Generator Destruction (a variation) Prefab v12

• Each team has a generator the other team needs to destroy.
• At the beginning of the round, both generators have uber and Wrangler shield.
• To drop the uber and/or shield, each team must destroy the other team's shield batteries. Destroying these batteries reduces the shield's power.
• There are two shield batteries on each team. They are weak but repairable by Engineers.
• Destroy the batteries, destroy the generator, win the game.

• The generator is a Dispenser. It is classified as a building: However it does not heal, give metal, and cannot be upgraded nor repaired.

• Unlike other variations of this game mode, this one has something called a shield battery.
• As of 3 July 2021, the shield batteries look like Repair Nodes (scrapped Engineer building)
• Each battery destroyed reduces the shield's power. First battery removes Uber, second battery removes Wrangler shield.

• Players have to decide whether to go destroy the batteries first to weaken the shield, or to make a direct attack on the generator.
• Players are rewarded for destroying the batteries quickly, because each battery resets the time it takes to reboot the shield's power.

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• Both generators gain 400 HP per player on the server. (no cap)
• Similarly, the generator's shield batteries gain 30 HP per player on the server, capped at 600 HP
• Shield Batteries respawn the same way Robot Destruction robots spawn. Default in prefab is:
  • 1 battery destroyed = 60 seconds
  • 2 battery destroyed = 120 seconds
• In V5 and below, Generators could sapped and destroyed prematurely with the Red-Tape Recorder. This was fixed in V6 (fix was just removing sappers immediately upon being placed).
• Voicelines were added in V6 for when the generator is being attacked.

• Damage reduction calculations are actually just adding back the health via percentage.

• Repair Node model + textures (credit Benjamoose + Murphy for textures)
• Uber Dispenser
• HUD icons
  • Uber
  • Shield Dispenser
  • Dispenser
• Spliced TF2 Announcer lines
  • "You must destroy the enemy's reactor!"
  • "Destroy the enemy's reactor core!"
• .res HUD file
• Sound script file (for removing intel capture lines on classes, removing all RD sounds, adding new announcer lines)
• Custom MOTD / "whiteboard" description for GD

• The points added at the start of the round are actually from a Robot Destruction intel spawned by a point_template, then send RoundActivate. This workaround for Source reasons doesn't consider the game having zero points on either team, because if there are no points the intels don't spawn in RD. However because it's spawns via template, it exists permanently, and RoundActivate collects the points automatically. (credit Mr. Burguers for the find)
• You can also subtract points by setting an RD intel with negative points to subtract on pickup.
  • This does not work using RoundActivate.
• You can subtract all points on the scoreboard for a team by setting the value to 4294967295 or higher. Use Google for more info why.
  • This method does work with RoundActivate.
• func_respawnroom prevents capturing the intel, resulting in the workaround to remove points from the HUD a little difficult. The work-around for this is the logic constantly searches for a player inside the map-wide trigger until it is captured. If it fails to find a player, the intel deletes itself and respawns in a loop until it finds a player to capture it.

• Robot Destruction entities work in Player Destruction, including the Robots, including the intelligences. (although not 100%, see below)
  • Due to the intel being set to RD in a PD game mode, the capture HUD notifications are actually disabled and don't give any notification.
• math_counter has a input to GetValue and OutValue. It seems like GetValue processes after OutValue if done with the same delay. It's used a lot in this logic.

• Added sound script to replace robot / announcer sounds
• Re-organized the logic. Split into two sides--One for stuff the player interacts with, and the other side stuff that needs to be out-of-bounds.
• Fixed broken damage reduction refires.
• Updated shield effects to FireUser.

• Fixed leaking wall
• Fixed intel/flags drawing into the world.

True lemon said:

Good to know it's a variation since I was looking at this on the discord and felt it changed the gameplay enough to not be a replacement of the original. Granted, it's most likely a whole ton better in the logic department though.

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• Logic Updated
  • Damage Reduction logic tightened to calculate precisely the time of damage occurs. That means no lag or hiccups where the generator heals erroneously. It's flawless! Woooooo!
  • HUD counter logic tuned to be even more accurate, and less laggy.
    • The score only updates when someone picks up a flag to reduce the score. These flags spawn when the score needs to be updated, but this update lags the game if updated too fast.
    • To change the update speed, change the map-wide trigger's Delay Before Retrigger parameter to something over 1 second. (default in my prefab is 1.1) Anything faster will probably cause stuttering in the server.

• Fixed file directory not actually having a 'custom' folder in it! doh
• Added effects for the shield batteries.
• Fixed bug where vgui_screen would resize on all dispensers.
• Added scaling health for shield batteries (+50 per player, cap 1200)
• Fixed bug where shield batteries couldn't spawn. (due to env_entity_maker not spawning the template in brushes)

• Added new assets
  • Uber Dispenser
  • "Generator" sign (it's kind of WIP)
  • "Uber" HUD icon

• The vgui_screen panel on the generator now disappear when ubered.
• Added a fix for the HUD not deducting points when a player is in the respawn room.
• Updated the files
  • Added a GD description for the whiteboard in the beginning of the map
  • Updated the level sounds to remove the intel-capture lines for all classes.
• Updated readme

• Copy and replace all the logic side of the prefab.
  
• Copy the BLU generator (just the BLU one!) from this prefab and replace it with the one in your map.
• Place the condition triggers in the respawn rooms.
  • You can make a new brush entity called "trigger_add_tf_player_condition" with condition 65, set to -1 duration.
• Re-place all the map-wide triggers with the new ones in the prefab.

• "You must destroy the enemy's reactor!"
• "Destroy the enemy's reactor core!"

• WIP shielded Dispenser HUD icon
• WIP base Dispenser HUD icon
• Updated level_sounds to include new voicelines
• Added repair node textures (credits: benjamoose https://steamcommunity.com/id/benjamuffin/, Murphy)

• (while throwing salt over my shoulder superstitiously) Squashed evil bugs with Sappers...
  • Fixed Red-Tape Recorder resetting health of Generator. (known bug: Does change health of batteries. Could potentially fix that later but it's a non-issue)
  • Fixed both sappers from crashing the game.
  • Thanks Da Spud Lord for helping me with figuring out a workable solution for this.
• Updated HUD icon for shielded Dispenser and base Dispenser
• (undocumented in V6) reduced HUD update for map-wide triggers from Retrigger rate 1.1 to 0.01

• Added explosion effect on generator destruction.
• Increased cooldown of /Protect your reactor/ line from 5s to 12s.
• All generators/shield batteries now heal 5HP/sec
• Shield batteries leave a blueprint on destruction.
• Added new voicelines for when both batteries are destroyed.
• Added sounds when the generator's health changes on the HUD.
• Fixed seeing robots outside the map w/ cond 114.
• Reduced generator HP increments from 400 to 300.
• Updated custom assets, folders and readme.
• Fixed visgroups not filtering some entities in prefab.

• Fixed crash in server bootup I/O by placing the damage reduction logic into a point_template.
  • This ties in with the Red-Tape Recorder sapper fix. I had to make the building have a high enough level to make the Red-Tape not reduce the logic-modified health of the building...
• Updated sappers to deal 30 damage per placement (up from 10).

• Reorganized everything. If you used this logic in a previous map, please reinstall everything from the ground up. (except the map-wide triggers. Those are OK to keep because I didn't change those)
• Updated Readme with full installation guide.

• Generator size up from 2x -> 3x
• Previously, shield batteries resurrected themselves on their own. Now, in order to restore one of your team's shield batteries, you must now capture a CP in the designated area.
• The HUD now displays warnings for whenever the opposing team damages any objectives. (Batteries or main Generator)

• Made it easier to setup the logic. Simply place the obj_dispensers in the correct places and it'll spawn everything necessary to get the game mode to work.

• Added several relays for shield battery events (When damaged, respawning, or being destroyed), as well as when the generator increases/loses its shields.

• Each battery has their own version of:
  • relay_OnShieldbatteryDamaged // When the shield battery is damaged
  • relay_OnShieldbatteryRespawned // For when the battery respawns
  • relay_OnShieldbatteryDestroyed // On destruction of a battery

• For the main generator:
• Again, each relay has their own team variant.
  • relay_OnGeneratorShieldLv1 // no shield
  • relay_OnGeneratorShieldLv2 // wrangler shield
  • relay_OnGeneratorShieldLv3 //full shield+uber

• Heavy's damage output to main generator nerfed by 75%. (He deals 25% damage to the generator now!)
• Batteries now generate metal.
• Fixed the BLU generator sign looking weird
• Changed battery explosion FX to something less graphic intensive

- Fixes the Repair Node CPs being cappable by the team that destroyed them

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• Updated whiteboard objective description when the map boots up
• Updated model directories to use props_yaki/generator_destruction/
  • Removed old signs and made a separate download https://tf2maps.net/threads/generator-destruction-signs.46406/
  • Material directories also updated
• (Request by Sono) Added logic to fire relay when a generator gets to a certain HP value. Can have up to 16.
• Fixed bug with BLU Generator looking like a RED...

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