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Author Topic: Stupid Modding Trick: Making enemies explode.  (Read 831 times)

Putnam

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Stupid Modding Trick: Making enemies explode.
« on: November 23, 2012, 01:44:02 am »
Not in the "evaporation" sense, either. I mean straight up exploding and endangering all nearby.

It's a very simple method: have either an interaction or a material that, when used on an enemy or globbed at an enemy, will give them an interaction that forces them to keep using an UNDIRECTED_DUST interaction for as long as they're conscious. Using END times, you can have them have a chance to to survive this, but that's no fun.

Example: Say you have... a covenant grunt. He uses a long-cooldown interaction called "lob plasma grenade". When used, he'll "throw" a "plasma grenade" at his opponent. If it hits, you'll see an evaporation and the poor bastard at the other end will start knocking himself around with his undirected dust.
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Re: Stupid Modding Trick: Making enemies explode.
« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2012, 08:48:56 am »
How would you force them to use it? No turn useage, no useage hint, no cooldown?
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Re: Stupid Modding Trick: Making enemies explode.
« Reply #2 on: November 23, 2012, 01:15:53 pm »
Yeah. FREE_ACTION, no usage hint, low cooldown.
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Re: Stupid Modding Trick: Making enemies explode.
« Reply #3 on: November 23, 2012, 05:32:53 pm »
wouldn't work on you in adventuring mode, though...
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Re: Stupid Modding Trick: Making enemies explode.
« Reply #4 on: November 23, 2012, 05:36:08 pm »
Yeah, that's the main issue.

Unless you feel like playing along.

Maybe you could have the adv name be "heal yourself (may need a few tries to work)" :P
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Re: Stupid Modding Trick: Making enemies explode.
« Reply #5 on: November 24, 2012, 03:43:33 pm »
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