How do I make Chryssalids not always succeed?

[The Reaver of Darkness]

Yankes or Ohartenstein can write a script for you

Oh, I thought it was already done.


Simple: the chance of success is checked per attack, and is identical to the soldier's %remaining health. So it's possible for the attack to do no damage and turn them into a zombie, if they had already taken damage before. Probably they have a hole in their armor now...


I guess I'll hop back on the hype train then.

[The Reaver of Darkness]

I also noticed in stats for nerds, armor has an attribute: Can be Zombified: true. How do I set this false for an armor?

[ohartenstein23]

Code: [Select]

    zombiImmune: true

[Meridian]

I also noticed in stats for nerds, armor has an attribute: Can be Zombified: true. How do I set this false for an armor?

If you click on DEBUG button, you get the ruleset names of the attributes, in this case:

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  zombiImmune: true


[Yankes]

Oh, I thought it was already done.


Simple: the chance of success is checked per attack, and is identical to the soldier's %remaining health. So it's possible for the attack to do no damage and turn them into a zombie, if they had already taken damage before. Probably they have a hole in their armor now...


I guess I'll hop back on the hype train then.

Is done in my code but not released. For functionality itself. You get number in range `1` to `100` then you can get value of attack (another number) and some stats of attacker and victim. With all this values you can do any basic arithmetic operations (like `+`, `-`, `/`, `*`, `%`) to get result in range of `0` to `100` and this number will be used by game engine to determine if this victim will change to zombi or not (`0` -> no zombi, `100` -> always zombi).

[kharille]

Oh?  I just shoot rookies and civilians when I know chryssalids are near.

[Ethereal]

I don't really understand what these calculations are for, but I can confirm in armor with "zombiImmune: true" soldiers never become zombies. In the armor without this parameter, from turning into a zombie saves a "melee Dodge:" when Chryssalid stupidly misses the target. However if he not misses, the trouble can not be avoided, but it's as lucky. In General, the instruments to combat Chryssalid and Tentaculat full.

[Meridian]

Pasting a sample script here, just in case people are still interested.

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extended:
  scripts:
    damageUnit:
    # Global fix to Transformation attacks like Chryssalid zombification
    # Requires at least 1 hit point of damage before zombification triggers
    # This applies to *every* weapon that zombifies.  It *has* to get through armor to work.
      - offset: 4
        code: |
          if gt to_transform 0;
            if eq to_health 0;
              set to_transform 0;
            end;
          end;
          return;


[Ethereal]

Pasting a sample script here, just in case people are still interested.

I'm weak in scripts ... If set "if eq to_health 10" in this script, then the damage for transformation will have to be more than 10 points?

[Meridian]

I'm weak in scripts ... If set "if eq to_health 10" in this script, then the damage for transformation will have to be more than 10 points?

eq stands for "equal"
you can use gt which stands for "greater than" and lt which stands for "less than"

so "if lt to_health 11" is what you're looking for... meaning "if to_health is less than 11, don't transform"

[Ethereal]

Meridian, does it work at you? Maybe not compatible with the vampirism script?

[robin]

Pasting a sample script here, just in case people are still interested.

Code: [Select]

extended:
  scripts:
    damageUnit:
    # Global fix to Transformation attacks like Chryssalid zombification
    # Requires at least 1 hit point of damage before zombification triggers
    # This applies to *every* weapon that zombifies.  It *has* to get through armor to work.
      - offset: 4
        code: |
          if gt to_transform 0;
            if eq to_health 0;
              set to_transform 0;
            end;
          end;
          return;


I wanted this, thanks!

[Meridian]

Meridian, does it work at you? Maybe not compatible with the vampirism script?

I just copied it from piratez, I didn't test it... I'll test it later.

[Ethereal]

I just copied it from piratez, I didn't test it... I'll test it later.

Oh, exactly! Found! I have a file with scripts from there. Thanks, figured it out.