Adds some new spawn locations for the Tau Cannon to Nova Prospekt, City 17 (Anticitizen One/Follow Freeman), and Outlands (Our Mutual Fiend)
Adds some new spawn locations for the Tau Cannon to Nova Prospekt, City 17 (Anticitizen One/Follow Freeman), and Outlands (Our Mutual Fiend). This is accomplished with a few mapadd text files. Pretty easy and simple job to do, and was also how the base mod implemented the Tau Cannon in the handful of locations it can be found.
Locations:
d2_prison_07 - The really awful turret defense section. You know the one.
d3_c17_06a - Near emplacement gun.
d3_c17_10a - Shelf inside a building, opposite the one with the imprisoned rebel.
d3_c17_12 - Tunnel at end of level.
ep2_outland_12 - Four total, all on shelves near Strider Buster spawners.
I should probably double-check if friendly rebels have a tendency to pick up the tau cannons in City 17. If so, I might end up updating this with different positions for those weapons, to try preventing that.
if you do put a tau cannon for them to pick up, they actually might pick it up, but it's broken as it just puts it in their stomach and will not use it
they also just run away from enemies but they can pick up another weapon if they find one
Is this compatible with HL2: Update?
Yep.
Oh, now this is what I'd consider a *must have*, the Tau Cannon ended up falling victim to the "I'll save it for when I really need it" syndrome during my playthrough, if I had seen it around more often, maybe I would have used it more, so I'm definitely getting this addon.
I wish there were more spawns for the AR2 light machinegun in the episodes too, I was disappointed when I couldn't pick it up in Ep1 because it was out of ammo, and then in Ep2 I think I only got it at the very end after I shoo'd the pesky transhuman branch of Overwatch away from Magnusson's silo.