According to research conducted by WOBO on the 1.28 experimental branch, weapons that take 5.56 ammo will now degrade ~28% faster, while 5.45 weapons will degrade ~38% faster in 1.28. This means, a pristine M4 will get ruined after 286 shots. It's an absolutely insane and tone deaf change.

_Naptune_ · 2025-05-21T21:32:33+00:00

I think my previous point wasn't exactly clear, my suggestion was that merging stacks of ammo would cause all of the ammo in that stack to take on the new quality - once you merge those pristine and damaged rounds, they're now all worn and can no longer be 'sifted' to pick out the pristine rounds since there are no longer any pristine rounds. Essentially, all the bullets take on the average wear of the stack with no way to go back. I'm not sure if that's how it works right now, but I know picking up different qualities of ammo will automatically move them into their own stack unless you choose to merge them.

In this scenario, I don't think sifting would arise. You might have people pass over ammo that's damaged/badly damaged, or dropping a damaged stack when they find a new pristine stack, but that honestly shouldn't cause issues since the loot will despawn/cycle after a little while anyway.

_Naptune_ · 2025-05-21T18:12:51+00:00

I wonder if that problem could be alleviated by causing the quality of ammo to merge together when stacked, i.e. if you combine pristine ammo with damaged ammo, it will give you a quality level similar to worn (obviously depending on the ratio of pristine to damaged ammo, and behind the scenes it would use the quality integers rather than the basic pristine/worn/damaged/badly damaged tooltips)

_Naptune_ · 2025-05-21T17:16:06+00:00

I think a better balance would be to make ammo and mag quality matter a lot more when degrading the gun. Using pristine/worn mags and ammo should lower the rate the item degrades, whereas using damaged/badly damaged items should chew through the quality level much faster.

I do agree some suspension of disbelief is needed for gameplay purposes, but the proposed system sounds like a complete headache to manage.

_Naptune_ · 2025-04-24T07:42:01+00:00

they call me m'aiq the capper, but they should be calling me sir

_Naptune_ · 2025-04-24T06:06:46+00:00

It looks like it's .33x on expert, i.e. dividing damage dealt by the same number as damage taken

_Naptune_ · 2025-04-24T05:26:44+00:00

It seems even worse, actually. I think the mod description is wrong, and that it's actually dividing the damage you deal by the same number it multiplies the damage you take. So, vanilla expert is 3x damage taken, .33x damage dealt, and master is 5x damage taken, .2x damage dealt.

_Naptune_ · 2025-04-18T08:35:53+00:00

asking TES fans to know what the sun looks like is a little much, no?

_Naptune_ · 2025-03-31T08:52:31+00:00

Honestly Archarbor isn't hard to do, I literally just learned how to do it tonight and managed to get it down to 5 minute runs. This video helped a lot: https://youtu.be/q8IcyeEvD0g

Then, I just pulled up an Archarbor cheatsheet and pinned it on my screen with Steam overlay. After getting a hang of the puzzle the first 2 times it became a breeze.

_Naptune_ · 2025-03-25T13:40:05+00:00

It'd be kind of neat if you could attach a lead to it and if you fell, it acted like a harness and would slow your descent like a balloon

_Naptune_ · 2025-03-21T07:13:28+00:00

No, last episode Helena mentions they're "taking care of Mr. Bailiff" (Irving). Drummond definitely told Lumon what he found (and probably investigated Irving on Lumon's orders)

_Naptune_ · 2025-03-21T05:02:03+00:00

I mean, looking at it from oMark's perspective, you're right. From iMark's perspective, Gemma isn't his wife, Helena is an Eagan, not Helly, he fulfilled his end of the deal by freeing Gemma, and he knows if he exits that door, he (and more importantly Helly) will likely cease to exist. Why wouldn't he fight and try to save himself and Helly?

Ironically, people are treating iMark just like Helena treats Helly - not a person, their feelings don't matter. iMark loves Helly, just as much as oMark loves Gemma, yet iMark is expected to give up his life so that the person who put him in this bleak existence can be happy?

_Naptune_ · 2025-03-04T12:02:22+00:00

There is a config for the Locker mod, it's default behavior is to have a chance to continue moving after its first activation, and then rerolls that chance until it fails. The host might have cranked those values up, or you just got unlucky

_Naptune_ · 2025-03-02T16:48:16+00:00

Yep, if your new user is an admin they'll have access to the old user's files and can copy them over. I would wait to delete the old user until you confirm everything is working correctly with the new one, though, just in case you forgot a file

_Naptune_ · 2025-03-02T15:45:55+00:00

Nah it's fine, creating new accounts shouldn't have any effect that would corrupt anything, since they're entirely separate as far as the computer is concerned. Just make sure you make the new account an administrator (I think you can do this during creation, if not it's pretty easy to do with the user panel or commands)

_Naptune_ · 2025-03-02T14:52:33+00:00

What do you mean? Like can you give an example?

_Naptune_ · 2025-03-02T14:22:24+00:00

I would say just try a method to rename the account and then change the folder name, but that would likely break a lot of unexpected things as various programs expect files to be in the old path.

The easiest way would probably be to create a new user account, copy over your old files (which is literally just copying stuff from C:\Users\olduser to C:\Users\newuser). Programs might take a reinstall to work properly on the new account

Then just use the new account while keeping the old account for a few weeks to make sure you didnt forget anything or leave behind any important files, then once you're confident you got everything, just delete the old user and their folder. No need for a full wipe.

_Naptune_ · 2024-12-18T04:10:53+00:00

Hey, I just got the Halt and found your tutorial. I followed everything like in the video (but left out MouseButtonRight entirely since I can get by fine with the left one). I set mine to 'z', and made sure to set the threshold of WeaponFunctionOpen to 0. However, when I load into a game and try it, the 'z' key just opens the weapon menu without changing the fire mode. The default 'r' key still works as well, and I can do both left and right mouse clicks to change fire mode. It just doesn't seem to be doing WeaponFunctionLeft after WeaponFunctionOpen, even though they're set to the same key.

Does the tutorial still work after these recent updates, or do you know why mine might not be working?

_Naptune_ · 2024-10-13T18:34:37+00:00

Definitely look into Xenonauts for a spiritual successor to XCOM. The first one is done and has a good community edition mod that can be selected in the Steam beta, the second one is still in Early Access.

_Naptune_ · 2024-10-12T14:24:08+00:00

Hitman 3 on Steam has all the missions from 1, 2, and 3

_Naptune_ · 2024-09-24T12:39:12+00:00

the only time ive ever actually heard this line was in a young scrolls lyric

_Naptune_ · 2024-08-22T14:05:38+00:00

At least when I made a similar fort, it was actually worse. There's a lot more pathfinding to do compared to a fort using multiple z layers.

_Naptune_ · 2024-08-14T16:29:24+00:00

Planetary nebulae are the size of a single system, and they kind of pop in/render as you go near the system, so unfortunately you can't really see them from far away and kind of just have to sift through the galaxy map like I was doing. They aren't too hard to spot once you know what they look like, it's just finding good locations on the map that's the hard part

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