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(REUPLOAD) Half-Life 2 Cut Snpc's [Beta Version] (probably broken)

Old Alpha Description:
BE WARNED THAT WHILST SOME ONLINE TESTS HAVE BEEN CONDUCTED ON THESE SNPCS, THEIR MULTIPLAYER COMPATABILITY CANNOT BE ASSURED. REMEMBER, THIS ADDON IS STILL IN ITS ALPHA PHASE.

Before anybody (else) decides to comment about how the Combine Advisor isn't cut, its fighting capabilities WERE cut from EP2, so that's close enough, and I'm standing by it. I don't know why you'd complain about the only working Advisor SNPC in existence, but okay.

This addon is an addon that's been in development hell for a while, but has suddenly picked up again. These are a group of recreated Half-Life 2 Beta / Cut SNPCs.

These SNPCs are in a state where they have only been tested by the original creator (me), and only partially by other testers. A lot of care has been taken to remove any bugs, but due to the unfinished nature of the pack, many bugs may remain.

SNPCs include:
> Combine Guard
> Combine Advisor
> Combine Assassin
> Cremator
> Mortarsynth
> Combot
> Wasteland Scanner
> Hydra
> Houndeye
> Particle Storm

Use of this addon can be considered a public test, and any retrieved errors / results would be much appreciated in order to diagnose and solve any problems.

Planned SNPCs:
> Antlion King
> Ministrider
> Alien Assassin
> Waste Scanner Duo
> Waste Scanner Trio

In Progress:
> Antlion King
> Ministrider
> Alien Assassin
> Waste Scanner Duo
> Waste Scanner Trio

The planned SNPCs would have been created sooner. The issues with the Crabsynth, Alien Assassin and Bullsquid is that their walking animations are broken and not even model manipulation will get them to walk. If anybody can fix these issues, I will gladly further progress on this pack to include them.

The Ichthyosaur cannot be created because it does not have a working ragdoll. The Antlion King cannot be created because whilst there is a workshop model for it, it has no animations. Like with the other planned SNPCs, if anybody would like to animate the Antlion King, or ragdoll the Ichthyosaur, I will gladly continue.

The flying system is not perfect, so any "dumb" flying behaviour is due to that fact, and that accessing air nodes / the node graph on maps isn't possible without binary modules (which are not supported by workshop addons.)

Known Bugs:
YOUR SNPCS ARE NOT INVISIBLE.
> Some SNPCs spawn below the floor for some reason. Unsure why. This is why you think your SNPCs are invisible. Pull them out of the floor with your physics gun.
> Combine Advisors may violently shake the player when grabbing them at a high or low offset from the vector (0,0,0).
> The Combot is known to be VERY laggy, especially on highly populated maps, and may not attack if on those maps.
> The Combine Guard model has an unfortunate glitch which disallows use of its regular melee animation.
> Most SNPCs won't use the correct view distance for scouting enemies for some reason.
> Wasteland scanners may accidentally fall in to their own grenade projectiles when attacking.
> Wasteland scanners' beams may sometimes fire at a random arbitrary map position for no known reason.
> FREQUENTLY, SNPCs and Players dying will cause the game to crash with the error "Pushing object invalid lua!".
> Some particle effects are missing materials / textures and will render with black and pink checkers.
> When Hydras kill enemies, their corpses spaz around on the needle. This is NOT fixable, and is a problem with the Source Engine itself.

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WARNING!
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You will need Half-Life 2: Episode 2 and Team Fortress 2 mounted to your game for some of the particle effect materials to work.

The Combot SNPC is probably the laggiest SNPC in this pack, and for that reason, it is advised to keep the number of active instances at any one time at a minimum.

The Particle Storm has been limited to only one spawn at a time due to the lag caused by its particles. If you wish to 'unlock' the full spawning capability of the Particle Storm, open the console, type in "sv_cheats 1", and then "sv_allow_multiple_particle_storms 1". Limitation of the Particle Storm is done to prevent excessive lag.

A game-crashing bug (which has not been pinpointed) can result from use of this addon. Don't worry; it won't harm your computer or game in any way, but it will crash the game immediately upon the death of either a player or NPC at seemingly random intervals, giving an error message box reading "Pushing object invalid lua!". This bug seems to arise often, and the possibility of a fix is being investigated. If you want a game that doesn't crash often, then be careful with this addon. This isn't the advice I'd like to give, but it's all I can for the time being.

Enjoy.

P.S: If you want to manually change some SNPCs' health / attack damage variables via the console, here's a full list of the command names, and their default values:
https://pastebin.com/PHBuJacx