The Lycan ABS

[DerVVulfman]

It has been years. But now it is time for a
BUMP
to Version 12.5

First, it was noticed that companions may actually revive when they shouldn't after being slain. Said party members would continue to move about and attack as if nothing had happened and shrugged off being... essentially... dead. And indeed, there were also issues where enemy attacks may not fully register on the companions, said party members not knowing if they were dead or not. These were actually two separate issues, neither hard to track down. Noth just required a line or two of code to fix this issue

Most work on skills were for the benefit of the player. But for enemies and allies alike, it was thought they would use melee combat or ranged attacks instead, and not close-quarters melee skills such as cross-cut or leg sweep. Healing and curative close-quarters spells worked fine, but nothing combative. Herein, there was an issue that was overlooked. Sujabes467 of Save-Point.org noticed that companions lacked the ability to use any skills defined in the BASIC_SKILLS array other than healing. It took some time, but new methods were added to accommodate melee skills defined within the BASIC_SKILLS array.

Meanwhile, a new little two-parameter array has been injected into The Lycan ABS. This simple array turns on or off the enemy-detection systems, so you can craft 'shoes of silence' letting the player only be detected by sight... or a 'cloak of darkness' allowing the player to be heard, but not scene.

Code:

$ABS.player_detectable[0]  = true/false         # Handles audio
$ABS.player_detectable[1]  = true/false         # Handles visual
$ABS.player_detectable     = [false,false]      # Just hides anything

I wouldn't think that this would be TOO difficult to employ.

When one fires a gun, or uses an extremely powerful or mighty a weapon, they may be kicked backwards. This is handled by the KICK argument within the weapon's related control arrays (Weapons, Skills, etc). It was recently considered that heroes or enemies strong enough should not have to worry about such an issue. So a new value was added to the 2nd configuration page: ANTI_RECOIL_STR.

The anti-recoil strength argument indicates how strong an actor or enemy has to be in order to withstand the kick of a gun or like weapon. In its current default setting, characters must have at least 100 strength to avoid the kick. Anything weaker, and they will be knocked backwards.

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On other notes, a minor fix was applied to the Lycan AT Bar script so the system would not crash if an enemy combatant was killed and erased. This almost never occurred, but was possible. So a minor bandage was applied to the bar drawing system.

And the demos had been using MultiSlots! version 3.0 for some time. Now updated, they use MultiSlots! version 3.5. No configuration changes needed between the two.

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On a side note, you can see Jill having clothes equipped in her menu display within the Story 2 Demo just as Bill has his within Story 1. Granted, they aren't actually Jill's...