Bionics and mutations that increase damage resistance

Florin · 2015-01-22T08:06:52.000Z

Do these actually work? I just found a subdermal carbon filament CBM, installed it, seemed to do nothing. I multiplied the bionic’s values by a factor of 1000 in player.cpp and recompiled, still seemed to do nothing.

TinHeadDays · 2015-01-22T17:30:50.000Z

Well, you modded the files so most likely it’s conflicting with another script now. They do increase armor defense, but not what you may think how.
Subdermal carbon Filament CBM is supposed to be weak, used with heavier armor so it makes it slightly more effective and doesn’t provide encumbrance… Making it pretty damn good if used with well-made armor hitting 0 encumbrance,

Florin · 2015-01-22T17:43:07.000Z

That’s a profoundly unhelpful post.

TinHeadDays · 2015-01-22T17:55:11.000Z

Just wear some light-armor and it should help, but setting the bionic values factor to 1000 won’t work unless you make a new world.

KA101 · 2015-01-23T01:30:58.000Z

Theoretically a connection got broken somewhere so no, trait/aug armors aren’t helping. Someone started a fix but decided xe didn’t feel like keeping up with the dev cycle (daily updates), so abandoned it halfway.

Florin · 2015-01-23T01:41:20.000Z

TinHeadDays:

setting the bionic values factor to 1000 won’t work unless you make a new world.

Yes they would, if the values were functioning. I know you want to help, but if you don’t understand how things work then please don’t offer misleading technical advice, it’s counterproductive.

KA101:

Theoretically a connection got broken somewhere so no, trait/aug armors aren’t helping. Someone started a fix but decided xe didn’t feel like keeping up with the dev cycle (daily updates), so abandoned it halfway.

Thanks. In that case I might see if I can do anything about it myself.

dovla · 2015-01-23T08:43:25.000Z

KA101:

Theoretically a connection got broken somewhere so no, trait/aug armors aren’t helping. Someone started a fix but decided xe didn’t feel like keeping up with the dev cycle (daily updates), so abandoned it halfway.

Does this affect alloy plating CBM’s?

Florin · 2015-01-23T10:37:24.000Z

I believe so. It uses the same code. So do all of the mutations that are meant to provide armour.

Murphy · 2015-01-23T11:30:12.000Z

Ohhh, so that’s why I never noticed any effect…

dovla · 2015-01-23T14:01:49.000Z

Florin:

I believe so. It uses the same code. So do all of the mutations that are meant to provide armour.

Oh well. Time to whip out the scalpel I guess.

Murphy · 2015-02-05T13:46:01.000Z

Are they still not functioning? I have no idea how to tell if alloy plating helps me or not.

Coolthulhu · 2015-02-05T14:47:46.000Z

Murphy:

Are they still not functioning? I have no idea how to tell if alloy plating helps me or not.

Pretty sure it does work now, though its effect is small - “armor” type bionics give 3 cut and bash armor, subdermal filament gives 2 bash and 4 cut armor.
At least that’s how it looks from the code in src/player.cpp.

KA101 · 2015-02-06T01:51:21.000Z

If that got fixed I’m not aware of it, unfortunately.