Combine Overwatch Airstrike

About

Do you need an Overwatch Airstrike? Do you need to protect your base from a remote and safe location? If so, then this addon is for you. It's a Combine Console you can use to guide the prefered airstrike. Whether it's a zombie attack or Combine onslaught, this device can take care of your problems by dropping a rain of meteors, napalms, Combine warp lasers or Headcrab canisters. The choice is up to you!

How to use

If you're in single player or you're an admin, then just go to Entities > Jakub Baku > Combine Overwatch Airstrike and spawn it somewhere. Use the item (usually by pressing "E" key) to open up the Coordinate Selector Panel. You can move the camera by moving the cursor to the left, right, bottom or up side of the panel. Press the Right mouse button and move the cursor up or down to move the camera higher or lower. Finally, just press the Left mouse button somewhere on the panel to guide the airstrike to that place! Press "R" key to open the airstrike type selection menu. And that's all you need to know.

Airstrike types

Headcrab Canister - summons a Headcrab canister from the sky, Explosion - summons an explosion, Combine Warp cannon - guides a Combine warp cannon right where you want, dissolves all living stuff, Napalm - summons an fiery explosion, lot's of fire, BURNATION, Meteor Strike - big rocks falling from the sky above, victim death imminent, Rocket Strike - rockets flying from everywhere and everywhere, Dropship assault - requests a dropship filled with Combine Soldiers, Gunship Patrol - requests a gunship to patrol around set point. I may add more airstrikes if I have any cool ideas.

Bugs and unexpected features

• not really a bug, but if you move the camera far from your position, you might have problems with props being invisible, that's completely normal, because the render.RenderView renders the world but does not calculate the visibility for props and entities,
• if you die whilst using the device you'll still be able to use it, that's because your soul loves the idea of airstriking and it stays there until you respawn :)
• multiple users can use the device at once, however the delay is going to be obeyed,
• It's only spawnable for admins, but all players can use it once it's spawned, why Admin spawnable only? Well, imagine if everyone on the server would use this thing...
• dropship doesn't play the "dropping" animation, in other words, the combines just spawn nearby and don't jump out of container. I don't like it too but it's as best as possible, why? Well, that's because the npc_combinedropship uses NPC templates for "dropping" and here's the catch - you can only create NPC templates using hammer editor. After the compilation you cannot add them, so yeah, it's as best as I can get it to be.

Possible Questions and Answers

• Addon is no work, not spawn, me mad

• You can't spawn it in multiplayer, because it's an admin spawnable only, but once an admin spawns it for you, you can use it

• Dropship get's stuck / doesn't drop troops / tries to kill itself and fall into a coma

• FIXED now, you can only call a dropship in a viable position (with bunch of clear space)

• Dropship doesn't work on GM_construct

• now it works :)

• Some camera/rendering addon destroys the camera view,

• I cannot assure compatibility with every addon on the workshop but that's not an issue with my addon. Some rendering/camera addons are pretty good at destroying other similar mechanics. I can't do a thing about it, sorry.

• Mhmm maybe you can add X that does Y and then Z happens.

• I think that addon is pretty much complete, I just wanted it to be a small, cool, thing, not a Ultra-Customizable Behemoth Airstrike SNPC

• Can you add the customization?

• Nope, I don't want to

• Does it work on all maps?

• The requirement for it to work is that the hit-point must see a sky directly above. If the map does not offer an access to the sky, then no, it won't work. In every other case it will work, however on some tiny maps the dropship mechanic might not work.

Special thanks and recommendations

Big thanks to Frasiu for testing and support. Check out his newest invention, the HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENT DISPENSER (whaat? no way!!! it's so cool!).

Thanks to SmutnyFantom, Epsi0shi, William Dalton Font, karolek471, Geiger 21, Enkomes.

Stay healthy and remember! GET WI-FI ANYWHERE YOU GO!

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