[WIP] The Old Nexus 「 Grimrock XL 」

[7Soul]

The balance of what you've already posted seems ridiculously all over the place.

Yep, my bad, I left a lot unexplained... a lot of traits are pretty overpowered but the idea is to make monsters tougher as well

Average Joe, carnivorous and built resistance are significantly worse than most worthwhile base game perks, while persistence and bite are must-have good (the latter if the stat bonuses are calculated as for weapons).

Each race has 3 perks and there are no base perks. You only choose 1 race perk per character. And yeah they'll need a lot of balancing. I made an active skills system and I'm thinking of turning Bite into a skill with energy cost instead

Block is a terrible waste of skillpoints, except maybe for the level 2 bonus. Accuracy is already pretty much never worth investing beyond 1-2 points, and for its capstone perk you have an insulting 'deal on average +2.5 damage vs some enemies'.

The monsters in this mod have a higher armor stat, so that pierce is more useful. Balancing will be done as the mod moves along

Putting herb growth as an alchemy 1 perk makes optimal play picking it up on all 4 characters and doing annoying inventory juggling. (unless the mod is so short herb growth isn't worthwhile at all)

I recreated the herb multiplication code and it doesn't allow exploits

[7Soul]

I was making these description images using photoshop, by writing the description, publishing the mod, opening it in the game, taking a screenshot, isolating the text in PS and then moving it around to fit and add the colors

This isn't a good process if I need to chance the descriptions at some point

So I turned it into an html/css page, so I can edit and visualize it much more easily

https://7soul.github.io/log2_the_old_nexus/



Yay

[7Soul]

You can now check out all the classes, traits and skills online:

https://7soul.github.io/log2_the_old_nexus/

I'm about 95% done with implementing all that. After that I'll be able to focus solely on the maps

[7Soul]

Making some of the equipment more interesting. Most accessories will receive this treatment

[7Soul]

No mod is complete without some COOL SETS

[7Soul]

Hot new Tinkering update

First you need a Tinkerer's Toolbox, and one level in Tinkering:


(the requirement shows twice, I think it's a bug with requirements on usable items component :/ )

Next you put the Toolbox and the item in your hands:



Right click it, and you'll see the required materials:



Click Upgrade if you have everything. You will also need 1 Lock Pick on top of the materials

The result will be shown on screen:



And there you have your new item:



Some more points about Tinkering:

• You can upgrade an item up to 3 times
• The bonuses it gains are different depending on the type of item (armor, weapon, light, heavy, etc). You can either gain a new bonus or a % increase to an existing one
• Upgraded items are heavier by about 30% but less so at higher skill levels
• At Tinkering level 4 you can open chests without lock picks
• Epic items can be upgraded at Tinkering level 5
• You can dismantle items and turn them into extra materials
• The Tinkerer class can add 2 bonuses to an item. They gain that effect once per level
• This took a long time to make and it's over 1000 lines of code holy balls

[7Soul]

*me*: it's not worth meddling with the stats tab

*also me 2 days later*:

[Pompidom]

Just out of curiosity.

The HP regen value is that +4 % regen value?
Does that mean that each point over 10 vitality offers +1 % hp regen?

I thought the vanilla game offered a 2 % HP regen for each vitality point over 10 or was I wrong all this time?

[7Soul]

Just out of curiosity.

The HP regen value is that +4 % regen value?
Does that mean that each point over 10 vitality offers +1 % hp regen?

I thought the vanilla game offered a 2 % HP regen for each vitality point over 10 or was I wrong all this time?

Does look like it's 1% for each point over 10 (I didn't even know stats affected it!)

[7Soul]

Not that anyone cares, but class traits come with a little flair text at the bottom~









All the mod traits can be seen here