[Anomaly 1.5.1] Intimidate Enemies Into Surrendering [MCM] (v1 0) addon

Yep, it should work with any save.

That's just the way it has to work. Since the base game only makes the stalkers stay surrendered while they are injured, i have to keep them at low hp. There is no easy way to just force them into the surrender state without injuring them. To change that i would likely have to rewrite about half of the wounds and surrender code of the game, and i am just not that experienced in programming to pull that feat off.

Calling it "stress" is probably the best way to keep some immersion here. You could also pretend you hit that stalker on the head to make sure they won't be able to do sudden moves any time soon, or something of that sort.

The currently available voices are taken from the game itself, and, unfortunately the game doesn't have any good merc voice lines that would fit the "drop weapon and surrender" situation. Same thing with monolith. For some reason, these factions just don't have that kind of voice lines.

I assume most of these voices came from the original series of the game, and the devs just never expected you to be friendly enough to those factions to need these lines.

I guess i could just add the bad voice lines, but if you understand the language, they are really immersion breaking.
The best available things that mercs could tell their potential captives with that voice is just stuff like "come out", "be careful", "you are making me angry" and "i am going to shoot you"

It should be possible for you to add these lines using the "custom" voice option.

First you copy the voice line you like from that addon. For example, the file "random_7.ogg" in ShadowCompanyVoicedActor\gamedata\sounds\characters_voice\random_shouts is the character telling someone to drop their weapon, so it would fit perfectly.

Take that sound file and put it inside my addon's gamedata\sounds\characters_voice\human\is_custom folder. It won't need conversion because it's already made to work in stalker.

Then you open the intimidation_surrender.script file, and find this code(somewhere at lines 310-320):

[23] = --"Custom"
{
"is_custom\\dude_getdown",
"is_custom\\dude_getdownifyoudont",
},

Just remove the example addresses and add the name of your file instead.
So it should look like this:

[23] = --"Custom"
{
"is_custom\\random_7",
},

After all these steps, if you choose the "custom" voice setting, it should make your character play that voice line whenever you attempt intimidation.

You can add more voice lines, and the script will just play them in random order.

Sorry if it's inconvenient for you, i just find it a lot less time consuming to let the users make their own changes instead of making adjustments myself upon every request.

Are you asking if it's possible to make a setting with a name Merc, or if it's possible to make Merc NPCs have responses with this voice?

If it's the first case, i'm not sure why one would need to make an extra option when there's an already working variant. Are you planning to add multiple different voices?

In second case, you would have to make a separate folder for merc sounds and then specify addresses of their sounds in the code.

At this time i have to go and sleep, so don't expect another response from me sooner than 8 hours from now.

I'm not sure about which one of my sentences that "ok" is directed towards, so i will have to clarify:

Are you satisfied with the information you got, or do you need any further help?

I couldn't reproduce the crash, but adding error prevention code makes sense, so i updated the addon just in case. Thanks for the heads up.

in the file intimidation_surrender.script, somewhere around line 642, change this:

if bind == key_bindings.kUSE then

to this:

if key == DIK_keys.DIK_T then

"DIK_T" is a dik keycode of T. If you need to set it to a different key, you can find its keycode here: Community.bistudio.com

If you also want to remove the need to have an active gun and zooming it, you will have to remove the if condition at line 645(just delete the whole line, also including removing its "end" at line 751)

(Not sure if it's the correct line number, so, to clarify, the one that has to be removed says "if (active_item and IsWeapon(active_item) and axr_main.weapon_is_zoomed) then")

It's possible, but due to the addon being made with only 1 intimidation attempt in mind, the easiest solution could be very awkward and error prone.
I could make a better version of this, but i just started recovering from multiple sleepless nights, and i don't want to spend another night on rewriting my code, so all i can give is this crappy version:

In the intimidation_surrender.script somewhere around line 652

remove all this:

--check if the object is already in the list
if _intimidation_surrendered_npcs[obj:id()] then

if _intimidation_surrendered_npcs[obj:id()].result == false then
  --play intimidation and refusal voice line
  PlayIntimidationVoice()

  DelayedSurrender(false,obj:id())
end

and also change "elseif not" at the next line to "if not"
(at the line that says "elseif not (character_community(obj) == "zombied" or character_community(obj) == "monolith") then")

I tested it for a minute, and it seems to give you multiple tries, however, if an enemy stands up after already surrendering, intimidating them again only makes them wounded.

If you also remove "and not obj:wounded()" at line 649, it could probably let you intimidate those stalkers that got wounded but did not surrender on their own. However, because the script changes their health, there is a chance that using this might just kill them instead.

Though i must say, there are not many unique voice lines, so if you are playing with them turned on, they will get stale very quickly with this amount of usage.

You don't need a new save, it should work right away.

Are you using MCM?

Who were you trying it on? It doesn't work on friendly and neutral factions, monolith, zombies and wounded enemies(also it might not work on isg faction either, i didn't test it).

Were you aiming down sights and pressing the [Use] key while being close to the enemy and looking at them?

Russian.

The game has a lot of these voice lines stored in the files, it's a real shame that about half of them aren't actually being used anywhere in the Anomaly, they added a lot of immersion in the original series.

This addon actually already has a system that makes surrender chance depend on the ranks. Your character rank competes against enemy npc's rank, giving you a higher chance to intimidate the enemy if your rank surpasses theirs. So if you are a rookie, veteran enemies would just tell you to **** off, unless you catch them from behind. And if you are a legend, only someone as high as masters and other legends would dare to defy you.

There's also a mechanic of isolation, that makes enemies surrounded by your team more likely to surrender, and enemies among their friends feel braver and less likely to surrender.

All these settings can be seen in the MCM menu, if you have that addon. The settings might be a bit confusing, but i did add some tooltips that should help a little.

As for the faction dependence, the game already doesn't let factions like monolith and zombies surrender by default, so if i decided to make it optional, i would have to rewrite that part of the code, and it's not something i want to screw around with, as both of these factions' wounded states are kind of special in their own way, like the monolith blowing themselves up after getting a heavy injury.

It only works on your faction's enemies.

If you for some reason want to intimidate your friends, you could change intimidation_surrender.script file:

changing the line 668 (if relation == "enemy" then)
to line (if relation then) should remove the restriction i added.

However, since my script is based on the game's wounded state, friendly stalkers still likely won't surrender if their name isn't red to you.

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По крайней мере при беглом тестировании полгода назад, мои аддоны исправно работали на 1.5.2 со всеми настройками.
Но я не могу дать гарантии стабильности моих аддонов на этой версии, так как не играю на ней, и, хоть мои аддоны и выглядели работающими исправно со всеми настройками, я не пробовал полностью проходить игру с ними в этом обновлении.

В списке изменений версии 1.5.2 не указан ни один файл, связанный с моими аддонами, поэтому, теоретически, не должно быть никаких проблем.
Однако, если у вас возникли проблемы с настройками, значит похоже что всё-таки возможны конфликты?
Так как я не тестировал эти аддоны уже более полугода, могу предположить, что если это не связано с обычным конфликтом между разными аддонами, то это могло быть проблемой с какими-либо мелкими дополнительными обновлениями версии 1.5.2 или обновлением вспомогательных аддонов(вроде самого mcm).

From what the error tells me, the game is trying to find sound files from a list, but for some reason that list doesn't exist.
If it's not a problem with the code, it could be a problem with incorrect installation, missing or moved base game files, or incorrectly named file paths.

If you are playing with MCM addon, try disabling the "enemy responses" setting of my addon. If the response sound files were the only problem, it might get rid of the error.
Enemies will not respond to your words with their voice, but it's not that big of a loss, because there aren't that many good unique voice lines anyway.

If your own character's voice also gives an error as well, you might be out of luck here, because i didn't account for that kind of a problem, and made the character play empty sound when their voice setting is set to no voice.