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Topic: SS2 Community Patch (SCP) Beta 6
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Re: SS2 Community Patch (SCP) Beta 5
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Wow! This is fantastic news, thanks so much to everyone involved (both with SCP and the compatible mods). I'm looking forwards to personally finding the differences/improvements over SCP beta 4 (which was already brilliant, of course).
Re: SS2 Community Patch (SCP) Beta 5
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So there's a line in the Beta 5 readme:This could probably do with some explanation.[...]
Doesn't that mean that all QA and balancing was done with this bug in mind?
If I understand correctly, the ecology always spawns a timer in its constructor regardless of the population limit, and the constructor is always called on loading a level. While this hurts save scummers most, it also guarantees starting a spawn timer when traversing levels. So the population would always quickly increase when traversing levels, which is most important during backtracking.

I think that's a rather natural way of doing respawning without going overboard. Fixing the bug might automatically neuter the respawning to such a degree that it becomes meaningless, which is definitely not wanted, at least not on higher difficulties. Have you thought of a way to fix the bug while keeping the difficulty intact - in a way that makes sense?

6724183f81fc6ZylonBane

Re: SS2 Community Patch (SCP) Beta 5
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You might want to re-read the italicized part of my explanation.

6724183f8210evoodoo47

Re: SS2 Community Patch (SCP) Beta 5
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to answer the question - yes.

6724183f82269NeilHoward17

Re: SS2 Community Patch (SCP) Beta 5
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Just finished a SCP 5 playthrough, was brilliant, a standard mods should be measured against, you deserve all the praise. :)

6724183f82342voodoo47

Re: SS2 Community Patch (SCP) Beta 5
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b5 is 99% ZB.

6724183f82410ZylonBane

Re: SS2 Community Patch (SCP) Beta 5
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Mostly the bones and fingernails.

6724183f8266eZylonBane

Re: SS2 Community Patch (SCP) Beta 5
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Fun fact: The Hydro deck air recirculators were supposed to have their own unique ambient sound. There's a schema for it and everything:
Quote by amb_hyd.sch:
schema air_recirc_lp
archetype AMB_HYDRO
volume -500
mono_loop 0 0
recirclp
But the audio file for it, recirclp.wav, is missing from the CRFs.

6724183f82aafsarge945

Re: SS2 Community Patch (SCP) Beta 5
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When inserting the toxin a, we can hear a sound of it sucking air in before screams are heard,

I'm assuming here (and it's a big assumption) that there was originally that sound without the screams on repeat. So it would suck in air constantly and when you add the toxin A it does it's usual routine and the many don't like it.

Based on that wild speculation, it would also make sense for them to remove it at the last second because it was probably quite annoying.

I have absolutely nothing to base any of this on, though.

6724183f82c0fZylonBane

Re: SS2 Community Patch (SCP) Beta 5
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Unlikely that they would have outright deleted the sound, since SND.CRF is full of unused sounds. Also unlikely that the sound was annoying, because SS2's sound design is awesome.

6724183f83088tiphares4

Re: SS2 Community Patch (SCP) Beta 5
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I dont want to spam or get on the nerves, but i want to throw 2 cents in   :)

I'm assuming here (and it's a big assumption) that there was originally that sound without the screams on repeat. So it would suck in air constantly

I think this is right assumption

So it would be possible to reconstruct that missing soundfile by extracting that hissing air sound minus the screams   :)

It would make so much sense, since those enviromental-air-regulator-units seem to be operational before inserting vials - also gameplay-wise it would be easier for players to spot them when getting in vicinity + more atmosphere in true sense of word   :3

It would be gameplay enrichment by making use of ss2's wonderful audio aspects for not only spotting enemies.



i've noticed you can blow up the toilets now..   oO'                             💕
« Last Edit: 11. January 2024, 07:06:21 by tiphares4 »
Re: SS2 Community Patch (SCP) Beta 5
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SCP is definitely one of the best fan-made mods ever made, and really does turn this already classic and unique but sometimes rough game into a much more polished and enjoyable experience. Thanks, ZB, and everyone else involved.

Have any of SS2's developers ever commented on SCP? Have they ever discussed the things that they intended to include in the game but where instead forced to abandon due to lack of time or system resources? Did they ever say what they wish they had done differently? For such a complicated game, I would expect that there were some interesting ideas for the game that had to be abandoned or significantly changed to get the game finished and out the door.
Acknowledged by: tiphares4
Re: SS2 Community Patch (SCP) Beta 5
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Looks like the unpowered armor defense has been reduced to +10 instead of +20, and localized pyrokinesis negates protocol explosion damage again? Didn't see either of these listed in the patch notes but I appreciate the changes.

6724183f835e0ZylonBane

Re: SS2 Community Patch (SCP) Beta 5
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localized pyrokinesis negates protocol explosion damage again?
Of course not. That would be silly.
Re: SS2 Community Patch (SCP) Beta 5
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ZylonBane
The Readme mentions several "minimods" that can be enabled, but there is zero information on how to do so. SCP appears as a single entry in DMM and there is no configuration menu. Can someone provide some clarity on this?

6724183f83c26voodoo47

Re: SS2 Community Patch (SCP) Beta 5
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you download the minimod and load it in the mod manager, business as usual. the only difference is that you have to have SCP already loaded for the minimod to actually work.

6724183f83d1dZylonBane

Re: SS2 Community Patch (SCP) Beta 5
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And they're linked to in the first post of the very thread you're responding to.

6724183f83e20ZylonBane

Acknowledged by: voodoo47

6724183f83f62voodoo47

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yet another voodoo47 did almost nothing release. oh well, I'll go hammer on some minimods and translations.

make sure to update RealSG to 1.06 if you are running b6.

6724183f84049ZylonBane

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Hey, you increased the respawning a bunch. I'm pinning all that on you if anyone complains.

6724183f8416bvoodoo47

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that's why I said almost. and I balanced it, the lazy spawners receiving a little kick and the crazy ones a small cooldown.

but sure, send 'em my way. *connects fingertips*
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Thanks Zylonbane and voodoo for your good work. I've been looking forward to this.

6724183f843e5ZylonBane

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Just a reminder to anyone who's using this with 400 and SHTUP, it requires 400 21U and SHTUP-ND beta 2 for full compatibility.

6724183f8453aCyrusVonNox2001

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I'm happy for the new update. However, the music trigger in Med/Sci 2 is still broken. Is there any way I could fix it with notepad or something or is it buried deep within the game? Has someone else made a mini patch to fix the trigger?

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