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Defense

Working for build 341. Publish_id = 629502655


This mod is about marines having to survive against several waves of alien bots. Higher waves are more difficult to survive. You can't join the alien team, for balance reasons, but admins can feel free to force move people on it. You will then be able to select your lifeform and "borrow" it from one of the unspawned bot of the current wave.


Hell waves are special waves intended to provide a special kind of round. They are meant to be much harder, and feed aliens at a much higher rate than the regular ones. All the bonus balance settings (like the extra bullet damage, and the reduced bite damages) are also instantly turned off. Those can be voted for in the menu.

• Skulk hell wave
  
  • A wave with only skulks, a lot of them
• Skulk hell wave (extra hard)
  
  • Same as the regular skulk hell wave, but with a much higher skulk count and mechanics for skulks to spawn closer to the front line for extra pressure.
• Lerk hell wave
  
  • A wave with only lerks. Lerks will fly high before peeking down on open maps so watch out :p
• Mixed hell wave
  
  • A remix of wave 10 with slighty more pressure and closer spawn
• Survival hell wave
  
  • An infinite, single wave with an ever increasing amount of bots. This wave is working but not fully balanced or tuned out.

• Weapons
  
  • Increase rifle ammo count and clip size.
    
  • Infinite shotgun ammo, along free catpack upon reloading with an increased duration.
    
  • GL has a secondary fire mod: right click is throwing a pulse nade
    
  • Pistol has secondary fire mod: flare
    
  • Axe and rifle melee damages increased to 100 and 70.
• Misc
  
  • RFK (Res for kill). With a small part spread around nearby players and assist.
    
  • Welding rate increased
    
  • The armory resupply rate is increased, and also weld armor
    
  • Increasing the amount of sentries allowed for each battery
    
  • RTs, meds, and ammo packs are automatically dropped around the map.
    
  • Jetpack fuel slightly buffed
• Mechanics
  
  • Doors can be locked and welded, until destroyed
    
  • Sentries can be picked and redeployed by players

This boils down to increasing damages for marines and reducing alien damages. It scales from x3 damages to x1 after 13 players on the server. Aliens also do miss more often and use AoE less.


The mod is using the server idle rate and the tick rate to balance the load sustained by the server and provide a smooth experience for players. Redplugs should not happen outside the last wave or a hell wave with a full server. Late joiners might suffer some lags but that's about it.

• The mod is using a bare-bone version of hallucinations to move bots along the map and reduce. Those hallucinations are replaced with fully fledges bots once in combat or close to marines. They are as light as a pack of MACs moving on the map and simply following the pathing mesh. To compare with vanilla ns2, "hallucinations" are fully fledged bots and are considered player entities. That's why they are rather heavy.
  
• Removing some sounds on crownd areas, like skulk footsteps, jump sound, bite sound if they miss, etc. Reason is when you got 20 skulks making a ladder, the amount of footsteps can become high really quickly and stress the client.
  
• Rework of the AI thinking rountine and update tick rates for bots, along with cached pathing queries
  
• Adjusting on-the-fly relevancy distance for newly created entities. Ranging between 16m if the server is heavily loaded and 45 if it is fine.

Works well with the following TOW (Tug-Of-War) maps:

• ns2_tow_biodome
  
• ns2_tow_combi
  
• ns2_tow_summit_defense
  
  • Note: Be sure to pick the map named ns2_tow_summit_2021 in it, the other one is the original with the broken pathing mesh.

Along with the following two custom maps, they play out a bit differently and are harder to win:

• ns2_def_troopers
  
  • Unlike vanilla or tow maps, you start with a well established base already and a lot of sentries. Be sure to group them up and don't let the aliens in.
• ns2_kf_farm
  
  • A remake from a KillingFloor 1 map, with 2 gameplay changes: You do not have the option to command (researches are done automatically): lose the prototype labs, and say goodbye to jetpacks. Aliens also spawn all around the edges of the maps instead of the hive only. You spawn split from each others, evenly, inside the different buildings.