Allow choosing of bosses

[GIANTCRAB]

Hello,

I feel that this feature could be added in 2.0 for FF2. If the player chooses the boss he/she wants, his/her boss will have lower HP (adjustable via ff2 .cfg file) than having a random boss.

Thank you.

[50Wliu]

Already available through /ff2_special <boss>.

[WildCard65]

To expand on what crab is asking, see this plugin: https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=197273

[50Wliu]

I'm pretty sure that just invokes ff2_special.

[GIANTCRAB]

@WildCard65, yeah, that's what I meant.

Right now only admins can choose the next boss. But if players are able to invoke the ff2_special, it would be a massive troll game whereby they keep spamming saxton hale. (because Saxton hale is the most unbuffed/weakest boss)

So, the improvised version would be only the true next hale is able to select the boss he/she wants.

[50Wliu]

I might change ff2_special to accept a client parameter in 2.0.0, eg ff2_special <name> <boss>. That's the extent of what I'm doing though, since FF2 was created to have randomized bosses, and I intend to keep it that way.

[50Wliu]

Would tag this for 2.0.0 and "enhancement", but Chrome...

[WildCard65]

Wliu, the plugin I linked to works like this(also, no html tags for code or spoilers?):

public Command_SetMyBossH(Handle:menu, MenuAction:action, param1, param2)
{
    if (action != MenuAction_Select) return;
    decl String:Special_Name[64];
    decl Handle:BossKV;
    for (new i = 0; (BossKV=FF2_GetSpecialKV(i,true)) && i < param2; i++)
        if (KvGetNum(BossKV, "blocked",0)) param2++;
    KvGetString(BossKV, "name",Special_Name, 64);
    Incoming[param1] = param2;
    ReplyToCommand(param1, "[FF2] Set your boss to %s", Special_Name);
}

public Action:FF2_OnSpecialSelected( index, &SpecialNum, String:SpecialName[])
{
    new client=GetClientOfUserId(FF2_GetBossUserId(index));
    if (!index && Incoming[client] != -1)
    {
        strcopy(SpecialName,2,"");
        SpecialNum = Incoming[client];
        Incoming[client] = -1;
        return Plugin_Changed;
    }
    return Plugin_Continue;
}

[50Wliu]

Mmm.

For large code blocks, use ```at the beginning and end of the code block. For inline code blocks, just useat the beginning and end. For quotes, use>`. No spoilers.

[50Wliu]

Oh wonderful, Github screwed up the formatting.

What I meant: ``` for large code blocks and ` for inline ones. Hopefully this works...

[50Wliu]

OK, SERIOUSLY NOW.

and

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[50Wliu]

I give up. I formally give up. Just use 3 for large ones and one for small ones.

[50Wliu]

`

[WildCard65]

I found out it's ` * 3 for before and after, thx for trying to show it for me Wliu

[50Wliu]

After talking to Shadow about this, I've decided to do the following:

• Implement /ff2boss <boss> and /ff2_boss <boss>
• Create a cvar for this that will be disabled by default

[ghost]

Great