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[Iceblaster]

My biggest issue with bright nights is the font used for the overmap. It's way too... Blocky compared to DDA's.

even graphical overmap still leaves it feeling a bit too blocky for me. Is that an issue for anyone else?

[EuchreJack]

I wish someone would work on the Desert Region mod.  It's a nice change of pace, although I haven't quite mastered the "Not Dying from Overheating" bit.

[King Zultan]

The desert region mod recently got the axe in DDA with no real reason as to why.

[Robsoie]

My biggest issue with bright nights is the font used for the overmap. It's way too... Blocky compared to DDA's.

even graphical overmap still leaves it feeling a bit too blocky for me. Is that an issue for anyone else?

In the Settings -> Options ->Graphics, there a " +Font settings" that you can develop and show many font height/width/size/blending values you can change for the game, the map and the overmap.
I haven't tried myself but maybe that's what you're looking for.

[EuchreJack]

The desert region mod recently got the axe in DDA with no real reason as to why.

...that would explain why it keeps glitching out, and why it takes several attempts to generate a playable character.  DDA doesn't WANT me to play it.

Because I don't need to pour more kerosene on DDA's flaming mess, I actually understand why they would axe it.
1) It apparently wasn't the most popular of mods.
2) DDA  is more buggy on the Desert region due to DDA's temperature system being balanced on New England weather.
3) Thus leading to more bug reports that don't make sense until the player says "Oh, I was using the Desert Region mod"
4) Thus either leaving the decision of fixing the game based upon a minor mod, or axeing the mod.
5) And the death keel is that apparently the mod's author disappeared (its been on version 0.2 for several years). Nobody exists who cares to update it.

The specific technical issues, that seems to have actually been fixed to some degree, are that Desert region mod works by changing all the fields into desert and increasing the ambient temperature (I think).  There used to be bugs in that the game required field regions to spawn things (like the Helicopter crash, for example).  That has been fixed, since I saw Helicopter crashed in the desert now.  My guess is that after all that work, it was decided to just cut the buggy mess.

I however thought it was an interesting concept, the idea that the game could exist in different biomes.  Maybe there could be a Tropical mod, an Arctic mod, or even Country/region mods so that Japanese Pagodas or European Castles could appear.  But it's difficult.

[Iceblaster]

My biggest issue with bright nights is the font used for the overmap. It's way too... Blocky compared to DDA's.

even graphical overmap still leaves it feeling a bit too blocky for me. Is that an issue for anyone else?

In the Settings -> Options ->Graphics, there a " +Font settings" that you can develop and show many font height/width/size/blending values you can change for the game, the map and the overmap.
I haven't tried myself but maybe that's what you're looking for.

I've messed with it. Can't really find a setting that works right to me, I think it's literally just the font itself that's the issue not the size or height or width. Maybe I'm just dumb and picky

[BigD145]

The desert region mod recently got the axe in DDA with no real reason as to why.

Is Cata still set in the New England states or did that change within DDA somewhere along the way? There's no deserts up that way.

[King Zultan]

The desert region mod recently got the axe in DDA with no real reason as to why.

Is Cata still set in the New England states or did that change within DDA somewhere along the way? There's no deserts up that way.

As far as I'm aware it's still set in New England, the desert thing was a mod that never really worked that was supposed to show that you could completely change the landscape.

[Random_Dragon]

So, I've been pondering some Arcana ideas maybe. About all I got so far are the rough ideas and possible item descriptions.

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"A half-mask covering the top half of the face, made of iron decorated with other metal.  Loose-fitting and designed with mutant anatomy in mind.  Fueling it with consecrated essence will grant the wearer clairvoyance within a limited range and protection from bright flashes, but blind you to anything beyond its effect."

"A loose-fitting, short cape with decorative trim over the shoulders, dyed a simple dark gray.  Loosely fits over the shoulders even for mutant survivors.  Activating it will grant invisibility, constantly draining essence while in use."

"Heavy fingerless plate gauntlets, decorated with silver and leaving the user free to wear them even if they have claws or other mutations.  Touching the bare metal sends a faint electric tingle through you.  Use them to give a nearby enemy a powerful stunning jolt, draining health from your target.  It can also be used to place a rune that will blast an area with lightning if something steps on it."

"A mighty lucerne hammer, decorated with silver and archaic Latin engravings.  Being a polearm, it is unsuitable for the combatives style used by mage hunters, but it can still be used to purify arcane items.  Activating it can be used to create a more powerful flash, capable of searing anyone in range.  Though the user will not take damage from it, they will still be blinded if lacking protection.  It could also be used to deploy a rune with a weaker stunning effect on whatever steps on it."

"A pistol crossbow decorated with golden symbols and lacking a bowstring, instead propelling bright green bolts of energy with high armor penetration.  Nearly as effective as its full-sized counterpart, aside from reduced accuracy and slightly reduced range."

"A massive medieval crossbow converted to an arcane weapon, removing its winch and bowstring and richly decorated with esoteric religious iconography.  It uses a large amount of dull essence to fire extremely powerful piercing bolts of energy.  While not as slow to load as its mundane counterpart, charging it with dull essence does take longer than normal."

[Sean Mirrsen]

I honestly don't get the complaints about electric zombies lacking CBMs in DDA. How are you justifying electricity generation in an undead biological mutant abomination, with cyberware that needs electricity to function in the first place? It's far more believable for electricity to be generated entirely biologically, given that, y'know, there's creatures existing in real life that do just that.

[Random_Dragon]

I honestly don't get the complaints about electric zombies lacking CBMs in DDA. How are you justifying electricity generation in an undead biological mutant abomination, with cyberware that needs electricity to function in the first place? It's far more believable for electricity to be generated entirely biologically, given that, y'know, there's creatures existing in real life that do just that.

The problem here is "blob magic" is just being used to support changes on an ad-hoc basis to justify whatever arbitrary changes are desired. It's bad writing applied inconsistently towards an already biased purpose.

Blob magic lets zombies fly just by flapping their freaky mutant arms hard enough but a super bird mutant can't fly even if they're more than halfway to just becoming a giant bird, aliens invented cybernetics so we can throw out basically all the cool sci-fi shit, etc etc. It gives the impression that it's just another aspect of the game that's only acknowledged when its application is detrimental to the player in some way.

[Arbinire]

I honestly don't get the complaints about electric zombies lacking CBMs in DDA. How are you justifying electricity generation in an undead biological mutant abomination, with cyberware that needs electricity to function in the first place? It's far more believable for electricity to be generated entirely biologically, given that, y'know, there's creatures existing in real life that do just that.

Except that the Metabolic Interchange is an in-universe power source for CBMs, making it far more believable that a zombie has electricity powers then trying to handwave away that it's a biological function, given that, y'know, there aren't any creatures in real life that generate electricity after they die.

[EuchreJack]

I honestly don't get the complaints about electric zombies lacking CBMs in DDA. How are you justifying electricity generation in an undead biological mutant abomination, with cyberware that needs electricity to function in the first place? It's far more believable for electricity to be generated entirely biologically, given that, y'know, there's creatures existing in real life that do just that.

It's also the changing of the narrative that is problem.  Previously, Electric Zombies HAD to have CBMs to generate the electricity.  Now, apparently, that story is changing.

The other complaint, as least from me, is the WHY.  Harvested CBMs were already quite difficult to use, since you had to clean and reset them, and usually you got the Burnt CBM which means you also had to rebuild them.  It's not like early-game characters were going to use those CBMs.

The concern is that this is a veiled attempt to wipe CBMs out of the game entirely.

Eh, we'll all be playing Bright Nights in a year, so I probably couldn't care less what DDA does.

[Mephansteras]

Apparently I never posted in this thread. So...PTW.

Also, looks like I need to check out Bright Nights!

[Random_Dragon]

Apparently I never posted in this thread. So...PTW.

Also, looks like I need to check out Bright Nights!

And I need to shamelessly plug my mods at you, too. XP