Note of the outskirts - blobber by Cryptrat

[Strange Fellow]

What the hell am I looking at? Did you create an automap in assembly for a game that already has one?

 

[Fowyr]

What the hell am I looking at? Did you create an automap in assembly for a game that already has one?

I wrote a program that shows you a map (sort of, it's a WIP) of entire level. I found that I missed only a one secret here (with the awesome exoskeleton inside), but a lot of places where I have been already are interconnected by a frail walls.

 

[Strange Fellow]

So you're cheating

 

[Fowyr]

So you're cheating

Nope, I just tying up some loose ends.
Should I remind you that you don't even killed final boss without cheesing by intimidate skill?

 

[Fowyr]

Suddenly, I have a sleeping beauty on my hands.

She was starving beforehand (strange, she ate something, but "starving" status was still present).
It's a mess inside.

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[Watser]

If you equip a 2h weapon over a 1h weap + shield only the shield is returned to inventory, the 1h weapon is lost.

 

[Fowyr]

Please consider renaming "8 gauge" to something else.
It doesn't have any sense, shotgun doesn't have a rubber barrel and chamber, after all. Gauge is a size of shell itself, not the load.

Probably, name it "shotgun slug" or something.

CARTRIDGE=12 gauge
HEAVYCALIBER=8 gauge
CARTRIDGE_DESC=Heavy caliber, for shotguns.
HEAVYCALIBER_DESC=Heavier caliber, for shotguns.

 

[Fowyr]

CryptRat
Solved my sleeping beauty problem.

lastEat="4147"

She forgot to eat. That's a bug, but I dunno how I got it. But then it caused a second bug where you constantly check lastEat counter and add another and another "unconscious" status.

 

[CryptRat]

Thanks, I will check and fix all these.

 

[CryptRat]

Like that (these are the two types of ammunitions, which work for all the 3? types of shotguns in the game)?

 

[Fowyr]

Like that (these are the two types of ammunitions, which work for all the 3? types of shotguns in the game)?

You could just leave "12 gauge shell" and "shotgun slug".
Also when we are here, there are some propositions:

CARTRIDGE_DESC= A buckshot shell for shotguns.
HEAVYCALIBER_DESC=Heavier load, for shotguns.
SHOTGUN_DESC=A short range weapon with high armor penetration.

Shotgun is not a "rifle". Usually it's smoothbore and doesn't have rifling. "Laser rifle" is OK, because it's sci-fi weapon and just called so because similar to rifles, but shotgun is a real weapon.

 

[CryptRat]

Thanks, then in the type (which will appear in the descriptions of all shotguns and ammunitions) I just put "Shells"?
Here :

 

[Strange Fellow]

What's the problem with those descriptions? I don't see it.

 

[Fowyr]

Thanks, then in the type (which will appear in the descriptions of all shotguns and ammunitions) I just put "Shells"?
Here :

Yep, 12 gauge or shell would be fine.

What's the problem with those descriptions? I don't see it.

Just a little attack of weapon autism. Shotgun was a "rifle" and could be loaded with "12 ga" and "8 ga" shells at the same time.

 

[CryptRat]

What's the problem with those descriptions? I don't see it.

If you're talking about the ones in Fowyr's post they are his corrections, not the original ones.

 

[Fowyr]

PISTOLSWORD_DESC=A light bullet gun with an attached sword.

It has piercing damage and says that is shoots "bullet", but uses energy units.

 

[CryptRat]

Radgun flavour text: 'Quite piercing rifles', I dont know if you have caught all the plural form of the nouns, they are still quite plentiful in the current version. The standard attack is also irradiates when it reads like it should be in irradiate.

Yes, sorry, I checked the "damage" text only from combat log and totally forgot about checking for the descriptions, there are probably still many for other words but at least for this word it should be better now.

 

[CryptRat]

V1.0.14 released

Fixes :
- The weapon which should be unequipped when wearing a weapon and a shield and equipping a two-handed weapon used to disappear instead. This was fixed.
- Some problems related with eating were fixed.
- The disarming tools from one shop in the dungeon could not be equipped and had no charges. The ones bought in this shop from now on should be equippable and have 10 charges.
- A character trying to use a Fire extinguisher, a Frost gun, a Laser gun, freedom gas, a bandage, a tranquilizer or a set of antidotes out of combat should now not use any charge or item if the item can't have any use in current situation.
- Keyboards shortcuts for Credits and Repair were respectively changed to W and Z due to the keys being also used by other commands.
- Characters could get multiple instances of the unconscious and dead statuses. This was fixed.
- The texts related to shotguns made no sense and were fixed.
- Some text fixes.

Changes :
- Previously the party could extinguish a fire only if it took place one tile ahead. It is now also possible to extinguish a fire which is behind the party but not one tile ahead.

 

[Fowyr]

Methinks -100000 to death when most resistances are in 0..5 range is too extreme. It's so extreme that decreased death resistance from 3 to 2 after grafting (probably it was a convalescence)

 

[CryptRat]

-100000 is a code, the character should both absorb and throw back death (so poison) damage (from -1500000 to -50000, while immunity is from -150 to -50). It's likely I had to report to the description of items and didn't.
However the fact that when equipped the value (or in that case text) of the resistance in the character's sheet does not change makes me think it actually does not do anything and that there's, then, a second problem. I'm going to investigate.

 

[Fowyr]

-100000 is a code, the character should both absorb and throw back death (so poison) damage (from -1500000 to -50000, while immunity is from -150 to -50).

Please consider adding something like SPECIAL word beforehand, I understand that it could break text formatting and add a lot of checks. Hm, you could probably just add one function that takes a resistance value and returns a string.
+5
-2
IMMUNITY(-100)
SPECIAL(-100000) (or, probably, REFLECTION(-100000))

 

[CryptRat]

Hm, you could probably just add one function that takes a resistance value and returns a string.

Yes, I won't change the data but what's displayed should be a text like in the character's sheet (where there's only an obscure abbreviation, I should also add the real word in the description here).

 

[CryptRat]

So yes, these are rare (it concerns two weapons, one helmet and a few trap items, I think) but it seems that at some point (it's related to maluses due to poor condition of armors, which won't go below 0) all "negative bonuses" (yes, maluses) from equipment (the poison arm seems to be the only case where it's not a real negative bonus but in fact some sort of immunity instead) stopped to be taken into account. That's fixed now, I'm going to check the description part.

 

[Fowyr]

Spoiler

Very naughty picture.

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Are you really sure?

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After writing that little tool, I understand why you can't easily add illusory walls to the automap. Your automap and dungeon map is the same thing.
I have an idea for the sequel.
<item t="HOLOGRAM"/> - not mapped wall
<item t="HOLOGRAM" v="1"/> - mapped, but not found wall, shows like a solid wall
<item t="HOLOGRAM" v="1" revealed="1"/> - mapped and visited wall, shows like hologram.png from your editor sprite.
Problem is that you need to slightly modify function that adds all these v="1", or maybe function that checks for traps and lava _under_ the party. If we are in the wall - add "revealed" field.
EDIT: I have found that you could use several shieldbots and shield is capped to 50. That's nice!

 

[CryptRat]

EDIT: I have found that you could use several shieldbots and shield is capped to 50. That's nice!

You can't, it's just that an advanced shield bot raises shield to 50 (instead of 40) in case of critical success.