yea i love this addon as well! would love to see this get updated when the 2025 TF2 Bots update releases

@MAN IN THE RED SUIT
I'm focused on my other workshop project right now, but I may make more in the future!

I love the mod, will you make more inovling helicopters dropping of soldiers?

@Certified war criminal
Glad you enjoy it!

@MrNiceGuy518 thanks for the reply it worked nice mod by the way.

@Certified war criminal

Ah, that can happen if there's a broken NPC. Most NPCs should have the Classify method, and if they don't, then they can cause problems. Try using some different NPCs.

[Air Cavalry Huey] lua/entities/drop_chopper/ai.lua:93: attempt to call method 'Classify' (a nil value)
1. IsEnemy - lua/entities/drop_chopper/ai.lua:93
2. AcquireTarget - lua/entities/drop_chopper/ai.lua:478
3. FlightControl - lua/entities/drop_chopper/ai.lua:582
4. unknown - lua/entities/drop_chopper/init.lua:232 cant drop off the passengers and just hovers if theres a hostile

great mod

@allejamene091807
Glad you enjoy it!

I enjoyed this addon a lot, I actually want to create a similar one but instead using SNPCs. This is by far one of the best addons I used.

@vincent117686
Honestly, it'd be cool to turn the whole thing into a tool with a bunch of customization options, and that really what I want to do next, but I'd just have to set aside the time to do it.

Would you consider making a setting to customize what npc and weapon is dropped off? similar to the drop pod npc reinforcements addon.

please add a option to change how high the Huey goes before tilting to move

Alright.

@EdwardPlays

That's a pretty cool idea, I'll keep it in mind, but I can't promise anything. These take tons of time and effort to make right.

If you do suggestions, what about a jeep of this? same function
, dropping npcs off, with a gunner as well.

@CrimsonRaider

Oh, that's weird - That function that's missing is in charge of detecting whether or not the helicopter is crashed, and in most cases there's no reason why that would randomly be missing unless the files or the entity got tampered with. My best guess is that one of your mods is breaking it. Try running it without any other mods, and see if you still get the error. If so, let me know. If it works without any other mods, then you'll have to track down which one is breaking it.

I get this error and it refuses to fly

Does anybody know how to fix this?
[Air Cavalry Huey] lua/entities/drop_chopper/init.lua:227: attempt to call method 'IsProbablyCrashed' (a nil value)
1. unknown - lua/entities/drop_chopper/init.lua:227

ha more like air cavalry huey

can you do black hawk one
afghanstain or iraq war style

could u plz make a VJbase one

add another helicopter but it is only for players

Add another helicopter to pick up the wounded people

would be nice if you could fix the soldier's guns being unable to damage enemy rebels

he hasn't been online for 6 weeks

is there way to make helicopters not vanish when dying?

npcs t-pose when dying

make black hawk one

Why the npc when melee is T pose?

Brother, could you make a VJ or add the Black Ops 1 soldiers, meaning the American soldiers, the CIA, the Vietcong, the Cubans, etc.

are extra helicopter still planned?

For the folks having problems with model errors, make sure you have all of the required items installed. If that doesn't work, try uninstalling and re-installing the addon. If that doesn't work, look for the models manually in the spawnlist model browser, and make sure they're loaded in the game. That should help you figure out what the issue is.

The Pilots are an Error sign

any way to customize the npcs?

@MrNiceGuy518 I have downloaded all the necessary addons and content

@ｉｍｆａｋｙｏｕｋａ
Make sure you download the required items as well!

Hello. I have downloaded all the addons for this addon. The CSS content is also downloaded. But the NPCs of this particular addon are all in ERROR. What to do?

@regunkyle

No kidding.

I'll look into it.

there are a few addons that have the saxton hale assets and animations like this one here
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3007637343

@regunkyle

Technically this thread should be for this addon, not the TF2 Bots, but I'll do what I can to provide you with some answers anyway. The long and short of it is that it's a ton of work, and I'd have to sit down for a couple weeks and sift through it. I'm not taking it off the table, but it is certainly a bit of slog. As for optimization, the TF2 Bots was my first real code project, and it's been 10 years since I wrote that code, if you can believe that. Some of the code is a bit sloppy, and it could use a re-write. As for the Saxton Hale NPC, that's very unlikely to happen unless I can find a 3D artist and an animator to make a working model. I'm a programmer, not an artist, but I'm certainly open to working with an artist. All of the assets for the TF2 Bots were taken directly from valve's 3D assets and animations, so I've got to work with what I've got. I'll tell you what, I'll take a look at it. We'll see what happens.

their also sometimes very laggy for no reason

vj base*

also vj bas, drgbase, ZBase and iv04 base and a bunch of other npc bases cant seem to see the bots or the bots cant see them or sometimes its both. the only base's it works with is ANP and NPC Daemon.

most of the time when they die they bug out and still roam around but they cant shoot. also sometimes they spawn normally but their guns are below them and they cant shoot and cant die. also i really wish their would be a saxton hale bot but i dont mind if its not added

@regunkyle

What's wrong, is it broken?

what happened with the tf2 bots addon it hasnt been updated in 3 years!

from confederates to commies...

not fixed

you should make more mods like this thb