GTFO.CrashTestDummies

A testing tool that keeps a steady population of sleeping Strikers alive around you, so you always have something to stealth or shoot while trying out other mods - and you'll never see one appear or disappear. Three triggers feed the same population, each scattered in its own 10-100 m band around its own origin (not one band covering the whole level):

• On drop: 100 sleeping Strikers are scattered 10-100 m from where you land, at the level's own enemy spawn spots. The elevator drop area itself stays clear. This always runs first and claims its share of the population before anything else does.
• On each alarm door: the moment a security door locked behind an alarm scan finishes opening, 20 more are scattered 10-100 m past the far side of that doorway - wherever in the level it is.
• Ambient trickle: every 60 seconds, 50-100 more are scattered 10-100 m from wherever you currently are.

Every spawn - all three triggers - only ever picks a spot outside every player's current view (and not just behind a thin wall: a line-of-sight check catches that too), so nothing ever visibly pops in.

Population cap, not a one-time budget. Up to 300 of this mod's dummies may be alive at once (combined across all three triggers). It's a ceiling on the current count, not a lifetime total: every 30 seconds, any dummy that's been alive for 5+ minutes and is currently out of sight gets quietly recycled, freeing its slot - so the population keeps refilling with fresh dummies instead of permanently maxing out and going quiet for the rest of the run.

Config

BepInEx/config/MindAttic.GTFO.CrashTestDummies.cfg:

Only the host spawns or recycles enemies.

Changelog

v3

• Ambient scatter: every AmbientIntervalSeconds (default 60s), the host scatters a random AmbientCountMin-AmbientCountMax (default 50-100) more dummies between AmbientSkipFirstMeters and AmbientMaxDistanceMeters (default 10-100 m) of wherever the local player currently is. Toggle with Ambient.AmbientSpawnEnabled.
• Population cap, not a lifetime budget: General.MaxTotalEnemies (default 300) now caps how many of this mod's dummies may be alive at once, shared across all three spawn triggers. As dummies die or get recycled, room opens back up for more - it never permanently maxes out and goes quiet for the rest of the expedition.
• Cleanup: every CleanupCheckIntervalSeconds (default 30s), any dummy that's been alive longer than CleanupAfterSeconds (default 300s) and is currently out of sight gets quietly despawned (via the network replicator, same as a normal enemy removal), freeing its slot in the population cap. A dummy is never touched while a player might be looking at it. Toggle with Cleanup.CleanupEnabled.
• Never-seen guarantee, now everywhere: a shared out-of-sight check (General.OutOfSightHalfAngleDegrees, default 70°) - outside every player's view cone, or blocked by a line-of-sight check even if inside it - now gates all three spawn triggers (previously only the ambient scatter had it) and the cleanup despawn. Combined with cleanup, nothing this mod does should ever visibly pop in or out.
• The level-start scatter is guaranteed to run, and claim its share of the population cap, before the ambient scatter or cleanup loop start - so the initial 100 is never crowded out regardless of how aggressively Ambient.* is tuned.

v2

• Alarm door ambush: when a security door locked behind an alarm scan (chained puzzle) finishes opening, the host scatters AmbushCount (default 20) more sleeping dummies between AmbushSkipFirstMeters (10 m) and AmbushMaxDistanceMeters (100 m) of the far side of that doorway - same spot-picking as the level-start scatter, centered on the door instead of the drop point. Uses the existing spacing, enemy-type and sleep/aggressive settings. Toggle with Ambush.AmbushOnAlarmDoors.

v1

• Initial release: on entering an expedition, the host scatters SpawnCount (default 100) sleeping Strikers between 10 m and 100 m from the drop point, at the level's own enemy spawn spots. Count, distance band, spacing, enemy type, delay and sleep/aggressive mode are configurable.