Strife Overhaul 1.6 file

nice work

Fisting triggers the guards

Doesn't work with the Veteran Edition? Where am I supposed to get the original WAD?

Major bug I noticed; when speaking with the rebel's weapons dealer (not the trader in the base, the guy in the town), choosing the option to upgrade a weapon when you've selected a weapon that can't be upgraded immediately quits the conversation, but it leaves the picture of the guy that pops up permanently stuck on your screen. The only way to clear it is by reloading an earlier save.

I'll provide a more detailed review once I've played a bit more, but I thought that worth mentioning off the bat.

So, I played a bit more. Here are some thoughts from my experience:

I'm glad you toned down the XP system a bit, it seems more balanced now.

Looting corpses is a nice addition, but it's very overpowered in it's current state. Within the first couple of levels I had more healing items, ammo, guns and crafting items then I knew what to do with. Cutting down the amount of lootable items to a maximum of three per enemy and making them crafting items only (with the rare chance for a health pickup or item) would work better. Enemies already have a good chance to drop ammo as standard, so there's no need for leaving it as loot. Instead you might want to consider ammo loots for the unlockable boxes instead (good work on those BTW).

Compounding the above issue is what you can sell to the Trader. Selling all of my available items mentioned above gave me well over 2000 gold, more than enough to upgrade at least four weapons and curb stomp everything in my path. While I would encourage you keep the option of selling your gear, maybe twig the prices so that you only get a small fraction of the cost when selling items (if that's possible. If not, I'd remove the option to sell ammo and crafting items).

The machete seemed obsolete to me if I'm honest - there isn't any real difference from the dagger and it sets off alarms when you cut someone. You also can't take people hostage with it. Maybe I'd use it if it allowed you to chop off heads. :)

I actually thought the revolver was pretty weak, even when upgraded. The basic pistol completely outshines it when you max it out.

The advanced crossbow doesn't seem to make any sounds when shooting.

Steel bolts are way overpowered; I was one-shotting everything - robot or human - indiscriminately with the things. Made even more broken by how easy they are to craft.

The shotguns are a nice touch, but also obsolete. They all kill basic enemies in one hit and the only differences are the reloading times and shell capacity. Probably best if you limit them to one or two rather than four, or maybe give some to the acolytes and cultists for more of a challenge.

Not sure what to think of the two alternatives to the pulse rifle. I keep repeating this word but they seem obsolete, especially when the basic pulse rifle is easy to upgrade.

The minigun was good to use, if again overpowered. Maybe a windup time would help?

I noticed that I can't still find the Trader when the Front moves to the castle, and their weapons dealer doesn't provide you with the option to upgrade items when that event occurs.

I like how the acolytes now actually use their shields, though the cultist's dodging mechanic is a bit cheap. Still, it's far too easy to slaughter your way through enemies as it stands, especially if you upgrade your weapons. The bad guys definitely need their health points doubled at the very least. I recall acolytes in the base game tended to take ten bullets to die and only give back five, but here they can easily die with just three bullets and could potentially give twenty back if you loot them (and this is on Elite difficulty). Even the tough as nails crusaders are easily dispatched with three seconds of auto fire.

I understand enough how the shield works, but what does the helmet do? I thought it was extra armor, but it doesn't seem to change anything when I'm hit.

My thoughts on the weapon degrading mechanic are... mixed. I didn't like it in Oblivion or System Shock 2, but here it actually does somewhat balance the upgradable weapons being overpowered (not enough to not justify giving the Order some more health points though). Plus you gave players the option to switch it off, which is always good.

Speaking of options, is there one to add more blood (at least without going into the console and fiddling with cvars)?

Finally, I noticed a couple of the key binds (the ones for the skill menu and shield) kept switching off when I exited the game. This may relate more to issues with the GZDoom configs and the multiple Doom mods I already use though.

That's all I can think of for now. I only got as far as clearing the castle, so I don't know if you had more surprises in store beyond that. Anyway, in spite of everything I've mentioned above this mod is still a fantastic effort in overhauling Strife and I hope you continue your great work in making it even better.

Dude Irale portrait get stuck on my screen when i done talking to him

How do i get the sg? i'm already on bishop part and i don't know how to get it.

Inserting one round of any type counts as 2 in shotgun or hunting rifle. Meaning ONE from inventory is removed when you got TWO in weapon mag. This means you can abuse it to get infinite ammo. Shotgun is a good example of it. Inserting only 3 you got 6 in mag. Then you change ammo type. And all 6 goes to inventory as TWO each. So unloading shotgun gives you 12 ammo of unloaded ammo.

LoadActors: Load actor definitions.
Attempt to get invalid state ReadyADS from actor SO_UpgradedCrossbow.

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