SCAVENGER

So what is this addon all about?

– NPCs now have a set chance to spawn with a Secondary weapon(25% for Rebels, 30% for Metropolice, 40% for Combine Soldiers) and a 5% chance for a Tertiary(third) weapon.
– NPCs will now switch weapons depending on the situation.
– NPCs will pick up weapons to put in their holsters or switch to them.
– NPCs will now pick up health items, batteries and ammo items.

– You can shoot down NPCs with loot and get them for yourself, like the greedy b!#?h you are!
– NPCs will loot dead bodies for stronger weapons and items.
– Balanced for optimization and realism(because that’s what you care about!)

– Zombies can carry loot with them, think of it as they were once human.
– Some NPCs are special on spawn(Classes)

– Hunter: If a NPC has a Crossbow, they have a 1/3 chance to be a Hunter, they will throw a variety of throwing weapons such as Throwing Knives, Tomahawks, Spikey Balls–
– Demolition: If a NPC has a SLAM, they have a 1/3 chance to be a Demolitionist, they will plant proximity mines that detonate when an enemy comes close
– Engineer(Rebel Exclusive): If a Rebel has a Bug Bait, they have a 1/3 chance to be an Engineer, they will plant a battery on the ground that calls a Hacked Rollermine for help
– Trapper(Rebel Exclusive): If a Rebel has a Crowbar, they have a 1/3 chance to be a Trapper, they will plant ‘caltrops’ which damages and slows down anyone(Except Rebels) that walks on it
– Pyro(Soldier Exclusive): If a Combine Soldier has a Grenade, they have a 1/3 chance to be a Pyro, every grenade they throw is an Incendiary Grenade which is both good and bad for them
– Mortar Striker(Soldier Exclusive): If a Combine Soldier has a RPG, they have a chance to be a Mortar Striker, every grenade they throw has a chance to be a Mortar Strike which will initiate a small barrage of rockets
– Raid Officer(Metropolice Exclusive): If a Metropolice has a Stunstick, they have a 1/5 chance to be a Raid Officer, if they’ve been patrolling for some time without seeing any enemies, he will send out a Scanner and a pack of Manhacks, if he encounters an enemy, he will immediately send out his Scanner and Manhack pack
*More classes coming soon!*

– Watch out when looting a corpse, there might be unwanted consequences.

Honestly, I think you should just play it for yourself and see what’s up.

This already exists-
– First of all, I am aware that a lot of people are getting into this kind of stuff, but I wanted to bring my own concept of it to life
Why are the chances so low? / Why do they not spawn with ‘x’ all the time? / Why does this and that?
– I want to make NPCs a lot more dynamic in the sense that they… SCAVENGE, but not being ridiculously OP to just kill a dude and get a million ammo or something, there’s balance I wanted to achieve.
<insert typical bug along with a dumb question>
– It’s not perfect, nothing’s perfect, but we’ll get there
I wanna suggest…
– Suggestions are open right now, till I slip on a banana and die.

You can find everything in Options > NPCSAS

Each Faction(except Zombies and Aliens) has their own loot table, you can assign potential Secondaries or Tertiaries for them when they spawn. (e.g "weapon_pistol, weapon_frag" , separate them by commas, WEAPONS ONLY!).

The Extras section is for the backpack, those items will only drop if the NPC has a backpack. Every NPC(except Zombies and Aliens) has a 50% chance to spawn with a backpack.

Zombies inherit all of the inputs in all of the other NPC tables.

Unfortunately, it only supports HL2 weapons, maybe i’ll add support for other weapons too in the future

I want to bring to the community a honest addon, I worked hard on this and probably pulled a lot of hairs, but I want to say that roughly ~60-70% of this addon is AI generated… the ~30-40% is my manual fixes and additions, I respect those who actually spend the time and effort manually coding insane addons, they’re the ones that inspired me to try out addon making but I myself am nothing more than a novice coder that never once touched LUA till I made this addon(…and some past failures). So, be gentle with me people.