Utility Vehicle Camping Behavior
Are you tired of seeing bots on one team or another drive a valuable artillery or mobile anti-air vehicle straight across no-man’s land towards enemy lines, instead of hanging back and setting up a nice little tent and bonfire to shoot the enemy from afar?
This mod will make them do that, but they will need to bring their own smores and fire starting kits.
Bots that are driving in designated "utility vehicles" will be ordered to defend an objective controlled by their team.
To designate a utility vehicle, simply input part of that vehicle’s name into the provided text field (case insensitive). For instance, inputting "SPAA" into the field will recognize any vehicle with the word "SPAA" as part of its name as a utility vehicle. So to include a vehicle named "Hoplite SPAA Woodland", you can simply write "Hoplite" or "SPAA" (or "Woodland", technically speaking), instead of the whole long thing. Separate different entries with the ; character.
If individual words in your vehicle names are not split by the whitespace character, then you can also change the delimiter to something else. For instance, if a vehicle is named "Cool_SPG_Vehicle", then you can set the delimiter to be the ‘_’ character instead of whitespace. Then, the mutator splits that vehicle name into the strings "Cool", "SPG", and "Vehicle". If any of these words appear in the user input, then that vehicle will be recognized as a utility vehicle.
– When a bot driving a utility vehicle receives a new attack order, instead of following that attack order, it will instead be converted to an order to defend an objective already owned by the bot’s team. This ensures that the bot remains at or behind friendly lines at all times.
– As objectives change hands, these bots operating utility vehicles may receive further orders that will see them move to defend other objectives presently controlled by their team. If their team no longer holds any objectives, they will stay where they are (and hope for the best).
– You can toggle seeing a squad’s current order by pressing the F10 key.
– DO NOT attempt to assign transport vehicles as utility vehicles; the mutator will not recognize these vehicles. This mod is only meant for vehicles that fill the niche of AA vehicles, artillery vehicles, or something similar. Transport vehicles by their nature are meant for frontline roles and pushing into contested territory.
– This mod will only recognize vehicles that are ground vehicles.
Leave feedback, report bugs, and remember to close your tent.
Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
