Groundwatch

Similarly to my other addon, these new ‘vehicles’ try to mimic the original NPC’s behavior as closely as I could get them while also keeping the addon itself user friendly.

REQUIRES HALF LIFE 2 EPISODE 2

Strider

• A incredibly accurate main gun with decent damage
• The strider’s signature belly cannon
• The best height-advantage you’re going to get without going airborne
• Sounds identical to that of the NPC
• Did I mention you can traverse rivers if they aren’t too deep?

Hunter

• Built-in flechette launcher
• Fully-animated melee attacks
• Identical sounds to that of the NPC
• The ability to trample people with often deadly results

Universal

• E – Enter/Exit
• W/A/S/D – Movement
• Sprint – Sprint
• Control – Toggle thirdperson
• Walk – Freelook
• Mouse 1 – Primary attack

Strider

• Reload – Sounds
• Mouse 2 – Strider cannon

Hunter

• Reload – Idle sounds + animation
• Sprint + Reload – Angry sounds + animation
• Freelook + Reload – Scanning sounds
• Mouse 2 – Melee attack

• The map used in the screenshots is rp_ineu_valley_2_v1a
• Striders cannot currently duck because of a hitbox issue
• Console commands for adjusting health are available under the gw_ prefix
• NPC’s do not interact with either entity
• You can find the entities under entities -> Groundwatch

• Hoplite for pointing out several major issues
• Matt for helping with testing
• Taco N Banana for giving me a developer position and plenty of positive feedback following the release of airwatch
• Valve for making the source SDK publicly available
• Everyone who subscribed to the original addon for giving me the motivation to keep working on this and more.