Immersion mod to extend the functionality, variety and depth of the Dynamic News system.
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- For Dead Air players, Install this AFTER the english translations.
- Totally safe to install or remove, no new game is required, no saves can be effected.
- Compatible with everything (as long as the dynamic news files remain untouched)
- Available in english and russian.
- This add-on is available for:
- Call of Chernobyl 1.5
- Call of Chernobyl 1.4.22
- Call of Misery
- Last Day
- Dead Air
- MLR 8.3 for CoC 1.4.22
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This is a re-creation of the dynamic news system used in MLR and Last Day, both mods use 5 separated scripts to add new collection of news.
This one completely overwrite and revamp the news system by relying on an improved CoC 1.5 script. it has been made compatible with all CoC variants as well.
- Fixed a case in vanilla script where stalkers are "watching screams" or "seeing noises".
- Fixed a case where stalkers reporting wrong faction info.
Comparison:
Vanilla news are about:
- Witnessing death of other stalkers (killed by mutants or stalkers)
- Hearing screams and shooting.
- Bought items from traders.
- Finding artifacts.
- Bounties.
- Wounded enemies.
This mod add news about:
- Obituaries (details about killed stalkers by mutants or other stalkers)
- Random/spam messages
- Factions news
- Factions activity in the zone
- Reports about dead stalkers.
- Expected date of upcoming surges.
- Loots from corpses.
- Weather.
- Time of day.
- Stolen stashes.
- Dumb zombies.
- Nearby enemy activities.
- Stalkers responses about surges, finding artifacts or death of their fellows.
- Companions chitchatting about all sort of things, whether its their own thoughts on factions, the maps they visit, or even the player himself.
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- You have a complete control over what type of news you want to show up through your game, and the time cycle of those news right from this menu.
- To access it: load your game, then open the main menu and press Page-Up button.
- You can change the default button as well.
Credit goes to SashaRed, RadioactiveToilet and Azure for their translations of Dynamic News in MLR 8.3
Changelog:
- (1.1)
- Fixed a crash related to responses on found artifacts.
- (1.2)
- Improved, unified script.
- Fixed a case with stalkers reporting wrong faction of victim (credit goes to rus_odin)
- Fixed a bug about showing %s in found artifacts news.
- Fixed issue of showing "Player" rather than the actual player name
- Updated Weather news to be accurate.
- (2.0)
- Complete grammar fix for a lot of text (credit goes to RadioactiveToilet)
- Added russian language support (credit goes to av661194)
- Added dynamic news menu that allows the player to control the news (credit goes to av661194 cause i used his UI script)
- (2.1)
- (3.0)
- Added news: Nearby enemy activities.
- Added news: Factions activity in the zone.
- Added news: Dumb zombies.
- Added news: Stolen stashes.
- Improved script for less bugs and issues.
- Turning off specific news will increase the chance of other news (from the same catagory) to appear more.
- Added (news show time) option in the menu, allows you to control how long the news must stay on your HUD before fading away.
- Fixed a text bug happening on underground areas.
- More corrections to the text (credit goes to SashaRed).
- (3.1)
- Fixed a case where death reports (obituaries) show "player" instead of the actual name of the player
- (3.2) [from av661194]
- Updated support for russian language.
- Fixed a little bug that prevents the default button of news menu from working without (axr_options.ltx)
- Fixed a bug in death reporting news about providing wrong community.
- Added Misery-style background for the news menu in CoM and Last Day.
- (3.3) [from av661194]
- Fixed some mistakes in text
- (4.0)
- Added support for Dead Air.
- Fixed a bug where other types of news don't show up even after enabling them.
- Fixed a case where both killer and victim are from the same faction.
- Fixed some news about fake reports of presnese of specific mutants.
- Fixed a lot of grammar mistakes (credit goes for Victor-933)
- Fixed mistakes in russian version.
- (4.1)
- Fixed a crash related to corpse detection (Dead Air)
- (4.2)
- Fixed a crash related to nearby enemy activity news.
- (4.3)
- Fixed few bugs
- Stolen stash reports are now off by default (you can enable them from news options menu)
Report any bug you might encounter, suggestions are also welcome.
Enjoy!
Fantastic, thank so much for doing this. I find the dynamic news adds so much "flavor" and feeling of life to the zone, I'd hate to play without it. A new and improved version can only be a good thing.
Glad to hear that.
It's funny how a silly thing like Dynamic News was a pain in the *** to recreate with over 1500 new lines of codes.
Tronex, you’re an absolute beast. Good job, keep up the good work man!
:D
Very interesting ideas. Good job on this
Cool
Cool idea, but I get a weird crash log below:
! [LUA] SCRIPT RUNTIME ERROR
! [LUA] ...f chernobyl\gamedata\scripts\dynamic_news_manager.script:282: attempt to call method 'ResponseOnArtifact' (a nil value)
! [SCRIPT ERROR]: ...f chernobyl\gamedata\scripts\dynamic_news_manager.script:282: attempt to call method 'ResponseOnArtifact' (a nil value)
FATAL ERROR
[error]Expression : <no expression>
[error]Function : CScriptEngine::lua_error
[error]File : ..\xrServerEntities\script_engine.cpp
[error]Line : 189
[error]Description : fatal error
[error]Arguments : LUA error: ...f chernobyl\gamedata\scripts\dynamic_news_manager.script:282: attempt to call method 'ResponseOnArtifact' (a nil value)
stack trace:
0023:006E399C xrCore.dll, xrDebug::fatal()
0023:059ABB4E xrGame.dll, CDialogHolder::IgnorePause()
0023:00453BCB xrEngine.exe, CInput::OnFrame()
0023:0040F17A xrEngine.exe, CRenderDevice::message_loop()
0023:0040F23D xrEngine.exe, CRenderDevice::Run()
0023:0045EBDD xrEngine.exe, InitSound2()
0023:0045F363 xrEngine.exe, InitSound2()
0023:0045F466 xrEngine.exe, InitSound2()
0023:0046B1A3 xrEngine.exe, CApplication::load_draw_internal()
0023:76DA343D kernel32.dll, BaseThreadInitThunk()
0023:77AC9832 ntdll.dll, RtlInitializeExceptionChain()
0023:77AC9805 ntdll.dll, RtlInitializeExceptionChain()
This happens when an npc stalker announces the artefact he found:
"A %s! I can finally retire."
After that message, the game will shortly CTD.
The mod that might be related to it was Lost To The Zone Artefact Expansion integration, but I could be wrong here. Also, the current version for CoC I had was 1.4.22. After applying this mod, I applied the compatibility patch for 1.4.22.
I will check that out and release a patch for it.
British_SWAG the issue has been fixed thx to your report, get the new update.
For everybody else: the mod will get extended in the future for more news and improved text. hopefully that's the "easier" part left.
Tested it and got no crashes so far, but I still get the "A %s! I can finally retire." message bug.
Ran into a similar crash with 1.5r6. Gonna test the fix myself. I have to say I love the addon so far though. It really adds some life to the zone. A nice touch for it losing connection during emissions and psy-storms.
Nice mod, I love this kind of mod that adds a lot of "personality" to the npcs around you. Didn't took the mod for a long gameplay but the feeling is excellent.
Here are some new ideas:
- Zombied stalkers once in a while typing some gibberish in the chat (something like "qiwfjnvmo-s \fmpvno´w v", the overal idea is that they are trying to use the chatpad and failing miserably) triggering a "nice and polite answer" of the other stalkers.
- Stalkers saying their stashes were robbed or their favorite guns being stolen, the kind of stuff that is used as "missions" in the game.
- Stalkers alerting the others about faction moviment ("I saw a group of Zombies heading towards Rookie Village, get out of there or be ready to fight." or "there is a group of Monolith soldiers camping at the Lake Watchtower, avoid it if you need."), the kind of stuff that makes the zone feels like a living place.
1 is easy
Not sure about 2, if it requires some sort of connection to tasks then it need some work.
3 is tricky, it requires alife interfering.
Nice ideas overall, i will consider them.
Tronex, 1.2 version is missing some key compatibility files.
You don't need the missing files, CoC 1.4.22 now will work with the main files only for example.
The main script has been edited to make it compatible by default.
Would you recommend this for people running a high-speed version of Warfare? 1.5 r6. I'd love this for immersion, but not if I'd get spammed constantly due to all the stuff happening, lol.
I have no idea about Warefare news, but you can easily control the time cycle of some news from this mod.
You can do this from (dynamic_news_manager.script) file, by changing increasing/decreasing the value in these 3 lines:
local cycle_of_TickSpecial = 240
local cycle_of_TickFake = 240
local cycle_of_TickCompanion = 180
tronex thank you good dedication nice persistance and mostly for keeping it simple....kudos
Getting this on loading a save/making a new game.
Expression : <no expression>
Function : CScriptEngine::lua_error
File : ..\xrServerEntities\script_engine.cpp
Line : 189
Description : fatal error
Arguments : LUA error: ...e\s.t.a.l.k.e.r. last day 1.3\gamedata\scripts\_g.script:870: table index is nil
stack trace:
0023:02B9399C xrCore.dll, xrDebug::fatal()
0023:0977FC6F xrGame.dll, CDialogHolder::UseIndicators()
I assume you're not playing with the newest official patch, this mod won't work on older versions.
1.3+ patch downloaded around 10-20 days ago.
I'm talking about this: Drive.google.com
It has been out for 2 days.
Ah, cheers!
Sorry to bother, but what's this update for? Is this an update to Call of Chernobyl itself?
Great mod, by the way. Looking forward to trying it out!
Oh, wait, I see: STALKER Last Day. Sorry, I feel a little dumb now.
Tronex pretty good stuff you got there! Keep up the good work!
Ещё одна идея - что бы игроки не обыскивали тайники не отмеченные на карте. Игрок, обыскивая тайник в присутствии НПС или когда над ним летает вертолёт, считается пойманным на месте преступления. То есть, тайники закрепить за конкретным НПС и когда его тайник ограбят, он, сообщит об этом в сети и другие НПС - которые видели как игрок грабил тайник - сообщат об этом. И у игрока должна упасть репутация и НПС и его напарники, у которых игрок украл тайник, становятся игроку врагами. в 1.5+
It would be cool if you try some english, i don't understand russian.
Another idea is that players do not search the caches that are not marked on the map. The player, searching the cache in the presence of NPCs or when a helicopter is flying over it, is considered caught in the crime scene. and declared a criminal That is, the caches are fixed for a specific NPC and when its cache is robbed, it will report the robbery on the network and other NPCs or witnesses - who saw the player robbing a cache - will report it. And the player must loose some reputation with that NPC and any witnesses, in which the player stole the cache, become a player enemies. in 1.5+"
That would be an awful lot of extra scripting and probably code required.
Tronex please ignore bottom of page comment
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thank you very much
Hello
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That was me. :D
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Tronex, great work man!
Another great TRX-addon, thanks!! :-D
There is a translation into Russian.
Ap-pro.ru
Hip-Hip Hooray!
That was quick, i hope av661194 don't mind if i used his translations here.
it dosnt seem to be compatible with lost to the zone or the sotry mod for it but I'll see what i can do also you may know more on how to make it better compatible
Is this addon compatible with everything that is included TRX Fixes n' Tweaks?
Yep
I'm using this with CoM and page up wont bring up any options menu.
Should be fixed now.
2.0 causes me lag every ~20 seconds and spams the same "Tronex call help" text in the console. I'm using on a modded CoC 1.4.22
I didn't have any problems with version 1.2
I forgot to turn console tracking off, i will fix it today.
Ah, good to know. I'll wait for the update then. :)
I assume I can just unpack this version over the top of version 1.2, correct?
Thanks!
From what I could tell from older versions yes. Also waiting for that fix :O
Surprised this hasn't been pinned yet haha works wonders with my mods
Update is here, have fun.
Yay!
I love this mod for that extra immersion. Especially when I can actually see it in action, watching (via binoculars) some Freedom dude get owned by a Chimera, and 10 seconds later I see his "obituary" show up on my PDA. :D
Then some other Freedom dude pipes up with "Aww damn, I always liked that guy" and I feel a bit sad for not saving his sorry ***. Oh well ... he knew the risks. :P