Beef's Sidorovich Simulator brings the strange futuristic concept of "Phone Calls" to your 3D PDA. In this first iteration, Sidorovich will occasionally call you to tell you how he feels about your current hit %. Additionally includes tracking of lifetime hit %.
I will not upload a preview video / image - it would ruin the surprise. If you really must have a preview, the PDA in the thumbnail is accurate, and there is a video on Discord.
In a world where every Stalker has a PDA, why can nobody call you? I have rectified this issue and used Sidorovich as the conduit to provide the negative reinforcement we all seek from Stalker. Tracks both your current hit % following your last phone call as well as your lifetime hit %.
Can you make Sidorovich proud?
Note: Sidorovich doesn't believe in wasting any lead. If you shoot buckshot, every pellet that doesn't hit a target counts against your hit percentage.
Buckshot in stalker has 9 pellets. If only 4 hit your target, you only hit 4 of 9.
- v0.81 - fixed issue with darts / slugs counting as multiple shots
- v0.8 - uploaded initial version
Known Bugs:
- It will provide the phone call and status update if you use the 2D PDA, only the 3D PDA is able to show when you are in a phone call.
- To return to the normal PDA screen after a call, you must press "P" or your equivalent keybind to holster your PDA. You can immediately unholster the PDA and return to your normal PDA activities.
- Sidorovich won't call you or update your hit percentage until after you've fired at least 200 rounds since your last phone call. I don't want him to be too nagging. You'll only start getting your lifetime hit percentage once you've received your second phone call.
- Your hit % begins tracking the moment you add this addon, I have not implemented a global reset counter yet.
HUH, this is an interesting Idea, I'll give it a wirl and see how it goes.
In the future, I plan to expand into additional phone calls ... but for now it's only Sidorovich
Well if anything, so far it works and I like it. I think I'll keep it around
Hey, Marked One, let's go bowling!
Only if you can impress Sid. He's not so easy to impress these days
I was thinking the same thing. How this feels like Roman calling Niko all the time to go bowling.
Ngl I kinda wish it only updated once per day vs every firefight or two, it feels like im getting a call whenever I open my pda.
*GTA IV FLASHBACKS*
Right now it calls every 200 rounds fired. It'll be adjustable in the future but I haven't got it implemented yet.
If its too frequent for how many rounds you spend, you can increase /gamedata/scripts/sid_is_judging_you.script
on line 40: increase the "shot_count > 200" value to something like 600 or 800
Thanks beef, i'll go and tweak them out.
No problem, the ui_options.script is tricky trying to get persistent options to save.
I love the idea, I've been looking for a mod that would bring Lost Alpha's pda conversations to anomaly, makes perfect sense and I never understood why no one has done it anywhere else.
I won't be downloading this since I don't want Sidorovich to judge me when I mag dump my OC-33, but I'll be keeping an eye out on this one.
Single suggestion/question though, I hope you plan to allow making long range calls, in Lost Alpha you could only talk to nearby stalkers which made it more an immersion item than an actual functionality.
Wasn't aware of the LA PDA chat.
I reached out to the LA team to see if I can incorporate the NPC conversation tracking they incorporated. It seems clever. In any case, if I get permission and use their framework it'll suffer from the same problems of "long range" phone calls just due to how A-life functions.
If not, I'll come up with probably a less robust but different implementation that won't have that limitation.
Lol, Love it
It's just the tip of the iceberg on my to-do list. This is a proof of concept
loved it lol, sometimes crashes my game since it is MODDB version but I am surprised it works. Do you make update announcements from discord or here? Because I think it would be nice to see a larger update (like being able to send certain messages at radiochat where all other stalkers talk: such as when you find an artifact saying your thropy etc), it would be nice to see Sid texting you llol
I got permission from the Lost Alpha team to use some of their back-end code in my mod, so that's a huge possibility that I'll be exploring. Unfortunately, I have a lot of parallel projects both in Anomaly and IRL so no timeline yet ...
it would be cool if instead of going back to the quest giver in lots of mission, they would just call you, or better maybe you call them. And if they have some kind of item reward put it in a designated chest or something.... that would be very nice.
That's exactly my plan - I won't include quests if reward includes items, but if reward is just money, then I don't think you should have to travel to them when they can just venmo you some rubles.
I also will include the ability to accept quests via sms / phone call.
will this be compatible with 1.5.1?
As of now, no it isn't - it was more of a proof of concept mod for a larger project that I haven't gotten started on yet. I will update it once I get around to starting on the larger project, since it has some of the scripted functions that I will be using.
very nice however 1.5.1 may have broken some things like the image that is meant to show up, doesnt, and the percentages can be a bit wacky like 133 percent or 6 out of 3 shots hits lol
10/10 mod 11/10 if it wasnt broken, uncle sidorovich remembers to call my more than my own parents
this should be integrated in more ways, awesome
Make a Russian translation please
Can you do this with other merchants and other important NPCs + with a Russian translation, please
It honestly needs a boatload more work done to it, was more of a test-ground for some stuff
I have more coding knowledge these days and so can probably work something out