Reelism Gold! Expansion Pack 3 (X3.1 Patch p.101)

[Project Shadowcat]

I've updated my mirror. I apparently had the wrong link the first time.

Cheers, wildweasel.

[Zenon]

>Domstuff

[Ethril]

Jerks no longer hunt in packs.

If only this could apply to reelreal life, too. Or at least the internet.

Also: The RNG hates me... I keep getting terrible (or at least pointless) first rounds. The last three games I played had the following as their first rounds: Find the Antidote/Famine/Night of the Shooting Dead, Birthday Party/Melee Masters/Dogged (there were too many, too quickly for the bat, and the drill just made them explode in my face), and Gunfinity/Dog Mode/The Jerk Cometh (not really terrible in itself, but left me unequipped for the godawful SECOND round; Grease/Famine/Dogged). Do you think maybe you could at least make Famine not appear in the first round? I suppose I could just start a new game every time that happens, but in that case I might as well just start over until I get Gunfinity/Bullet Hoses/Friendship is Tragic.

[Kinsie]

If you're seeing the same reel order constantly, turn off Autosaves. I can't fix that myself, since Saves Are An Area Where Man Is Not Allowed To Tread.

[Slax]

Feels kind of odd saying this, buuut...

Needs more reels.

[Project Shadowcat]

Feels kind of odd saying this, buuut...

Needs more reels.

Awww, hell naw.


Not yet.

[Ethril]

If you're seeing the same reel order constantly, turn off Autosaves. I can't fix that myself, since Saves Are An Area Where Man Is Not Allowed To Tread.

I'm not seeing the same reel order constantly; these aren't after loading autosaves, they're fresh games. I'm just having absolutely terrible luck with first rounds.

[Kinsie]

Hmm. I'll see if I can't Meddle In The Affairs Of Man for the first round, then.

[PsychosesMan]

http://blorgblorgbl.org/reelism_x1.31.zip re-mirror'd

[Xaser]

Hmm. I'll see if I can't Meddle In The Affairs Of Man for the first round, then.

Hmm, if you're going to do this, might I suggest at least preventing Famine for Round 1? That and Order of the Hellish Empire are Round 1 instant restarts for me.

[Slax]

Unique bonuses/penalties for the first round! Oh, please, please.
And of course, seeecret bonus rounds. What would trigger such greatness, I wonder.

[FDARI]

A few first-round-only/never-in-first-round reels could yield new patterns of gameplay variation, and perhaps eliminate a few rounds of slight unfun.

As for jerkspawning; there are non-player-fragging approaches that could work. Spawn returns a value that tells you if you got it or not, and if it didn't spawn you can spawn one elsewhere. Or you can spawn at multiple spots, assign a tid to the jerk, count the number of jerks and remove them as long as there are multiple jerks around.

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while (thing_count(T_NONE, JERKTID) > 1) { SetActivator(JERKTID); Thing_Remove(0); }

Note: I don't necessarily get everything right in one go either, so if you use anything I suggest, make sure it does what it is supposed to. Just as if you write it yourself.

If you feel that fragging the player is the right thing to do if he hangs around at the jerkspawn... then you've got the proper implementation already.

[Ed the Bat]

The final decision on everything always goes to Kinsie. But I personally felt that, since getting near the Jerk spells doom, then getting as close as possible (exactly upon his point of entry) should be an absolute guarantee of death. Whether he runs you down or spawns on top of you, him touching you is your gory demise. But that's just my opinion.

The though of some smartass figuring out the exact spawnpoint and then sitting on it to block him from coming in really put a chip on my shoulder, and I wanted to make sure no one would get away with that. >=P

[Ethril]

The though of some smartass figuring out the exact spawnpoint and then sitting on it to block him from coming in really put a chip on my shoulder, and I wanted to make sure no one would get away with that. >=P

You should totally have it so that if The Jerk's spawn is blocked, he falls from the sky like a meteor and crushes the blocker to death. With bonus explosions.

[Ed the Bat]

Ethril, I'm not sure I'm saavy enough to code that, but that idea is pure genius.