Poll

Most fun?

Guards
6 (14.6%)
Infiltrators
35 (85.4%)

Total Members Voted: 41

Author Topic: B.O.S.S- Box Of Sneaking Specialists, A stealth TDM  (Read 15006 times)

Warning! Slayer 4 (The current beta as of writing) screws up stuff to do with this gamemode! Please use the slayer version provided in the .zip above and update it if need be with Support_Updater!

Hi everyone! I've been working on this gamemode on and off for a little bit. It's a classic style Blockland gamemode, and by that I mean it's a bunch of Add-ons that are publicly available shoved together in a way that should hopefully make sense, and make something fun. Hopefully. If you have any trouble with the packaging of the gamemode, please let me know in this topic so I can fix it.

The Guards are tasked with defending their control point, found within their spawn, from the Infiltrator, who appears from within the mountain cave. The Infiltrator's goal is to eliminate all the Guards, or capture the point found within their base. If time runs out, the Guards win, so the Infiltrator must make use of his cunning and various tools to help him out along the way.

What tools? Glad you asked.

INFILTRATOR

General Ability
The Infiltrator is extremely mobile. They use the Sport Playertype, allowing them to run way faster with jet, and jump higher (while jetting) They're also pretty good with their hands, making use of the action melee to allow instant takedowns from behind or above, as well as land finishing blows while the guards are trying to reload their shotgun, or something.
The Stealth Box

The Stealth Box is one of the few addons that were custom made for this thing. The deal is is that when you're wearing it and standing still, you are invisible and recover health. There are ways to move slowly while wearing this box, but be careful, because falling or going up a height could reveal you... And that box is pretty big.

The Hush Puppy

The hush puppy is a custom made tranquilizer pistol. It is silent, highly accurate weapon, capable of knocking out an elephant.On headshot, it is an instant takedown, leaving a sleeping guard behind. Make sure you hit the head, because the delay between shots is very long. Clever guards will be aware that you're active if they find their buddies asleep, so be careful.

Frag Grenade

The frag grenade is exactly what you expect. Pull the pin and cook the grenade with the on screen timer to set up distractions or multikills!


So there's the infiltrator. Seems pretty good.

How are the Guards even gonna be able to counter that? Well.

GUARDS

General Ability
Guards are locked into first person, outnumber the infiltrator 3 to 1, and have access to a powerful and accurate rifle and a shotgun. They must make use of their superior numbers and communicate in teamchat to ensure the infiltrator doesn't win.

M16A3

The M16A3 is a powerful assault rifle. It's highly accurate if fired in short bursts, and does a lot more damage on headshot. It's range rivals that of the tranq pistol.

KS-23

Who doesn't love a nice shotgun? Not really much else to say about this one.

C4

C4 can be set to a timer (which can be silent, if you'd like!) or remote detonation, accessible by hitting jet. Guards can lock off areas with these, but must be alive in order to set them off. The infiltrator can disable these by shooting them with his Hush Puppy.

THE BUILD

This gamemode uses the Snowcliff Territory build, donated by Conan, BLID 4928! Big thanks to everyone involved in the creation of that build, and Conan for donating it! To view build credits, check the original topic.

I can't speak about how much I like this build enough. It's the perfect map for this gamemode. Here's some screenshots!










SERVER OWNERSHIP

Hey, if you're a server owner; here's some stuff to keep in mind.
  • The map is too small for any more than 12 players. The infiltrators also have a tougher time the more guards there are, as you'd expect, but any more than 9 is a nightmare. Please keep to a low playercount!!!
  • You can modify the damage the HK weapons do in the RTB server preferences. I find it works best at hardcore with a modifier of 50. This isn't too bulletspongey and you can still run away to recover your health.
  • By default the dead chat is set to on but only global. You can turn this off if you want, or you can just ban people who metagame.
  • Make sure you type /disableSelf Delete at the start of the hosting session in order to prevent people just straight up killing themselves and ruining everything.
  • This really needs a stable admin team to moderate it for it to be fun. Please host this either on a listen server or be active on your dedi. If I see this get run in the server list with 0 players, you are messing up
  • The teams are supposed to be the way they are. Guards are supposed to outnumber the infiltrator 3 to 1. The gameplay is built around this concept, and the team weighting allows this.
  • Slayer's team shuffling on minigames that enforce a balance with team weighting is broken. It seems to improve as more players join, but it appears to favor people who just joined, and will not move people from guard to infiltrator for rounds at a time. Blame Greek2Me. This might be fixed in the Slayer 4 beta, but I'm waiting until that gets released properly to port this over. For now you'll have to deal with it.
  • Speaking of team weighting, if there are less than 4 people on the server the gamemode might not correctly sort players... So you'll have to move people around manually until it decides to start working. Sorry!!

CREDITS

For contributions directly to gamemode, Addon credits can be found within the individual addons used in the required files.
« Last Edit: October 23, 2015, 02:15:32 PM by Megaguy2 »

None of the images are working for me.

None of the images are working for me.
Ah, dropbox... So good. I'll fix that, thank you.


Would wiggle to again
Looks really good!


haha get it the ORANGE BOX

i enjoy little bits of humor like that

Hey everybody, I have added a warning regarding the Slayer 4 Beta to the main post. Slayer 4 has several huge bugs with this gamemode, such as the spectator cam acting completely odd, and guards being able to /jointeam infiltrator until the teams are equal. Both of these things should not be happening, so please use the stable slayer release that can be found in the .zip!
« Last Edit: October 13, 2015, 05:09:27 PM by Megaguy2 »

I remember this gamemode! Loads of fun, thanks for releasing!

Metal Gear Blockland: B.O.S.S.

It's a nice gamemode, but the team shuffle is being wonky at least for me... As in it's not doing anything.

It's a nice gamemode, but the team shuffle is being wonky at least for me... As in it's not doing anything.
Which version of slayer are you running, it might be even more broken than I know of in slayer 4. Download the one in the zip, but it's not much better.

Basically this issue has plagued this add-on. Servers that are running teams that aren't balanced (as in players on both teams, not in terms of gameplay) via team weighting...the team shuffling seems extremely biased towards people that have just joined, and tends not to move players around for rounds at a time. It seems to improve as more players join, and the weighting gets better with 3 infiltrators to 9 guards if you're running at 12 players (Which you should be, the map isn't big enough for more than that and the infiltrators have a tough time past that amount) Blame Greek2Me. For all I know this might be fixed in slayer 4. I'm waiting for a stable release of slayer 4 that isn't busted as hell and is compatible with all of it's sub game-modes to patch this to slayer 4.
« Last Edit: October 18, 2015, 01:13:52 PM by Megaguy2 »

Slayer has two different team shuffle modes that you can choose between. In the Advanced tab, try setting "Teams | Shuffle Mode" to "New Team Every Time".

Slayer has two different team shuffle modes that you can choose between. In the Advanced tab, try setting "Teams | Shuffle Mode" to "New Team Every Time".
Both of these seem to have the same effect due to the team weighting.

"You're pretty good"/10

Bumped for a reason.
I put all the add-ons into my add-ons folder and music into the music folder. But when I try to select the B.O.S.S gamemode in the gamemode selection menu it just says "Required files/add-ons missing:Ambience_-_Wind_Winter_Inside" Please help.