Latest experimental features

[Valpo]

[quote=“Coolthulhu, post:891, topic:5582”]Fungaloid spreading speed nerf is in. Their breeding speed now scales negatively with number of creatures in the reality bubble.

To compensate, they can sometimes spore stuff in range 2 instead of 1 and will transform the ground much faster than before.

Also, creatures that would instantly die to fungi will now only take moderate damage.[/quote]

Right the insta spore kikll was kinda weird.
What about robots do they still die from spore exposure?

[Coolthulhu]

[quote=“Valpo, post:894, topic:5582”]Right the insta spore kikll was kinda weird.
What about robots do they still die from spore exposure?[/quote]

Nope, special cased anything not made of flesh, human flesh, insect flesh or bone as immune to fungification.
Also makes blobs and more exotic nethers immune.

[Valpo]

Awesome. Thank you.

[skYman]

There now is a chemical thrower with a new anti-fungal ammo in the game. Works much like the flamethrowers, except that it creates clouds of gas at the target location that remove fungal terrain and kill fungal monsters (yes, also spires and the like).

[Random_dragon]

Neat, will be fun to test that out.

In other news, thank you to Bevapdin for tweaking a thing that allows overriding overmap_specials now.

[kevin.granade]

There’s now a mod that replaces the multitude of real guns with a more “game-like” selection of generic gun types.
Small fix, the effect where light wakes you up is now based on light at your location instead of global light level, so if you shut yourself in a building away from windows, or with the curtains closed you won’t be woken up at dawn.

[sagethor]

I don’t recall there being one. In fact, the vanilla hunger system works iin just the opposite way:

[CR] Make comestibles give better nutrition when you are starving

Speaking of which, thanks to Coolthuhu for fixing tazers in a recent PR! It’s time to farm police bots with reckless abandon.

[Random_dragon]

Now that I’ve figured out how mod dependancies work, I plan to PR tanks as mod content. Yes, delicious 120mm will be involved. No, it won’t involve the tankbot gun. Thanks to the new flag used by the M134, I can make different versions that can only be used mounted on a vehicle, just on the off chance editing the tankbot gun item breaks stuff.

However, I’m working on a vehicle part PR ( https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/pull/12887 ) before doing so. A couple of the additions I’m making (namely, heavy duty quarterpanels and a seat that’s a better fit for turret positions than the cloth folding seat) started off as things I cooked up while making the tanks.

EDIT: Whee, that vehicle part PR has since been merged. Been busy lately it seems, only just now getting to add a tileset update ( https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/pull/12954 ) to catch up with all the stuff I added the past week or two.

[Random_dragon]

And whee, build 3426 confirmed for unborked, thanks to a PR ( https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/pull/12962 ) that seems to have fixed the loading crash. Thank you to DanmakuDan for that.

[Random_dragon]

We now has a .22 LR revolver. I was really hoping to puzzle out a good example of a full-size plinking revolver more like the type I own, but the majority of in-production ones I could find on manufacturer’s sites were more compact. :V

[Random_dragon]

Random: can’t wait to drive a tank through a shopping center screaming f@#k da police! Also, found a real deal cutlass and have been putting foot to zombie ass with it for a while now. Sweet addition, if only I could personally thank the mod genius who put it in…

Huehuehue. <3

Also, I findly found the PR that mainlined cheesemaking for me. Nice, but would it have killed him/her/hir to have mentioned it somewhere so I’d have at least a chance of hearing about it? o3o

[Coolthulhu]

Rivet just merged my melee combat rebalance.
Expect way less crits on strong characters and big nerf to high dexterity. Torso encumbrance is now way less crippling, especially on early characters, because it is now only percentage based (ie. 20 encumbrance lowers your hit rolls by 20%). Before, it was both percentage and flat and this flat rate killed early accuracy.

oldlaptop’s alcohol stove is in. It’s smaller and lighter than hotplate, but more expensive to use. Also, you can now dilute pure ethanol into vodka.

[Random_dragon]

Seems Rivet is on a merging spree.

Also, I derped and named the latest tileset update’s branch Series 6 originally because I lost count. Is actually 7. >.<

[kevin.granade]

I split a bunch of off topic comments off into their own threads, this thread is for announcements about new features in the experimental release.

To be clear, commentary about those features is also off-topic, comment about them elsewhere, this thread is intended to be a source of updates about new features, if people have to read through three pages of random conversations the thread becomes pointless.

Future off-topic comments will likely be deleted with no notice, because thread splitting takes too much time.

[Coolthulhu]

Kevin’s layering PR is in.

New layering penalty rules are as follows:

[ul][li]Layering penalty of an item is its encumbrance or 10, whichever is lower. 0 encumbrance items cause 1 layering penalty.[/li]
[li]Highest layering penalty of each layer is ignored[/li]
[li]Layering penalty of a body part is the sum of layering penalties of all its layers[/li][/ul]

For example, wearing winter boots (penalty 10) with two pairs of wool socks (5 enc each) and two pairs of regular socks (1 enc each) causes penalty of 7.
Boots are ignored (only item in layer) and socks would cause 5+5+1+1-5=7. That -5 is because one pair of wool socks is ignored.
Refitting everything would lower the penalty to 2+2+1+1-2 = 4.

[Random_dragon]

Hmm. So if it’s on topic (I hope), Series 2 of the tank mod is also in. Everything but the mapgen is now a thing.

[Ishindri]

DavidKeaton’s huge AIM update is in, including the ability to finally ‘move all items’ from all 9 squares around you with a single keypress.

[dRbiG]

Posting here mostly because I think it could both use more exposure and maybe make some folks here try more coding:

MSYS2-only building on Windows:

https://etherpad.mozilla.org/QsktItkkSE - currently PRed at https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/pull/13186

Note: I’m not a Windows user nor a Forum-dweller. But given most people play CDDA on Windows having more people from that ‘camp’ involved in ‘the kitchen’ shouldn’t hurt…

[vache]

No post here for the sounds PR?

[kevin.granade]

Sheesh, keep yer pants on, it was really late when that landed.
Ahem You may recall the ambient sounds mod that there was a lot of excitement about a while back (if not see http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=10390 ). Thanks to vulkans for writing the code in the first place, Chezzo for cleaning up the code enough to PR, BevapDin for doing a lot more code cleanup after the PR, and a number of other people for reviewing the code (I hardly had anything to do with this one), the code is now merged into the experimental builds!
We don’t have a soundset shipping with the experimental builds, but Chezzo has a WIP soundset using free replacements for the copyright-encumbered sounds vulkans was using, and I’m hoping we can sort out bundling those together sometime soon.
Until then I’ll see about taking what we have and sticking it on a ftp server where people can download it, I’ll post the link on the ambient sounds thread once I have it sorted out, or someone might beat me to it.