demerits is a settings file that lets you control some of the mod's aspects. For more information, see the discussion threads below.

• Due to script limitations, I cannot recreate the leaderboards seen in beta footage or make the icons show up in the HUD. Instead they will show up above your character.
  
• Due to above, all awards earned at the end of a finale and some saferoom ones do not have icon art made for them.
  
• Award icons may glow when a survivor has an outline on them. This can make it hard to see some of the details.
  
• Icons will sometimes z-fight if multiple awards are given simultaneously.

Witch : Lead developer, coder, icon artist
ZeroSorrow : icon artist, playtester
Spicy_Jam : major icon artist, playtester
7EMP3ST : playtester, feedback
Olde : playtester, feedback
M4X : major playtester, feedback
Shadowysn and devlos : ParseSettings code