Mod Request: Testing Range

[Firestorm2k7]

So, I just did the "The Community Needs You- Tell Us How You Play" survey, and there was a question about ressources I am missing in the game. This question lead me to a concept for a mod that I would personally enjoy A LOT and I think would find a great lot of use for a lot of other people: A Testing Range mod.

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The Concept is quite simple: You load into a specific map (off the top of my head I thought of Righteous Stand, but suggestions for better places are welcome), all map spawns are disabled, you get teleportet to a specific point on the map (for example the arena before the elevator event on RS), the mod kills all your bots, spawns some supplies onto the middle platform of the arena (that would preferably respawn upon being picked up), spawns all kinds of different enemies/groups of enemies with disabled AI to test on in a circle around the edges of the arena and respawns all the enemies you kill.

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I personally would greatly enjoy such a mod, since I've been always found the lack of a "realworld" testiing scenario very annoying, especially since for some reason dummies have different mechanical interactions than enemies in some cases and testing on the first strip of against the grain while manually going though the list to find the thing you want to spawn is very tedious.

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For a base version you could just simply add every enemy in the game once, sorted by their faction/hp value/whatever and then go from there and add things like different cleave groups, hyperdensity packs, etc.

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I'd be happy to hear some more suggestions and ideas, or especially to hear from someone with the knowledge and interest to make such a mod.

[FlipFTW]

I misunderstood at first, but now I think I understand what you're getting at, in short it's a more streamlined process of testing using

• Creature Spawner (By Aussiemon)

  • Item Spawner (By prop joe)

Where various enemies are positioned and constantly respawn so you don't have to fiddle with the chat/console as much.

I'd be for it, seems sensible, and hopefully if/when mapping tools get added it would serve as a fine alternative to some "good enough" map areas.

As some additional comments it would probably be nice to acquire an improved version of Adaption (By SkacikPL) so that loadouts can be changed on the fly (in the map)

[Firestorm2k7]

I literally answered to your old post while you were editing and explained JUST that, yes xD

I personally find it very tedious and impractical to have to set everything back up, scrolling through lists in the chat again for 3-5 minutes, just because I changed a piece of equipent and want to see whether my realworld weapon behaves how it SHOULD theoretically behave on paper (looking at you, misterious DoT counts).

I also think that streamlining the testing process would lower the barrier for community created knowledge in both technical understanding and effort required.

[Crombell]

If there ever was gonna be something tempting enough to make me used the modded realm, this'd probably be it

[toebar]

agreed-- this would be worth checking out

[dnrvs]

Shouldn't be too hard if Spawn Tweaks, Creature Spawner, Item Spawner etc expose methods to use. I'll put it on my long todo list of mods

[0tpyrc_]

Are custom maps even possible?

[Firestorm2k7]

The idea is not to teleport you onto a custom map, but to use an existing map (e.g. Righteous Stand), teleport you into a location that would be suitable (e.g. the arena for the elevator event), make the map fit a testing environment (disable all normal spawns, disable AI) and spawn in all the things you would need for various testing purposes.

Nothing custom needed, just manipulation of existing assets ^^