Weapon mg42

The Axis MG42 deployed while prone

Entity description

The weapon_mg42 is an MG 42, a German machine gun used by the Axis Mg class.

Important:If placed directly in the map, the weapon will respawn after a few seconds. See DODS/Creating Weapon Spawns for workarounds.

Key Values

Name (targetname) <string>[ Edit ]

The name that other entities refer to this entity by, via Inputs/Outputs or other keyvalues (e.g. parentname or target).
Also displayed in Hammer's 2D views and Entity Report.

See also:  Generic Keyvalues, Inputs and Outputs available to all entities

Pitch Yaw Roll (Y Z X) (angles) <QAngle>

This entity's orientation in the world. Pitch is rotation around the Y axis, yaw is the rotation around the Z axis, roll is the rotation around the X axis.

Flags

Start Constrained : [1]

Prevents the model from moving.

Outputs

Weapon:

OnNPCPickup

!activator = NPC
!caller = this entity
Fires when an NPC picks up this weapon.

OnPlayerUse

!activator = player
!caller = this entity
Fires when the player +uses this weapon.

OnPlayerPickup

!activator = player
!caller = this entity
Fires when a player picks up this weapon.

OnCacheInteraction

Fires when the player 'proves' they've found this weapon. Fires on: Player Touch, +USE pickup, Physcannon pickup, Physcannon punt.

Attack modes

• +attack will set the Machine Gun to fire.
• +attack2 will deploy the Machine Gun on any surface suitable. The surface can be a brush or a model.

Other information

• Servers can limit the MG42 by using this cvar mp_limit_axis_mg X. where X is the maximum desired number of MG players

External links

• MG42