General Lee Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 First TFP needs to add cats to containers, then we can talk about quantum effects And this, boys and girls, is how the zombie apocalypse got started. Schrodinger threw a quantum cat into a box, found it to be both dead and alive, and here we are...ready to start the next American Civil War over toilet paper. Personally, I'm siding with whoever controls the Cottonelle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alphaniner Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 Personally, I'm siding with whoever controls the Cottonelle. Way down south in the land of Cottonelle... My money's on Charmin though. He who controls the Charmin controls the apocalypse [bears]. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meganoth Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 And this, boys and girls, is how the zombie apocalypse got started. Schrodinger threw a quantum cat into a box, found it to be both dead and alive, and here we are...ready to start the next American Civil War over toilet paper. Personally, I'm siding with whoever controls the Cottonelle. This also suggests a way to end the apocalypse. We just have to collapse the wave function on zombies. It seems posters in the Dev Diary are already trying this by inspecting the new Arlene in hairsplitting detail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Lee Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 Way down south in the land of Cottonelle... My money's on Charmin though. He who controls the Charmin controls the apocalypse [bears]. ROFL! Well played, sir. The Cottonelle wasn't even intentional wordplay, it's just my favorite brand. BRAVO! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Loooser Posted March 30, 2020 Author Share Posted March 30, 2020 Next question is: 1.) what is this? The yellow thing on the map. I'm doing a FETCH & CLEAR Quest. Does it reveal where the last Zombie is remaining? What happens if there are 2 last Zombies - does it not appear then until the second last is dead? So it is like a help to finalize the quest, but what if I cant find the last 5 of them? Or does it work different? WTF why is this so small? How are you supposed to see anything here? 2.) Then why are SOMETIMES enemies red marked on the compass when doing a CLEAR Quest, but only SOMETIMES. I enter a room and no zombies are marked, then I enter the next room, then all are red on the minimap, then the next one they are not. Why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boidster Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 Next question is: 1.) what is this? The yellow thing on the map. I'm doing a FETCH & CLEAR Quest. Well as you noticed your picture is very tiny so I can't quite see what you're pointing at. You might want to upload it to Imgur or Dropbox or something and then link to it. Or attache the .jpg directly to your post perhaps. During any fetch quest, there ought to be a yellow/orange marker on your compass showing where the supplies are. It will have a little up or down arrow on it if it's above/below you in the POI and it will start flashing when you are very close. 2.) Then why are SOMETIMES enemies red marked on the compass when doing a CLEAR Quest, but only SOMETIMES. I enter a room and no zombies are marked, then I enter the next room, then all are red on the minimap, then the next one they are not. Why? I'm pretty sure sleepers are not marked. Active zombies will be marked in red. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Loooser Posted April 2, 2020 Author Share Posted April 2, 2020 Well the picture is actually not small, it is 936 x 500, but it seems that the attachement function may be trash - I uploaded another picture and it was just as tiny Oô So here is that picture: So do you know what that yellow thing is? It is not the item that I need to retrieve. Also you said that non-sleepers are marked red. But when I enter the building in the beginning I do not see any red markers. If they are not sleepers then they would be marked as soon as I start the quest - and this would mean that entering the shotgun messia facility I would get 100 red dots on the map, but I get 0. It's just when I enter a room. When I enter other rooms then they zombies mostly dont cause a red marker. This makes me thinking as if it would be just random... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synvastian Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 the yellow marker is a sleeping enemy, it'll turn red when it "wakes" even if it doesn't know where you are (in my experience at least that what it is) I have never seen a sleeper in sleep state as a red dot, just yellow...maybe a bug, maybe not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roland Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 I always thought that the yellow dot was your final enemy. I don't think sleepers show up at all. Also, the line underneath the yellow dot tells you the enemy is below you. When you get horizontal to that enemy that line will disappear. If you descend too far and end up below the enemy, the line will appear above the dot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakurambo Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 the yellow dot appear when you have 2 o 3 enemies left and point up or down to guide you to them the red dots appear when the sleeper spawn, usually when you are very close to them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boidster Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 I learned from this thread, thanks! I now remember seeing yellow dots (not the yellow satchel icon), but didn't remember when they popped up. We just did a clear & fetch quest the other night, too - we must've just blazed through the POI without me ever even looking at the HUD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blasphemous Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 In my games, sleepers are marked with a red dot but it shows up when you sort of trigger their presence, for the lack of a better phrase to describe it, when you enter their zone. Similar thing seems to happen with the yellow dot, pointing you to the last trigger spot where sleepers still await. I had it turn into up to 4 individual dots upon entering a room. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roland Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 Good to know. I knew the yellow dot always came at the end but your description of it sounds right: Last spawning trigger area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prisma501 Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 TileEntityLootContainer class: public override void UpdateTick(World world) { base.UpdateTick(world); if (GamePrefs.GetInt(EnumGamePrefs.LootRespawnDays) > 0 && !this.bPlayerStorage && this.bTouched && this.IsEmpty()) { int num = GameUtils.WorldTimeToHours(this.worldTimeTouched); num += GameUtils.WorldTimeToDays(this.worldTimeTouched) * 24; if ((GameUtils.WorldTimeToHours(world.worldTime) + GameUtils.WorldTimeToDays(world.worldTime) * 24 - num) / 24 < GamePrefs.GetInt(EnumGamePrefs.LootRespawnDays)) { if (this.entList == null) { this.entList = new List<Entity>(); } else { this.entList.Clear(); } world.GetEntitiesInBounds(typeof(EntityPlayer), new Bounds(base.ToWorldPos().ToVector3(), Vector3.one * 16f), this.entList); if (this.entList.Count > 0) { this.worldTimeTouched = world.worldTime; this.setModified(); return; } return; } else { this.bWasTouched = false; this.bTouched = false; this.setModified(); } } } The part that answers the question: world.GetEntitiesInBounds(typeof(EntityPlayer), new Bounds(base.ToWorldPos().ToVector3(), Vector3.one * 16f), this.entList); if (this.entList.Count > 0) { this.worldTimeTouched = world.worldTime; this.setModified(); return; } So the worldTimeTouched of the lootcontainer (which is used to check if loot should respawn) is set again when an entity of type EntityPlayer is within the bounds of the lootcontainer + 16 blocks. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCrook1028 Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 TileEntityLootContainer class: public override void UpdateTick(World world) { base.UpdateTick(world); if (GamePrefs.GetInt(EnumGamePrefs.LootRespawnDays) > 0 && !this.bPlayerStorage && this.bTouched && this.IsEmpty()) { int num = GameUtils.WorldTimeToHours(this.worldTimeTouched); num += GameUtils.WorldTimeToDays(this.worldTimeTouched) * 24; if ((GameUtils.WorldTimeToHours(world.worldTime) + GameUtils.WorldTimeToDays(world.worldTime) * 24 - num) / 24 < GamePrefs.GetInt(EnumGamePrefs.LootRespawnDays)) { if (this.entList == null) { this.entList = new List<Entity>(); } else { this.entList.Clear(); } world.GetEntitiesInBounds(typeof(EntityPlayer), new Bounds(base.ToWorldPos().ToVector3(), Vector3.one * 16f), this.entList); if (this.entList.Count > 0) { this.worldTimeTouched = world.worldTime; this.setModified(); return; } return; } else { this.bWasTouched = false; this.bTouched = false; this.setModified(); } } } The part that answers the question: world.GetEntitiesInBounds(typeof(EntityPlayer), new Bounds(base.ToWorldPos().ToVector3(), Vector3.one * 16f), this.entList); if (this.entList.Count > 0) { this.worldTimeTouched = world.worldTime; this.setModified(); return; } So the worldTimeTouched of the lootcontainer (which is used to check if loot should respawn) is set again when an entity of type EntityPlayer is within the bounds of the lootcontainer + 16 blocks. Cheers Did that change in A18? I think it used to be like 6 instead of 16? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boidster Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 So the worldTimeTouched of the lootcontainer (which is used to check if loot should respawn) is set again when an entity of type EntityPlayer is within the bounds of the lootcontainer + 16 blocks. Cheers That jibes exactly with testing, but maybe we should rephrase "within the bounds of the container + 16 blocks". For practical purposes, the player must be within 8 blocks of the container. Docs for the Bounds(center, size) constructor say: Create a new Bounds with the given center and total size. Bound extents will be half the given size. The code says to create a new bounding box with center = 'base' of the container and box size = 16. Actual extents (i.e. the respawn reset trigger distance) from the center will be 8 in each direction. The total size of the cube is 16 blocks on a side, with the container at its center. I'm guessing that the occasional off-center results during testing were due to the 'base' of containers (mailboxes, in the case of my tests) not necessarily being in the center of the block. Or due to me not standing technically within 8 blocks (floating point vector distance) even though I was standing on the 8th block according to (integer) map coordinates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prisma501 Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 Did that change in A18? I think it used to be like 6 instead of 16? I just checked 17.4b4 and it was also 16 in that version. new Bounds(base.ToWorldPos().ToVector3(), Vector3.one * 16f) Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prisma501 Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 That jibes exactly with testing, but maybe we should rephrase "within the bounds of the container + 16 blocks". For practical purposes, the player must be within 8 blocks of the container. Docs for the Bounds(center, size) constructor say: The code says to create a new bounding box with center = 'base' of the container and box size = 16. Actual extents (i.e. the respawn reset trigger distance) from the center will be 8 in each direction. The total size of the cube is 16 blocks on a side, with the container at its center. I'm guessing that the occasional off-center results during testing were due to the 'base' of containers (mailboxes, in the case of my tests) not necessarily being in the center of the block. Or due to me not standing technically within 8 blocks (floating point vector distance) even though I was standing on the 8th block according to (integer) map coordinates. 100% correct. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCrook1028 Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 I just checked 17.4b4 and it was also 16 in that version. new Bounds(base.ToWorldPos().ToVector3(), Vector3.one * 16f) Cheers Yes, Boidster explained it with this post "Create a new Bounds with the given center and total size. Bound extents will be half the given size." It felt like 6 and not 16 because it was actually 8 from the distance container. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prisma501 Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 Yes, Boidster explained it with this post "Create a new Bounds with the given center and total size. Bound extents will be half the given size." It felt like 6 and not 16 because it was actually 8 from the distance container. Yeps. I talked about bounds size. That 16 can be confusing. Boidster explained it better. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Loooser Posted April 6, 2020 Author Share Posted April 6, 2020 So now I have some more questions: 1.) How do I get broken Glass (like the one for the Scope Mods)? In A16 and A15 it was created in a Forge by smelting in Sand and extract it back as Glass I remember (?) But now a Forge can not create broken Glass anymore. Can you only harvest it from Buildings? 2.) What is *Adrenaline Rush*? (20 sec buff) I get it when I shoot with a Shotgun on an entity. It can even be a dead animal. Does not even need to be killed. It seems like I can run faster, but I'm not quite sure what exact the effect is. Is not explained in menu. Oô 3.) How can I go to *Last Page* ? Right now in this new forum it seems that I have to switch through every page ... so this is page 4 and to get here I press NEXT, NEXT, NEXT ... is there a button instead of typing in the number in that field? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakurambo Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 1 scrap jars or broke some windows 2 don't know for sure but there is a book that nullifies movement penalties in combat, could be that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Loooser Posted April 6, 2020 Author Share Posted April 6, 2020 I think I found a bug: The wrench with quality 6 is worse than the wrench with quality 5. It just has more durability, but it actually does less damage overall, thus harvesting is actually faster / better with the Quality 5 wrench lol: Q5: Melee 25 Power 43 Block Damage 56 Q6: Melee 24 Power 42 Block Damage 52 (!!! looooool) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCrook1028 Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 I think I found a bug: The wrench with quality 6 is worse than the wrench with quality 5. It just has more durability, but it actually does less damage overall, thus harvesting is actually faster / better with the Quality 5 wrench lol: Q5: Melee 25 Power 43 Block Damage 56 Q6: Melee 24 Power 42 Block Damage 52 (!!! looooool) two words - Random Stats...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boidster Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 So now I have some more questions: 1.) How do I get broken Glass (like the one for the Scope Mods)? a) Scrap any glass object b) Smash any glass object (mirrors, pictures, windows, medicine cabinets, showers, etc.) c) Smelt sand into the forge, create glass jars (or blocks), scrap glass jars (or blocks) 2.) What is *Adrenaline Rush*? (20 sec buff) You have read Urban Combat Book #6, apparently. Read the description there. 3.) How can I go to *Last Page* ? Right now in this new forum it seems that I have to switch through every page ... so this is page 4 and to get here I press NEXT, NEXT, NEXT ... is there a button instead of typing in the number in that field? Noooope. (Edit: not at the top of the thread, anyhow; see meganoth's post next) Entirely new forum software coming at some point, so I guess they're not going to bother re-enabling some of the features we used to have. I think I found a bug: The wrench with quality 6 is worse than the wrench with quality 5. Not a bug. Happens all the time due to the randomness of the Random Number Generator and the range of values TFP has allowed for the item levels. They overlap considerably. A little too much, IMO, but whattayagonnado. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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