Zombasite More Mod!

[Destro*]

Zombasite More Mod! 2.0
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Installation & Setup
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Step 1: Download From: http://www.mediafire.com/file/gr191y...e+Mod+Full.zip

Step 2: Install at: [Your Steam Location]\steamapps\common\Zombasite\Assets

Example: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Zombasite\Assets

Step 3: Delete your existing characters. (I recommend backing up your Zombasite user folder first.)

For Windows 7 Users: C:\Users\[Name]\AppData\Local\Zombasite\User
For me: C:\Users\[Destro*]\AppData\Local\Zombasite\User

Step 4: Read information on mod below.

Reading Short Description = Reasonable experience.
Reading Long Description = Optimal Play Experience.
Reading Patch Notes = Spoiled Play Experience.

Old Versions and non-direct download link can be found at: http://www.mediafire.com/folder/bu0a.../Zombasite_Mod

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Short Description
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1.) Play on hardcore. (This mod is NOT balanced around softcore and I strongly believe that you will not be able to feel any sense of achievement by playing softcore, nor will you be able to feel the 'spirit' of the mod. But, I can't make you play hardcore, so I can only hope that you try hardcore after softcore if you refuse to play hardcore.)
2.) Do NOT drop your original bag. I disabled the flag that prevents you from dropping your original bag so that you can take advantage of bag mods to switch out your original bag. Be very careful... because if you have no bags, your character is practically screwed! You CANNOT pick up items onto your cursor, even with the equipment ui open, if you have 0 bags.
3.) Be very wary of your nemesis, arch-nemesis and enemy humanoids.

For all of the above, you have been warned.

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Long Description
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The Zombasite More Mod is a total overhaul of Zombasite that aims to completely overhaul the game by enhancing its gameplay to be more fun and balanced. This mod touches upon nearly every aspect of the game including but not limited to: skills, classes, items, passives, monsters, area layouts and area element spawning. And, to briefly go into greater detail on just a single one of the items in the previous limited list, let's take a look at items. For items, I rebalanced affixes, changed stat requirements, changed base item stats, increased affix count based on rarity, buffed drop rates, and on and on. Similar degrees of change were implemented in other areas of the game.

The four main goals of this mod are to:

A.) Increase the occurrence and frequency of rare content.

This entire mod is called the Zombasite More Mod, so it really goes to show how having MORE is the central, core theme behind the mod. You know those bonus chests that have a .00001% chance of spawning or don't even spawn at all during your entire run to level 100? Expect to see quite a few during each playthrough to level 100. The same goes for greater rooms, victory exclusive chests and much more. Expect more item mods, more chests, more health, more item drops from said chests, more stronger monsters, more frequent spell casts, and more... More... MORE... MOOOORRRREEE!!!

B.) Place an emphasis on difficulty.

With every reward comes a punishment. Monster difficult scales from 'easy to neigh invulnerable' under various conditions, such that farming in areas multiple levels above you is now no longer a no brainer. And, going up into higher Area Difficulties is also something that you need to carefully consider. Click to go into Champion difficulty too early and you're dead. Champion to Elite? Haha. And, for the tiers above? Have fun dying; assuming that you ever make it that far. (Note: unlikely)

No longer can you pick up 'Scavenger' or 'Pain Delay' and face roll through the rest of the game just because of one trait. You will seriously need to consider every strategy available to yourself if you want to succeed, because I assure you that every aspect of the game's gameplay is balanced around all possibilities open to you as a player.

Brace yourself for a challenge.

C.) Give everything a place.

A large portion of the time spent developing this mod was allocating toward developing new skills, buffing and nerfing overly powerful and overly weak skills, making new classes, rebalancing stats like health, mana, defense and attack and more. The goal behind all of this was to reduce the disparity in power between skills and classes that are far too weak or far too strong. And, I know that I succeeded at achieving my goals.

Playing the game with any random hybrid feels really smooth and you will feel that your character is viable and has a chance at making decent progress. Damage is far less spikey than before because monster enhancements and damage multipliers in general have been toned down substantially. You won't be fighting mobs and be taking 4 damage per hit and then suddenly get hit for 4,000 and die. But, don’t think that this means that you can't get one-shot, as overall base damage was increased to compensate for the decreased multipliers on monster enhancements, and some enhancement combinations are still incredibly strong...

The only things that doesn't have a place in this mod are... well... you'll find out very quickly I imagine when you notice their absence.

D.) Reduce cheese.

A lot of balance is designed to kill off cheesy tactics that make use of game mechanics to get ahead. There are still some game mechanics that I simply can't remove. But, I directly nerfed the methods or provided alternatives that heavily mitigate their effectiveness.

The recommended playstyle of this mod is Hardcore with Zombies Allowed. And, that is what everything is balanced around. Playing with additional difficult mods will certainly be quite hard... and winning with any of them would meant that you are indeed quite amazing at Zombasite!

I hope that you enjoy this mod. Good luck and have fun!

[( Tchey )]

Well, it seems to be a lot of work put into this mod.
I may test it, but by the look of it, it's not for me.

Congratz for your work anyway.

[Destro*]

Thanks ( Tchey )!

I'm kind of curious, what about the description doesn't appeal to you? The entire concept? Or, just a specific aspect?

Edit: Also, I'm aware of some small issues with the mod already (because I'm playing it right now). Will have 0.0.2 later tonight. Haha.

Edit 2: 0.0.2 out. Fixes most, if not all immediate & mod-ruining issues.

Had a lot of fun playing new char combinations today. It's really incredible how much opportunity there is in the game when a few doors get opened, haha. In any case. I was thinking of a few Shadow inspired lines that I could say based on my gameplay.

My Magician + Dark Templar probably isn't the most powerful hybrid combination. But, the allure of high late game tankiness and low cooldown teleports keeps me going.

[Castruccio]

Can't wait to try this mod. May be a little while before I can get to it, but it is definitely something I want to try.

[Destro*]

Awesome Castruccio.
I can't wait to hear your feedback.

I'm currently experimenting with dungeon, chest, secret room and object spawn rates. I realized that my chest buff didn't really matter very much because of... well... a ton of reasons actually (as I'm now seeing). That will change!

I'll only get minimal work done on week days (because of rl). But, hopefully I should be able to make a lot of progress this weekend again (as usual). I have a bunch more ideas to implement and things to change.

edit 2: *phew*. Did like 2 hours of testing on chests. Got my regex codes created to create my moddable chest file completed. I also tested chest spawns a lot. I was always curious if it was possible to add new item types to the game. For example, I just copied "ChestLargeGold" and renamed it to "ChestMassiveGold" inside of chests.gdb. It doesn't work, sadly. But, oh well. That's life.

It also seems that there are many chests that can't spawn even if their spawn chance is set above 1. For example, I can't spawn ChestRewardMedium, the bonus chests or the treasure hunter chests. A bit lame. But, oh well. I can work around it. Chests will be way more impactful.

[Castruccio]

It is weird you can't spawn reward chests in dungeons. I think that is what you are saying you are trying to do.

[( Tchey )]

Originally Posted by Destro*

Thanks ( Tchey )!

I'm kind of curious, what about the description doesn't appeal to you? The entire concept? Or, just a specific aspect?

By reading the notes, it seems too frantic for my taste, too much more of everything, and faster paced, but it may not be, i need to try.

I like to play a loner, without zombies, without siege, with low respawn, and just go and explore every corners of a map.

[Exovi]

Thanks for the mod! I've been following it for awhile, but finally played through two worlds with it. The changes feel good, there are some nice QoL changes I noticed, but for the most part I couldn't pick out what was different from vanilla (haven't played in quite awhile).

However, I didn't see a single vendor in that entire time - is that intended?

If there is anything you want me to look out for during my playthrough (testing or feedback), let me know!


EDIT: Oh, I also noticed that one of my kicked clan members started his own clan, which was super neat - is that yours? That would be another value I'd like to change for myself, if you happen to know what the variable is. UPDATE: Found it! BanishedNpcStartCovenantChance in systems.

[Exovi]

Found the vendor changes, reverted them on personal preference.

While checking up to see what skills were affected by the various Arcane/Venom/Volcanic Might spells, I noticed a typo:

SkillVenomMight
{
	Base BaseSkillPassive
	BaseName	"Venom Might"
	Desc	"Become more skill with poison and at spellcasting, massively strengthening your spell and poison damages. (Grants global spell damage and poison damage while increasing the mana cost of all poison-based spells and skills.)"
	TextureName	Textures/Icons/Items/wands_archmage.tga
	
	PassiveDynamicStatMultSpellDamage	1.0
	PassiveDynamicStatMultPoisonDamage	0.07
	
	DynamicStatMultPowerNeeded	+1.0
	
	Skill			SkillWampirBlood
	Skill			SkillAuraOfPoison
	Skill			SkillPoisonArrow
	Skill			SkillNaturesRevenge
	
	Skill			PlayerShadowBoltSkillName
	Skill			PlayerDeathRuneSkillName
	
	RequiredSkill-One	PlayerArcaneBlastSkillName
	RequiredSkill-One	PlayerHolybolt
	RequiredSkill-One	PlayerArcaneSwarmSkillName
	RequiredSkill-One	PlayerBoltOfGloomSkillName
	RequiredSkill-One	PlayerDeathRuneSkillName
	
	PerLevel	SkillArcaneMightPerLevel
	BaseCost	1
}

Any thoughts on giving these spells an active effect, requiring a wand and firing a missile of their respective element? As demonstrated by Tigrath in this thread. You mentioned wanting to make wands more enticing - having a manaless ranged basic attack scaling with weapon damage would certainly do it.

[Destro*]

Thank you for pointing out the typo! I'll fix that right up for sure and put out a patch.

As for wand projectiles, it's a great suggestion, but I really want Fiery Blast and the other introductory level spells to fill that role of a 'ranged magic projectile' source of damage. Plus, there are some balance considerations there that would be a pain to deal with.

Wands are currently unique in that they have the highest per-gear slot source of spell damage, so I think that they are in a good spot right now. Mage's just needs more raw damage overall right now, which I'm fine-tuning with tons of playtesting for the next patch. And, once that is done, alternate damage sources will not be as appealing fo sho.