@Paranoid&Afraid, Yeah... Weapons that use Bases aren't best for combat buddies, especially when the bases has their own type of code system of changing base damage and attacks. Can possibly cause conflicts with each other. Finding weapons that uses core hl2 code is your safe bet for getting better results with no janks.

I don't favor base addons sadly, my pc is too outdated for that. Reason why I commission combat buddies to give you good results with cheap&easy methods for good performance.

@Blargh Hurek
Noted, might be either me using ARC9/ARCCW weapons on my Combat Buddies, or something up with my addon list that's causing weird interactions. Annoying, but expected I suppose. Its just weird that my Buddies can damage and kill fine in Sandbox, but fail to deal an iota of damage in Map Sweepers.

@Paranoid&Afraid, Fun fact I also use it for Map Sweepers. I don't really have that much trouble with it. My npc use base hl2 weapons, and the upgrades work not bad. I make sure I pump up the damage resistance and health for that reason. Cause the map sweeper npcs does stupid damage at times, and if you have npc health bar addon, their healths are buffed. I also make use the damage multiplier, and accuracy so they don't miss. And find a good better npc weapon in the workshop.

@失心 Lost-Heart. About that, kinda have to deal with it. Cause, sadly due to how garry's mod hitbox work, making the npc aim for the head may have the chance to miss a lot. Maybe we could have it aim a little higher, but having it this way will at least deal damage to npc without missing.

It's either should npcs have a chance miss oftenly when hitting a open target at the head, or have it hit the wall, until that enemy pops out in the open or you get close to it.

Interestingly, Combat Buddies can be spawned in gamemodes like Map Sweepers; if you set a keybind to the CB Manager.

Unfortunately, however, it seems that - be it this addon or the Map Sweepers gamemode itself - any spawned Combat Buddy will deal absolutely no damage to enemy. There might've been times when I think my CBs dealt damage, but most of the time they don't deal any damage even if they shoot and land hits. Worse is, the CBs can still take damage. So, any thinking to try and use CBs for Map Sweepers might have to look elsewhere.

Can you make aimbot NPCs target the head? Currently when enemies hide behind cover, they keep shooting at the wall instead of hitting anything

@Zen Odd, cause the save function still works perfectly fine for me. Especially if you have a npc of that model, you can saved them by targeting that npc through manager. However, if you want to save the bodygroup, you have to change the bodygroup of that model npc first before you save it for that npc to look like how you want it when spawned.

The saved model system does not seem to be working sadly

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Still love this mod <3 However is there anyway to deselect all currently selected buddies at once without using the menu? Something i could bind to a key perhaps? I dont see it as a convar only have the option in the command wheel, when i have more than 1 buddy and teleport them when they wont TP themselves or get stuck they teleport into one spot and get stuck so i have to manually select them to TP one at a time instead to prevent this. Thanks again <3

Wow, the new revive system is just great! Makes buddies so much more useful. It somehow even works on NPCs that are not assigned as buddy. Sometimes in batlle they choose to fight instead of reviving, but that is kind of understandable.

Teleport is still a bit bugged. I don´t know what you check for in code, but most of the time, it just says there is not enough space. When you point to a wall and TP it suddenly works. (But somehow if you have multiple buddies they get stuck into each other on TP now, this did not happen before the last update. I have collision set to off.)

A convar to disable the "teleport space check" would be great. Players will see if their buddies are stuck anyways.

In any case, it is so great to see, that people still put their energy into this game!

Amazing work, really. I can tell alot of effort was put into catching the bugs and glitches. Plus their pathfinding is top notch.

However, the teleporting system seems to get overridden by something else in their logic. Quite hard to catch when specifically trying to observe, but essentially, after something in their AI gets called upon, they just seem to ignore the auto teleport altogether (both unreachable places solution and catch-up version). At first, i suspected this happens after they attempt to heal you or revive you, but the issue seems to stick even with those mechanics toggled off.

Its understandable this bug is still here, for I myself couldn't determine what causes them to just... not engage with the teleporting system? They seem to ignore it after a while in combat, on a bot-to-bot basis, such as one of the NPCs will break, while others may still function properly.

the new buddy update has broken the saved models system. Now you can't have buddies with custom models anymore

what ever i have 1 buddies or more and i got killed i just died and not downed

i have issue with player downed system

Blargh!

The buddies doesn't seems to be able to traverse long distance very well, other than that though it's a pretty solid mod

this mod used to work for me, but now the buddy manager screen is empty and i keep getting errors. any advice on how to solve this?

This is awesome. Definitely way better than the followers mod. Any way to remove the buddy without deleting them from the map? <3

this mod is good but theres a bug when i save a buddy that im looking at then spawn him in again he for some reason levitates above the ground slightly and also can i make keybinds for the menus?

Does using custom weapons for NPCs bugs Buddy's aiming? I used both ARC9 EFT and MW2019 sweps for them and only buddies shoots over the head of the enemy (combines and rebels have no problem shooting at center mass of their targets)

WHERE IS YOUR BATTLE BUDDY

this is like followers mod

Bro this mod is just what i've been looking for, before I had to rely on VJ base SNPC's for friendly combine, so I was looking for something that could modify their hostility to the player or something, this is what I was looking for, absolutely beautiful work DragonRed, I wish you well on your future projects.

teleport not work

so I spawned a monster as a combat buddy, now every time I go into a map it spawns that monster with NO way of removing him. Any ideas?

A lot of the time the Teleport doesn't work, it says "Could not be Teleported there ( End position of the trace had a way too low roof, npc would get stuck. )", could this be changed to allow you to teleport them anyways?

lease, combat buddies is exactly the add-on I was looking for, but when I call it as an apc buddies, it shoots at me, I don't want it to shoot at me, can you please fix it for apc?

Add a custom weapon to weapon list*

I love this mod

add please to npc weapon list funftion to add weapon on weapon lists

how do you bring up the wheel to add an npc

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sorry

Pretty cool, but I find that the bot doesn't shoot very often and a lot of times just stands there without doing much

i guess the battle buddies were the friends we made along the way

Is there a way to remove buddies pre-joining map through console commands? (my game crashes everything i boot up a map because it also loads the buddies, causing the problem, so i cant access the settings either.) (Sry if this seems to be repeated, I just thought i found out a solution.)

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When your buddies have the "can heal" option, they seem to only heal you when you're at 50 hp or below. That makes the healing kinda unreliable.

The real battle buddies

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sit in vehicle pls

@Dragonred Oh, found them. Didn't notice the first time. Thanks.

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like i said before, in the Personal Options there's a full list of commands that you can easily bind any key to them through the console.
and i left an example on the video too. ( example = bind g D_CBC_OpenCommandWheel )

is here a bind i can do instead of using c all the time?

I have returned, for the people who kept asking me to make console commands for the functions:
I did ever since the addon was published, there's a full list of all console commands in the bottom part of Personal Options, I couldn't write it on the description because i hit the max description limit

What names of the commands for Combat Buddies Manager, Command Wheel and Combat Buddies Editor? In campaign gmod instruments are not available, so having binded keys would be easier.

everything that i spawn goes under map