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Single Grab Weapons After First Saferoom
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Single Grab Weapons After First Saferoom

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QoL and Immersion VScripts
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Makes weapons single grab after you leave the first saferoom you load in to. Once any player exits the starting saferoom all weapons on the current and remaining maps and saferooms become single grab. Ensures everyone gets to start with a gun.

-The first saferoom doesn't necessarily mean "first level's saferoom". It's the first saferoom of whatever level you choose to start on.

-This also affects the infinite pipe/molotov/pill boxes found on The Passing.

Why I made this alternative to the original
In the original Single Grab Weapons mod you slowly build animosity towards your friends when they reach the gun table before you. After several campaigns you get in to arguments over who gets to start with a gun. You start doing bad things like refusing to rescue friends who get picked by specials just so you can grab their gun when they die.

"Mom said it's my turn for the gun!!!"

No more of this, now everyone gets a gun when we start.

Thanks to RainyRayne for making the preview icon.
Thanks to Nescius for the original idea and figuring out how to prevent dropped weapons from being absorbed by spawners.
80 Comments
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VibinWithZombies 21 Oct @ 7:27am 
Was literally wanting this the other day, as I saw the immersive ammo piles. Stuff like this makes the game better. Thank you!
CBOLλ 12 Oct @ 2:01pm 
i've added this addon to my modpack, i would appreciate if anyone could review it :) https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3493928623
Death&AllHisFriends 1 Oct @ 6:57am 
Hey this is an amazing QOL addon that makes the game harder in a smart way, can i just ask could you please make this one not effect survival mode please?
Hero Unit  [author] 23 Sep @ 10:11pm 
My mod doesn't do that. It's a vscript contained in a .vpk file that doesn't do anything if it's not enabled. It has no way to impact your game if you do not have it enabled.
Mikelov IX 23 Sep @ 9:36pm 
there's mods that change the scripts in your files and even if disabled, the script remains enabled


i know this because i had a similar problem in black mesa, some viewmodel bob mod remained even if i unsuscribed from it, and it remained even if i uninstalled BM and reinstalled it
Hero Unit  [author] 23 Sep @ 9:30pm 
If the mod is disabled it cannot affect your game. You must have some other mod active that is affecting it.
Mikelov IX 23 Sep @ 7:03pm 
after using this mod and disabling it

i Noticed that now all Pistols in l4d1 campaigns are single-grab except for finales.
Hero Unit  [author] 19 Sep @ 2:30am 
Look at valve's wiki for a list of the event and script functions. Then when you decide to make a mod you pick out which functions you'll need and chain them together to do something. For the chaining together part you can figure out a lot of stuff just doing a web search for "how to do X in squirrel code language". Most things you want to do will require some event in game to start from. Example from this mod, I knew I wanted to delay the single grab logic until players left the safe room. Conveniently, there's an event called "player_left_safe_area".

Also I haven't been modding very long. You can get better advice if you ask someone who has been doing this for a long time.
La_Rikura 18 Sep @ 6:30pm 
@Hero Unit
I really liked your addon, I saw your code in Squirrel and I found it very interesting. I don’t know if you could tell me how to get started in this scripting world. I would like to learn how you do it.
FacuPlay525 9 Sep @ 3:46pm 
OMG OMG OMG I THINKED ABOUT THE SAME IDEA WHILE IN BED AND ASKED IF THIS TYPE OF MOD EXIST THANK YOUUUUU GOD BLESS YOU MODDER SOUL