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Flying EDARs

This mod is not whitelisted and will unrank your server. Any experience gained while playing a match with this mod will not save.
Now includes both survival and endless support.

Please refer to the 'Discussion' thread for the purpose of this mod (if you care).

This mod replaces all DARs with three variants of the rocket DAR, all with flying capabilities.

• Stinger: A fast, small robot that shoots 2 missiles. Designed to harass more than pose a major threat. (Trash zed)
  
• Bomber: Closest to the default rocket DAR in KF2, with less health and armour, but faster fire rate. It sends a volley of missiles that are quite dangerous if not dodged. (Medium zed)
  
• Goliath: A large robot with fairly high health and armour, and a very dangerous but slower attack. It sends out up to 2 barrages of larger rockets. (Large zed)

Apart from the Goliath, these DARs have considerably less health and armour than the default rocket DAR, but can output more damage. They are designed to be dangerous, yet not tedious to fight. Strategies for engaging and avoiding these DARs are discussed in the “Strategies” thread.


Here’s a brief outline of the changes to the mod in this update. See the change notes for more information. See the commit messages on Bitbucket for the gory details.

• Spin out mechanic: when decapitated, DARs lose control. They fly up in the air very fast while spinning. They explode after a short time or when damaged sufficiently.
  
• Improved flight mechanic and AI: DARs now check whether it is appropriate to fly, and hover below the ceiling instead of clipping through it. They no longer orbit around players’ heads, and no longer orbit path nodes when the player is out of sight. Their flight speed (in the xy-plane) is now limited.
  
• DARs are spawned in through a more powerful replacement system. (Using a purpose-built spawning mod is still preferable).
  
• Support for Endless mode.
  
• Rebalanced DARs: reduced health, armour, speed and damage. However, they spawn more frequently now.
  
• Two significant weakpoints: the chest core (3.5x damage as per TW’s implementation) and the head due to the spin out mechanic (where the DAR dies at the end of spinning out).
  
• Changed the draw scale of the goliath and stinger to be less extreme, and reduced the burnt and frozen visual effects.

To use this mod on solo, enter this into the console (opened using the tilde key in-game):
The first line is for survival, the second for endless. To use this on a server, the Game parameter must be set to DAR.DARGameInfo_Survival or _Endless, e.g.
Difficulty can be 0, 1, 2 or 3 for Normal, Hard, Suicidal and Hell on Earth, respectively. GameLength can be 0, 1 or 2, for Short, Medium and Long, respectively. The example shown would be 7 waves on Hell on Earth.


Using this mod as a gamemode will make it incompatible with any other gamemode mods. However, you can use the zed class names provided in the “Modding/testing” thread in a mod that allows for spawning custom zeds.


The source code can be found at: https://bitbucket.org/Pharrahnox/dar/src/master/
You are welcome to use the code for learning purposes, and you can alter or reuse the code in your own mods.