Thanks to everybody who tried the mod so far. Special thanks on this revision to Trance, Fat Cat, mike5879, and Kore.


Prior to this build, specifying SpawnMod=0 as a parameter to the open
command had unintuitive behavior that depended on whether a saved
SpawnMod value was present in KFGame.ini.

* If you ran `open ...?SpawnMod=0` and KFGame.ini had a
[ControlledDifficulty.CD_Survival] section with a SpawnMod value
(true if KFGame.ini is not readonly and you've played the mod
before), then the KFGame.ini value was used (which might not be 0!)

* If you ran `open ...?SpawnMod=0` and KFGame.ini had no SpawnMod
value (true if you never played the mod before or if KFGame.ini is
readonly), 0.0 was used

I recommended that people stick to the range [0.75, 1.0] in the mod
description, but I probably should have foreseen that people would try
0.0 even though it was not recommended.

To those who set adventurously set SpawnMod=0 and were possibly
blindsided by this KFGame.ini-dependence, I apologize.

The true SpawnMod value appears in the log, but people don't usually
run KF2 with the `-log` option, so that doesn't help them.

I've made a couple of changes to fix this.

1. I rewrote the parameter handling to avoid the KFGame.ini-dependence
mentioned above. Now if you run `open ...?SpawnMod=0`, you will
actually get SpawnMod=0 regardless of KFGame.ini or anything else.
Note that the spawning subsytem in the base game still only spawns one
squad of zeds per second, and squads tend to be about 5 zeds in size,
give or take a couple. So, even with SpawnMod=0, it could take
several seconds to reach the MaxMonsters limit as the game rolls out
one squad per second.

2. I made the mod print its effective configuration values to the
console every time you run the `open` command (technically, this
happens in the `InitGame()` function). So, when you open a map with
the mod, you now see something like printed to your console:




MaxMonsters is an int correspoding to the maximum
amount of concurrent live zeds the spawning subsystem allows on a map.
In the vanilla game, dedicated servers use 32 (even if you play by
yourself on a dedicated server), whereas non-dedicated (NM_StandAlone)
use 16. So, if you run KF2 and open a modded game from the main menu,
you had MaxMonsters=16, consistent with the vanilla game, but maybe
a bit tame for people playing this mod.

This is now configurable. You can append ?MaxMonsters=32 or whatever
you like. Values greater than zero are interpreted literally. For
instance, if you specify ?MaxMonsters=32, you will see this printed to
the console after the map loads:

[ControlledDifficulty] MaxMonsters=32

Nonpositive values are interpreted to mean "use the vanilla game's
MaxMonsters" (which will be 16 if you play non-dedicated solo). For
instance, if you specify ?MaxMonsters=0 or ?MaxMonsters=-1 (or any
other negative value), you will see this printed to the console after
the map loads:

[ControlledDifficulty] MaxMonsters=<unmodded default>

I have tried values up to and including 64.


mike5879 noticed that changes to the FakePlayers and TraderTime
options only take effect after running the open command twice. It was
as though changes to these values were delayed by one invocation of
`open` command. Fortunately, this only affected FakePlayers and
TraderTime, which are easy to check. It did not affect SpawnMod.

This was caused by an ordering bug in my config handling code. This
is now fixed. All options specified on the `open` command line should
take effect immediately (and they will also be saved to KFGame.ini if
it is not readonly, as happens already).