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Strider minigun damage

From https://github.com/ValveSoftware/source-sdk-2013/blob/master/mp/src/game/shared/hl2/hl2_gamerules.cpp#L1822-L1863

		// STRIDER MINIGUN DAMAGE - Pull up a chair and I'll tell you a tale.
		//
		// When we shipped Half-Life 2 in 2004, we were unaware of a bug in
		// CAmmoDef::NPCDamage() which was returning the MaxCarry field of
		// an ammotype as the amount of damage that should be done to a NPC
		// by that type of ammo. Thankfully, the bug only affected Ammo Types 
		// that DO NOT use ConVars to specify their parameters. As you can see,
		// all of the important ammotypes use ConVars, so the effect of the bug
		// was limited. The Strider Minigun was affected, though.
		//
		// According to my perforce Archeology, we intended to ship the Strider
		// Minigun ammo type to do 15 points of damage per shot, and we did. 
		// To achieve this we, unaware of the bug, set the Strider Minigun ammo 
		// type to have a maxcarry of 15, since our observation was that the 
		// number that was there before (8) was indeed the amount of damage being
		// done to NPC's at the time. So we changed the field that was incorrectly
		// being used as the NPC Damage field.
		//
		// The bug was fixed during Episode 1's development. The result of the 
		// bug fix was that the Strider was reduced to doing 5 points of damage
		// to NPC's, since 5 is the value that was being assigned as NPC damage
		// even though the code was returning 15 up to that point.
		//
		// Now as we go to ship Orange Box, we discover that the Striders in 
		// Half-Life 2 are hugely ineffective against citizens, causing big
		// problems in maps 12 and 13. 
		//
		// In order to restore balance to HL2 without upsetting the delicate 
		// balance of ep2_outland_12, I have chosen to build Episodic binaries
		// with 5 as the Strider->NPC damage, since that's the value that has
		// been in place for all of Episode 2's development. Half-Life 2 will
		// build with 15 as the Strider->NPC damage, which is how HL2 shipped
		// originally, only this time the 15 is located in the correct field
		// now that the AmmoDef code is behaving correctly.