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[Micro102]

So how would I go about surviving turrets in a vehicle, while also having some ability to actually see and not take out a few dozen trees and the front of my car?

Install wing mirrors out the sides and curtains covering the windshield.

This is such cheesy bullshit, I love it.

[Random_Dragon]

So how would I go about surviving turrets in a vehicle, while also having some ability to actually see and not take out a few dozen trees and the front of my car?

Install wing mirrors out the sides and curtains covering the windshield.

This is such cheesy bullshit, I love it.

Relevant demonstration of advanced AI in action.

[EuchreJack]

So how would I go about surviving turrets in a vehicle, while also having some ability to actually see and not take out a few dozen trees and the front of my car?

Install wing mirrors out the sides and curtains covering the windshield.

This is such cheesy bullshit, I love it.

Relevant demonstration of advanced AI in action.

Apparently, you only need a non-clear bottle.  I'd suggest aspirin, just in case you start to think about it too much.

[teoleo]

sorry, but what happened with the experimental building for win???

[Random_Dragon]

Meanwhile, I self-PR'd something I'm working on in Arcana.

What I have so far:

• Added the last mission for Johnathan. It's prefaced with a basic investigative mission, regarding the player to gather intel to pinpoint the location of a suspected anomaly and clean out the source. Players with the correct traits, stats, or skills can potentially opt to investigate more directly, poking around at the site of once anomalous attack to acquire clues.
• Main fallback method is simply talking to a variety of the major NPCs, just like how the most basic way to fulfill Sofia's fourth mission entails talking to a given number of a wide selection of NPCs. The old guard representative can directly provide everything you need if you've reached Marshal (otherwise he can only provide one datapoint), and the hermit is also valid to go to for resolving the quest. The arcanist merchant acquired if you resolved Sofia's fifth mission peacefully will even outright suggest talking to the hermit, when asked about it.
• However you end up helping Johnathan narrow down the location, this unlocks his final mission, to hunt down a specific newly-added monster in a new anomaly. The exact contents of the location and what you encounter there is a fair bit of a spoiler. Suffice to say there is a new monster or two, new traps, spell effects/interactions, and the like to make the location challenging to get through. Most of the threats available can all in some way be mitigated by the various tools at your disposal, especially late-game magical items.
• Some rebalancing regarding how certain monsters in arcana use cold-type damage, making it a bit more more prevalent among ghostly critters, plus some tweaks to summoned hunting horrors and summoned shadow snakes.
• Set it so that Holy Ward protects against cold-type damage as well.
• Set it so that Consecrate and similar spells affect summoned monsters as well as basic nether critters, also made the archon fields less common when called by the gaze attack.
• Removed a subspell I'd accidentally added for a spell that was scrapped and never committed (due to causing crashes if misused).

Todo:

• There is a unique magical item planned as a reward for clearing the final location out, with some potential crafting usage.
• Might be feasible to add some optional banter for Johnathan that replaces the mission query.
• I also have two more missions planned for Sofia, and they will be much less complicated than all of this. At least one of the NPCs you'd be able to unlock via completing her next-to-last mission peacefully should also be viable as a datapoint for the first mission.
• Sofia's last mission will also allow me to finally establish the Arcana Purifiers plotline, though any actual missions will have to wait for a later PR.
• A fair bit of mod_tileset work left unfinished thus far.

Spoiler: Summary of what you'll run into (click to show/hide)

A structure blending alien resinous construction with unnatural stonework, the new anomaly overtly does not belong in this world. The surrounding fields have been struck barren, dotted with patches of alien influence with shadowy monsters loitering in the area. Inside players must contend with a maze that subtly shifts as they navigate it. Not enough to disrupt the paths entirely, instead altering the surrounding stone's appearance, changing and flowing to occasionally open new holes in the maze to navigate through. The surrounding rooms and halls likewise offer a couple anomalies of their own, before one reaches the source of all this.

Anomalous traps await in addition to changing walls, with more overt effects than the existing anomalous traps. Monsters can warp in, some secretly mere illusions, further hallucinations can disorient survivors, or perhaps the air will take on an earthly chill and bring darkness with it.

As for the boss itself, it's rather strongly hinted at to be another extension of The Archon's influence on this world. There are many interlopers after all, but this one has a confirmed habit of meddling with the physical plane. And this time it's not possessing some feeble old mortal, even if that means the loss of its lightning attack and shady-style cloaking. Its avatar is a ghostly apparition that is a good bit tougher, trading electric immunity for a fair few other strengths, unleashing beams of otherworldly energy and summoning doppelgangers, mixed in with its regular shadowy minions.

Adding to that, during this encounter the Archon's otherworldly gaze can leave lasting mental scars on those who survive, as this thing is a closer to an avatar, a projection to create a mimicry of a body, rather than a possessed human...

[EuchreJack]

As to your spoiler-ed last mission:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Lasting mental scars, ouch!  I'm sort of curious what that means.

[King Zultan]

Does anyone know if you can make a mod that blocks all the game's overmap tiles from spawning and replaces all of it with something else and it not break everything, or am I going to be stuck with forests and rivers no matter what.

[EuchreJack]

Does anyone know if you can make a mod that blocks all the game's overmap tiles from spawning and replaces all of it with something else and it not break everything, or am I going to be stuck with forests and rivers no matter what.

The game comes with an experimental Desert mod, I hope it still works.  Kinda broken in that it replaces almost all Field tiles with Desert, so it used to be that you had like 3 tiles in the entire world that you could use to set up a base.  And they were spawned by the Helicopter crash scenario, so lots of !!FUN!! on that particular tile.

But now, if it works, you should be able to use an Evac shelter or a firestation as a base.  I'm at the office, so I can't test for a bit, but thanks for the idea of what to do later today!

[anothersimulacrum]

Does anyone know if you can make a mod that blocks all the game's overmap tiles from spawning and replaces all of it with something else and it not break everything, or am I going to be stuck with forests and rivers no matter what.

I believe dpwb spent about a week ripping out all the setting specific stuff and was left with simply forests, rivers, and lakes at the end, so I think those are hardcoded mapgen you can't get rid of.

[Random_Dragon]

As to your spoiler-ed last mission:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Lasting mental scars, ouch!  I'm sort of curious what that means.

In a nutshell:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Basically, a small chance of getting hit with a random mutation, with the selection available consisting of various mutations that could reasonably represent psychological side effects. Since effect code doesn't really left you simulate anything complex like what these traits do, it's about the only way to really make "permanently traumatized by being stared down by an otherworldly horror" work at all.

As a side effect, the way I've implemented it means that the mutagenic protection Arcane Blessings grant will also prevent those permanent consequences, which is sensible given this means you've basically curried the favor of a different otherworldly entity that's specifically at odds with the one you're fighting. :3

[King Zultan]

Does anyone know if you can make a mod that blocks all the game's overmap tiles from spawning and replaces all of it with something else and it not break everything, or am I going to be stuck with forests and rivers no matter what.

I believe dpwb spent about a week ripping out all the setting specific stuff and was left with simply forests, rivers, and lakes at the end, so I think those are hardcoded mapgen you can't get rid of.

Well that sucks because I was wanting to see how hard it would be to try to make something like SCP 3008 where its just a store that goes on forever, but having rivers, forests, and lakes running through it kinda messes up that idea.

[n9103]

What's wrong with a store that gargantuan having it's own ecosystem? Who's to say that store hasn't been there for thousands and thousands of years, allowing all sorts of craziness from internal mechanisms gone wrong?

Rivers, Trees, Lakes:
The mists put out by a massive area of vegetable sprayers evaporates, gets caught in the airflow towards a huge floor displays area, washes up the sides of giant soda boxes displays, condenses and precipitates into a river, and this river flows into a garden section.
Eventually enough potting soil gets knocked into the water that it both dams it up and allows for the inevitably stocked tree seeds to grow.
 

[EuchreJack]

Agreed, any building with a leak will eventually have a river and a lake.  I think the Desert landscape would be relatively close to reflecting a store floor with a millennia of accumulated dust.

EDIT: Sigh, those SCPs.  Somebody mentions one, and 3 hours latter you remember there is really something else you should be doing...
More useful, there are world setting where you can set the city size to maximum and the city spacing to minimum, although you probably already knew that.

[King Zultan]

So I decided to mess with stuff to see if I could get the results I wanted and after I put city spacing and size to zero I discovered that if I mess with the regional_map_settings I can get rid of everything but rivers and fields, so does anyone know a way I can replace field in "default_oter": "field", and with a .json map it actually work, because I've been trying and I can't seem to get anything to work.

[EuchreJack]

Well, the Desert map changes all the fields to desert.  Dunno if that helps in any way.  Essentially create a mod.