PERFORMANCE UPDATE:

GORE SYSTEM:

Last big update to the Gore System I had coded the system to be randomized which was a great help and helped increase performance of the mod.

I've went in and cut each part of the system chance to spawn by half, which will be another boost to performance of the mod. :3



Thanks,
Guardian

NOTE: I didn't test this update..... Will fix problems if any show up... :3


PERK UPDATES:

GUARDIAN:
1. Now can regen 1 armor/sec. Regen only works when armor drops below 400.


SENTRY TECH:
1. Now spawns with Portal Rocket Turret at level 5.
2. Increased damage or Tarantula Rocket Turret. Was 250 a rocket, now 600. Increased damage radius a little.


Several Updates to Passive Trait System. Also, I can add messages to pop up for each trait when they are kicked in, but this would probably be a little much. So, I didn't add the message pop up. If people fill this would be a good idea to add, let me know. But, it would pop up ever time the trait kicks in, so on some perk traits it wouldn't be too bad. On others, would be probably spamming level....



ALL PASSIVE TRAITS ARE LISTED HERE: kfpassive.guardiansworlds.com




Passive Perk Traits (UPDATES):

1. Slight increase in all perks passive ability to happen.
2. Matrix, doubled the chance of passive ability to happen.
2. Cinder & Firebug. Changed the Passive Nova trait to last for a few seconds in the area it was released.




ADDED: LAST STAND PERK RESISTANCE TRAITS.


LAST STAND!!!! REDUCED DAMAGE
1. Last Stand reduced damage is taken in affect before any perk traits are calculated in. Meaning if a perk takes 100 damage from a ZED or a weapon, and the perks health is 25 or lower. The perk will take 75 damage, but then that damage will be calculated with the perks trait. So, if the perk currently has 50% (as a perk trait) reduced damage from lets say the ZED attacking it, the true damage the perk would take from the 100 damage hit would be 37.5.

ALL PERKS
1. When health of the perk falls to 25 or lower, the perk will take 25% less damage.


PERKS WITH INCREASED LAST STAND:

ARS
Blade
BruteGunner
Cinder
CrossBowMan
DGS
DGSEagleEye
Impaler
PistolProPerk
PistolProEagleEye
SMGS
Sniper
SSS
StormTrooper
Berserker
Commando
Demolitions
FieldMedic
Firebug
Sharpshooter
SupportSpec

1. When health of the the listed perks reach 50 or less, will take 25% less damage. Perks will also get the extra damage reduction if their health falls to 25 or below. Meaning at that point, the perk will have 50% reduced damage.





GUARDIAN
Lure ZEDs:
1. When taking damage from ZEDS, good chance Guardian will lure ZEDs in to attack to help pull ZEDs away from others.
2. When a metal armor taking a hit sound is made, the lure is released.
3. The lure will last in the area for 7 seconds.



MADCAT/GRIM REAPER
Knock Back:
1. When taking damage from ZEDS, good chance MadCat/Grim Reaper will release a knock back effect, knocking ZEDs away.
2. A stomp explosive sound will be made and an shockwave emitter will spawn when the knock back happens.


STREET BRALWER
Rage attack:
1. When taking damage from ZEDS, good chance Street Brawler will release a RAGE attack, damaging ZEDs around the player.
2. Rage attack is released like normal rage, but is weaker.



ASSASSIN, DEADPOOL, HORROR, JUGGERNAUT, NINJA, SWORD MASTER, VAMPIRE
Stun Zeds:
1. When taking damage from ZEDS, good chance the listed perks will release a stun attack, stunning ZEDs around the player and slowing their movement to 25% for 7 seconds.





LRES (LONG RANGE EXPLOSIVE SPECIALIEST):
Portal Rocket Turret Passive Drop:
1. Portal Rocket Turret Damage goes to LRES, no matter what perk uses it.
2. Portal Rocket Turret has a base set damage rate for all perks.
3. Portal Rocket Turret can be dropped. (to move around or give to another player)
4. Only allowed to carry 1 passive dropped Portal Rocket Turret.
5. Can be welded by Support Spec or Sentry Tech.






Thanks,
Guardian

PERK UPDATES:

TERMINATOR AND MADCAT:
1. Will now have to start their health & armor regen as it's an item in the perks inventory.
2. The regen is setup like health regen for EM perks, it will run 30 mins and will need to be restarted if the player hasn't died in 30 mins.



Why was Battle Medic, Sentry Tech Armor regen and now Terminator and Madcat health/armor regen changed to items in inventory?

Without getting to detailed, this is to help the engine have less strain. It's how each code works.

With setting up the code to do this automatically, the engine must scan through all controllers on the map (players and Zeds) and look for the perks that I have listed to give the regen to. It does this every second for each perk listed. So, you can see if there's a lot going on how this will put strain on the engine and after so much the engine is more likely to crash especially if some other code puts to much strain on it.


So, why not just tell the engine to look at players only? Gets more complex there, but the code must look for the controller on the level. Level pulls from the base unreal engine code and the maps all have the core level set. There's more to it, but that's a quick view.

I could make a new source level which then I could pull the newer controller source files of my mod from that source and could make the engine only look at players. But, doing this each map would need to have the new level source placed into them and remade for any of this to work. Not worth the amount of time this would take... :3

So... Putting the regen into the players inventory, the engine doesn't have to scan for controllers as the player (controller) using the item has the regen in their inventory and when it's turned on, the engine just gives what the regen amount listed to that one player without looking at all other players and zeds on the map. :3


How about Master Chief and Deadpool? Will probably keep them automatic, for now at least. I don't see these needing to be changed over as the others should be plenty enough.




Thanks,
Guardian

PERK UPDATES:

PASSIVE UPDATES:
1. The passive attacks for Necromancer, Blaze, Cinder, Firebug and Toxin were only doing 10% the damage they should have been doing. (Like using off perk weapons). This has been fixed, so should see a big difference when the attacks are spawned now.

2. Slight increase in chance of spawning Passive Summons.


OTHER PERK UPDATES:

Plasma projectiles and Pyroclastic Projectiles, also certain rocket projectiles:

1. Added code to keep the projectiles from exploding due to fire or other explosions happening near them. They can still explode, but they must take a much higher damage rate instead of any damage rate.

2. Also added this to MadCat HellTime rockets, M202 rockets and Brute M202 rockets, DGS, Pistol Pro and Storm Trooper Mini Rocket Pistols.

3. Siren screams will now explode these projectiles instead of destroying them.


Hopefully I got all the Plasma Type projectiles, if I missed any please let me know.




Thanks,
Guardian

ADDITION TO 7/20/2024 UPDATE:

PERK UPDATES:
1. Support Specialist is now able to weld player armor up to 400 like Sentry Tech and Battle Medic.



ZED UPDATES:
1. Fixed Doom Bosses, Pat Destroyer and Necro Pat Boss resistance. The prior update that fixed the resistance did so a weee bit to much. Bosses will still be hard, but this update should put them hopefully were they should be on the resistance scale. :3




Thanks,
Guardian