Weapon Fixes
we're expanding shit

All knives in game should have a proper range of attacks. The number of attacks your character can perform depends on their skill with knives. So better skill means better moves, better damage. They should be working with a proper rate of progression so one will differ from another.

Also not all weapons follow the same path, some are really crappy with little skill and show up better results when you are better trained in them.

Average weapon takes 2 hours to expand and finalize, from the current basic item into proper range of attacks, damage progression and etc.

Now go cut each other in game.

And yes, I'll do a dildo attack set.

Furthermore, we are still fine-tuning shit and I still need to do the dildo, but that's a bonus....

Now go kill people...

Report any weird things like:

- Wrong pronouns (swinging a player into the weapon)

- Inappropriate behaviour (slashing with a blunt weapon)

- Feeling overpowered (two hit kill?) or underpowered (10 hits to cut hot butter?)

All weapons that got their attacks fleshed out (20+) will feel waaaaay better than they were. And when I say waaaaay better I mean it. As usual the better you are in a skill the more things you can do with it's weapons, usually deadlier things.

Now, since we're touching all weapons and rebalancing them to make sure there's no FTWOMGBBQ build that owns over everyone we have one special opportunity to actually change how long combat takes.

Now we're not going wild and setting a minimum time or a maximum or anything crazy like that. We can simply set the weapons as a whole to yield more or less damage so combat lasts longer or is shorter. Or we can keep with the same range that is currently in game.

Now what we really want is for you guys to make this choice. There's a poll in the homepage right now for you to vote, let us know what you think.

I know it has to be that way because SD is still just a game and game's require a balance in order to function.

What I would hate to see is it taking more actual successful hits to drop a player than is already required based on people's condition.

I think if the community would like to see combat last longer I believe the focus should gravitate around making the combat scroll longer via it being more likely to dodge someone who is closer in your skill level and lower the impact of Kamikaze stance since from my experiences it pretty much guarantees you're going to connect more often than not. I've experienced some awesome fights with people missing and parrying and landing a few hits here and there turn into a wall of red as soon as kamikaze goes into effect and it's nothing but equal trade of blows and the highest HP wins.

The problem with evenly matched combat right now is it all boils down to who is magnificent or miraculous... I've witnessed players fight each other where one is magnificent and the other excellent, and that poor excellent conditioned player would fall within a matter of three hits from any high end weapon. This making dodge/parry rolls harder to witness since you have no padding.

That same player dumped a large amount of UE into their endurance and all of a sudden had the same amount of HP and the fight would go either way.

It might be worth taking a look at the balance between being a tank and being a dodgy bastard and we might see a positive effect on engagements before tampering with damage output.

Perhaps doctors, or at least automated ones, could be set to only heal a much more limited amount, enough to get someone away from the brink of death, but not back up to nearly full HP. And also apply a bonus modifier to speed their healing the rest of the way over natural healing, due to having the injuries properly treated. Then increase the doctor's fees, plus the time it takes to heal when untreated, and getting fucked up in combat becomes a serious affair rather than a mild inconvenience... either it's gonna cost you a good bit of money unless you find a player who's a doc/medic, or you're gonna be weakened for a longer period of time.

Pistols are done

Also expect new pistols in game.

Now there are disposable guns in game.

Cheaper and un-reloadable. The bic of pew pew pew.

I agree, we can't *automate* the way people RP. But we can *help* them RP by... wait for it... Playing health scripts?

Like drug scripts. Someone mentioned above that players *forget* what condition they're supposed to be in. And players *around* them might not be aware either, if they forget to "look first goat", right?

I don't believe that people are metagaming by ignoring their condition. I think cues, clues and prompts will enhance RP at times when people forget. I've certainly been in this unaware position, myself, 'cause I'm still a combat and injury noob.

Anyone interested to contribute? Let's take it over to the Scripting forum and write some. Like I said, I'm pretty naive about injuries in general and what they actually do to you, so, I'm really hoping players would write some ideas.

http://www.sindome.org/bgbb/development-discussion/script-development/

Just wondering if with all the new weapons in game you guys need help writing attack sets for each weapon.

I'll have more than a bit of spare time next week and would be happy to help out.

Rats now do more damage

You've been warned and etc... No whining required.