it's coded to target whoever is the closest non traitor. In maps that lack a node graph, if it's outside line of sight of the target, then it can't find them.

can it be made to target anyone?

Oh it's a bug with the hunter NPC itself? Well that's too bad.
I actually updated the winter's howl to fix the crash with that though. The doncombine just didn't like trying to remove it once it was already removed, so I just cleaned up the code of the winter's howl to only try to remove entities once, and the doncombine got removed without crashing.

At the end of the day though it's a really niche crash, and if there's nothing you can do then nevermind.

there's no hope of me fixing this because even without this mod installed a vanilla hl2 ep 2 hunter will crash under the same conditions. I know there was another bug with the cod zombie winters howl that Mal mentioned that was the same issue, I'm guessing it has something to do with special conditions the Hunter has after it dies

On this map:

https://sp.zhabite.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2687149625

The doncombine crashed the server when it was run over by a car

https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxtaiw2s1rjWts0vaTpu-LhKGImVNe5Ke1

yeah the way I coded setting the friendly relationship to Traitors might not work 100%

Saw an error in my server console. Doesn't seem to affect it working, but thought you'd like to know:

[TTT Doncombine Summoner] lua/weapons/weapon_doncombinesummoner.lua:124: Tried to use a NULL entity!
1. AddEntityRelationship - [C]:-1
2. place_doncom - lua/weapons/weapon_doncombinesummoner.lua:124
3. unknown - lua/weapons/weapon_doncombinesummoner.lua:62

Brilliant lmao