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[GalenEvil]

Do turrets still appear or disappear when you're not looking?

I recall hostile turrets popping out of nowhere without setting off security.
I also recall friendly turrets would vanish when you walked off.

Im pretty sure that KevinGranade was working on that a few days ago. Not sure if the issue was fixed though.

[azmodean]

Do turrets still appear or disappear when you're not looking?

I recall hostile turrets popping out of nowhere without setting off security.
I also recall friendly turrets would vanish when you walked off.

Im pretty sure that KevinGranade was working on that a few days ago. Not sure if the issue was fixed though.

YES! Between AtomicDryad and myself, I think we managed to quash all the turret despawn/spawn issues, so they stay where you left them now (it should include when you go up/down stairs or elevators).  Incidentally we also nailed some related monster spawn/despawn bugs that were less noticeable because you don't tend to keep track of exactly where a monster was the last time you saw it.

tl;dr If you grab a nightly it should be fixed.

p.s. Thanks for bringing this back up, I meant to answer earlier, but it got lost in the déraillement yesterday.

[miauw62]

Something that I would like to see would be smelling.
It would just display a text message about the dominant smell in that tile.
e.g. "It smells like rotten flesh", "It smells like fungus", "It smells like there were some people here",  probably a bit more subtle. If there are two equally strong smells, it could give a message saying that you can't make out the exact smell. Gas stations should probably also emit a rather strong smell, because, well, I assume all of you have been at a gas station and know these places kinda stink. Some houses would also have a fungus smell because of being badly maintained etc. This way, you can smell when there's a fuckton of zombies on the other side of the wall, but it's not supra-dupra x-ray vision.

[CognitiveDissonance]

Something that I would like to see would be smelling.
It would just display a text message about the dominant smell in that tile.
e.g. "It smells like rotten flesh", "It smells like fungus", "It smells like there were some people here",  probably a bit more subtle. If there are two equally strong smells, it could give a message saying that you can't make out the exact smell. Gas stations should probably also emit a rather strong smell, because, well, I assume all of you have been at a gas station and know these places kinda stink. Some houses would also have a fungus smell because of being badly maintained etc. This way, you can smell when there's a fuckton of zombies on the other side of the wall, but it's not supra-dupra x-ray vision.

An olfactory system would actually be amazing. Why? Because smell is one of the most, if not the most, emotionally evocative senses. I have always used this extensively in my own D&D settings, and players ALWAYS remember what rooms smelled like.

So yes. Please.

[GalenEvil]

Something that I would like to see would be smelling.
It would just display a text message about the dominant smell in that tile.
e.g. "It smells like rotten flesh", "It smells like fungus", "It smells like there were some people here",  probably a bit more subtle. If there are two equally strong smells, it could give a message saying that you can't make out the exact smell. Gas stations should probably also emit a rather strong smell, because, well, I assume all of you have been at a gas station and know these places kinda stink. Some houses would also have a fungus smell because of being badly maintained etc. This way, you can smell when there's a fuckton of zombies on the other side of the wall, but it's not supra-dupra x-ray vision.

That would be a freakin awesome addition!

* GalenEvil jots down for further extension of scent simulation code

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   It would also make the smelly disadvantage have some more down sides. "You take a wiff of the surroundings but nothing is strong enough to get through your natural fragrance."

[CognitiveDissonance]

   It would also make the smelly disadvantage have some more down sides. "You take a wiff of the surroundings but nothing is strong enough to get through your natural fragrance."

Oh god. ew.

[majikero]

Not really. A smelly person would know their own scent.

[Fniff]

"Oh God, did something die in here... Oh wait. That's just me."

[CognitiveDissonance]

Not really. A smelly person would know their own scent.

I don't know... after several months of no bathing?

[majikero]

If your gonna add that, you might as well add bathing too.

[Ivefan]

If your gonna add that, you might as well add bathing too.

Run around in the acid rain?

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   No, No, No. Your getting what I said wrong. I am not saying that you smell because you have not bathed but rather that the smelly trait which represents you just naturally smelling more, not necessarily a bad smell (after all it says it doesn't offend humans), is just strong enough that the small scents get lost. So a vague wiff of honey when getting near a hive would just not appear, you would need a stronger scent to notice it. I must admit my way of saying it was exaggerated for humor.

[azmodean]

I have been kicking around the idea of a scent map the player has access to.  Currently the only thing tracked is player scent, for the benefit of monsters.  The interface would probably be a combination of being alerted when a strong scent was first noticed, and a "check smell" command that would give you the direction in which the scent is strongest, perhaps with some fuzzing.

I was initially thinking of just tracking zombie scent, because I assume rotten flesh thing would have a strong enough scent to be noticed by even a human nose, but good point that other things would have the capacity to drown out that, such as gas stations.  Adding more scent-producing entities really isn't problematic, it's the diffusion code that ends up eating a lot of cycles, which is something GalenEvil is looking at reimplementing in a more efficient way.  Having different *kinds* of scent would be potentially problematic in the current system, as it only deals with intensities, and it would need to either be repeated for each class of scent, or have some kind of arbitration algorithm where stronger scents would obliterate weaker scents, which complicates and would probably slow down the logic.  Not sure how GalenEvil's system would handle different scent types.

[Nighthawk]

In other news, Fast Learner + Optimist allows you to train your character to god-tier skills levels in less than a week! Add in some Archery skill and you can headshot everything while walking through town whistling.

Also, I haven't tried fire arrows yet. How well do they work for the set-it-on-fire-and-let-it-burn-to-death strategy?