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I've recently started putting a map together for Obsidian Conflict, and intend to have a strider as a boss NPC. This, of course, requires that I increase the health of the strider. I've tried using "Health" under keyvalues for npc_strider in hammer, and I've also tried creating a trigger for sethealth. Neither of these are working. I've successfully changed the health of other units, I just can't change the strider's health. I'm not sure if theres something I'm missing, or if this is a bug? In either case, any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I think you have to change the number of rockets it can take, not the health.

he's right, its done on how many rocket hits it can take, I think 7 is the maximum (hardest)

I just checked, and I'm not 100% sure, but there is no easy meduim hard strider for obsidian, It's just default hard (7 rockets) I think. I don't know if setting the custom health will help. I don't think so, I think custom health is related to bullet fire. (for instance I wanted my big momma to be tough, and to bullet fire, she is (I gave her 500 health). But something's you just can't change, one combine ball and she's gone!
I just made sure there is no real combine seconadry ammo leading up to that bit, or i put enough enemys before big momma hopefully they have no secondary ammo left by the time players get there).

ahh, that would explain it. Thank you very much. I'll see if it is possible to change the maximum rocket hits somehow, if anyone thinks they know a way this might be possible let me know.

These are command variables: which I suppose you can adjust to you liking using a point_servercommand? again i'm not 100% sure
IMO it's confusing what says about the medium and hard needing same amount of rockets?

sk_strider_health (Default: 350)
<integer> Strider spawn health.
sk_strider_num_missiles1 (Default: 5)
<float> Rockets required to take down an easy strider.
sk_strider_num_missiles2 (Default: 7)
<float> Rockets required to take down a medium strider.
sk_strider_num_missiles3 (Default: 7)
<float> Rockets required to take down a hard strider.

I took this from here:

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Npc_strider

sk_strider_num_rockets or something like that, cant acces my pc now because its compiling a map, im posting from my psp
edit: fug was faster, damn, it just takes to long to write something on the psp XD

good morning W0rf0x! posting from your psp, ahh the new age eh?

fug4life wrote:good morning W0rf0x! posting from your psp, ahh the new age eh?

yea, it just takes more time to write something

I'm learning now just how evil some map compile times can be once you start using enviroment_lights, displacements, and 3d skyboxes!
I normally, fire up the misses laptop and aimlessly browse webpages

fug4life wrote:These are command variables: which I suppose you can adjust to you liking using a point_servercommand? again i'm not 100% sure
IMO it's confusing what says about the medium and hard needing same amount of rockets?

sk_strider_health (Default: 350)
<integer> Strider spawn health.
sk_strider_num_missiles1 (Default: 5)
<float> Rockets required to take down an easy strider.
sk_strider_num_missiles2 (Default: 7)
<float> Rockets required to take down a medium strider.
sk_strider_num_missiles3 (Default: 7)
<float> Rockets required to take down a hard strider.

I took this from here:

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Npc_strider

It worked! Thank you to all those who helped me out.

To those who may find this useful, sk_strider_num_missiles3 was the magic command.

Don't be afraid to use the "Do not drop ar2 altfire" flag for them combine elites, people.

So give 'em the annabelles and there we go!