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Alien Controllers AND Alien Slaves in the Nihilanth Chapter
   
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Sep 2, 2021 @ 10:16am
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Alien Controllers AND Alien Slaves in the Nihilanth Chapter

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I decided to separate this to my Alien Controller in Nihilanth mod so anyone can choose which they prefer. This mod spawns an infinite number of both alien controllers and alien slaves in the Chapter Nihilanth. I perfected their accuracy but, to compensate for the number of enemies plus the big man himself, i decided to reduce the vortigaunt's zap damage from 30 (default) to 20. 3 of them spawn at a time and only 1 spawns during Nihilanth's final phase. The number of vortigaunts at once during the final phase is reduced to 1 (meaning if there are 2 on screen and Nihilanth shifts to his final phase, one of them will die (explode for dramatic effect)). This is for balancing reasons. The same goes for controllers. The initial number of controllers on screen is 4 and is reduced to 3 during the final phase for the same reason.

I did not use skill.cfg to reduce their damage, i instead set it in the map itself, so if you are using a modified skill.cfg it will not conflict.

Again im using the earth variant of vortigaunts because as i said in my previous mod, the xen vorts (NPC_XORT) is very unstable. They are causing random crashes if they are hostile for quite a bit of time.

UPDATE: I am no longer experiencing the random crashes caused by the NPC_XORT entity from the latest patch when playing interloper, so i replaced all the earthbound vortigaunts with their xen variants.
13 Comments
Anticitizen One Apr 25, 2023 @ 11:02am 
hi, i would like to see npc_xen_grunt replace alien slaves in nihilanth chamber
classic gamer Dec 2, 2022 @ 2:53pm 
*****.exe Apr 25, 2022 @ 4:03am 
will it conflict with other your mod where also gonarchs are added in the fight because it also adds controllers?
ELEMENTAL Mar 2, 2022 @ 4:00pm 
This is awesome mate. It makes an already amazing final battle even better, by adding some extra challenge. Just awesome.
The Mindful Moron Nov 29, 2021 @ 6:33pm 
I'm not the best BM player so maybe I'm just not skilled enough. But I can generally get through the game on Hard without many problems, but I couldn't make it through this on Normal.
The Mindful Moron Nov 29, 2021 @ 6:30pm 
I really wanted to like this but it's just not fun. Vortigaunts are basically camouflaged since the terrain is intentionally desaturated, and their attacks are basically hitscan and the map has next to no cover. I made 8 attempts and couldn't get out of the first phase. It was a nightmare. AGrunts are much better suited for this map, you should use them instead, or only place one vort on the map at a time. There are also hardly any health or power sources other than the healing pool, which turns the fight into a slog where you basically have to camp at the pool to have a reasonable chance of completing this.
DayDay Oct 16, 2021 @ 8:44pm 
If I were to make my own take on this, here's what would happen.

- At 1st round, the Nihilanth faces Gordon himself with the blue crystals.

- Once the blue crystals are destroyed, some Alien Controllers will appear out to assist the Nihilanth and together fight Freeman

- After the yellow crystals are destroyed, most or some of the Alien Controllers since the Nihilanth is getting weak which of course could affect the Alien Controllers. They will still teleport to assist but not for long.

- When the Nihilanth's crystal is destroyed, any left of the Alien Controllers dies out. This is inspired by the Vort mural in HLA where the Controllers die out with the Nihilanth and including being said they died out from the Nihilanth being dead.

I'm not sure about Vortigaunts appearing but I wanted to share my thought still.
1v4n94 Sep 7, 2021 @ 6:14am 
That would go against the lore, but I guess for another mod that could actually be nice
ninthlyokowarrior Sep 6, 2021 @ 1:01pm 
If you set the Vorts to be friendly to the player in the map, that would be pretty badass.
1v4n94 Sep 4, 2021 @ 7:07am 
Have you tried the campaign using my mod? I'd appreciate feedback coming from you :)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2272561688