Request game modification to keep Buff's after death

[jonsmith31415]

Hello, I am currently looking to make a more challenging experience in my single player game. And one of the ways I would like to do this it's to stop the negative Buffs that my player had when he died from disappearing after coming back. I have tried editing the config files but I don't really know what I'm doing. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

[doughphunghus]

My GUESS (I have not tested) is this:

 

When looking at buffs.xml, all the buffs are listed. I'm going to look specifically at "buffLaceration"

The first line of the XML for this buff is:

   

<buff name="buffLaceration" name_key="buffLacerationName" description_key="buffLacerationDesc" tooltip_key="buffLacerationTooltip" icon="ui_game_symbol_laceration" icon_color="255,128,0">

 

Looking at some other buffs, say "buffNearDeathProtection", which seems to persist after death, I see this in its first line:

   

 <buff name="buffNearDeathProtection" icon="ui_game_symbol_near_death_trauma" icon_color="0,255,0" remove_on_death="false" hidden="true">

 

Notice this at the end

remove_on_death="false"

 

 

My guess is that by default, all buffs are internally set to remove_on_death="true", so it doesn't need to be listed in the buff, since fewer buffs need to explicitly persist after death they decided to make removing buffs after death to be the normal default, then when they want it to persist they have to override it explicitly.

 

To test this, try adding this to some of the debuffs you want to test against, then get the debuff and die and see if it remains when you respawn

 

 

 

 

 

[khzmusik]

That's the right way to do it. I have a couple custom buffs, and that's how I keep them around after death.

[jonsmith31415]

I wanted to say thank you it worked, thank you and have a nice day