Yeah it wasn't SCP. In the randomiser that particular trap can have spiders, assassin's or protocol droids, and they're all deadly.

SCP absolutely did not turn any spiders into assassins.

''Miri, so far our work with the late model assassin cyborgs has gone remarkably well. I hope things with that son of bitch Diego never come to that, but it is comforting to know we're not nearly as defenseless as the UNN storm troopers might think. The only glitch we've encountered is with the upgraded laser rapiers... the poor things keep severing parts of themselves. We're trying to get the bugs fixed... ''

Ooohhhh, it's so amazing!   WHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWW   25 years later this feature is finally complete. That change made by scp by switching those annelid-spiders for assassins in that trap on Ops is also on point, perfectly after finding Korenchkin's log.

Recorded screenshot approx 0.02 seconds before death:

oh yes, i will do next time, i'm sorry..   :/

Hello, are scary monster & rapier assassin mod already compatible with SCP Beta 5 by any chance?

I still didn't have the pleasure of encountering any now finally full-armed & full-fledged assassin cyborg yet alas, although it seems to be one of the most exciting mods for me so far - having huge anticipation for it 

I've tried it with ss2 scp beta 4 version some time ago - but i had around 40 other mods installed & despite deactivating most or all of them it always crashed when i finally arrived in ops  : /

ps should add that they do so when their arm animations go past the barrier when they stand against it, I think, so not sure if that's this mod or just vanilla behaviour.

It will occasionally happen sometimes, should be much less often than before though. I set all of those enemies Sarge mentioned to fire projectiles from their elbow instead of their wrist, which looks virtually the same from the player's perspective but cuts down on 95% of cases where enemies blatantly shoot through objects, particularly Metacreative Barrier. I tested all of those enemies and for the most part they're getting blocked, there are a few angles (particularly if you cast the barrier so they're already partially inside it) where they'll manage to fire through anyway.

The thing to note about this vanilla issue is that the joint doesn't even need to make it to the other side of the object to fire through it, it just has to be inside the object at all. So if a Maintenance droid in the Cargo Bays has its arm slightly into a crate, the projectile will go right through the crate and hit you.

yes, monsters pushing their appendages through a solid object, getting the firing joint to the other side and harm the player with projectiles even though they shouldn't be able to is a vanilla issue.

hey there, love everything but just to report that cyborg assassins are still definitely shooting through the metacreative barrier, driving me nuts

Yeah, scripts are now attached via metaprops so should be compatible with Pistol Hybrid.

As for the old versions, if you want to move the download count for previous versions to 1.03 and delete them, that's fine by me.

Assassin Rapier is not really compatible with Rebirth, as stated in the mod post. You can use them together, but you'll get the Rebirth skin weirdly fitted over the original assassin mesh.

Now we just need an optional module to replace all the Rumbler animations with that adorable hop from the command2 cutscene

Update v1.03 is finally here. There are some improvements to the Cyborg Assassin, Cyborg Midwife, and Rumbler AI behaviors, but the main addition is support for a new Assassin Rapier module that, as the name suggests, equips Cyborg Assassins with a Laser Rapier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ0I4HKP0HU

Everything that's new:

-Fixed Big Droids, Shotgun Hybrids, Grenade Hybrids, Midwives, and Cyborg Assassins firing through objects (e.g. Cargo Bay crates, Metacreative Barrier)
-Fixed Turrets failing to hit the player at point blank range
-Laser Turret projectiles are 25% slower
-Rick Turret projectiles are 33% slower
-Monkey backstep goes 100% further
-Fixed Midwife melee swipes being unable to hit crouching players
-Midwife melee swipes are 25->33% faster
-Midwife slap attack is slightly less likely than other attacks
-Midwife pain stagger is 11->25% faster
-Midwife backstep is 25->43% faster and goes 20% further
-Midwife sidestep is 11% faster and goes 20% further
-Midwife combat walk is 25% faster
-Cyborg Assassin pain stagger is 43->82% faster
-Cyborg Assassin backstep is 16->25% faster and goes 60% further
-Baby Spider leap now counts as an attack on the descent
-Baby Spider leap attack is more likely to occur
-Baby Spider melee swipes are 33% faster
-Baby Spider run is 100% faster
-Rumbler combo attacks are slightly less likely
-Rumbler melee swipes are 11% faster
-Rumbler backstep/frontstep are 54% faster and go 100% further
-Rumbler has a chance to sidestep or frontstep instead of backstepping
-Rumbler pain stagger is 54% faster
-Rumbler has a chance of dodging in any direction instead of staggering on hit
-Rumbler search actions are 11% faster
-Added support for Assassin Rapier module

@RoSoDude is this fix still necessary?

Scary Monster AI mod compatibility fix here

@sarge945  I never got around to trying Secmod, so no opinion on it overall. Had features worth cribbing and I appreciate the effort that went into it. Aso, for the record, Scary Monsters is barely a DML mods, 90% of it is MotionDB changes.

@code371 I recall reading your mamy posts about the backpedal exploit from way back in 2016 when I was searching for ways to solve it myself! The backpedal exploit is due to an oversight in the engine AI code where enemies calculate the player will be out of range of an attack due to the player's current velocity. My understanding is that Alyamod simply bandaided the problem by massively increasing hybrid movement/anim speed such that they would overtake the player on the sides and attack more frequently. I fixed it in Scary Monsters by scripting the AI desired melee range to temporarily increase by up to 10x while the player is actually in range so that they attack rather than running at the player forever. This part of Scary Monsters can be manually applied to Secmod if one desires, requiring only a little bit of DML legwork. The rest of the mod is incompatible because Secmod comes with its own MotionDB package with other enemy moveset/behavior changes.

If you want to tweak enemies to be faster/more aggressive, you can compile your own edited MotionDB package using the motion schemas files I provide in the mod archive as a starting point, adjusting individual attack/movement animations to be faster. If you're not looking to delve into how that all works, you can also slap a global modifier to animation speeds that would make hybrids or other enemies do everything faster. Look for the Creature/Time Warp property.

Thank you for this mod. It was also implemented in AlyaMod 2 and 3, (even better in my personal opinion and taste), but there was no standalone mod, i disliked many other things in AlyaMod especcially randomizer so i called authtor to make a standalone version but with no luck.. the development was closed forever.

Here is my video comparison of AI behavior - vanilla vs AlyaMod, from 2017:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bBljkCAfwM

As you can see, the hybrids even more powerfull and challengeing, i remember how i played with this mod.. was so scary, it made me check every sigle corner and the fight with one or two hybrids was a real WAR, i liked that a lot.

So... thank you again with the mod, it great! I'll give it a try, but also.. i just want to ask you, can you made even "more scary version" to be simillar with AlyaMod implimentation like on my video? Will be great for true hardplay!

Btw: it seems like your mod doesnt work with SecMod

hmm.. the scripting is done in squirrel, so making it work shouldn't be a big deal - you just need to make sure you are not stepping on the Secmod scripts already assigned to the archetypes.

Oh this is cool! I'm going to be patient and wait for the thing and not try to tweak things myself though haha

Yeah I already did that in a development version of Scary Monsters that I'm just sitting on, but thanks for the reminder and fix for anyone else in the meantime.

One limitation to the metaproperty script assignment approach, by the way, is that it doesn't work if the archetype is set to not inherit parent scripts (not a problem for any monsters).

Now that I think about it, making a trigger that slays any AI that touches it would probably be pretty easy.

I bet you were twiddling your moustache as you typed that - you sound like a pantomime villain!

Now that I think about it, making a trigger that slays any AI that touches it would probably be pretty easy.

Rule #1 of software development:

If you touch thing X, which is tangentially related to thing y, and then thing y breaks, you're responsible even if you did nothing.

It's a stupid rule, but that's how people see things.

I don't think it should be related to anything I did -- speeding up motions doesn't make the AI go any farther (each run cycle covers a set distance), it just makes them do it faster. All of my changes to the Cyborg Assassin fall in the regime of speed increases.

I tried spawning some Cyborg Assassins in and around the tram and one or two got stuck on the tracks, which should be able to happen regardless of the mod. Just buggy collision behavior in Dark, whatcha gonna do.

Updated to v1.02. Made an error with the Cyborg Assassin in the last version. While it can sometimes feel cheap, disabling their ability to attack up close breaks them in some areas and makes them overall too easy to deal with. So I reverted that and also made them just a tad faster overall. New from v1.01:

-Reverted Cyborg Assassins never attacking the player in melee range (back to very low chances)
-Cyborg Assasssin run is 14% faster
-Cyborg Assassin backstep is 11->16% faster

I think I may have mixed up things here, so ignore unless someone else pitches in.

quick note - iirc, no need to repack edited motions back into motiondb.bin, if you place the edited *.mi and *.mc files into a \MOTIONS folder, they should load and override whatever motiondb.bin the game is currently loading.

this (not including a full motiondb.bin with the mod) should lessen the chances of conflicts happening.

Psi Reavers are already plenty lethal in terms of raw combat ability. Their shots are fast and do a ton of damage.

Something like Midwife shots, OTOH, could really benefit from leading, since they're so slow they basically never hit you unless you're standing still.