Dude, where's my gear?! [v0.7.2.2] addon

Dude, where's my gear?! brings a fresh challenge to Story Mode. With it, you'll experience a new level of gameplay where the stakes are high and avoiding death becomes crucial.

Inspired by Klean's idea of respawning on a hideout aka EFT and some personal similar ideas I had, the mod adds a unique twist to the game by introducing "penalties" for dying. Unlike ironman, this mod doesn't require a full progress restart but rather a similar approach, possibly making it even more challenging and exciting.

Here's how it works: first, you'll need to create a stash or sleep to set your custom respawn point. If you create multiple stashes, only the last one will be your respawn point, and removing it will delete the spawn point (fallbacks to the last sleep point if any). If you never did netiher, you'll respawn on your faction initial base location.

When you die, all of your items will be dropped in a backpack, which will be marked on your PDA map. However, only items that are not dropped are PDA, Echo detector, and quest items. Additionally, you'll also lose some money, up to 65% of your current balance. A portion of the lost money will be created as money items inside the backpack.

To add to the challenge, items lose condition after you die, and this accumulates with the possible damage that killed you. This feature adds an additional layer of difficulty to the game, making it even more important to avoid death.

Github repo: Github.com

Big shoutout and credit to authors Mr_Gepardas and ravenascendant their mods were use as base for this one.

Main features:

• Tested on Story mode.
• Initial beta testing for Ironman (only worth using ironman if you want to restrict the creation of saves)
• You need to sleep or create a stash to set a respawn point.
• If no respawn point set, you are send back to your faction base.
• You can disable saving at campfire. Limiting it only to sleep.
• Time pass after you are killed, the zone continues without you while you recover.
• After respawn health is calculated based in time. There is a chance of getting full health.
• Satiety is also calculated base in time, there is a chance of getting some meals every some hours while time is passing.
• If you create multiples stashes, only the last one is the respawn point.
• Removing the last stash deletes the spawn point and do NOT transfer to the previous one. (But fallback to the last sleep point if any)
• When you die, a backpack with all your items is dropped inside a backpack and marked on your PDA map. (Only items that do NOT drop are PDA, Echo detector, quick release and quests items)
• You also drop money (max 65% of current balance, and some of that money is created as money items inside the backpack.
• Items lose condition after you die (this accumulate with the possible damage of what killed you)
• Curve of difficult based on current rank, it affects every % chance. If low rank chances low, if high rank chances even higher than usual. This uses as baseline all the values you can set at MCM.
• Players will start losing melee and pistol items after reaching the "experienced" rank.
• Cause of death is calculated based on the last 35 hits, and are max 75 seconds old.
  • NPC's have a greater chance to steal your items(equipped guns and outfit + meds) and you lose more money. (Increase default loss change by 50%)
  • Mutants steal your food, lower chance to lose items. (Increase default loss change by 50%)
  • Anomalies primarily degrade your equipment, lowest chance to lose equipment. (Increase degradation by 25%)
• Full compatibility with mags redux, magazines are affected by the same calculation and slider than ammo.
• Option to delete previous dropped stash upon death (disabled by default)
• Option to only set respawn points at a fireplace.
• Option to drop all money instead of losing it.
• Several values are configurable using MCM. It's a granular experience that you can tailor for your enjoyment. Some examples of what can be set:
  • Chances of keeping equipped guns and outfit
  • Chances of keeping ammo, money.
  • Chances of losing forever items
  • Chances of full health and satiety
  • Enable/disable time skip
  • Enable waking up at daytime only

Know issues:

• Arena is not compatible yet, not testing have been done on it. [Planned for 0.7.x - ongoing testing]

I'm currently looking for testers to provide feedback on balance, as I want to ensure that this mod provides a fair level of difficulty. While I'm are considering allowing players to keep their weapons, I want to maintain the unforgiving nature of the mod to keep players on their toes. Please leave your feedback and ideas!

Changelog:

v0.7.2 - 2023-04-24

• Features:
  • New modifiers that affect items drop/degrade depending on what killed you:
    • Cause of death is calculated based on the last 35 hits, and are max 75 seconds old.
    • NPC's have a greater chance to steal your items(equipped guns and outfit + meds) and you lose more money
    • Mutants steal your food, lower chance to lose items.
    • Anomalies primarily degrade your equipment, lowest chance to lose equipment.
    • Most hit values is calculated based on the top one, and any other that equals at least 20% of the main source of dmg. If gun dmg is on the list, the mod assumes than even if you died to a beast, a stalker was around and was there to stole some items, so, the NPC modifier is the one applied.
    • NOTE: because how some attacks are, sometimes you can get wrongly, a killed by beast msg, that is because melee and some anomalies do same damage type as beast. I'm going to fix this on upcoming versions, if possible.
  • New curve of difficult based on current rank, it affects every % chance. If low rank chances low, if high rank chances even higher than usual. This uses as baseline all the values you can set at MCM. (Beta testers said it felt right on low ranks, please leave your feedback/comments)
  • Implementation of PDA message with items dropped after waking up.
  • PDA message with lost items when picking up stash (make sure the stash disappear, use take all)
  • Full compatibility with mags redux, magazines are affected by the same calculation and slider than ammo.
  • Option to delete previous dropped stash upon death (disabled by default)
  • Added an option to only set respawn points at a fireplace.
  • Added an option to set the chance of keeping miscellaneous items.
  • Added an option to drop all money instead of losing it.
  • Added a general modifier that is currently affected by player rank.
  • Players will start losing melee and pistol items after reaching the "experienced" rank.
• Improvements:
  • Improved calculations for dropping and losing ammo and magazines.
  • Cause of death is now determined by most damage dealt to the player, instead of most hits.
  • Wounds information message improved to only count hits that actually deal damage to the player.
  • Refactored when and how recovery messages are sent.
  • Balanced chances on default values. Being killed by a beast will reduce the chance of losing items.
  • Condition damage will decrease the chances of losing items.
  • Code improvements, separating telepathic and beast causes of death.
  • Ignored pistols and melee types dropping and losing until the player reaches the "experienced" rank. All weapons and outfits have the same lose modifiers.
  • Improved counting only hits that do damage to the player for the wounds information message.
• Fixes:
  • Fix a bug causing a significant FPS drop due to modification of the game_news function.
  • Fixed issues with calculations for ammo keeping chance.
  • Fix a bug related to mag duplication after fully implementing the mags redux feature.
  • Fix save respawn behavior at campfires.
  • Fix cause of death issues with type strike and beasts.
  • Fixed missing general mod calculation.
• v0.6.4.1
  • Edge case for respawning crash fixed. [Thanks Enduron for report]
• v0.6.4
  • Improve logic for Immunity when dying.
  • Improve logic for removing the Immunity.
  • Fixes on losing stash respawn when picking up drop stashes. [Thanks Enduron for report]
  • Health lose should not happen while respawning. [Thanks Enduron for report]
• v0.6.3
  • Fix crash on fresh save when not having an stash set.
• v0.6.2
  • Fix issue when dying more than once on same level and probably on same play through.
• v0.6.1
  • Fix crash for non GAMMA players [Thanks to vari0us for finding the crash and providing the fix]
• v0.6
  • Add a chance of losing items forever
  • Fixes for when you have multiples PDA
  • Option to disable save at campfire (only save when sleeping or level change )
  • Ironman compatible [beta]
  • Simple workaround to be compatible with mags Redux (never drop mags)
  • Revamp code for:
  • Add better sound effect on death
  • Add calculations and option to always wake up on day time
• v0.5
  • Added all main variables to MCM options to greatly improve customization.
  • Added a new variable to control the chance keeping equipped weapons.
  • Added a new variable to control the chance of keeping equipped armor.
  • Added a new variable to control the chance of keeping ammo for equipped weapons.
  • If player have a pistol equipped, it will be kept after death.
• v0.4.2
  • Fix issues with initial death if never slept/created stash.
  • GAMMA 0.9 tested.
• v0.4.1
  • Hotfix for fatal error when never sleeping/using a stash and dying.

• v0.4

  • Pass time after death (between 8 and 72 hours) revamped and stable.
  • Added health recovery based on time passed. (with chance of being full recovery)
  • Added satiety recovery based on time and meals chance while down.
  • Now you always drop at least 15% of lost money.
  • Improved messages of passed time and recovery status.
  • [Need testing] If no stash created or sleep done, you'll respawn on you faction main settlement.
  • [Fix] Fixed issue of radiation still affecting the player after dying inside water
    • NOTE: the workaround is giving the user some invulnerability to Radiation, if you do not move and the timer finish you'll get all the rad
  • [Fix] Fixed multiple deaths and stashes if dying to a lot of damage like explosion or standing inside an anomaly.

• v0.3

  • Add MCM integration. Special thanks to Darkasleif for the help.
  • Beta implementation of skip time when dying. (Disabled by default).
  • Fix of possible crash when sleeping.

• v0.2

  • Add a percentage (min of 60%) of lost money as money items on drop backpack.
  • Fix bug of being immortal after respawn if player dies on different map.

• v0.1:

  • Spawn on last created stash
  • If no stash created, spawn at last sleep place
  • If no stash and never sleep you just die and need to load save [BUG] (I'm thinking of spawning in selected initial spawn)
  • Bed icon visible on PDA's map with the set Respawn location.
  • Drop a backpack at death and add it to PDA map
  • Drop everything but PDA, Echo detector and quest items.
  • Remove a % of money (max 65% right now)
  • If item is equipped, reduce condition by a random value between 2% - 20%