What's this?
It's a wave-based, Players vs NPCs game that its about hiding from the combine and trying to kill them without being seen.

How?
Stay out of their sight, hide in the shadows, kill them with melee weapons or silenced guns.

Where's the weapons?
Around the map. There's a list of weapons that spawn, one for every player on the map. Look around, they should be in tables, above crates and the like.

What happens if a Combine spots me?
He will call other combine to go to the exact position you are.

Silenced guns? Do normal guns alert the Combine?
Of course. They will rush your area if you dare to use a non-silenced gun.
Silenced guns will make nearby combine investigate the noise too, so beware.

What happens if I kill them?
Nearby combine will come to investigate.
If you kill them all, that wave will be defeated, and a new wave/squad will swarm the map. This will happen again and again until you kill enough combine. You can know the exact number by typing !remain on the chat.

What happens if they kill me?
Your weapons are all dropped and you lose one life.
If you have luck and the admin has configured multiple lifes for each player, you may respawn again. If not, enjoy the game through other's eyes by right click.
You will know how many lifes you have remaining when you die.

Do I need to download anything to play?
The map and the weapon pack the server is using.
The game runs perfectly with the vanilla weapons, though.

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F.A.Q./The guts of the gamemode

- Enemies
Not only metropolices and soldiers will hunt you. Some maps feature special NPCs, like snipers, rollermines, foor turrets or helicopters.
A sniper can be killed with a crossbow or explosives. The ar2 orb gun works too.
The heli will only take damage from the HL2 rpg, addons don't work for now.
Rollermines hate water and explosions.
Floor turrets hate gravity.

- Guarded places
Some maps feature special places that have some awesome things like suit chargers, ammo crates... and Ceiling Turrets, too. They only take damage from explosions, but can be permanently disabled if you find the Combine Control Panel that disables them.

- Darkness
My old friend.
You can hide in dark places. No NPC will see you if you stay there. Beware, as some weapons will make hiding difficult.
A meter will tell you if you are visible or hidden.

- Score
The game tracks kills, silent kills, and deaths, and uses that information to calculate your score. 1 point per kill, 3 per silent kill and -2 per death.
Type !myscore or !teamscore to see your score and your team's.

- Commands
!remain: How many combine are around and how many you need to kill to win.
!remove: remove your actual weapon. It will reappear somewhere else, with ammo.
!drop: drop your weapon. Retains is ammo.
!restart: restarts the game. No voting for now, the first guy who says it, restarts.
!myscore: your score printed on your screen.
!teamscore: all of your team's score on a basic scoreboard. It doesn't update automatically for now, only when you summon it.
!help: opens this url.


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Strategy

- Silent kills reward you with more than the combine weapons.

- Always check before advancing. Enemies near where you're aiming at will be outlined for your convenience.
You can tune this with the clientside h_outline_radius command. h_outline_radius 0 disables it.

- The Combine don't really patrol a zone but travel between them using a random destination system, so discard memorizing patterns.
They do only patrol between these destinations, so you can memorize where they never go instead.

- Keep your ears tuned. You can hear nearby combine chatting and talking about their status in real time. You can even hear their footsteps now!

- SLAM mines, bouncing grenades around corners, shots from the back and backstabs are all your friends.

- Noise is your friend, too, as any prop that takes damage will make nearby combine to come to investigate it. Lure them into traps, one by one.

- The combine can hear each other dying, and will come running if they hear a nearby comrade getting killed. If they have seen the dude being killed, they will directly come to you.
So, separate them when possible, or at least kill them while noone is looking.

- If someone spots you, kill him inmediately, no matter the weapon. Then find a hiding soon, as the area will be flooded with combine in seconds.
You can start running around, too, as they are a little slower than you. But pray for not encountering more enemies where you are going or you will be easily killed between the two fronts.

- The Combine will remember where they spotted you, and will patrol there too. The new patrol destinations can add up to ten, then they reset to make room for new, more recent spottings.

- If you play with more people, work as a team and you all will do better. You can share weapons with !drop (or bind the command h_dropweapon to a key).
FA:S weapons pack offers a way to heal others, just so you know.

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About weapons

Weapons are a very important part of the game, so choose wisely wich weapons you want to fight the combine. A shotgun will make you the king of corners, but every single combine will know where you are. Silenced guns and tripmines require some stealthy and careful playstyle, but will maintain you alive forever if done well.

Although the game works well with the default GMod weapons, addon weapons add more variety to the overall game. I encourage people to add weapon packs to the game. The FA:S, Mr. Pyrous and Ender Mad Cows packs are supported and work great.

Test them on Sandbox and decide wich you want on your game, then edit the config file as described above.