Caelynd Maclyrr
Refugee
Perhaps the rate could be higher when in the biome until you have completed the quest, where upon it drops down to the the lower chance level (you "thinned them out").
PC V2.0 Storms Brewing Dev Diary
- Thread starter Crater Creator
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Can you explain how hot/cold was NOT a boring implementation, in comparison to storms? With hot/cold it was "wear the right clothes or get debuffs". That's pretty much it, in your own words ;-).
Also it seems with the storms there are more options available (most of them the same as you could use with hot/cold): Get into a POI, or build a hut or understand, or use healing potions and weather it out, or flee to another biome.
Also there is the new thing now that zombies run faster when there is a storm!!! That is certainly something new.
Eventually I hope we get a few drinks and candies (EDIT: and weapon mods like Sapeint6 suggested) that protect **partly** from storms. And there could be more: Random chance for zombies to freeze in a snow storm, random chance for them to get picked up and thrown around in a storm. Hot/cold doesn't seem to provide possibilities like this
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Sapient6
Refugee
I don't know that I care about the wet/cold/hot mechanics. Those were pretty shallow in the first place and the new biome-specific approach seems like an overall improvement to me. But I think it would be neat to have armor mods that mitigate storm damage a bit. Might tinker with a mod like that if someone else doesn't beat me too it. Like: got the burnt forest badge? Now you know how to make the Cooling Mesh mod (decreases storm damage in the burnt forest, increases snow storm damage).
It is stacking. Perk 4 takes 1 less hit to charge. Perk 5 takes 3 less hits to charge (hence 0).
Once again, you're just getting angry at semantics.
It is compounding. Lets say the stun baton was only charged after hitting stuff 10 times. Now imagine there is a perk so that the baton is charged after only hitting something 9 times. Next point into the perk makes it charged after hitting stuff 8 times. And so on. You can see that each version makes the stun baton slightly better (in the same metric!!) because you have that charge earlier operational again.
Unperked: Charge after 10 hits
Perk 1: Charge after 9 hits
Perk 2: Charge after 8 hits
Perk 3: Charge after 7 hits
Perk 4: Charge after 6 hits
...
Perk 7: Charge after 3 hits
Perk 8: Charge after 2 hits
Perk 9: Charge after 1 hit
Perk 10: Charge after 0 hits (in other words the baton is always charged)
Do you see the progression? Do you see how the baton gets more and more powerful by allowing it to deal a stun earlier? And do you see now how the baton gets more powerful each step on the same scale of "duration until charged". Each step is an upgrade of the previous.
zztong
Hunter
The creator and I chatted and I gave him a bunch of information. My understanding is he's changed the bias issue and he's changed his replacement rwgmixer.xml file into a modlet so you don't have to replace the game's file. It will be much more friendly to other modlets now.
Related to your goal, we might be better talking about this elsewhere from the Dev Diary, but I'll pass along some generalities based on my observations with 1.0 RWG. (I've not yet generated lots of worlds in 2.0 and run stats on them.)
With an 8k map and the game's rwgmixer, you're likely to see every POI get used and many of them used several times. If you just want more POIs, then set the number of Settlements and the Number of Wilderness POIs to the highest setting. It's the 8k and larger worlds where I start to worry about having enough variety.
Once you start talking about smaller maps, then you get fewer possible locations for POIs and then it becomes more likely that RWG cannot use all of the POIs available to it. Places in the world become more unique.
RWG's priorities, based entirely on the "score" comment in TFP's rwgmixer.xml file, will place higher tier POIs before lower tier POIs, unless you get in and start messing with bias and weight settings. TFP gives the traders a very high bias, but they also limit the number appearing, so basically, they'll place traders first into locations that can have them. Unless you want more or fewer traders, I wouldn't mess with their trader configuration. It's a bit of a delicate balance between available spots on tiles, the bias setting, and max appearing settings.
New with 2.0 appears to be a bias of 5 for rural filler. I suspect this is because the rural district wraps cities and it gets lots of tiles, so it needs lots of POIs. The rural filler POIs aren't as obvious as farms and businesses, so you perceive less repetition. The two places you're likely to see lots of repeated/duplicated POIs are: rural district, wilderness. That modlet, by changing the bias for those rural fillers to 1, should lead to more buildings in the rural district. I might go along with that change, actually, but you have to remember my modlet is also trying to deal with duplication in that area, and I add lots of rural content, so TFP's bias of 5 might not be needed when there's more choice available for RWG.
If you want more Tier 5 POIs, you have several possibilities:
- Set the bias on those to around 2.
- Install more (there are custom POIs available).
- Copy existing POIs and give the copies a slightly different filename; RWG will see them as if they were different POIs.
Outlaw_187
Scavenger
Ah, maybe that's what it is. I suppose that would make more sense. A hit would "thonk" everytime right?
Anyhow, still think it's funny as hell and please Pimps....dont remove it.....please
zztong
Hunter
@sheep I left off one obvious one. You could set the min number appearing. That's more like a suggestion to RWG as depending on its Tile choices it cannot always accommodate the setting, but outside of downtown, commercial, and industrial, it's got a good shot of playing out like you'd like.
You could also increase the size of settlements, but don't go too crazy with that. Also know that the bigger you make your settlements the more they are going to all look the same because there are only so many POIs to go around -- and that's the heart of the issue. If you want variety, you need more content.
BFT2020
Hunter
Strictly RNG in your case. There are no tags associated with tree stumps that would increase chance of honey via Living off the Land perk.
sheep
Refugee
Thanks for connecting with that mod creator and helping improve what he was doing, and for these detailed replies. We're hoping to run our game for a long time so just really want to set it up right from the start with lasting appeal. Your posts are super helpful. Appreciate all of the different options.
Callum123456789
Survivor
I think with and without hitting stumps it's still probably RNG but i seem to be getting honey a lot more consistent as opposed to alpha 21/1.0 hmmm...perhaps I've jinxed myself to the honey gods lol, but for reals something feels different with the stumps giving out honey and I'm not sure what, maybe I hit a lucky clover, I know the ones in pois have a higher chance of giving honey maybe the swapped them out to include the wilderness ones too? Not sure.
4sheetzngeegles
Hunter
@faatal
These questions are about the zombie AI.
How long has the rage mode been on a variable accelerated speed, in other words some
just come full tilt, and some actually start slow and pickup speed depending on distance?
It was not a feral or special, except the burning man.
And I like the burning man, or bionic man, I shot him one time and he closed the distance before I could noc
another arrow, that dude is fast as the vultures after vehicles.
When did the multiblock jumping swipe get added, or have I just not noticed before. I had one jump up and deliberately
swipe me while I was on top of a vehicle, he did not try to get on the vehicle only jumped up high enough
to punch at me, same when I was on a wall, and also had one jump up high enough to get on the elevated ladder
I was on, but only jumped to hit me, not to climb.
Last when did you change the block attack ai, I had more than one do this, they were hitting a block, I was out
of reach, I raised my bow, they went around the corner, pounded a bit then came back, after I had lowered the bow, I
raised it again and they changed position again? This was during a hordenight.
Personally whether intentional or not I like it. I keep running in the snow, to do partial pois then run out before
the timer runs out. I have not tried to complete the badge for it yet. It's kind of a guilty pleasure.
Although I think I'm doing something out of order. Are the smoothie drinks to extend your time in non accessed biomes
in order to finish the quests? If so then what do you do with them after you gain access.
I have been doing the biome quests in the raw.
These questions are about the zombie AI.
How long has the rage mode been on a variable accelerated speed, in other words some
just come full tilt, and some actually start slow and pickup speed depending on distance?
It was not a feral or special, except the burning man.
And I like the burning man, or bionic man, I shot him one time and he closed the distance before I could noc
another arrow, that dude is fast as the vultures after vehicles.
When did the multiblock jumping swipe get added, or have I just not noticed before. I had one jump up and deliberately
swipe me while I was on top of a vehicle, he did not try to get on the vehicle only jumped up high enough
to punch at me, same when I was on a wall, and also had one jump up high enough to get on the elevated ladder
I was on, but only jumped to hit me, not to climb.
Last when did you change the block attack ai, I had more than one do this, they were hitting a block, I was out
of reach, I raised my bow, they went around the corner, pounded a bit then came back, after I had lowered the bow, I
raised it again and they changed position again? This was during a hordenight.
Personally whether intentional or not I like it. I keep running in the snow, to do partial pois then run out before
the timer runs out. I have not tried to complete the badge for it yet. It's kind of a guilty pleasure.
Although I think I'm doing something out of order. Are the smoothie drinks to extend your time in non accessed biomes
in order to finish the quests? If so then what do you do with them after you gain access.
I have been doing the biome quests in the raw.
zztong
Hunter
I think they sell for 200 dukes. I think they still give you food, water, and a speed boost, or something like that.
cyberheart
Refugee
Остается только вопрос об увеличении скорости во время штормов. Например, если мы всегда играем на скорости на кошмаре, то какой смысл играть с включенным штормом?
4sheetzngeegles
Hunter
zztong
Hunter
Crafting one is part of the activities needed for the badge, but I don't think you have to drink one. You can rack up the time required without them.
They can be handy. I used two of them to hold up in a POI and outlast a storm in a biome where I didn't have a badge.
4sheetzngeegles
Hunter
Ok thanks, I thought I was missing something. I just keep them in a box, but I will try using them
as a booster now.
as a booster now.
Blake_
Captain Obvious
Yeah. No. Each point in each of the Masteries, as you can very well see, IS standalone and adds a separate benefit.
That Intellect Mastery point is therefore useless, not that it should be changed, but Must is the choice word here. No argument, no discussion, plain objective fact as Khalagar pointed out. Let other perks have progressive bonuses, but that's not the way with ALL the masteries, therefore call it an oversight.
edit: Now if the end result is one or two hits, doesn't really matter as it's all TFP choice to balance as they see fit, I would remove the 2 hit option though, too many better weapons out there, "very competition, much player builds".
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Huh? What about Fortitude Mastery 4 and 5? That is progressive as well.
Oh no, two oversights !!!!
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Actually I would prefer if you could select only one mastery, then there would be a real reason to make them all distinct