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Type: Mod
Name: Combat variations
Description: Adds a few new items and enemies to spice up your game
License:
Version: 0.1.1
Release: 2016-05-25
Tested-With-Factorio-Version:0.12.33
Category: Combat
Download-Url: This mod adds:

• 2 new turrets.
  Turrets

  1) Cannon turret:
  
  Comes with special ammo that doesn't damage your walls! (The exposive ammo might still explode on your walls though, so be careful).
  
  2) Capsule dispenser:
  
  Takes special modified capsules, that should work with any and all capsules in the game. Modded capsules will be missing localised names though.
• 2 and a half new walls.
  Walls

  1) Wire fence:
  
  Damages any enemy attacking it, but isn't very sturdy.
  
  2) Electric fence:
  
  Damages nearby enemies with powerful shocks, but takes a lot of power. They can conduct power to nearby fences if a power pole is placed directly adjacent to the electric fence.
  
  2.5) Barbed wire:
  
  Isn't really a wall, but you can run trough. Enemies can too, but they get distracted by the sharp thorns on the wire and take damage while walking on it. Not suitable for driving over.
• 2 new enemies.
  Enemies

  1) Kamikaze biter:
  
  Explodes when attacking, dealing damage to everything nearby, including other biters.
  
  2) Broodmother:
  
  She can't attack herself, but spawns tiny biters that do the attacking for her. While these biters die fast, she makes up in heavy damage resistance.
• Some other improvements
  Improvements

  • Added a single robot follower count so it doesn't stick at xx4 or xx9 followers but at xx0 or xx5
  • Added a single capsule that contains 5 defender capsules
  • Added a single capsule that contains 5 destroyer capsules (25 robots)
  • Added the hand cannon: All the damage of the tank without the slow moving part. (Still as hard to hit things)
  • Added a combat inserter: sturdier and takes no energy, but can only move a few, preselected items.

This looks really cool, especially the fences

What the hell is this brood mother. OMG.

And who is this cute little fella?

steinio wrote:
What the hell is this brood mother. OMG.

And who is this cute little fella?

That cure little fella is the base game defender robot. The capsule dispenser was loaded with a defender capsule, a poison capsule and a grenade.

This actually looks kinda awesome! Would it be possible to add a config to enable/disable parts? I honestly don't like the turrets, (i mean they are cool but with 4+other mods it becomes very overwhelming to have 2 kinds of Mk1 Mk2 mk3 and cannon turrets) I usually disable parts myself but that doesn't always work and messes things up. Either way looks awesome! Great job on the brood mother!

sporefreak wrote:This actually looks kinda awesome! Would it be possible to add a config to enable/disable parts? I honestly don't like the turrets, (i mean they are cool but with 4+other mods it becomes very overwhelming to have 2 kinds of Mk1 Mk2 mk3 and cannon turrets) I usually disable parts myself but that doesn't always work and messes things up. Either way looks awesome!

In the data.lua file inside the mod, the different parts are loaded by group.
I can't guarantee that disabling one doesn't mess other things up, but things are fairly split up.

sporefreak wrote: Great job on the brood mother!

Thank you! It wasn't hard to implement, but it turned out really great.

MrDoomah wrote: In the data.lua file inside the mod, the different parts are loaded by group.
I can't guarantee that disabling one doesn't mess other things up, but things are fairly split up.

So the Data.lua tells the mod what to load? i just thought it told the game what files were required to run .-. (removing any causing errors)

sporefreak wrote:

MrDoomah wrote: In the data.lua file inside the mod, the different parts are loaded by group.
I can't guarantee that disabling one doesn't mess other things up, but things are fairly split up.

So the Data.lua tells the mod what to load? i just thought it told the game what files were required to run .-. (removing any causing errors)

It's pretty easy to enable / disable given parts of a mod (like items etc). Few lines are enough to switch them on and off. - if you want to switch things on and off.
Replace data, add functions and config (main folder), delete projectiles from entity folder and add projectiles folder to prototype folder.
Now modify config to turn things on and off.

To OP.
Pretty cool stuff you got there

Lightning_Bird wrote:

switches.rar

That's pretty neat what you did there. Mind if I borrow this for future versions?
I had considered splitting this mod up into several modules or mods (especially the enemies from the rest) but decided against in the end.

MrDoomah wrote:

Lightning_Bird wrote:

switches.rar

That's pretty neat what you did there. Mind if I borrow this for future versions?
I had considered splitting this mod up into several modules or mods (especially the enemies from the rest) but decided against in the end.

Hey, you can do what you want.
I like to help (if I can) with the little stuff so people like you (mod creators) have more time for more important stuff

Lightning_Bird wrote:

MrDoomah wrote:

Lightning_Bird wrote:

switches.rar

That's pretty neat what you did there. Mind if I borrow this for future versions?
I had considered splitting this mod up into several modules or mods (especially the enemies from the rest) but decided against in the end.

Hey, you can do what you want.
I like to help (if I can) with the little stuff so people like you (mod creators) have more time for more important stuff

It was more a courtesy call than anything else. If you said no I'd still do it and there's nothing you can do to stop me

MrDoomah wrote:It was more a courtesy call than anything else. If you said no I'd still do it and there's nothing you can do to stop me

You don't have to expalin the obvious

I love this mod!!! Love you!! and love strong aliens!!!!!!!!

Can you added more aliens to strong???

another more fast aliens!
more health aliens!!
more high defense aliens!!!
more fast health recovery aliens!!!!
large explode to die (if aliens are die, this aliens corpse is boom~~~)
and master level aliens dies, is born cubs(if master level alien is die, corpse is born to high, mid or low level aliens!!)

about low, mid, high and master level aliens!!


sorry for my bad English and thank you for this mod!!!

sore68 wrote:I love this mod!!! Love you!! and I love harder aliens!!!!!!!!

Can you add even harder aliens?

Faster aliens!
Tanky aliens!!
Stronger aliens!
Fast Regenerating aliens!!!!
Aliens that explode on death!
and Splitting aliens! When they die they spawn smaller aliens that get stronger over time!

BESIDES THAT



I found a bug. When setting any item filter (Smart inserters for example) the Aliens are able to be selected for filters. Also in said alien filters the brood mother looks very humanoid,

sporefreak wrote:I found a bug. When setting any item filter (Smart inserters for example) the Aliens are able to be selected for filters. Also in said alien filters the brood mother looks very humanoid,

You can fix that by deleting lines from 12 to 43 in enemies.lua (prototypes>entity>enemies.lua)

sore68 wrote:another more fast aliens!
more health aliens!!
more high defense aliens!!!
more fast health recovery aliens!!!!
large explode to die (if aliens are die, this aliens corpse is boom~~~)
and master level aliens dies, is born cubs(if master level alien is die, corpse is born to high, mid or low level aliens!!)

You can get these using :
DyTech's War mod and Swarm.
You would need only DyTech War and DyTech Core. Look through the config file to adjust the difficulty and turn off cheats.

So.. I've made a broodmother capsule and I've tested them on other aliens.
I want to point out that if a broodmother is left to attack some unguarded entity or if it attacks with a hefty group of other aliens, her spawns can cause some serious lag.
I've deployed few of them and they spawned so many tiny biters, I coulnd't see the enemies anymore.
Just a heads up if you were to face large groups.

Lightning_Bird wrote:

sporefreak wrote:I found a bug. When setting any item filter (Smart inserters for example) the Aliens are able to be selected for filters. Also in said alien filters the brood mother looks very humanoid,

You can fix that by deleting lines from 12 to 43 in enemies.lua (prototypes>entity>enemies.lua)

I just learned that the enemies have items that can be used to spawn them, I wasnt aware of this but it makes so much sense now lol.

Also maybe the brood mothers should cap at 10 mini spawns?

sporefreak wrote: I just learned that the enemies have items that can be used to spawn them, I wasn't aware of this but it makes so much sense now lol.
Also, maybe the broodmother should cap at 10 spawns?

I was playing around with new biters and I didn't notice any item drops. Nor there is anything in files about loot / recipe based on these 'items'.

sporefreak wrote: I found a bug. When setting any item filter (Smart inserters for example) the Aliens are able to be selected for filters. Also in said alien filters the brood mother looks very humanoid,

sporefreak wrote:I just learned that the enemies have items that can be used to spawn them, I wasnt aware of this but it makes so much sense now lol.

Whoops, I made those items to test out the biters. I'll remove them in a new update.

Lightning_Bird wrote:I want to point out that if a broodmother is left to attack some unguarded entity or if it attacks with a hefty group of other aliens, her spawns can cause some serious lag.

That's just the pathfinder lag. I think they solve that somewhat in 0.13. Besides that, there should not spawn many broodmothers. The spawnratio's (at 100% evolution) are: 2 medium spitters : 8 big spitters : 6 behemoth spitters : 3 broodmothers. That means there is about 1 broodmother in 5(+1/3) spitters, plus there are biters too. (This is without other mods that add enemies.)

MrDoomah wrote: That's just the pathfinder lag. I think they solve that somewhat in 0.13. Besides that, there should not spawn many broodmothers. The spawnratio's (at 100% evolution) are: 2 medium spitters : 8 big spitters : 6 behemoth spitters : 3 broodmothers. That means there is about 1 broodmother in 5(+1/3) spitters, plus there are biters too. (This is without other mods that add enemies.)

Yeah, I've heard about the pathfining. If they solve that then we can stop avoiding large groups of enemies
For the broodmother an AoE turret is a must have (dispenser)